Sculpted by Gary Casteel

1863 Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Monument Replicas
 
The 29th Ohio Vounteer Infantry was also known as Gidding's Regiment. During the battle of Gettysburg, it served as a member of Candy's Brigade in Geary's Division of the Twelfth Corps, Army of the Potomac, a Fighting 300 Regiment.
 
During the battle, the Regiment occupied several positions on Culp's Hill. Captain Wilber F. Stevens commanded the 29th until wounded on July 3rd when Captain Edward Hayes then took command. Some sources speculate the Adjutant, J.B. Storer, had long-standing issues with Captain Stevens stemming from Stevens leaving the field early at Cedar Mountain the previous year. At Gettysburg, some believed the wound Stevens suffered was only minor. Storer, who had a hand in the design of the monument to be erected on the battlefield, may have left Stevens' name out while mentioning his successor, Captain Edward Hayes, as the only commander.
 
After the Battle of Gettysburg, the officers of the 29th Ohio prepared and filed reports describing the actions of their troops. Captain Wilbur F. Stevens's report, in part, is as follows:
 
Sir: In compliance with circular from headquarters First Brigade, second Division, Twelfth Corps, I have the honor to forward the following report of the part taken by this regiment (Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry) in the action of July 2 and 3, near Gettysburg, Pa.:
On the morning of the 2d, at 5.30 a. m., we were ordered from our camp, in the wheat-field on the left of the road approaching Gettysburg, to the road, down which we moved with balance of the brigade to rear of the front of our line; from there we moved to the right of our line....
The firing commenced about 3.45 o'clock on the morning of the 3d instant. We remained as a support to the troops in our front until about 5.45 o'clock, and about fifteen minutes before receiving the order to move forward to the intrenchments, I was struck in the neck with a spent ball, causing very severe pain and giddiness, from which cause I turned the command of the regiment over to Capt. E. Hayes, of this regiment, having received permission of Col. Charles Candy, commanding brigade, to go to the rear. I returned to the regiment (it being then in the intrenchments) about 12 m. of the 3d instant, but not feeling about to resume command, Capt. Hayes kept command until about 4.30 p. . of the same day. Capt. Hayes' report while he was in command is herewith inclosed.
I resumed command at 4.30 p. m....
We remained here until 1 a. m. on the morning of July 4, when we were again ordered forward to relieve the One hundred and thirty-seventh New York Volnteers, then in the intrenchments, where we remained until the morning of July 5.
 
Captain Edward Hayes' report reflected the following, in part:
 
Sir: I have the honor to report the part taken by the Twenty-ninth Ohio Infantry during the brief space of time it was under my command in the action at Gettysburg, on July 3.
Capt. Stevens turned over the command to me at 5.30 a. m. Shortly after this time I received com Col. Candy, Through Capt. Gwynne, an order to move the regiment forward to the riflepits and relieve the One hundred and thirty-seventh New York Volunteers, Col. D. Ireland, then engaged.
The regiment went into action the second time at 9.55 a. m. The firing was heavy on both sides until about 11 a. m., when the enemy withdrew from our front, some 5 of their men showing a flag of truce and coming in as prisoners.
Excepting an occasional shot from the enemy's sharpshooters, there was very little fighting from this time until 1 p. m., when the enemy again showed themselves in some force, and the fight was pretty general until nearly 3 p. m., when it again slackened. At 4.30 p. m. I turned the command over to Capt. Stevens.
 
The monument dedicated after the war indicated the position where the 29th Ohio relieved the 137th New York on the morning of July 3, 1863 and engaged Confederates of Ewell's division beginning that morning. A regimental history reported that "for six hours the musketry was on continued roll, interspersed at intervals by the crash of artillery." There were 332 men engaged in fighting from this regiment, among them 7 were killed and 31 were wounded.
 
This monument was dediated on "Ohio Day," September 14, 1887 and is located south of Gettysburg on the east side of Slocum Avenue.