Maryland Monuments at Antietam
The monument to Battery A, First Maryland Light Artillery is on Smoketown Road at the intersection with Mumma Lane. (Smoketown Road South tour map) It was dedicated on May 30, 1900.
Battery A is also honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
Monument to Battery A, 1st Maryland Artillery
Text from the monument
MARYLAND
Battery A
1st MD Light Artillery
1st Slocum’s Division
6th Franklin’s Corps
The battery under the command
of Capt. John W. Wolcott
occupied a line 100
feet in rear of this
marker and facing
Dunkard Church. Loss
1 killed, 11 wounded.
The monument to the
Maryland troops is
near the Dunkard Church.
Location of the monument to Battery A at Antietam
The monument is at the intersection of Smoketown Road and Mumma Lane.