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SHOWING SHELL MONUMENT WHERE GEN. SMITH FELL, ALSO THE LARGE PINE TREE
ON THE RIGHT WHERE THE 77TH FLAG WAS CAPTURED.

of very substantial construction, and was used, prior to the Rebellion, as a plug tobacco factory, but during the war, it was turned into a military prison, which, at the time when the tunnels were dug out from it, contained about 1,000 prisoners who were captured at the battle of Chickamauga.

To commemorate the services of the regiment in the battle of Chickamauga, an appropriate monument of granite and bronze has been erected on that field by the State of Pennsylvania.

This monument stands on the ground where, on September nineteenth, during the night attack on Johnson's Division, so large a number of the Seventy-seventh, officers and men, were taken prisoners.

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