Alternate Designations: None.
Commander: Capt. George B. Winslow (1832-1883).
Numbers: Six 12-lb Napoleons, 116 men. 10 wounded, 8 missing.
Raised: Jefferson and St. Lawrence.
Dedicated: July 2, 1888.
Location: Located in the Wheatfield near the west end between Sickles Avenue and Wheatfield Road. The monument marks the position of Battery D on July 2, 1863.
Description: Monument that has two flanking markers and two bronze twelve-pound Napoleon cannons. Granite monument topped by a polished granite sphere. On the front of the monument is a bronze relief of a carriage wheel, two half-cannon tubes, bails and rammers, and bronze corps badge. The monument has a tiered base. Overall height is eleven foot. The shaft has a bronze state seal, carriage wheel, two half-cannon tubes, balls, rammers, and corps badges on the south side. The left cannon relief was resecured in 1981. The right cannon relief was stolen in the summer of 1982; found and replaced by Karkadoulias Bronze Art in April of 1989.
National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN140.
Sculptor: Frederick & Field, fabricator.
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