Battery B, First Pennsylvania Light Artillery

Volunteer Artillery Brigade - First Corps

Army of the Potomac

First Corps

Volunteer Artillery Brigade

First Penna. Light Artillery

Battery B

Four 3 inch Rifles

Captain James H. Cooper commanding

July 3 Moved to this position from East Cemetery Hill at 3 p.m. during a heavy cannonade and ...

Pennsylvania State Memorial

(Left Front Entrance):The

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

In honor of her sons who

on this field fought for the

Preservation of the Union

July 1.2. & 3. 1863

(Right Front Entrance):Pennsylvania at Gettysburg

69 Regiments Infantry

9 Regiments Cavalry

7 Batteries Artillery

Total Present 34530

Killed and mortally wounded 1182

Wounded 3177 Missing ...

Pennsylvania

Mourns her known

and unknown dead, peacefully

sleeping here, who gave up their

lives that the nation they loved

so dearly should not

"perish from off the earth."

Marker is on National Avenue (Business State Highway 7), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Batteries C & F, Pennsylvania Independent Light Artillery

C & F

Indp't Penn'a

Artillery

Position occuped

Indp't Pa. Art'y F

Hampton's Battery

July 3rd A.D. 1863

Organized at Pittsburg Pa

Oct. 8th 1861

Mustered out of United States Service

June 24th 1865

On this field the following members ...

Pennsylvania Memorial

(South Panel):

Gettysburg was immediately recognized as an important event in the course of the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address solidified the national significance of this battlefield. As early as 1864 efforts began that eventually transformed the battlefield to ...

Pennsylvania Memorial

(South Panel):

Gettysburg was immediately recognized as an important event in the course of the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address solidified the national significance of this battlefield. As early as 1864 efforts began that eventually transformed the battlefield to ...

Pennsylvania Turnpike

This is one of the original service plazas for the nation's first long-distance superhighway. On October 1, 1940, the Turnpike opened, stretching 160 miles from Irwin to Carlisle. The Turnpike Commission had been created in 1937; construction utilized the old ...

84th Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):84th Penna

Infantry

July 1. The Regiment was on duty guarding the Division wagon trains. Moved with the column on the road from Taneytown to Emmittsburg and on the opening of the battle was ordered with the train to ...

121st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers

1st Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):Col. Chapman Biddle

Brigade Commander

July 1st 1863

P.V. 121 Reg't

Maj. Alexander Biddle

Commanding Reg't.

1st Brigade 3rd Division

First Corps

(Left):Extreme left

of Union line, 1st day

facing west.

Occupied Cemetery Ridge

July 2nd and 3rd.

Erected by the survivors of this

Regiment in memory of their

fallen comrades.

(Back):Called into ...

150th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):2d. Brigade,

3d. Div.

1st Corps.

July 2d. & 3d.

1863.

Erected by survivors

1888

2d. Regt.

Bucktail Brigade

150th. Regt. P.V.

(Left):July 1st. This

regiment fought

near Chambersburg

Pike beyond the

town, where its

monument stands,

losing 53 killed,

134 wounded and

77 missing. A total

of 264 out of

397 engaged.

(Back):July 2d. In evening

skirmished to

Emmitsburg ...