Tour the Gettysburg battlefield > North • Central • South • E. Cavalry Field
Hancock Avenue begins as a continuation of Sedgwick Avenue north of United States Avenue. It is one-way northbound and is part of the National Park Auto tour. It was named in honor of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, whose Second Army Corps fought all along the length of the avenue.
The avenue’s southern section is lined with a Union monuments and markers, including several to the artillery batteries who defended this part of the line during the heavy fighting on both July 2nd and 3rd.
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headquarters monuments
2nd Corps, 1st Division
Artillery Reserve, 1st Volunteer Brigade
monuments to individuals
Father Corby
2nd Connecticut Artillery
6th Maine Battery
5th Massachusetts Battery
1st Minnesota Infantry
2nd New Jersey Battery
1st New York Artillery, Battery G
15th New York Battery
Pennsylvania Battery B
3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery
4th Pennsylvania Cavalry
88th Pennsylvania Infantry
90th Pennsylvania Infantry
148th Pennsylvania Infantry
battlefield farms
George Weickert Farm
other monuments
New York Auxillary Monument