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Photographer: Steve Stoessel
Taken: March 15, 2019
Caption: Brave Defenders Marker
Additional Description: The Sentry at Ward Square
The soldier clad in lead pants
Portrays the brave who mustered here
And for the Union and Freedom stand
Heed Lincoln’s call to volunteer
From here they joined the fighting ranks
To defend with valor the Nation’s cause
Who taught and died and bled for us
The proud who served Little Falls.
Edwin Vogt
City Historian

Units represented in the War.
121st New York Infantry
34th New York Infantry
152nd New York Infantry
97th New York Infantry
16th New York Heavy Artillery
1st New York Artillery
2nd New York Artillery
2nd New York Mounted Rifles
U.S. Colored Troops
Union Navy

Grateful acknowledgements: David Krutz, Civil War Historian.

This tablet and memorial a project of the Association for Community Improvement.
Mayor Robert J. Peters, Sr., Honorary Chairman
Erected by Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.)
Submitted: March 15, 2019, by Steve Stoessel of Niskayuna, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p466904
File Size: 1.364 Megabytes

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