Durell’s Independent Battery

Durell's

Independent

Battery "D"

Pennsylvania

Artillery

2nd Brigade 2nd Division

9th Corps

Posted 375 yards south

70 degrees east

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Casualties at Antietam

Wounded 3

Recruited in Berks and Bucks Counties

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Battles Participated in

Kelly's Ford - Jackson

Bristoe Station - Wilderness

Second Bull Run - Spotsylvania

Chantilly - Petersburg

South Mountain - The Crater

Antietam - Ream's Station

White ...

Company D, 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters

Maine Volunteers

Company D

Maine Volunteers

2nd U.S. Sharpshooters

July 2, 1863

Killed 1

Wounded 5

Missing 5

Marker is on Slyder Lane, on the right when traveling east.

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Dunn Loring Station

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Days Tavern

Nearby in Revolutionary War days stood a modest hostelry believed to have been the headquarters of

General Nathaniel Greene

during a portion of the period when he was commandant at Fort Lee in the summer and fall of 1776.

Marker is on Grand ...

Presidential Convention

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Marker is on Fourth Street, on the right when traveling ...

Mulberry Street Bridge

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George Duncan Forsyth

[Text on Front Side of Marker]

F. C. L.

[Text on Right Side of Marker]

George Duncan Forsyth

Lt. Co. B. 100th O. V. I.

Captured at Limestone Station

Sept. 8, 1863.

Shot and Killed

in Libby Prison.

Apr. 12, 1864,

aged

23 Years.

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[Text on Back Side of Marker]

Dulce et Propria

Est ...

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