Battery Osgood-Farley Historic Site

"Home of the Fort MacArthur Museum"

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Battle Honors

Third Coast Artillery

War of 1812

Fort Nelson, VA. - June 22, 1813

Fort Oswego, NY. - May 5-6, 1814

Mexican War

Palo Alto - May 8. 1846

Resaca de La ...

Raine's Battery - Latimer's Battalion

Johnson's Division - Ewell's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps - Johnson's Division

Latimer's Battalion - Raine's Battery

The Lee Battery

Two 20 pounder Parrotts - one 10 pounder Parrott

and one 3 inch Rifle

July 2 The 10 pounder Parrott and 3 inch Rifle took ...

Grand American Battery

1781 Siege of Yorktown

“The Works which we carried are of vast importance to us. From them we shall enfilade the enemy’s whole line … ”

General George Washington to the President of Congress, October 16, 1781.

The capture of British Redoubts ...

Battery Ricketts

Civil War Defenses of Washington

Earthworks of Battery Ricketts are visible inside the wooded area in front of you.

Battery Ricketts, built to defend an area in front of Fort Stanton, was named for Maj. Gen. James B. Ricketts.

Marker ...

Battery Huger

Battery Huger (?-j?) looms before you. Battery Huger, the black, concrete structure filling the center of Fort Sumter, was built in 1899 in response to the Spanish-American War. Named for Revolutionary War hero Isaac Huger, the battery was part of ...

Battery Number 5

(Front text)

This was one of several Confederate earthworks constructed on the southwest portion of James Island in the summer of 1863. It was a significant part of the “New Line” or “Siege Line” intended to defend Charleston from Federal ...

Battery B, First Pennsylvania Light Artillery

Artillery Brigade, First Corps

(Front):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.

(Left):Positions:July 1, 1863: Battery arrived at 12 m; Took position and was engaged ...

Garrity's Alabama Battery

Maj. Alfred R. Courtney's Artillery Battalion.

Garrity's Alabama Battery.

Two 10 Pdr. Parrotts, Two 12 Pdr. Napoleons.

Maj. Alfred R. Courtney's Artillery Battalion.

Hindman's Division.

Nov. 1863.

Capt. James Garrity, Commanding.

1st Lieut. Philip Bond.

1st Lieut. Maynard A. Hassell.

2nd Lieut. Henry F. Carroll.

The section of Parrott guns ...

Battery Jones

Dec. 1864. Beginning near this point and extending about 500 yards north along the left bank of Salt Creek, astride the old Savannah and Darien (Ogeechee) road, strong earthworks were constructed by Confederate engineers to prevent enemy forces from crossing ...

Battery Wall Discovery

In spring 2006, during the South Ferry excavation in the Battery, four sections of a colonial era wall were identified by archeologists. Although each of the four sections exhibited unique features, they are all likely part of the same wall, ...