First New York Battery

During the cannonade preceding Longstreet's assault on July 3, 1863, Cowan's First New York Battery, part of the Artillery Brigade of the Sixth Corps, was engaged a short distance farther to the left, then moved at a gallop by order of General Webb to a position previously occupied by Battery B, 1st Rhode Island Artillery. As skirmishing began and Confederate lines advanced in a splendid charge up to the position, the battery kept up continuous artillery fire that did much execution. Its last round, double canister, was fired when some of the enemy were over the defences and within ten yards of the guns. The battery lost four men and fourteen horses killed, with two lieutenants and six men wounded, and it was relieved on the morning of July 5, 1863, before returning to the Sixth Corps.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · United States