First Massachusetts Light Battery

First

Massachusetts

Light Battery

Artillery Brig. 6th Corps

July 3, 1863

Marker can be reached from Taneytown Road (State Highway 134), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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[Marker front]:

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[South Side of Marker]:"Campbell Memorial Park"

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The South and North Railroad Cut.

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(obverse)

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