1st New Jersey Artillery Battery B

1st New Jersey Artillery Battery B was part of the Third Corps Artillery Brigade at Gettysburg.  The battery consisted of 6 Parrotts and 143 men under the command of Capt. Adoniram J. Clark (1838-1913), a medical student.  The Battery was engaged on July 2 and 3d; the battery’s monument is located along Sickles Avenue on the edge of Excelsior Field where the unit fought on July 2.  A tablet on Hancock Avenue marks the July 3 position.  The battery suffered 20 casualties during the battle.

Battery B was recruited from Essex County.  It mustered in at Trenton on September 3, 1861.

1st New Jersey Artillery Battery B

3d Corps Artillery Brigade

Engaged:  6 Parrotts and 143 men; 1 killed, 16 wounded, 3 missing

Monument: Sickles Avenue

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29 Apr 08 | Monument Project
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