Location: West Confederate Avenue, south of McMillan Woods. Located on East side of West Confederate Avenue, near Virginia State Memorial.
Description: Cast iron tablet, 3’8″ x 3’4″, with raised inscription painted in a contrasting color and mounted on fluted cast iron post. All 4’4″ H. 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
HILL’S CORPS PENDER’S DIVISION
POAGUE’S BATTALION WARD’S BATTERY
THE MADISON (MISS.) LIGHT ARTILLERY
Three Napoleons One 12 Pounder
July 2. Late in the evening the Napoleons were placed in position about 400 yards eastward from this point.
July 3. The Napoleons participated actively in all the operations of the artillery during the day including the cannonade preceding Longstreet’s assault withdrawing afterward to a position near here. The Howitzer was kept in the rear and took no part in the battle but was held in readiness to resist any advance of the Union forces.
July 4. In the evening about dusk began the march to Hagerstown.
Losses not reported in detail.
Army of Northern Virginia > Hill’s Corps > Pender’s Division > Poague’s Battalion