Maine at Gettysburg [electronic resource] . ~ti.* SIXTH MAINE REGIMENT. 395 MONUMENT. The monument of the Sixth Maine Regiment is located to the east ofBig Round Top on the north side of a narrow road which, coming downfrom the slope of Big Round Top, crosses the Taneytown road, and standsabout two hundred yards east of the latter road. It is a tall shaft of alternatered and white Hallowell granite, surmounted by an intertwined double redcross of the Sixth corps. Admeasurements: Base, 5 feet 2 inches by 5 feet 2 inches by 2 feet 9inches; plinth, 3 feet 8 inches by 3 feet 8 inches by 3
Maine at Gettysburg [electronic resource] . ~ti.* SIXTH MAINE REGIMENT. 395 MONUMENT. The monument of the Sixth Maine Regiment is located to the east ofBig Round Top on the north side of a narrow road which, coming downfrom the slope of Big Round Top, crosses the Taneytown road, and standsabout two hundred yards east of the latter road. It is a tall shaft of alternatered and white Hallowell granite, surmounted by an intertwined double redcross of the Sixth corps. Admeasurements: Base, 5 feet 2 inches by 5 feet 2 inches by 2 feet 9inches; plinth, 3 feet 8 inches by 3 feet 8 inches by 3 feet 7 inches; shaft, 2feet 9 inches by 2 feet 9 inches by 13 feet 2 inches; cap, 2 feet by 2 feet by2 feet. Total height, twenty-one feet six inches. It bears these inscriptions:— 6th Maine Infantry, 3d Brigade, 1st Div6th Corps, Held this Position July 3, afternoon moved TO SUPPORT OF CENTRE,THEN TO BIG ROUND TOP. I SIXTH MAINE EEGIMENT, THIKD BRIGADE, FIRST DIVISION, SIXTH ARMY CORPS, AT THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. N Russells brigade, of the
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