Confederate Artillery Batteries
The marker to the Staunton Artillery is northeast of Gettysburg on Jones Battalion Avenue. (Jones Avenue tour map) The battery was commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg by Captain Asher W. Garber.
Text from the marker:
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Army of Northern Virginia
Ewell’s Corps Early’s Division
Jones’s Artillery Battalion Garber’s Battery
Staunton (Virginia) Artillery
Four Napoleons
July 1. Reached the field with Early’s Division and immediately went into battery near this position. Fired with effect on Howard’s 11th Corps and on infantry retiring from Seminary Ridge. Ceased firing as the Confederate infantry advanced.
July 2. Occupied the same position. Not engaged.
July 3. Remained in the same position. Not engaged.
Casualties Wounded 1
Ammunition expended 106 rounds.
Location of the marker
The marker to the Staunton Artillery is northeast of Gettysburg on Jones Battalion Avenue, which is on the east side of Old Harrisburg Road (Business US 15) about 0.6 mile past its intersection with Howard Avenue. Turn east down Jones Battalion Avenue about 0.25 mile. When it turns to the north the marker is on the east side along the curve.