Battery E, 5th Maine Light Artillery

Monument location: Slocum Avenue on Stevens' Knoll next to Gen. Slocum's equestrian statue (above and center right) and marker on Seminary Avenue (bottom right)
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From the front of the monument:

Stevens' Battery
5th Maine, 1st Corps.
Fought here
July 1,2,3, 1863.
Also engaged
July 1st north of the
Seminary.
Ammunition expended
979 rounds.

From the right side:

"In the assault upon
East Cemetery Hill
in the evening of
July 2nd, the enemy,
(Hays' and Hoke's Brigades)
exposed their left flank to
Stevens' Battery
which poured a terrible fire
of double canister into
their ranks."
Doubleday

From the left side:

Bull Run 2nd
Fredericksburg.
Chancellorsville.
Gettysburg.
Wilderness.
Spottsylvania.
Cold Harbor.
Petersburg.
Opequan.
Fisher's Hill.
Cedar Creek.

From the rear:

Losses
Bull Run 2nd.
1 officer and 3 men killed.
8 men wounded.
6 men missing.

Chancellorsville.
6 men killed.
3 officers and 19 men wounded.

Gettysburg.
2 men killed.
2 officers and 11 men wounded.
6 men missing.

Opequan.
6 men wounded.

Cedar Creek.
2 men killed.
16 men wounded.

From the marker on Seminary Avenue:

Stevens' Battery,
5th
Maine
July 1, 1863

The battery was commanded by Captain Greenlief Thurlow Stevens, who was wounded on July 2nd. Lieutenant Edward N. Whittier then assumed command; he went on to be awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Fisher's Hill in 1865.

Battery E brought 136 men to the field serving six twelve-pounder Napoleons. It suffered 3 killed, 13 wounded, and 7 missing.

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