1st United States, Battery I
Posted to the Project on 14 Aug 08
1st United States Artillery, Battery I was known as Rickett’s. Organized in 1861, the men came from New York City and Suffolk County, Massachusetts. On April 12, 1861, the unit was at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.
The battery consisted of 6 Napoleons and 113 men under the command of Lt. George A. Woodruff (1840-1863). Woodruff, an 1861 West Point graduate, was mortally wounded on July 3 and died the next day. Command devolved upon Lt. Tully McCrea (1839-1918), an Urbana, Ohio native and an 1862 graduate of West Point. The unit suffered 25 casualties at Gettysburg. Their monument is located at Ziegler’s Grove, along Hancock Avenue.
1st United States, Battery I
2d Corps Artillery Brigade
Engaged: 6 Napoleons and 113 men; 1 killed, 24 wounded
Monument: Hancock Avenue