The 40th New York Infantry Regiment, also known as the "Mozart Regiment" or the "Constitution Guard", was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Drum, Company B
40th NY Mozart Regiment Recruiting Poster
Sketch of the 40th New York charging through Devil's Den, July 2, 1863.
Monument at Gettysburg
Devil's Den
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Devil's Den is a boulder-strewn hill on the south end of Houck's Ridge at Gettysburg Battlefield, used by artillery and sharpshooters on the second day of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the Amer
The struggle for Devil's Den during the battle
Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter - Post-battle Confederate sharpshooter body staged behind the "Devil's Den barricade" illustrating "a sharpshooter…of Devil's Den" such as the one presumed killed by a percussion of a cannon shot from Little Round Top after Weed and Hazlett had been sniped. Tentatively identified in 2018 as a Georgian soldier.
Taken in Devil's Den of PA militiamen playing "Dead" in November 1863!
Civil War artist Alfred Waud sketching for the Battle of Gettysburg at Devil's Den.