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Union Monument, Colchester, Connecticut (Left Side)

Honoring Those Who Died for Their Country in the War Between the States

 

On the Town Green, Main Street, Colchester. Erected 1875. I live in a town adjacent to Colchester, and while we have several Revolutionary War monuments, eighty-five years seemed to have dimmed their patriotism.

 

Side Inscription:

 

ROLL OF HONOR

 

CAPT. CHAS. DOYLE

W.H. DOUGLASS

H.C. ROGERS

JOHN HEMAR

C.E.JAMES

SHERMAN VALENTINE

C.S. ARNOLD

TIMOTHY O'CONNELL

RALPH ALLYN

CHA'S BANGSTON

HORATIO CRANDALL

THOM. KINNEY

C.F. SHERIDEN

D.L. ADAMS

F.M. CARVER

J.H. MINER

G.R. BUELL

A.B. NEAL

GEO. RILEY

O.A. GILLETTE

C.H. POTTER

R.F. HARVEY

 

BISSELL

PO'KEEPSIE

The artist was sculptor George Edwin Bissell, a Washington, Connecticut native and himself a Civil War veteran. He lived for a time in Poughkeepsie, New York, where his father was a marble broker (how convenient was that). His work graces monuments in Western Europe and Eastern United States, including several more in Connecticut.

 

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