This monument marks the 9th Massachusetts Battery’s initial position along the Wheatfield Road at Gettysburg. The artillerymen conducted a fighting retreat with their 12-pounder Napoleons to the Trostle Farm in the background. For more information visit:
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Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]
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