1st New Jersey Artillery, Battery B
"Clark's Battery"

The monument to Clark's New Jersey Battery B is south of Gettysburg on Sickles Avenue. See map >

The battery was commanded by Captain Adoniram J. Clark. It brought 143 men to the field serving six 10-pounder Parrott Rifles.

From the front of the monument:

Clark's Battery
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Battery B
1st New Jersey
Light Artillery
3d Corps
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Fought here from
2 Until 7 O'Clock
on July 2, 1863.
Firing 1300 rounds
of ammunition
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Losses, killed 1,
wounded 16, missing 3.
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Erected by the State
of New Jersey 1888.

From the back:

Mustered in
Sept. 3, 1861,
mustered out
June 16, 1865.
Engaged in 26
battles including
all the important
actions on the Peninsula,
Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville,
Wilderness,
Spottyslvania,
Cold Harbor,
Petersburg,
Appomattox

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