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Winslow’s Battery

Location: The Wheatfield

Order of Battle: 3rd Corps Artillery Brigade

Number Engaged: 116 men and 6 Napoleons; 10 wounded, 8 missing

Commander: Capt. George B. Winslow (1832-1883

Raised: Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties

Monument Specifications: Granite monument topped by a polished granite sphere. On the front of the monument is a bronze relief of a carriage wheel, two half-cannon tubes, bails and rammers, and bronze corps badge. The monument has a tiered base. The monument marks the position of Battery D on July 2, 1863. The left cannon relief was re-secured in 1981. The right cannon relief was stolen in the summer of 1982; found and replaced by Karkadoulias Bronze Art in April of 1989.

Dedication Date: July 2, 1888.

Sculptor/Artist/Company: Frederick & Field, fabricator.

Main Inscription: THIS BATTERY (WINSLOW’S)/HELD THIS POSITION DURING/THE AFTERNOON OF JULY 2D 1863./CASUALTIES;/10 WOUNDED, 8 MISSING./MUSTERED IN SEPT. 6, 1861./ENGAGED IN 32 BATTLES./MUSTERED OUT JUNE 16, 1865

Other Monuments and Memorials: None.

Supplemental Materials: After Action Report of Capt. George B. Winslow (will open a pop up window).

Regimental History ~ Dyer’s Compendium of the War of the Rebellion:

Organized at Elmira, N.Y., and mustered in September 6. 1861. Left State for Washington, D.C., October 31, 1861. Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. Hooker’s 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to July, 1862. Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps, to December, 1862. Artillery, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, to February, 1863. Artillery, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, to May, 1863. Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps, to March, 1864. Artillery Brigade. 5th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

SERVICE,–Duty at Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, D.C., to March, 1862. Ordered to the Peninsula, Va., March, 1862. Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4. Battle of Williamsburg May 5. Bottom’s Bridge May 24. Battle of Seven Pines (or Fair Oaks) May 31-June 1. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Oak Grove June 25. Savage Station and Peach Orchard June 29. Turkey Bridge (or Malvern Cliff) June 30. Malvern Hill July 1. Duty at Harrison’s Landing until August 16, and in the Defenses of Washington, D.C., near Fairfax Seminary, Munson’s Hill and at Fairfax Station until November 25. Rappahannock Campaign December, 1862, to June, 1863. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15. “Mud March” January 20-24, 1863. At Falmouth until April 27. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 13 to August 1. Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3. Wapping Heights July 23. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8. Kelly’s Ford November 7. Brandy Station November 8. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. Payne’s Grove November 27. Mine Run November 28-30. Duty near Brandy Station until May, 1864. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15. Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7. Laurel Hill May 8. Spottsylvania May 8-12. Spottsylvania Court House May 12-21. “Bloody Angle” (Assault on the Salient) May 12. North Anna River May 23-26. Jericho Ford May 23. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomoy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Bethesda Church June 1-3. Before Petersburg June 16-18. Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Weldon Railroad June 21-23, 1864. Six Mile House, Weldon Railroad, August 18-21. Varuna Road September 29. Poplar Grove Church September 30-October 1. Dabney’s Mills, Hatcher’s Run, February 5-7, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Boydton and White Oak Roads March 29-31. Five Forks April 1. Fall of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Moved to Washington, D.C., May. Grand Review May 23. Mustered out June 16, 1865. Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 12 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 14 Enlisted men by disease. Total 27.