He lived a few minutes after receiving his wound. 'He died at his post as only the true soldier dies. He described the scene in the following words in a letter written to Mrs. Sergeant Straight, in command of the gun, Gardner's tentmate and friend, ran to his side to catch his dying message. Gardner was struck in the left shoulder, tearing off the arm and shoulder. He fell with his head toward the enemy while the sponge staff was thrown two or three yards beyond him. William Jones was killed) instantly by a fragment of the shell which cut the top of his head completely off. 5, was in the act of inserting the charge when a shell struck the face of the muzzle, left side of bore, and exploded. Gardner, had stepped to his place between the muzzle of the piece and wheel on the left side, and, taking the ammunition from No. 1, William Jones, had stepped to his place in front, between the muzzle of the piece and wheel on the right side, and, having swabbed the gun, stood' with sponge staff reversed waiting for the charge to be inserted No. It was during this cannonade the 4th piece was disabled in the following manner:- No. M., commenced the terrific cannonade preceding Pickett's charge.

Walker, gunner, was on the left of the battery. Hanson, gunner the 1st piece, Sergeant Richard H. Vols.) gunner then the 2nd piece, Sergeant Alanson A. Goldsmith, gunner, was on the right of the battery next was the 4th piece, Sergeant Albert Straight, Corp. The four pieces were posted in the following order: The 3d piece, Sergeant Anthony B. On July 3 the battery was able to man only 4 guns on account of the loss in men and horses the day before. Fred Brown, commanding battery, 1st Sergeant John T. Henry Hosea Ballou mortally wounded, and Lieut. Bennett and Michael Flynn were killed Corp.

During the afternoon the battery was advanced to the front, beyond the old stone wall, in an open field here late in the day they were hotly engaged David B. m., reaching the field by the Taneytown Road, and were at once assigned position in the 2nd Corps line on Cemetery Ridge.

on the morning of the 2nd, the battery received marching orders, but did not advance until about 5 a. Artillery, Second Division (Gibbon), Second Corps (Hancock), left Taneytown, Maryland, about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of July 1, 1863, for Gettysburg, Pa., and late that night bivouacked beside the road, three miles from Gettysburg. Light Artillery.-Disabled At Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. Charles Tillinghast Straight of Pawtucket: The following account of the 'Gettysburg Gun,' which is now preserved at the State House as a memorial of the Civil War, has been contributed by Mr. Family Ancestry Researching in Rhode Island

I Took Both Roads by David R Matteson