Alternate Designations: None.
Commander: Capt. William A. Arnold (1830-1908).
Numbers: 6 Ordnance Rifles, 139 men. 3 killed, 28 wounded, 1 missing.
Raised: Providence County
Dedicated: Oct. 12, 1886.
Location: Hancock Avenue, west side, north of the Angle. The monument indicates the position held by Arnold’s Battery A on the morning of July 2, 1863. On July 3, the battery expended every round of solid shot except canister, and as Longstreet’s assault bore in on their position the artillerymen also exhausted their supply of canister. The battery was withdrawn to avoid capture.
Description: Tapered monument stands on a rough-hewn base. Polished imaged on the front is a wheel with crossed rammers and an anchor with the Rhode Island motto, “Hope.” The finial is an elongated trefoil, the corps insignia. Monument is a two-part stepped granite shaft with a trefoil design on the cap and set on a 4.6 foot square base. The shaft has incised inscriptions on the north and south sides and a polished granite crest on the east face framed by an incised inscription.
National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN129.
Sculptor: Smith Granite Company, fabricator.
