Second Brigade

Historical marker location:

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

( Marker is on Taneytown Road / Washington Street (State Highway 134), on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1912

Second Division - Eleventh Corps. Army of the Potomac.

The first recorded U.S. flag-raising on foreign soil occurred in 1777, when the Stars and Stripes were flown during a naval battle off the coast of Quiberon Bay, France, commanded by Pennsylvania native John Paul Jones.