Union monuments - New York Artillery & Cavalry

10th New York Independent Battery

The monument to the Tenth New York Independent Battery is south of Gettysburg on Wheatfield Avenue. It was erected by the State of New York in 1893.
Location: 39.80064 N, 77.247102 W; see map

The battery at the time of Gettysburg was temporarily attached to the 5th Massachusetts Battery after heavy losses at Chancellorsville. It was reconstituted as an independent command shortly after Gettysburg.

From the monument:

10th Independent Battery,
New York Light Artillery,
1st Volunteer Brigade,
Artillery Reserve.
July 2nd 1863.

Attached to 5th Massachusetts
Light Battery (E).

Casualties,
killed 2, wounded 3.

Organized as the 2nd
Excelsior Battery.
Mustered into U.S. Service
April 9th, 1862.
Consolidated with 6th
N.Y. Independent Battery
June 21st, 1864.
Mustered out June 22nd, 1865.

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