Union monuments - New York Artillery & Cavalry

1st New York Light Artillery, Battery G

The monument to Battery G, First New York Light Artillery is south of Gettysburg in the Peach Orchard (right), and a marker is on Hancock Avenue (below and below right).
(see map)

The battery was commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg by Captain Nelson Ames. It brought 132 men to the field serving six 12-pounder Napoleons, and lost seven wounded. Battery G was part of the Artillery Reserve - 4th Volunteer Brigade.

The monument was informally dedicated on the anniversary of the battle in 1893. According to Ames, "Thirteen of the survivors of the battery were present, and we dedicated the noble monument in silence and in tears. No one wanted to make a speech, an none was made. Our meeting was like the meeting of a family, and formalities seemed out of place. We dedicated the monument with our tears..."*

From the front of the monument:

Battery G
(Ames')
1st N.Y. Light Artillery
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Engaged here with 3rd Corps
3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. July 2, 1863.
July 3, on Cemetery Ridge
with 1st Div., 2d Corps.
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Casualties, 7 wounded.

From the back:

From the marker:

Battery G
(Ames)
1st N.Y.L.A.
July 3rd 1863

See more on Battery G, 1st New York Light Artillery during the Civil War

*Edmund J. Raus, A Generation on the March: The Union Army at Gettysburg", p.87