9th Massachusetts Artillery Battery (Trostle Farm)

Installed 1885.

Location: United States Avenue, Trostle Farmhouse. Located on the north side of United States Avenue west of the Trostle farm house, along the historic farm lane.

Description: A limber chest of polished granite rests on a rough-hewn stone base. The monument marks the second position held by the Ninth Massachusetts Artillery Battery on July 2, 1863. Monument is a 3.7×1.3 foot block of granite in the form of an artillery limber chest and set on a 4.7×2.2 foot rough hewn base that rests on a large native boulder. The block contains inscriptions. Overall height is five feet.

National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN194.

Sculptor: Boston Marble & Granite Company, fabricator.

Other Monuments: Main Monument | Second Position | Third Position

Army of the Potomac > Artillery Reserve > First Volunteer Brigade