American Civil War Monuments
Gettysburg National Military Park

Monument of the 84^th New York Infantry(14^th Brooklyn)/McPherson’s Barn

 photos and text courtesy of LCWRT Member Charlie Moore

The 84^th New York was involved in the very heavy fighting at the Railroad Cut on the first day at Gettysburg.  They were part of Cutler’s 2^nd Brigade,  of Wadsworth’s 1^st Division, of Doubleday’s 1^st Corps. On the morning of the first, Cutler deployed the 76^th New York, 147^th New York and 56^th Pennsylvania north of the cut and the 84^th New York and 95^th New York south of the cut.  They were soon outflanked by Brigadier General Joseph Davis’s  Mississippians and North Carolinians and forced to retire.  In the afternoon the 84^th New York and the 95^th New York assisted  Rufus Dawes’s 6^th Wisconsin in taking the Railroad Cut back.  They were then forced to retreat back through Gettysburg to the Culp’s Hill area, after Rode’s Division of Ewell’s Corps eentered the battle.  The monument is one of three representing the 84^th at Gettysburg and was dedicated in October of 1887.  They suffered 68% casualties.