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“Winslow’s Battery”
The monument to Battery D is south of Gettysburg in The Wheatfield. (Ayers Avenue – Wheatfield tour map) The State of New York dedicated the monument in 1888.
Monument to Battery D, 1st New York Light Artillery at Gettysburg
About the monument
The monument is topped by a highlly polished stone cannonball and faced with a bronze arrangement of two gun tubes, a caisson wheel, crossed rammers and two pyramids of cannonballs. The diamond of the Third Corps appears on both the front and back of the monument. The bronze Seal of the State of New York is at the bottom.
Battery D at Gettysburg
Captain George B. Winslow commanded the battery at the Battle of Gettysburg. It brought 116 men to the field. They manned six 12-pounder Napoleons. The battery was placed in the middle of the Wheatfield in late afternoon of July 2 but was soon forced to withdraw by attacking Confederates. Battery D lost 10 men wounded and 8 men missing in the fighting.
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Attached to the Artillery Brigade, 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac
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From the front of the monument:
Battery D
1st New York Light Artillery
Artillery Brig. Third Corps
Rear view of the monument to Battery D
From the rear of the monument:
This battery (Winslow’s) held this position during
the afternoon of July 2d, 1863.
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Casualties: 10 wounded, 8 missing.
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Mustered in Sept. 6, 1861.
Engaged in 32 battles.
Mustered out June 16, 1865.
Location of the monument to Battery D at Gettysburg
The monument to Battery D is south of Gettysburg in the middle of the Wheatfield. It is about 120 yards south of Wheatfield Road and 80 yards southeast of the edge of the Rose Woods. (39°47’50.7″N 77°14’34.2″W)