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Antietam National Battlefield
Hexamer's New Jersey Battery Monument

FIRST POSITION
Dedicated: September 17, 1903
Location: Smoketown Road neat the intersection with Mumma Lane
Map Number: 35
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Hexamer's New Jersey Battery Monument - First Position

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Hexamer's New Jersey Battery Monument - First Position

Monument Text:
Hexamer's (New Jersey) Battery
September 17, 1862
From a position about 60 yards south of this point the battery, between 2 and 3 p.m. engaged and silenced the Confederate Artillery around the Dunker Church.

 

SECOND POSITION
Dedicated: September 17, 1903
Location: North side of Bloody Lane near the Tower
Map Number: 59

 
Hexamer's New Jersey Battery Monument - Second Position

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Hexamer's New Jersey Battery Monument -Second Position

Monument Text:
Hexamer's (New Jersey) Battery
September 17, 1862
From 3:30 p.m. until near sunset this Battery from a point about 80 yards north of this, engaged the enemy around the Piper Buildings.
Nelson Miles during the Civil War  

Did You Know?
Colonel Nelson Miles of the 64th New York Infantry was a volunteer officer at Antietam and was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery at Chancellorsville. After the Civil War he remained in the Army and by the Spanish American War in 1898 he was the Commanding General of the U.S. Army.

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