16th Maine Infantry Regiment

The monument to the Sixteenth Maine Infantry (right) is northwest of Gettysburg on Doubleday Avenue.
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A small stone marker (bottom right) is also located at the north entrance to Doubleday Avenue.

From the monument:

16th ME. Inf'y
1st Brig. 2d Div.
1st Corps

July 1st, 1863, fought here
from 1 o'clock until 4 p.m.
when the division was forced
to retire, by command of
General Robinson to Col. Tilden,
the regiment was moved to
the right near the Mummas-
burg Road, as indicated by
a marker there, with orders
"to hold the position at any cost."
July 2d & 3d, in position with
the division on Cemetery Hill.
Casualties
Killed 2 officers 9 men
Wounded 9 officers 54 men
Captured 11 officers, 148 men
Strength of regiment 25 officers, 250 men

From the marker:

Position held July 1, 1863,
at 4 O'Clock, p.m., by the
16th Maine Infantry.
1st Brig. 2nd Div. 1st Corps,
while the rest of the division was
retiring, the regiment having moved
from the position at the left where
its monument stands, under orders
to hold this position at any cost.
It lost on this field,
killed 11, wounded 62, captured 159
out of 275 engaged.

The regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Colonel Charles W. Tilden, who was captured with the majority of the survivors of the regiment on July 1st., after which Captain Daniel Marston took over command of the remnant of the 16th.

The 16th Maine served as the rear guard of Doubleday's men on Oak Ridge when the Union position collapsed on July 1st.. They held out as long as they could in their position near Mummasburg Road and then conducted a fighting retreat to the Railroad Cut, where they were surrounded and overwhelmed.

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