Battery B, Fourth U.S. Artillery
Artillery Brigade - First Corps
Army of the Potomac
First Corps
Artillery Brigade
Battery B Fourth U.S. Artillery
Six 12 pounders
Lieut. James Stewart commanding
July 1 In position about 200 yards south of the Lutheran Theological Seminary until 3 p.m. when ordered to support the Second Division First Corps and took position on Seminary Ridge half of the Battery in command of Lieut. James Davidson between the Chambersburg Pike and Railroad cut. The other half north of the cut in corner of the woods was actively engaged. The Battery afterwards retired with the troops to Cemetery Hill and went into position on the Baltimore Pike opposite Evergreen Cemetery commanding the approach from the town two guns on the pike and two in the field two having been disabled.
Casualties killed 2 men, wounded 2 officers and 29 men, missing 3 men. Total 36.
Marker is on Chambersburg Pike (U.S. 30), on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
