The Rodman mortuary cannon is off Harpers Ferry Road near the 9th New York monument. See map >
From the monument:
Brigadier General
Issac P. Rodman
U.S.A.
Mortally Wounded
About 265 yards south
Brigadier General Isaac Peace Rodman was mortally wounded in the fighting at the end of the day when his division was turned back from its advance from Snavely's Ford by the arrival and counterattack of A. P. Hill.
A Quaker, Rodman was born in Rhode Island in 1822. He was a banker, served in both houses of the state legislature, and married the governor's daughter. Despite his religion, he became a captain in the 2nd Rhode island Infantry at First Bull Run and had risen to command of a division at Antietam.
Rodman would die on September 30, 1862.
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