There are monuments all over Civil War Battlefields that have unique things incorporated into them. This happens especially at Gettysburg. There are quite a few. This one in particular is for Andrew Cowan's First New York Independent Battery near the Angle and the Copse of Trees.
There is almost always a significant story behind these unique inclusions. Read a book about Pickett's Charge and you're likely to come across the experiences of Cowan and his battery ramming the barrels with two rounds of canister and letting loose at the overflow of Confederate soldiers that swarmed the area. Some even got as close as ten yards, hence the words "Double canister at ten yards" being engraved on this monument.
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