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By Craig Swain, June 28, 2008
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1Pennsylvania (Adams County), Gettysburg — Ninth Massachusetts Battery
On Wheatfield Road, on the right when traveling west.
(Front):Ninth Mass. Battery Captain Bigelow July 2, 1863. Killed - Wounded 2 Officers 1 3 Non-Comm Officers 6 5 Enlisted Men 13 10 Total 20 80 Horses (Back):9th Massachusetts Battery Capt. John Bigelow 1st Position left gun . . . — Map (db m13128) HM
2Pennsylvania (Adams County), Gettysburg — The Peach Orchard Salient — July 2, 1863 - Second Day —
On Wheatfield Road at Birney Lane, on the right when traveling east on Wheatfield Road.
"Sickles's movement practically destroyed his own corps...; and with what result? - driving us back to the position he was ordered to hold originally." Maj. Gen. George C. Meade, U.S.A. Commander, Army of the Potomac On the morning of July . . . — Map (db m12961) HM
3Pennsylvania (Adams County), Gettysburg — Images of DeathJuly 2, 1863 - Second Day
On Brooke Avenue, on the left when traveling north.
"It was now near nightfall, and the operations of the day were over. ...I commenced the melancholy task of looking up my numerous dead and wounded. It was a sad list." Brig. Gen. J.B. Kershaw, C.S.A. Kershaw's Brigade, McLaws' Division In 1863 this . . . — Map (db m15636) HM
 
 
  
  
 
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