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The 1st Maine Battery wayside marker is one of several markers along an interpretive walking trail that heads north from the Valley Pike through the defensive positions of the 19th Corps. (39°00’47.3″N 78°18’40.5″W; see map below)
From the marker:
1st Maine Battery
Captain Eben D. Haley’s 1st Maine Light Artillery occupied a knoll behind the contact point of Colonel Daniel Macaulay’s 3rd Brigade and Brigadier General Henry W. Birge’s 1st Brigade. The battery quickly came under Confederate artillery fire and lost 27 men and 46 horses before withdrawing. Under pressure from Connor’s South Carolina Brigade of C.S. Major General Joseph B. Kershaw’s Division, Birge’s infantrymen began moving westward down the trench line.
Donated to the People of the United States
in memory of
Donavan L. Neal
by Don Shafer of Ohio
Erected by Blue and Gray Education Society and Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation.
The marker is on a walking trail that heads north from a parking area on the north side of the Valley Pike (U.S. 11) at the monument to the 128th New York.
