1st Horse Artillery Brigade
Lost 1 man killed on July 3rd on Cemetery Ridge
during the repulse of Pickett- Pettigrew-Trimble Charge.
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(1st Michigan Artillery, Battery I)
Cavalry Corps, Reserve Artillery Brigade
Raised in the counties of Lenawee and Hillsdale.
Organized in Detroit, Michigan as part of the 5th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry; Mustered in on August 29, 1862.
Commander: Captain Jabez J. Daniels. Born in Hull, England around 1830. 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Michigan Volunteer Cavalry: August 22, 1861. He was enrolled in this battery as Captain in Hudson, Michigan on August 29, 1862. He resigned on December 15, 1863. He died in Hudson, Michigan on February 9, 1880.
Number: 6 Ordnance Rifles, 119 men.
Loss at Gettysburg: 1 killed, 4 wounded.
Monument on Hancock Avenue, Cemetery Ridge
Inscription: "This monument marks the position held by the Ninth Michigan Battery from 12:30 P.M., July 3rd, until 7 A.M. the following morning."
(From the book, "A Generation on the March: The Union Army at Gettysburg" by Edmund J. Raus, Jr.
Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1987)
Lost 1 man killed on July 3rd on Cemetery Ridge
during the repulse of Pickett- Pettigrew-Trimble Charge.
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(1st Michigan Artillery, Battery I)
Cavalry Corps, Reserve Artillery Brigade
Raised in the counties of Lenawee and Hillsdale.
Organized in Detroit, Michigan as part of the 5th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry; Mustered in on August 29, 1862.
Commander: Captain Jabez J. Daniels. Born in Hull, England around 1830. 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Michigan Volunteer Cavalry: August 22, 1861. He was enrolled in this battery as Captain in Hudson, Michigan on August 29, 1862. He resigned on December 15, 1863. He died in Hudson, Michigan on February 9, 1880.
Number: 6 Ordnance Rifles, 119 men.
Loss at Gettysburg: 1 killed, 4 wounded.
Monument on Hancock Avenue, Cemetery Ridge
Inscription: "This monument marks the position held by the Ninth Michigan Battery from 12:30 P.M., July 3rd, until 7 A.M. the following morning."
(From the book, "A Generation on the March: The Union Army at Gettysburg" by Edmund J. Raus, Jr.
Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1987)
1st Horse Artillery Brigade
Lost 1 man killed on July 3rd on Cemetery Ridge
during the repulse of Pickett- Pettigrew-Trimble Charge.
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(1st Michigan Artillery, Battery I)
Cavalry Corps, Reserve Artillery Brigade
Raised in the counties of Lenawee and Hillsdale.
Organized in Detroit, Michigan as part of the 5th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry; Mustered in on August 29, 1862.
Commander: Captain Jabez J. Daniels. Born in Hull, England around 1830. 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Michigan Volunteer Cavalry: August 22, 1861. He was enrolled in this battery as Captain in Hudson, Michigan on August 29, 1862. He resigned on December 15, 1863. He died in Hudson, Michigan on February 9, 1880.
Number: 6 Ordnance Rifles, 119 men.
Loss at Gettysburg: 1 killed, 4 wounded.
Monument on Hancock Avenue, Cemetery Ridge
Inscription: "This monument marks the position held by the Ninth Michigan Battery from 12:30 P.M., July 3rd, until 7 A.M. the following morning."
(From the book, "A Generation on the March: The Union Army at Gettysburg" by Edmund J. Raus, Jr.
Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1987)
Lost 1 man killed on July 3rd on Cemetery Ridge
during the repulse of Pickett- Pettigrew-Trimble Charge.
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(1st Michigan Artillery, Battery I)
Cavalry Corps, Reserve Artillery Brigade
Raised in the counties of Lenawee and Hillsdale.
Organized in Detroit, Michigan as part of the 5th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry; Mustered in on August 29, 1862.
Commander: Captain Jabez J. Daniels. Born in Hull, England around 1830. 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Michigan Volunteer Cavalry: August 22, 1861. He was enrolled in this battery as Captain in Hudson, Michigan on August 29, 1862. He resigned on December 15, 1863. He died in Hudson, Michigan on February 9, 1880.
Number: 6 Ordnance Rifles, 119 men.
Loss at Gettysburg: 1 killed, 4 wounded.
Monument on Hancock Avenue, Cemetery Ridge
Inscription: "This monument marks the position held by the Ninth Michigan Battery from 12:30 P.M., July 3rd, until 7 A.M. the following morning."
(From the book, "A Generation on the March: The Union Army at Gettysburg" by Edmund J. Raus, Jr.
Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1987)
Inscription
Ninth Mich. Batt’y First Art’y
1st Brig. Horse Artil’y, Cavalry Corps
This monument marks the position held by the Ninth Michigan Battery from 12:30 p.m. July 3rd, until 7 a.m. the following morning.
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322 rounds of shot, shell and canister expended
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Casualties
One man killed and four wounded
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Battery sustained the loss of 23 horses killed in the engagement
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