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“Havelock Battery”
The monument to the 11th New York Independent Battery is south of Gettysburg on Hancock Avenue. (Hancock Avenue at The Angle tour map) The State of New York dedicated the monument in 1893.
Monument to the 11th New York Independent Battery at Gettysburg
The battery at Gettysburg
The battery was temporarily attached to Battery K of the New York Light Artillery during the Gettysburg Campaign because of casualties from the Battle of Chancellorsville. Battery K’s Captain Robert H. Fitzhugh was in command at Gettysburg. The batteries were assigned to the 4th Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve.
The battery was in reserve until July 3. As Pickett’s Charge made its way across the field it was ordered into line at the gallop. They took position near the stone wall where Confederate infantry was trying to cross and opened fire “with great deliberation and desired effect.” The combined batteries fired 89 rounds: 57 percussion shell, 15 shrapnel, and 17 time shell, divided between counterbattery fire against Confederate artillery and attacking Confederate infantry. After the attack was repulsed the battery remained in position until the morning of July 5th, when they rejoined the Artillery Reserve.
Text from the monument:
11th Independent (Havelock) Battery,
New York Light Artillery,
4th Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve,
July 3rd 1863.
Attached to Battery K, 1st New York Light Artillery.
Casualties, Wounded 5.
Organized at Albany, New York, October 26th, 1861.
Mustered into United States service January 6th 1862.
Participated in all battles of the Army of the Potomac from Second Bull Run to Appomattox except Antietam.
Mustered out June 13th 1865.
View of the monument, with the statue of General Meade in the distance.
Location of the monument to the 11th New York Battery at Gettysburg
The monument is south of Gettysburg on the east side of Hancock Avenue. It is about 150 yards north of the Copse of Trees. (39°48’49.5″N 77°14’06.9″W)