Location: East side of West Confederate Avenue south of Berdan Avenue, opposite Pitzer Woods.
Cast iron tablet, 3’8″ x 3’4″, with raised inscription painted in a contrasting color and mounted on fluted cast iron post. Tablets casts by Calvin Gilbert. The inscription on the 3.8′ x 3.4′ tablet narrates the events associated with Battery during the Battle.
Inscription:
ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
LONGSTREET’S CORPS PICKETT’S DIVISION
DEARING’S BATTALION BLOUNT’S BATTERY
Four Napoleons
July 3. Advanced to the front about daybreak. Later in the morning took position on the ridge west of the Emmitsburg Road 200 yards from the Roger’s House and remained there for hours unengaged. When the signal guns were fired about 1 P. M. moved forward to the crest of the hill and took an active part in the cannonade. But its ammunition being exhausted as Longstreet’s infantry was advancing and all efforts to procure a fresh supply proving fruitless the Battery was withdrawn.
July 4. In line of battle all day with the left wing of McLaws’ Division. Marched at sunset to Black Horse Tavern.
Losses not reported in detail.
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