Maryland Monuments at Antietam
The monument to Battery B, 1st Maryland Light Artillery (USA) at Antietam is on the north side of Cornfield Avenue. (Cornfield Avenue East tour map) It was dedicated on May 30, 1900.
Monument to Maryland’s Battery B at Antietam
First Lieutenant Theodore J. Vanneman commanded the battery at Antietam while its assigned commander, Captain Alonzo Snow, was absent due to illness. Vanneman was born in 1832 in New Jersey and joined the battery when it first formed on August 31, 1861 as part of the Purnell Legion.
The battery fired around 100 rounds, silencing a Confederate battery near the Dunker Church. It lost one horse killed by a six pound shot.
From the monument
MARYLAND
Battery B
1st MD. Light Artillery
2nd – Smith’s – Division
6th – Franklin’s – Corps
The Battery under the
command of Lieut.
Theodore J. Vanneman
occupied a position on
the edge of the East
Woods 240 yards
north from this marker.
The monument to the
Maryland troops is
near the Dunkard
Church.
Location of the monument
The monument is on the north side of Cornfield Avenue about 400 yards east of the Old Hagerstown Pike. (39°28’52.3″N 77°44’38.5″W)