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).
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Peach Orchard Tour

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:

Mustered in Sept. 22, 1861. Principal Engagements.
Fair Oaks Peach Orchard Savage's Station - White Oak Swamp Malvern Hill Antietam Fredericksburg Chancellorsville Gettysburg	Auburn Hill Bristoe Station Robertson's Tavern Wilderness Po River Spottsylvania North Anna Totopotomoy Cold Harbor
Petersburg June 16, 1864 to Apr. 3, 1865. Mustered out June 19, 1865.

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From the marker:

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

The battery was commanded at 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..."*

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

Battery G, 1st New York Artillery marker at Gettysburg

Monument at Gettysburg to Battery G, 1st New York Light Artillery