• Cannon and Cornfield at Dawn

    Antietam

    National Battlefield Maryland

Ohio, 1st Battery, Light Artillery Monument

Dedicated: 1903

Location: South of the Battlefield on Burnside Bridge Bypass Road

Map Number: 96

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Ohio, 1st Battery, Light Artillery Monument

Ohio, 1st Battery, Light Artillery Monument

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Monument Text:
OHIO
1st Battery
Light Artillery
Commanded by
Capt. James R. McMullin
Hugh Ewings (1st) Brig.
Kanawha Division
Ninth Army Corps
Army of the Potomac
This battery occupied position about 250 yards due west of this.

Did You Know?

Robert Gould Shaw

Robert Gould Shaw served as a Captain in the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry and was wounded in the Cornfield at Antietam before taking command of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry made famous in the movie Glory.