Alternate Designations: None. The 11th New York Independent Battery was attached.
Commander: Capt. Robert H. Fitzhugh (1840-1920).
Numbers: Six Ordnance Rifles (2 from the 11th); 149 men (99 from the 11th). 7 wounded.
Raised:
Battery K – Montgomery County.
11th Battery – Albany (New York) and Ashtabula (Ohio).
Dedicated: July 2, 1888. Relocated April 1903.
Location: East side of Hancock Avenue.
Description: Monument consists of pictorial reliefs affixed to a rounded marker which stands on a sloped, two-course base. The main relief depicts a battle scene, in which artillerymen are loading a cannon. Above this relief is round New York State Seal. The monument has rough-hewn surfaces. Monument is a two-part rough cut granite shaft with tooled edge and set on a 7×4.6 foot base. The shaft has an excised inscription, bronze bas relief, and tablet and medallion. Overall height is nineteen feet. Flanking markers are one foot square and still located at the original monument position.
It was originally installed on Pleasanton Avenue and was moved to its current site in April 1903.
National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN221.
Sculptor: O’Kelley, S. J., sculptor.
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