Battery B, 1st New York Light Artillery

Artillery Brigade

(Front):Battery B

1st New York

Light

Artillery,

Artillery

Brigade,

2d Corps.

(Back):Position held

afternoon of

July 3d 1863.

Casualties;

Killed 10,

Wounded 16.

(Left):Mustered

into service

Aug. 31, 1861.

participated

in 78 days

of battle.

Mustered out

of service

June 16, 1865.

(Right):Organized at

Baldwinsville

Onondaga Co.

New York.

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

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Counterscarp Battery

Along the outer wall of the ditch you see the counterscarp battery, named for its location on the "counterscarp," or outer wall, of the dry ditch.

This structure sheltered troops who could direct musketry toward the river or into the ditch ...

Battery C, Fifth U.S. Artillery

First Regular Brigade - Artillery Reserve

Army of the Potomac

Artillery Reserve

First Regular Brigade

Battery C Fifth U.S. Artillery

Lieut. Gulian V. Weir commanding

July 2 Arrived at Gettysburg from near Taneytown and in the afternoon was ordered to the front and by direction of ...

Water Battery

Saratoga

1777

Water Battery

defending

bridge of boats

In memory of

Kosciusko

who selected the

whole line of defense

Marker is on U.S. 4, on the right when traveling south.

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Point Peter Battery and the War of 1812

In 1795 a cannon battery constructed on the Point Peter peninsula became the southernmost fortification in the First System of U.S. coastal defenses. Vacated in 1802, it was reoccupied and strengthened in 1808 to provide support for the enforcement of ...

Battery 45

Salient of Confederate Line

Siege of Petersburg

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Erected Apr. 2, 1914

By A.P. Hill Camp S.C.V.

Marker is on Defense Road/Fort Lee Road, on the left when traveling east.

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Bledsoe's (Missouri) Battery

Maj. Robert Martin's Battalion.

Bledsoe's (Missouri) Battery.

4-3 inch Rifles.

Maj. Robert Martin's Battalion.

Capt. Hiram M. Bledsoe, Commanding.

1st Lieut. R. L. Wood.

1st Lieut. C. W. Higgins.

2d Lieut. E. W. Anderson.

2d Lieut. L. L. Maughas.

2d Lieut. J. S. Wheatley.

Nov. 25, 1863.

The battery came into ...

Battery Decatur and Disappearing Guns

American coastal defenses were modernized from the 1890s to 1910 with the development of the Endicott System. Emphasis in military tactics shifted the masonry fortifications to more effective weapons based on rifled steel guns, improved breech-loading systems, better propellants (gunpowder), ...

Battery B, 1st Rhode Island Artillery

(Front):Brown's

Battery B

1st R.I. Lt. Art.ly

(Back):Art.ly Brig

2nd Corps

Army Potomac

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

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Federal Artillery Battery

Cold Harbor Battlefield Park Walking Trail

Under the cover of night, Union artillerists left their horses at the foot of the hill behind you and dragged six rifled cannon up the slope by hand. The guns were then placed side by ...