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Monument honoring the 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery A

Description: Image of the a square, white monument with "Arnold's Battery" above an intricate engraving of crossed ramrods and swabs, a wheel, a cannon, and the steal seal for Rhode Island. Below this: July 2 & 3, 1863. On side of monument: 4 Killed 24 Wounded. The photograph has been affixed to a card with the photographer's signature and "Gettysburg, Pa." printed in gold lettering at the bottom.
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Date: ca. 1885
Call number: photCL 445 (386)
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Monument honoring the 1st Pennsylvania Artillery, Battery B, Artillery Brigade, 1st Corps

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Image of the monument to Cooper's Battery B, First Pennsylvania Light Artillery. Monument is topped by stone cannon, and is inscribed with: Cooper's / Battery B / First Pennsylvania Light Artillery. / (Penn'a Reserve Vol. Corps.) / Artillery Brigade, First Corps. / Present at Gettysburg, 114 officers and men. / Killed 3; wounded 9. / Ammunition expended: (4 guns) 1050 rounds.

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Monument honoring the 1st New York Artillery, Battery D

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Image of the monument to Battery D of the 1st New York Light Artillery, Artillery Brigade, Third Corps. Monument consists of a large block finished on the front, rough hewn on the sides. On the front is a wheel, behind which are crossed ramrods, and on either side cannon. The photograph has been affixed to a card with the photographer's signature and "Gettysburg, Pa." printed in gold lettering at the bottom.

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Monument honoring the 1st New York Light Artillery, Battery K

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Image of the monument to the 1st New York Light Artillery. The center of the monument has a bas-relief of men preparing a cannon for reloading; an injjured or dead soldier lies int he field next to the cannon. Below the bas-relief is written: Battery K. / 1st N. Y. Light Artillery. / (11th New York Ind. Battery Attached) / Artillery Reserve. The photograph has been affixed to a card with the photographer's signature and "Gettysburg, Pa." printed in gold lettering at the bottom.

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Monument honoring the 5th Massachusetts Artillery, Battery E

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Image of the monument to the Fifth Massachusetts Battery. The monument has a large Maltese cross onto which is inscribed: Fifth Massachusetts Battery. On the base is: July 2, 1863. The photograph has been affixed to a card with the photographer's signature and "Gettysburg, Pa." printed in gold lettering at the bottom.

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Monument honoring the 2nd Maine Artillery, Battery B, 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Corps

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Image of the monument of Hall's 2nd Maine Battery. Monument has a bas-relief portrait of it's commanding officer, Captain James A. Hall. Behind the monument is a split rail fence. The photograph has been affixed to a card with the photographer's signature and "Gettysburg, Pa." printed in gold lettering at the bottom.

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Monument honoring the Pennsylvania Independent Artillery, Batteries C and F

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Image of a stone monument with a bronze tablet. At the top of the monument: C & F Indp't Penn'a Artillery. On the tablet is written: Position occupied / Pa Indp't Art'y F / Hampton's Battery, / July 3 A.D. 1863 / Organized at Pittsburgh, Pa. / Oct. 8th 1861 / Mustered out of United States Service / June 24, 1865 / On this field the following members fell / Joseph L. Miller / Jos. B. Todd / Adam Rath / Jacob Keirch / Hugh Purdy / John H. Herbert / Cha's. R. Bright / And eleven men were wounded / This tablet / erected to their memory / by the surviving members of / the Battery July 3rd 1885. . The photograph has been affixed to a card with the photographer's signature and "Gettysburg, Pa." printed in gold lettering at the bottom.

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Monument honoring the 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery A

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