[ north face ]
In Memory
Of The
Soldiers & Sailors
Of Bethel
Who Gave Their Lives
In Defense Of The Union
1861 1865
[ south face ]
Albert Woodruff 2nd Conn. Art.
Adam Grimm 7th Conn.
James Smith . . . — — Map (db m26819) HM
[ south plaque ] Dedicated To The Memory Of The Heroic Men Of Bridgeport, Who Fell In The Late War For The Preservation Of The Union. July, 1876 "It is for us the living to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from . . . — — Map (db m27137) HM
[ battle names on the banner at the top ]
Fort Sumter • Vicksburg • Mobile Bay • Antietam • Gettysburg • Appomattox
First Conn Cavalry
Richard R Crawford Lt D d Oct 30 1863 In Hospital Va
Eugene W Starkweather Corp L d . . . — — Map (db m27213) HM
Dedicated to the Memory Of the Black Soldiers of Greater Danbury who Served in the 29th and 30th Regiments, Conn. Volunteer Infantry During the Civil War 1861 – 1865
[ Names inscribed on the back ]
29th Conn . . . — — Map (db m23052) HM
[ Front ]
In Memoriam
Danbury’s Memorial To Her Soldiers and Sailors Who Rest on Unknown Graves
[ Left column ]
William Pendley Co. L 1st Ct. Cav.
Eli W. Stevens Co. L 1st Ct. Cav.
William R. Potter . . . — — Map (db m23051) HM
(front) To Our Brothers, Beloved, Honored, Revered Who
Died That Our Country Might Live
(back)The Defenders of The Union
(Inscribed around the column)
Bull Run • Wilderness • Antietam • Fredericksburg • Gettysburg • . . . — — Map (db m22788) HM
(left plaque)
Civil War
(1861 – 1865)
Carl Acherman • James H. Bates • Lewis H. Benedict • Joseph Bushy • Nathan R. Byxbee • Charles H. Clock • Horace Curtis • Phillip Fortune • Michael Harmo • Frederick Henderson • William H. Howe • . . . — — Map (db m80179) WM
Civil War
In Memory Of
Oscar E. Peck
Dedicated – 2012
Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
Powder Boy – U.S. Navy – U.S.S. Varuna
“For conspicuous gallantry and intredidity
at risk of life above and beyond . . . — — Map (db m80265) WM
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn them.
French & Indian War Samuel Fairchild Militia K.I.A. Aug. 4, 1759 Burmell Barnum Militia K.I.A. Aug. 4, 1761 Civil War Frederick C. . . . — — Map (db m23063) WM
Memorial Gun
A Cannon of the Heroic Deeds of Our
Soldiers and Sailors of the Republic in the War
of the Rebellion for the Preservation of the Union
Erected 1901
From U.S.S. Tallapossa
(south side plaque)
In Honor of the Citizens of . . . — — Map (db m80306) WM
[ west side ]
To the Memory of The
Citizens of Ridgefield
Who Served Their Country
In the Wars of the Republic
1775 – 1918
Erected by the People of Ridgefield MCMXXIV
[ east side ]
War of the . . . — — Map (db m31972) WM
The Confederate bell was captured during the Civil War by Colonel Alexander Warner who later presented it to Governor Phineas Lounsbury. For many years the bell stood on the Grounds of the Lounsbury Mansion, which in 1953 became the Community . . . — — Map (db m23575) HM
On these grounds in 1786 the Town Proprietors built the Independent School House from materials taken from the razed old town house that stood on the Village Green. In 1896 Governor Phineas Lounsbury built his estate, Grovelawn, on this site. . . . — — Map (db m230125) HM
[ central pedestal ]
Lest We Forget
Within this pedestal is placed a time
capsule recording for all time
those residents of Stamford who responded
to the call, some giving their lives
while serving in our past wars.
In future . . . — — Map (db m38754) HM
[ inscription around the top ]
In Everlasting Memory of Stamford's Patriots 1641 – 1918
[ battle names inscribed in the panel between the fluted columns ]
1689 – 1763
Port Royal • Schenectady • Haverhill • . . . — — Map (db m38430) HM
[ West Face ]
1776 Dedicated To The
Memory Of
Those Who Fought
For Liberty
And Saved The Union
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“Yet Loved Ones Have Fallen
And still where they sleep
A sorrowing nation shall
Silently weep,
and . . . — — Map (db m25782) HM
Wilton Veterans Memorial
Honoring
Those who served
Revolutionary War 1775 – 1784
War of 1812 1812 – 1814
Mexican War 1846 – 1848
Civil War 1861 1865
Spanish – American War 1989 – 1902 . . . — — Map (db m32254) WM
[ center panel ]
Avon Remembers
"No Greater Gift"
Mexican War
Sperry, Orrin
Civil War
Beman, Job • Booth, Austin C • Brewer, Gilbert F • Buckley, Frederick O • Calkins, Obed H • Clark, Henry W • Evans, Henry D • Evans, Newton J . . . — — Map (db m33168) WM
[ north side ]
Erected to Commemorate the Death
Of Those Who Perished in Suppressing
The Southern Rebellion
How sleep the brave who sink to rest.
By all their country's wishes blest.
1863
Soldiers
[ west side ] . . . — — Map (db m46037) WM
The Town of Bloomfield
dedicates this memorial
to the 129 men who signed to
serve in the Union Army
during the Civil War 1861 – 1865
A grateful town thanks them
Dedicated Memorial Day May 28, 2012 — — Map (db m97274) WM
[ east side ]
Members of Bristol Co. K. 16. Reg. C.V.
Capt. Newton S. Manross. Killed at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. Ae. 37
Henry Aldrich. Killed at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. Ae. 11
Frank E. Wilcox. Died in Hospital, Nov. 9, 1862. Ae. . . . — — Map (db m33231) HM
Bristol’s original Civil War monument was dedicated on January 20, 1866, and stands in the West Cemetery. The ravages of time are slowly destroying the soldier’s names that appear on its weathered brownstone. To insure they are not forgotten, this . . . — — Map (db m44356) HM
[ west side ]
Civil War
The Town Of Burlington Has Not Forgotten
Her Beloved Brothers Who Offered Their Lives
To Preserve The Union 1861 - 1865
Solomon A. Adkins • * Elijah W. Bacon • * Erastus S. Bacon • Samuel M. Bailey • Elias . . . — — Map (db m33229) HM
( north side )
Alvin Flint, Co. B. 21. Reg. C.V. Died Jan. 10, 1863. Aged 53.
Alvin Flint, Jr. Co. D. 11. Reg. C.V. Killed at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. Aged 17.
George B. Flint, Co. B. 21. Reg. C.V. Died at Falmouth, Va. Jan. 14, 1863. . . . — — Map (db m74953) WM
In Memory
Of the Men of Enfield
Who
On Land and Sea
Periled Their Lives
For Union
And Liberty, 1861-1865.
Erected by The
Town of Enfield
A.D. 1885.
( east face )
Roll of Honor
Killed in Battle
Maj. Theo. H. Rockwood · . . . — — Map (db m113882) WM
Erected in Memory of
Capt. Frederick M. Barber
And the Soldiers of Glastonbury
Who Gave Their Lives for Their Country.
By Mercy Turner Barber.
1918
1861 Civil War 1865
More enduring than this monument will be the memory of their . . . — — Map (db m98832) WM
In memory of the Trinity men who fought for the principles in which they believed with the Union and Confederate forces in the Civil War and of those who gave "the last full measure of devotion"
This Gun formed part of the Main Battery of . . . — — Map (db m125008) WM
Griffin A. Stedman
Typical Volunteer Soldier
Of the Civil War
Captain
Major
Lieutenant Colonel
Brigadier General
Born at Hartford Conn., January 6, 1838
Killed at Petersburg, Va. August 5, 1864
[ south side ]
This Monument . . . — — Map (db m52319) HM
Served as secretary to
Admiral Farragut during the
Battle of Mobile Bay
———————————
This Gun
formed part of
the Main Battery of
Admiral Farragut's
Flagship Hartford . . . — — Map (db m124916) HM
Between 1863 and 1865, nearly 1,700 men of color enlisted in the 29th Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Connecticut's first non-white military unit. The recruits came from a variety of racial and ethnic origins and professional backgrounds. A . . . — — Map (db m230467) HM
The City of Hartford commissioned the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch to recognize the 4,000 Hartford residents who served in the Union Army from 1861-1865, including 400 who died during the war. It was designed by George Keller, who also . . . — — Map (db m230367) HM
1st Conn. Heavy Artillery
Originally 4th Conn. Infantry
Mustered in May 22, 1861
Mustered out Sept. 25 1865
Total enrollment officers and men
3802 Erected by the survivors and friends of the regiment and the veteran and active companies . . . — — Map (db m28358) HM
Distinguished by its clean lines and notched, flat breech, this 10-inch cannon was developed by U.S. Army Ordinance Lieutenant (later Major) Thomas J. Rodman. It was cast at Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania in 1862, carries serial number 37, weighs 14,920 . . . — — Map (db m168254) HM
[ tablet on the east tower ]
In Honor
Of The Men Of Hartford
Who Served
And In Memory Of Those Who Fell
On Land And Sea
In The War For The Union
Their Grateful Townsmen
Have Raised This Memorial
[ tablet on the west . . . — — Map (db m52254) HM
1834 Thomas McManus 1914
Born in Hartford he lived his life here and died rich in the esteem of his fellows
Major of the 25th Infantry Connecticut Volunteers 1862 – 1863 he was a brave soldier beloved by his men
Upon this field . . . — — Map (db m114788) HM
Lorenzo Deming, born Sept 6, 1843. Joined U.S. Navy, captured at Plymouth N.C. at the destruction of the Rebel Iron Clad Albermarle, Nov 27, 1864 and died in Rebel Prison at Salisbury N.C. Feb 5, 1865. — — Map (db m61943) WM
[ south side ]
With Malice Toward
None With Charity
For All With Firm
Ness In The Right
Lincoln
Oh Rare And Royal
Was The Sacrifice
[ east side ]
Let Us Have Peace
Grant
For You And Me They
Put Their Armor . . . — — Map (db m41470) HM
Erected to the memory and honor of those citizens of Simsbury who by sacrifice abd service during the Civil War helped to maintain the integrity of the Union 1861 – 1865
Given by Lemuel Stoughton Ellsworth and his wife Ann Jane Toy . . . — — Map (db m87952) WM
[ south side ]
This Tablet Is Dedicated To Those Brave Men From
The Town Of Southington Who Served The United
States In The Revolutionary War, The War Of 1812,
The Mexican War And The
Spanish War
Revolutionary War 1775 – . . . — — Map (db m33755) WM
Sharpsburg · Ft. Wagner · Andersonville · 1888
Suffield
Erects This Memorial
In Honor Of
Her Citizen Soldiers,
Who Died
Serving Their Country,
That The Union
Might Be Preserved.
1861 - 65.
( east face )
George L. . . . — — Map (db m99674) WM
1890
Soldiers Memorial Hall
built by
Charles E. Chaffee.
and presented by him
to
J.H. Converse Post.
No 67 G.A.R.
In memory of those who went from
Windsor Locks and lost their lives
in the service of Our Country
in the late . . . — — Map (db m99673) HM
[ north side ]
1776
The Tribute
Of The
People Of Barkhamsted
To The
Memory Of Her Sons
And Daughters
Who Fought To
Establish Defend And Preserve
The Nation
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Erected 1897
[ lower plaque ]
World War . . . — — Map (db m29847) WM
Imagine Northwest Connecticut completely bare of trees. In 30-40 year cycles, from the 1700s to the 1920s, entire hillsides of young trees were cut and cleared. This wood was made into charcoal, the preferred fuel of Connecticut’s brick, iron and . . . — — Map (db m140780) HM
A Tribute to the Valor
Of The
Men of Bethlehem
Who Fought For
Freedom and Humanity
Civil War
1861 – 1865
Frederick Adkins • Joseph Boyce • Gideon D. Crane • William B. Crane • Francis Dugan • John Ferry • George W. . . . — — Map (db m26491) HM
This memorial including ordnance used in the Mexican and Civil Wars and given by the government of the United States is in honour of Major General John Sedgwick Commander of the Sixth Corps Army of the Potomac who gave his life for the preservation . . . — — Map (db m37482) HM
Dedicated To Our Comrades Of Goshen
Who Established And Maintained Freedom For Our Country
Civil War 1861 - 1865
Abbott, Newton T. • Adams, Charles G. • Adams, Lyman A. • Adams, William L. • Albin, Charles H. • Albin, William E. • Allyn, . . . — — Map (db m30234) HM
A Tribute of
Honor and Gratitude
to her citizens
who fought for
Liberty and Union
1861 – 1865
Erected by the people of Kent
1885 — — Map (db m41017) HM
[ south side ]
Pro Patria
[ east side ]
Roll Of Honor
Died
Norman L. Barber, Co. A 8. C.V. I. Harwinton, Ct. Oct 12, 1863
Hatteras Inlet Jan. 30, 1862
Francis E. Barber, Co. E. 8. C.V. I.
New Berne
George W. . . . — — Map (db m229946) HM
[ west side ]
Wadhams
The battle is fought,
the victory won.
Rest, Soldiers, Rest.
[ north side ]
Edward Wadhams
1st Sergt.
Co. E. 8. Regt. C.V.
Killed near Fort Darling Va.
May 16, 1864
Aged 27
[ . . . — — Map (db m31161) HM
[ south side ]
"That the generations to come
might know them."
Lincoln
Lieut. Horace Hubbard
Co. H. 2. C.H.A.
killed Bat. Winchester Va.
Sept. 19, 1864 Æ. 33.
Hiram T. Cooley
Co. D. 2. C.H.A.
killed Bat. . . . — — Map (db m28116) HM
[ south side ]
Erected
1892
To The Memory Of
New Hartford
Soldiers And Sailors,
Who Served In The War
Of The Rebellion.
1861. 1865.
[ east side ]
17th Conn. Infantry
Francis E. Coe
12th . . . — — Map (db m29794) HM
It was a harrowing undertaking, requiring courage and determination, on the part of those who followed the Underground Railroad north to freedom in Antebellum America for both the escaping slaves and those who offered sanctuary. New Milford . . . — — Map (db m230244) HM
This impressive monument, the only one in Connecticut, was given to New Milford by Edward Marsh, a New Milford native and an Army captain during the Civil War. It honors all Civil War soldiers and sailors along with Abraham Lincoln and was . . . — — Map (db m230241) HM
[ On the North plaque ]
1912 The Gift of
Edward Williams Marsh Captain of Company –M-Second Connecticut Volunteers Heavy Artillery To the Town of New Milford In Loving Memory of the Soldiers and Sailors Of the Union Army . . . — — Map (db m23071) HM
This tablet is dedicated
In Commemoration Of
The Men of New Milford
who served their country
in the Civil War
1861 – 1865
Charles F. Anderson • James Atkins • Andrew E. Bailey • Joseph A. Bailey • David A. Baldwin • Francis E. . . . — — Map (db m21003) HM
[ west face ]
To The Memory Of The
Soldiers From This Town
Who Died For Their Country
In The War Of The Rebellion
Adjt. Samuel C. Barnum Died June 15, 1864.
Lieut. Hiram D. Gaylord Nov. 18, 1863
Corp. Theodore S. Bates . . . — — Map (db m29688) HM
[ east side ]
This Tablet Is Reverently
Inscribed to the Memory Of
Those Who Went From That Part
Of The Town of Canaan Which
Later Became North Canaan, And
Who, With Valor and Patriotism,
Defended the Flag of Our Country
In . . . — — Map (db m42098) HM
[ south side ]
Lincoln
Erected to Perpetuate the Memory
Of Those Who Lost Their Lives In
The War of 1861
Chaplain James Averill • Lieut. E. J. Candee • Lieut. H. Hubbard • Sgt. W.A. Bishop • Sgt. H.D. Bishop • Sgt. D.B. Wooster • . . . — — Map (db m28097) HM
Dorence Atwater grew up in the Terryville section of Plymouth. He enlisted in the union Army in 1861 and was captured by Confederate forces in 1863. In February 1864, he was moved to the infamous Andersonville prison camp in Georgia, . . . — — Map (db m28053) HM
[ inscribed on the west side of the granite obelisk ]
Soldiers
[ north plaque ]
Capt. Edward H. Mix Co. B 16th C.V. Drowned in Albemarle Sound March 7, 1864, Aged 25
Capt. Edwin Post Co. B U.S.C.T. Killed at Deep . . . — — Map (db m28055) HM
[ south side ]
To Her Loyal Sons
Who Fought for The Union,
Salisbury
Erects this Memorial.
1891
Cold Harbor
Olustee
[ east side ]
2nd Conn. Vol's.
Ramsey George W.
1st Conn. Heavy Art.
Jarvis Samuel F. . . . — — Map (db m42044) WM
Erected
by
The Town of Sharon
In memory of the brave
men who enlisted from
this Township in the War
of the Rebellion and fell
in the struggle to maintain
the Union
Anno Domini MDCCCLXXXV
[ east side ]
Dwight Studley . . . — — Map (db m42121) WM
Revolutionary War
Abel David • Abel Sluman • Abel William • Ackley Ariel • Ackley David • Ackley Jude • Ackley Thomas Jr • Ady Thomas • Allen Amos • Allen Ichabod • Ames Samuel • Andrews Abraham • Avery Daniel • Avery William • Bailey Joseph • . . . — — Map (db m58331) WM
Erected 1902
Erected By
C.L. Russell Post, No. 68,
G.A.R.
And Citizens,
In Commemoration Of The
Soldiers Who Served In
The Civil War
[ battle names inscribed on the column ]
Cold Harbor • Gettysburg • Cedar Creek • . . . — — Map (db m28135) HM
John Brown, the abolitionist, was born at this site on May 9, 1800. He dedicated his life to ending slavery in the United States. Brown became a spokesperson for those abolitionists who believed that slavery could only be eliminated by force. He is . . . — — Map (db m30187) HM
This Memorial
Records The Devotion Of
The Sons And Daughters
Of Torrington Who In The
Hour Of Need Gave Their
Services To Their Country
Putting Honor And Duty
Above Safety They Sought
Not Glory But The Good Of
Their Country And . . . — — Map (db m30459) WM
[ east side ]
A Memorial
To The Soldiers Who Served
Faithfully and Honorably
In The Civil War
1861 – 1865
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Erected by a Comrade
Major Walter Burnham
[ west side ]
Buried In This Cemetery
Burnham . . . — — Map (db m29173) HM
(Front):In commemoration of the patriotism and valor of the men of Watertown who, in the hour of peril, offered their lives that the republic might live, thus winning the gratitude of their fellow-citizens, the admiration of succeeding . . . — — Map (db m18865) HM
(South face) Erected by the State of Connecticut and Citizens of the Town. In memory of Winchester Volunteers, who died or were killed in the War of the Rebellion, and whose bodies were not brought home for burial. (East face) . . . — — Map (db m56063) HM
[ south side ]
1904
For The Dead
A Tribute –
For The Living
A Memory –
For Posterity
An Emblem
Of Loyalty To The Flag
Of Their Country.
[ north side ]
The
Gift Of
Charles B. Pine
In . . . — — Map (db m29907) HM
West face:
In memory of Woodbury soldiers who died in the Rebellion of 1861.
Above the main inscription are the names of one first lieutenant, two second lieutenants, and
Commissary Sergt.
Walt J. Orton, Oct. 7, '64
Serg'ts . . . — — Map (db m19504) HM
Erected by
The Women’s Relief Corps
and the citizens of Clinton
in memory of the soldiers
and sailors who fought
to preserve the Union.
1861 – 1865
For the dead a tribute,
for the living a memory,
for posterity an emblem
of . . . — — Map (db m100190) WM
(south face)
Gettysburg
In Honored memory
of the brave
defenders of our country
in its hour of peril
1861 - 1865.
Erected by Charles Miller
and his wife
Eliza Wheeler Miller
1900.
(east face)
Antietam
First Heavy Artillery . . . — — Map (db m31177) WM
Erected by Members of the 24th Regiment C.V. Citizens of Middletown and State of Connecticut 1904
[ Inscribed in granite on the column ]
Port Hudson
Irish Bend
Baton Rouge
Donaldsonville
2nd Brigade 4th Div
19th Army Corps . . . — — Map (db m24210) HM
By the end of the Civil War, one of every nine Middletown men wearing the Union uniform was dead. They included young David Lincoln, who gave his life in the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862.
More than 900 soldiers and sailors . . . — — Map (db m98603) HM
Honor To The Brave
Their Heroic Valor Ensures Our Lasting Peace
Erected By The Town Of Middletown
To The Memory Of Her Fallen Sons
1874
( north face )
Died in service
George Barrett. 1st H Art H June 12 ’61 Philadelphia • John . . . — — Map (db m65484) WM
The battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War, began early on the morning of September 17, 1862, in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Joseph Mansfield, a 58-year-old general in the Union army, waited anxiously for the signal to lead his ten . . . — — Map (db m98542) HM
Erected
May30, 1872
By the Town of Portland.
To the Memory of Her Brave Sons
Who GAVE Their Lives in Defence of The Union
During the War of The Rebellion
1861 – 65.
Samuel N. Gaston, Co. D. 20. C.V. Died June 21, 1863. . . . — — Map (db m140232) WM
Westbrook’s Civil War Soldiers
Fought for the Union All, But One
1861 – 1865
Honored here through the efforts of the Westbrook Historical Society
Funded by the Westbrook Foundation
Boone, Christopher W. · Burdick, Leroy S. · Bushnell, . . . — — Map (db m100212) WM
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