Battery F, 6th Maine Light Artillery ("Dow's")

The monument to the Sixth Maine Battery is south of Gettysburg on Hancock Avenue north of United States Avenue. See map

From the front of the monument:

Dow's
6th Maine
Battery

From the left side:

McGilvery's Brigade.
Reserve Artillery.

From the right side:

Campaigns A.P.
1862.-1865.

The battery was commanded at Gettysburg by Lieutenant Edwin B. Dow. It brought 103 men to the field serving four 12-pounded Napoleons, and suffered 13 wounded.

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Monument to Dow's 6th Maine Battery at Gettysburg