The Monuments and Memorials of the Gettysburg Campaign
Washington Artillery Battalion
One of two artillery battalions that made up the Artillery Reserve of Longstreet’s Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. This battalion was known as “The Washington Artillery.”
Commander: Major Benjamin F. Eshelman (Mar. 9, 1830-July 6, 1909). Born in Lancaster, PA to a Mennonite family, but was working in a hardware store in Louisiana at the start of the Civil War; served at the war in New Orleans as president of the board of trade.
