4th Maine Infantry Regiment

Two monuments to the 4th Maine Infantry are south of Gettysburg at the Devil's Den (above right) and on the east side of Hancock Avenue opposite the Copse of Trees (below right). See map >

From the front of the five-sided Devil's Den monument:

4th Maine
Infantry
Colonel Elijah Walker

From the right front:

3d Corps 1st Division
2d Brigade

From the right rear:

22 killed and died
38 wounded
56 missing

From the left rear:

Erected by the
State of Maine

From the left front:

In remembrance
of our casualties
July 2d, 1863

From the front of the Hancock Avenue marker:

4th Maine

From the left (north) side:

July 2 engaged at Devil's Den.
Colonel Elijah Walker
in command wounded.

From the right (south) side:

July 3 in support here.
Captain Edwin Libby
in command.

The 4th brought 332 men to the field. Col. Walker designed the Crawford Avenue monument.

(below) the right flank marker at the Devils Den

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