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Heading
down the path that leads from Hancock Avenue and the Angle to Gen. Meade’s
headquarters, you’ll see many interesting things: Artillery, monuments, and
peaceful, pastoral scenes. Here I stood on the path and looked back toward the
starting-point, capturing Gen. Meade’s equestrian statue, the 10TH
New York Infantry monument,
and Batteries F & K of the 3RD U. S. Artillery. You may know
that while the cannon carriages are usually much newer than the battle, the guns
themselves are often authentic and date to Civil War times. The barrel at left
dates from 1862 and was forged at the Henry N. Hooper and Co. foundry in
Boston, while the one at right was forged in 1862 at Boston’s Cyrus Alger foundry.
**HONORED TODAY**
PVT. RANSOM GREEN NOWELL
Co. K, 14TH
North Carolina Infantry
Born January 15, 1842
--- Died July 01, 1863 at age 21
Pvt.
Nowell enlisted in May 1861 and was a machinist. After being killed at
Gettysburg he was originally buried on the battlefield and later moved to
Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh.
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