Dedicated on May 30, 1900, the Baltimore Battery monument is located on the west side of the Philadelphia Brigade park. See map >
From the monument:
Maryland
Baltimore Battery
Jackson's Division
C.S.A.
The Battery, under the command of Capt. J.B. Brockenbrough, occupied a position near this marker at daybreak, and opened the battle on the Confederate side. The monument to the Maryland troops is near the Dunkard Church.
The Baltimore Battey was armed at Antietam with four different guns of four different types: a 3 inch Ordnance Rifle, a 12-pounder Blakely Rifle, a 10-pounder Parrott Rifle, and a 12-pounder smoothbore howitzer.
From the sign near the 12-pounder gun:
The Baltimore Battery (Confederate) fired from this spot into the Union forces in the Cornfield. It included a 12-pounder iron howitzer (like the small gun before you), the only one of its kind among the 500 cannon at Antietam
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