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1st Artillery Regiment (Light)
Battery K
Civil War
Monument at Gettysburg

Taken from Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg (New York at Gettysburg) by the New York Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga. Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Company, 1902.

Monument at Gettysburg for Battery K 1st NY Artillery in the Civil War
On Cemetery Ridge, at the intersection of Pleasanton Avenue, Looking east.

INSCRIPTION
Front: BATTERY K 1ST N Y LIGHT ARTILLERY (11TH NEW YORK IND. BATTERY ATTACHED) ARTILLERY RESERVE
Reverse: BATTERY K (FITZHUGH'S) HELD THIS POSITION JULY 3, 1863, AND ASSISTED IN REPELLING PlCKETT's CHARGE CASUALTIES, WOUNDED 7. ORGANIZED AT FORT PLAIN, N. Y. MUSTERED IN OCT. 10, 1861 PRINCIPAL ENGAGMENTS: BOLIVAR HEIGHTS, BEVERLY FORD, RAPPAHANNOCK STATION, CHANCELLORSVILLE, GETTYSBURG, MINE RUN. MUSTERED OUT JUNE 20, 1865.

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