4th United States Artillery, Battery E

The monument to Battery E is south of Gettysburg on Bushman Hill, south of South Confederate Avenue and west of Big Round Top. (see map)

From the monument:

Army of the Potomac
Cavalry Corps
First Brigade Horse Artillery

Battery E, Fourth U.S. Artillery

Four 3 inch rifles
Lieut. Samuel S. Elder commanding

July 3 Arrived on the field and took position on a hill southwest of Round Top and engaged under Brig. General E. J. Farnsworth in the afternoon against the Confederate right.

Casualties: killed 1 man

Signs (below) mark both ends of the steep trail that loops off South Confederate Avenue to the hilltop monument.

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