Alternate Designations: Platt’s.
Commander: Lt. Edward B. Williston (1836-1920).
Numbers: Six 12-lb Napoleons, 112 men. No losses.
Raised: New York City and Hamilton County, Ohio.
Erected between 1907 and 1908.
Location: East side of Taneytown Road, between Wheatfield Road and Granite Schoolhouse Lane. Generally locates position occupied by Williston’s Regular Battery in park & reserve during Battle of Gettysburg, July 2-3, 1863.
Description: One of 45 monuments erected to units of the United States regular army on the battlefield. A red polished Jonesboro granite monolith that is set upon a concrete foundation with a descriptive 3’6’x3’7′ bronze tablet with the coat of arms of the United States in bronze. Inscription:
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
SIXTH CORPS
ARTILLERY BRIGADE
BATTERY D SECOND U. S. ARTILLERY
Four Light 12 Pounders
Lieut. Edward B. Williston Commanding
July 2. Arrived with the Corps and took position and remained on Taneytown Road.
Not Engaged