Union monuments at Gettysburg > New York
New York sent 17 artillery batteries to Gettysburg. Eight of these were part of the 1st New York Light Artillery Regiment and nine were independent batteries. The independent batteries were not attached to New York’s two light artillery regiments. The regiments were authorized for 12 batteries each but mostly acted as administrative units while their batteries served under a number of different units in the field. New York created 34 independent light artillery batteries.