42nd Ohio Infantry


                    Monument is located on Union Avenue 125
                    yards south of the Iowa Memorial. Also
                    markers designating the assaults of 22 May
                    1863 located between Union Avenue and
                    Confederate Avenue in the woods southeast
                    of the Alabama Memorial and a
                    sharpshooter's line located 400' west of
                    Union Ave. on the ridge above the Old
                    Reunion Grounds. This unit was attached to
                    Col. Daniel W. Lindsey's 2nd Brigade of Brig.
                    Gen. Peter J. Osterhaus' 9th Division, Maj.
                    Gen'ls John A. McClernand (relieved of
                    command 19 June 1863) & Edward O.C.
                    Ord's XIII Army Corps and was commanded
                    by Lt. Col. Don A. Pardee & Col. Lionel A.
                    Sheldon.