GDG- Original Artillery at GNMP?

[Jeff Burk]

Greetings
   
  It should be noted that this piece fired the first cannon shot by the Federals at Gettysburg.
   
  jeff Burk

JIM COOKE <cooke1863 at embarqmail.com> wrote:
  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


There's at least one: the bottom of the Buford portrait statue on the Chambersburg road, across from the west guide station and Stone Avenue, has four 3" rifle barrels in its base. One of these is Ordnance rifle 233, fired from very near this location, by Lt. Calef's battery A, 2nd U.S. Light Artillery, in the 2nd Horse Artillery Brigade. Apparently Lt. Calef kept sufficient records of his battery to make this determination. There may be others, both as part of this statue and elsewhere on the field.
JC
----- Original Message -----
From: Rea Andrew Redd 
To: gettysburg at arthes.com
Sent: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:42:06 -0500 (EST)
Subject: GDG- Original Artillery at GNMP?

Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


Are there artillery pieces in the GNMP that were at the battle?


"The past is not dead. It is not even passed." William Faulkner
Rea Andrew Redd, Associate Professor, Waynesburg College, Waynesburg, PA 15370 724.852.3254 (desk); 724.627.4188 (fax)


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