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“Second Excelsior Light Artillery”
The monument to the Tenth New York Independent Battery is south of Gettysburg on Wheatfield Avenue. (Sickles Avenue at Excelsior Field tour map) It was erected by the State of New York in 1893.
Their nickname was from the battery originally having formed part of Daniel Sickles’ Excelsior Brigade.
Monument to the 10th New York Independent battery at Gettysburg
The battery was temporarily attached to the 5th Massachusetts Battery during the Gettysburg campaign after heavy losses at the Battle of Chancellorsville. It was under the command of that 5th Massachusetts’ Captain Charles Philips. The 10th New York was reconstituted as an independent command shortly after Gettysburg.
Text from the monument:
10th Independent Battery, New York Light Artillery,
1st Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve.
July 2nd 1863.
Attached to 5th Massachusetts
Light Battery (E)
Casualties, killed 2, wounded 3.
Organized as the 2nd Excelsior Battery.
Mustered into U.S. Service April 9th, 1862.
Consolidated with 6th N.Y. Independent Battery June 21st, 1864.
Mustered out June 22nd, 1865.
View of the monument flanked by two 3″ Ordnance Rifles. The Klingle farm is in the distance on the left. To its right over the barrel of the left gun is the 139th Pennsylvania Infantry monument. Farther right is the bullet-shaped 7th New Jersey Infantry monument. In the far right distance is the State of Pennsylvania monument, over half a mile away.
Location of the monument to the 10th New York Battery at Gettysburg
The monument to the 10th New York Battery is south of Gettysburg on the north side of Wheatfield Road 25 yards east of the intersection with Sickles Avenue.(39°48’02.3″N 77°14’49.6″W)