Union Monuments - Massachusetts

3rd Massachusetts Battery
(Battery C, Massachusetts Light Artillery)

The monument to the Third Massachusetts Battery is south of Gettysburg on Wheatfield Road. A marker is also on Wright Avenue. (see map)

The battery was commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg by Lieutenant Aaron Francis Walcott. It brought 124 men to the field.

Form the front of the Wheatfield Road monument:

3rd Mass. Battery

From the rear:

July 2 1863

The monument carries the symbols of both the artillery branch of service and the Maltese Cross of the Union Fifth Army Corps.

From the Wright Avenue marker:

Army of the Potomac
Fifth Corps, Artillery Reserve

Battery C
Massachusetts Light Artillery
Six 12 pounders
Lieut. A. F. Walcott commanding.

July 3. At 3 a.m. moved to and occupied this position until the close of the battle.

See more about the Third Massachusetts Battery during the Civil War