Auburn in Cayuga County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

1st N.Y. Independent Battery Memorial

1st Independent N.Y. Battery Plaque image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Anton Schwarzmueller, August 28, 2015

1. 1st Independent N.Y. Battery Plaque

Inscription.
Friends around me fell like drops of rain. Twas there many noble ones were slain. Their mangled corpses strewned the grass with none to care since life was passed.

Each day the dreadful tidings come to weeping friends who are at home of fathers wounded, brothers slain, and their bodies bleaching on the plain.

Oh will this war forever cease and leave us once again at peace or must each drop of blood be spilled and every heart with grief be filled?
George F. Brockway, Saddler, 1st N.Y. Ind. Battery

July 3, 1988 - 125th anniversary - Gettysburg, July 1, 2, 3, 1863.

In memory of the 1st N.Y. Independent Battery (Cowan's), for their patriotic valor in 36 Civil War battles including the seige of Yorktown, Gettysburg · July 3 and Appomattox Court House.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil.

Location. 42° 55.787′ N, 76° 33.934′ W. Memorial is in Auburn, New York, in Cayuga County. It is at the intersection of Grover Street and South Street (New York State Route 34), on the right when traveling west on Grover Street. Memorial is adjacent to City Hall, south side. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 24 South Street, Auburn NY 13021, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Upstate New York,

specifically in Central New York,

and in the Syracuse Metropolitan Area.

It is also in the American Northeast

and in the Mid-Atlantic.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

New Netherland,

and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other

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markers are within walking distance of this marker: Cayuga County Civil War Soldiers And Sailors Memorial (a few steps from this marker); David Munson Osborne Memorial City Hall (within shouting distance of this marker); William H. Seward (within shouting distance of this marker); Votes for Women (within shouting distance of this marker); Auburn Memorial City Hall (within shouting distance of this marker); South Street Area Historic District (within shouting distance of this marker); Women’s Educational & Industrial Union (WEIU) (within shouting distance of this marker); Westminster Presbyterian Church (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Auburn.

View from South Street image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Anton Schwarzmueller, August 28, 2015

2. View from South Street

The blank stone at center, and in front of the main center display, has the 1st Independent N.Y. Battery plaque on the opposite side.

Credits. This page was last revised on March 16, 2026. It was originally submitted on September 9, 2015, by Anton Schwarzmueller of Wilson, New York. This page has been viewed 863 times since then and 50 times this year. Last updated on March 13, 2026, by Susan A. Dalaba of Cortland, New York. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on September 9, 2015, by Anton Schwarzmueller of Wilson, New York. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.