Stone Sentinels, battlefield monuments of the American Civil War
Union Headquarters Markers

Artillery Brigade, Sixth Army Corps USA Flag

South of Gettysburg on Sedgwick Avenue.

From the monument:

Army of the Potomac
Sixth Corps
Artillery Brigade
Col. Charles H. Tompkins
Mass. 1st Battery A Six 12 Pounders
CaPart William H. McCartney
New York 1st Battery Six 3 lnch Rifles
CaPart Andrew Cowan
New York 3d Battery Six 10 Pounders
CaPart William A. Harn
1st Rhode Island Battery C Six 3 lnch Rifles
CaPart Richard Waterman
1st Rhode Island Battery G Six 10 Pounder Parrotts
CaPart George W. Adams
2d U. S. Battery D Six 12 Pounders
Lieut. Edward B. Williston
2d U. S. Battery G Six 12 Pounders
Lieut. John H. Butler
5th U. S. Battery F Six 10 Pounder Parrotts
Lieut. Leonard Martin

July 2. Arrived in the afternoon and evening from Manchester Md. and the artillery was placed under the orders of Brig. Gen. H. J. Hunt Chief of Artillery of the Army

July 3. The batteries were placed in reserve on different portions of the field so as to be available but with exception of 1st New York Battery were not actively engaged.

Casualties Killed 4 Men Wounded 2 Officers 6 Men Total 12

 


Artillery Brigade, 6th Corps, Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg