The monument to Martyland's Baltimore Battery (C.S.A.) is located on the west side of the Philadelphia Brigade park. It was dedicated on May 30, 1900. see map
The Baltimore Battey was armed at Antietam with four guns of 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 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.
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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