page_title: 40th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
section_title: Gettysburg, Second Day
hierarchical_section_title: 40th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment / Service / Gettysburg, Second Day
caption_attribution_description: English: 40th NY Infantry monument, (1888) Gettysburg Battlefield
context_page_description: The 40th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, 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.
  The 40th New York also had the 2nd highest numbers of casualties of any New York Regiment, behind the famous 69th New York Infantry of the Irish Brigade.
context_section_description: The 40th New York played a critical role in the defense of the Federal left flank during the second day at Gettysburg, delaying the approach of Law's Division to Little Round Top. Below Devil's Den, the men of the 40th New York were called upon to delay at all costs elements of Benning's Georgia brigade and Law's Alabama brigade, as Confederates began forcing back Hobart Ward's 2nd Brigade of the Third Corps. The 40th New York charged seven times down the course of Plum Run, into the boulders of Devil's Den and the Slaughter Pen.
caption: Monument at Gettysburg
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