Sculpted by Gary Casteel
 
1863 Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Monument Replicas
 
One of three monuments to the 90th Pennsylvania and indicates its position at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, when, “after taking up a position with our depleted numbers on Cemetery Hill, we supported batteries,” as an officer recalled at the dedication of the regiment’s main monument, on Doubleday Avenue.
 
Organized at Philadelphia on October 1, 1861, and mustered out on November 26, 1864, the 90th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was part of the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Corps.  In addition to reporting on the dedication of the “boulder monument” in its article of September 11, 1889, the Philadelphia Inquirer included a brief history of the regiment:
 
The 90th at Gettysburg.
The position of the 90th regiment was on the new line to the left of the Tayneytown Road, facing the Emmitsburg Pike, where slight breastworks were thrown up. Upon reaching this position, Colonel Lyle was ordered to assume command of the 1st Brigade, Major Sellers taking command of the regiment in the absence of Lieutenant Colonel Leech on account of sickness. The 90th entered the battle with 191 men and lost in killed, wounded and missing, 100. Chaplain Horatio S. Howell was among the killed, falling in the retreat through the town on the evening of the first day. Captains J. T. Durang and W. P. Davis and Adjutant D. P. Weaver were among the wounded, and Lieutenant E. J. Gorgas was taken prisoner. From Cold Harbor, where the regiment arrived on 6 June, until the 16th when it crossed the James and joined in the operation before Petersburg, it was kept constantly employed in marching and intrenching, upon the right flank of the army, as it moved forward. In the following operations at Yellow Tavern on the Weldon Railroad, the brigade was formed in line of battle at noon, 18 July, on the right of the road facing a wood, through which it advanced. The enemy was found in force, but after receiving several volleys and finding the left flank exposed, a retrograde movement was ordered. In executing this Lieutenant John T. Reilly and a number of men were captured.
The dedication of “Boulder” Monument, to mark the position of the 90th Regiment on the afternoon of 2 July 1863, on Hancock Avenue, half way between Cemetery Hill and Round Top, will include: Invocation, Rev. Dr. William Aikman; presentation of Memorial to the Battlefield Association, Chairman Comrade Hillary Beyer; unveiling, Thomas E. Berger; acceptance on behalf of Battlefield Association, John M. Krauth, Esq., of Gettysburg; poem composed and dedicated to the 90th Regiment, by Florence McCurdy, read by Rev. J. K. Demarest; dedicatory address, A. J. Sellers, president of the association.
 
The monument was dedicated in 1889 and is located on the south of Gettysburg on the west side of Hancock Avenue.