Location: Oak Hill, southeast of Peace Memorial. Located on North side of North Confederate Avenue near Peace Light Memorial.
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
EWELL’S CORPS RODES’ DIVISION
CARTER’S BATTALION FRY’S BATTERY
THE ORANGE ARTILLERY
Two 10 Pounder Parrotts Two 3 Inch Rifles
July 1. Opened fire soon after arriving here upon the Union troops near the Chambersburg Pike to which their artillery replied with a heavy fire that caused some loss. Soon afterward the Union forces extended their line northward to the Mummasburg Road and this Battery by its enfilading fire aided our infantry in the severe conflict which ended with the withdrawal of the First Corps from Seminary Ridge.
July 2. In position but was not engaged.
July 3. All its guns were on Seminary Ridge near the Railroad cut and took part in the cannonade preceding Longstreet’s assault.
Losses not reported. Ammunition expended 882 rounds.
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