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HISTORY 
 
 THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT 
 
 WATERBURY, CONN. 
 
 By JOSEPH ANDERSON, S.T. D. 
 
 TO WHICH IS ADDED A LIST OF THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS WHO 
 
 WENT FROM WATERBURY TO FIGHT IN THE 
 
 WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
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 No sound is breathed so poteiit to coerce, 
 And to conciliate, as their ftames wJio dare 
 For that szveet motherland which gave them birth 
 Nobly to do, nobly to die. Their names, 
 Graven on tncmorial colicvins, are a song 
 Heard in the future. 
 
 Ever) where, they meet 
 Atid kindle generous purpose, and the strength 
 To jnould it into action pure as theirs. 
 
 — Tennyson's tiresias. 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE MONUMENT COMMITTEE. 
 1886. 
 
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WATERBURY SOLDIERS' MONUMENT. 
 
INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 On the day when the Waterbury Soldiers' Monument 
 was dedicated, I was invited to take in hand the prepara- 
 tion of a volume devoted to the history of the enterprise. 
 The collection of materials was at once begun; but it 
 was not until the Monument was completed, a year later, 
 that the work was seriously undertaken. From that time 
 until now, it has been prosecuted amidst many interrup- 
 tions, and at length brought to a conclusion in the face 
 of many difficulties. 
 
 It was stated in the New Haven Morning Nezvs of 
 July 17th, 1883, that the Waterbury Soldiers'" Monument 
 was the only one in New England " erected solely by 
 subscription." Whether, up to the present time, it is the 
 solitary instance of the kind, I do not know ; but it is 
 certainly a conspicuous instance, not only because of its 
 merits as a work of art, but because of its cost. It 
 seemed important to the committee which had in charge 
 its erection that a complete list of the subscribers to the 
 monument fund should be published, with the precise 
 amount (whether large or small) subscribed by each. 
 This was the necessary basis of a treasurer's report, in 
 which every dollar received should be accurately account- 
 ed for. It seemed at the same time well worth while to 
 
VI INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 »;'ivc, in connection with the subscrij^tion list, a somewhat 
 detailed history of the enterprise, from its inception to 
 its dedication, thus to show what place it held in the 
 hearts of the people, and to illustrate for other commu- 
 nities the process of monument building by popular sub- 
 scription. The era of monumental memorials of the Civil 
 War has not reached its close ; on the contrary, it has 
 only just opened. If the example of Waterbury shall 
 serve in the future as an incentive to other towns and 
 cities of our land, I shall rejoice that it has been put so 
 fully on record. 
 
 It was almost a matter of course that a volume devoted 
 to the story of the Monument should contain a list of 
 the men who went forth from Waterbury to fight for 
 the Union. It seemed all the more necessary to publish 
 such a "roll of honor"' inasmuch as the Monument Com- 
 mittee decided (wisely, it seems to me) that no names 
 should be inscribed on the Monument itself. A list, as 
 complete as it could be made, was prepared by Major 
 F. A. Spencer, a member of the committee, and is repro- 
 duced in the following pages.' 
 
 By virtue of this list, if for no other reason, the volume 
 takes its place amongst the local histories of the war 
 time. Thoroughly to know a nation, whether in war or 
 in peace, it is necessary to come near to the home life of 
 its people. To understand our great civil conflict, in its 
 causes, its incentives, and its effects, we must read not 
 only the story of its battle-fields, but the lists of volun- 
 teers, and the records of town meetings ; and to measure 
 the impression produced by it, we must learn how tidings 
 of disaster and bereavement were received in desolated 
 homes, and must be able to trace the workings of patri- 
 
INTRODUCTORV. Vll 
 
 Otic motive, years afterwards, in such an enterprise as 
 this. The history of the Monument, and what may be 
 called its "literature," have been given with perhaps 
 unnecessary fulness, because we can see reflected in 
 thenl the abiding impression produced by the war upon 
 an exceedingly busy and rapidly changing New England 
 community. 
 
 The completeness of the war record of the town of 
 Waterbury, from the beginning until now, is worthy of 
 note. The part taken by Waterbury men in the War 
 of the Revolution, and in previous conflicts, is narrated 
 with considerable fulness in, the twentieth and twenty- 
 first chapters of Dr. Henry Bronson's History of the 
 town (pp. 324-361). Mention is made of a Waterbury 
 company, numbering thirty-four persons, which took part 
 in the "French and Indian War" of 1756. A list of 
 those also who were actively engaged in the War of the 
 Revolution is given, which, although characterized by Dr. 
 Bronson as "very incomplete," includes two hundred and 
 thirty-five names. The list of more than eight hundred 
 names of Waterbury soldiers and sailors, contained in 
 this volume, brings the honorable record down to our 
 own time. 
 
 Pains have been taken to make this history both full 
 and accurate ; but to secure absolute accuracy in histor- 
 ical details is an almost impossible thing. I have been 
 impressed anew with the difificulty of rescuing from an 
 easy oblivion facts of even recent date, and the equal 
 difficulty, when the facts are secured, of arranging them 
 chronologically in a readable narrative. If it should 
 seem that the result is not worth the labor expended 
 upon it, this must be borne in mind, — that the story 
 
Vlll INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 of the Waterbury Soldiers' Monument is a contribution 
 not only to the chronicles of a Connecticut town, but to 
 the history of a redeemed nation. 
 
 JOSEPH ANDERSON. 
 
 Waterbury, Conn., July 4th, 1886. 
 
I. 
 
 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
"The monument means a world of memories, a world of deeds, 
 a world of tears, and a world of glories. ... By the subtle 
 chemistry that no man knows, all the blood that was shed by our 
 brethren, — all the lives that were devoted, all the grief that was 
 felt, — at last crystallized itself into granite, rendering immortal 
 the great truth for which they died ; and it stands there to-day." — 
 James A. Garfield, Oration at the Dedication of a Soldiers^ Monu- 
 ment at Fainesviile, Ohio, in 1880. 
 
HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 THE FIRST PUBLIC SUGGESTION. 
 
 Not more than two or three years had elapsed, 
 after the close of the War for the Union, when some 
 of the prominent men of Waterbury began to con- 
 sider seriously the propriety of erecting a monument 
 in honor of the patriotism and self-sacrifice of Water- 
 bury soldiers. But, so far as can be discovered, no 
 public mention was made of the subject until the lat- 
 ter part of 1870. In the Waterbury American of 
 November 26th, in that year, a proposal to erect a 
 monument found definite expression, in an article 
 entitled, "Who will Build it.?"^ The "liberty pole" 
 which had stood for some years at the center of the 
 " Green " had recently fallen ; and the article referred 
 to, after congratulations upon the removal of the 
 "unsightly mast which had swayed in the wind so 
 long," proceeded as follows: 
 
 The overthrow of this pole will afford special reason for 
 congratulation, if it shall suggest to those in authority, or 
 
 'The article, and those which followed it on the same subject, appeared in 
 the editorial columns of the American, but were written by the author of this 
 volume. 
 
4 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 rather to our men of taste and wealth, the erection in its 
 stead of some work of art — whether a monument or a foun- 
 tain — which would be a real ornament to the Green and an 
 honor to the city. This cannot, with any propriety, be 
 done at public expense, — cannot, at any rate, until the city 
 has paid its debts ; but there are gentlemen among us — 
 natives of Waterbury, who have risen to riches and honor 
 here — who could not do a better thing for the education of 
 our people in taste and pure sentiment than to erect a 
 monument or a fountain on the spot where our huge flag- 
 staff stood. Any one who should propose so elegant a gift 
 to the city would of course wish to have the artist's design 
 accepted in advance of building, by a committee competent 
 to express an opinion on a work of art ; otherwise we might 
 find ourselves saddled (if we may use a mixed metaphor) 
 with a perpetual niglitmare. If he proposed a fountain, for 
 example, he and his fellow-citizens would require to see that 
 it was not composed of a group of impossible dolphins 
 standing on their tails. If he proposed a monument — say 
 to Waterbury soldiers, "dead on the field of battle" — he 
 and his fellow-citizens should take care to have from the 
 sculptor's chisel a work in which beauty, dignity, and sol- 
 emn suggestion should be skillfully combined. The Fourth 
 of July, in the year 1876, which will be the centennial birth- 
 day of the nation, and, as nearly as may be, the bi-centen- 
 nial of the settlement of our town, would be a good day in 
 which to dedicate such a monument as we propose. If we 
 would see it shining in that day's sunlight, we have not 
 spoken an hour too soon. 
 
 The uncomplimentary reference which the article 
 contained to the liberty pole called out a conimuni- 
 
THE FIRST PUBLIC SUGGESTION. 5 
 
 cation in its defense from a citizen who signed him- 
 self, " One wlio has Followed the Flag." The reply 
 of the American, in its issue of November 30th, 
 contained the following additional suggestions in 
 regard to a soldiers' monument: 
 
 The very removal of an old landmark suggests the erec- 
 tion of something better in its place. Our Green, sur- 
 rounded as it is by so many elegant residences, is one of 
 the finest in the State ; but the grass-covered area itself 
 requires something more than the long lines of trees which 
 cross it, the dilapidated wooden railing which pretends to 
 fence it in, and an old mast and platform at the centre ; it 
 needs an ornament which will develop the patriotism of our 
 youth, and at the same time cultivate their love of the 
 beautiful ; or else some work of art which will be at once a 
 standing illustration of what taste and skill can do, and a 
 comfort to the thirsty lips of our population in the midsum- 
 mer heat. We ask again, Who will build it } What public- 
 spirited citizen will do honor to himself and confer a boon 
 upon Waterbury for generations to come, by erecting, 
 almost in the shadow of the institution which bears the 
 name of Silas Bronson, a fountain for refreshment and 
 beauty, or a monument in remembrance of our patriotic 
 dead } The zeal of the comjjanions-in-arms of our lamented 
 Chatfield should teach us the duty we owe, on a larger scale, 
 to the fallen heroes of Waterbury. If it were thought best 
 to erect a fountain — which, by the way, might equally serve 
 as a memorial of the dead — let it be remembered that 
 we have an advantage in this respect which few cities of 
 the same size can boast, in our never-failing supply of 
 water. . . That we can at the same time honor pat- 
 
6 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 riotism, makes the opportunity all the better for doing a 
 noble thing. Who bespeaks the privilege ? 
 
 Two years later, the same subject was brought for- 
 ward again in the same newspaper. In the Ameri- 
 can of November 29th, 1872, appeared an editorial 
 article, entitled, " What to do with the Green ? " in 
 which various public improvements at the centre of 
 the city were earnestly recommended, — amongst 
 these the following : 
 
 There is one improvement which we hope for, more valu- 
 able than any other, — an improvement which was asked 
 for in the columns of the American sometime ago, and 
 which we trust may yet be received as a generous gift from 
 some public-spirited citizen. In the centre of the Green, 
 conspicuous from all points upon the square, should stand a 
 noble work of art, in which Waterbury might do honor to 
 its past, and at the same time educate the taste of the 
 future. There are some who would like to see a fountain 
 there, eclipsing by its beauty the fountains recently erected 
 in larger cities. There are others who would prefer a sold- 
 iers' monument, doing honor to the heroism of our citizen 
 soldiers and to the cause for which they died. We see no 
 reason why both ideas could not be combined in one, or 
 why the gifts of two, or indeed two hundred, of our citizens 
 could not be united for securing such an end. Will not 
 some one, whose past or present relations to our town will 
 give force to his appeal, enter upon the work of bringing 
 about this worthy consummation, — so that the hopes and 
 plans of those who desire to see our city made beautiful 
 may be abundantly fulfilled. 
 
SAMUEL WILLIAM HALL. 7 
 
 S. W. HALL'S BEQUEST. 
 
 Notwithstanding the interest thus exhibited, and 
 these efforts, made through the press, to eiiHst the 
 community in securing the erection of a soldiers' 
 monument, it is quite possible that the enterprise 
 would not have been undertaken, were it not for a 
 bequest made by the late Samuel William Hall. Mr. 
 Hall was a native of Waterbury, had spent his life 
 in the town, and by devotion to business had ac- 
 cumulated a considerable fortune. He died on the 
 5th of March, 1877, honored by his fellow citizens 
 for his public spirit and his patriotism. When his 
 will was admitted to probate, it was found to contain 
 the following bequest : 
 
 I authorize and direct my executors to expend a sum 
 not exceeding five thousand dollars in the erection of a 
 monument to the memory of the soldiers from the town of 
 Waterbury who died in the service of their country in the 
 late War of the Rebellion ; or, if an equal or greater amount 
 can be raised for said monument in other ways, then my 
 said executors may, if they see fit, contribute either a part 
 or the whole of said sum toward said monument. ' 
 
 1 Samuel William Hall was born on the 5th of July, 1814 He was the 
 third son of Captain Moses Hall. At the age of fifteen he entered the em- 
 ploy of the Messrs. J. M. L. and W. H. Scovill, and a few years later took the 
 entire charge of their mercantile business. After 1852 he had charge, for a 
 short time, of the Manhan Woolen Company, and a little la'^er entered the in- 
 surance business. Subsequently, he became president of the Scovill Manufac- 
 turing Company and of the Citizens' National Bank, but was compelled to 
 resign both positions by ill health in 186S. After his health began to fail, he 
 spent the summer of each year in travelling for pleasure, and became widely 
 
8 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 ACTION TAKEN BY "WADHAMS POST." 
 
 The publication of the fact that such a bequest as 
 this had been made, and was available, could hardly 
 fail to produce some impression upon those who were 
 interested in honoring the men who had fought in 
 the War for the Union. It did not, however, begin 
 to bear tangible fruit until the summer of 1880, when 
 the matter was taken up by " Wadhams Post, No. 49, 
 of the Grand Army of the .Republic." This Post 
 was instituted in Waterbury on the 14th of August, 
 1879, by Charles E. Fowler, at that time Commander 
 of the Department of Connecticut. For nearly ten 
 years " Memorial Day " had been allowed to pass in 
 Waterbury without public recognition; but in 1880 
 it was determined by the members of " Wadhams 
 Post " that the occasion should be fittingly observed. 
 Arrangements were made for public exercises, and 
 a procession. The Rev. Edward G. Beckwith, D.D., 
 then pastor of the Second Congregational Church, 
 was invited to conduct a memorial service on Sunday 
 
 known throughout the country. He was a communicant and a vestryman in 
 St. John's Church, and among his public bequests were sevf ral for promoting 
 the interests of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Waterbury and in mission 
 fields. By a bequest of twenty thousand dollars, he provided for the erection 
 of a memorial chapel (to the memory of his wife) at Riverside Cemetery, which 
 was dedicated June nth, 1885. A list of his public bequests was given in the 
 Waterbury American of March 14th, 1877. 
 
 For several years before his death, Mr. Hall had cherished the purpose of 
 doing something to secure a soldiers' monument for Waterbury. The clause 
 containing a bequest of five thousand dollars for that purpose is found in a 
 copy of his will drawn up in September, 1870. 
 
DR. BECKWITH S APPEAL. 9 
 
 afternoon, May 30th, and the Hon. Stephen W. Kel- 
 logg to deliver the Memorial Day oration on the 
 Green, on the afternoon of May 31st. Both of 
 these gentlemen, in their addresses, gave prominence 
 to the duty of commemoration. Dr. Beckwith's 
 discourse was based upon the text, "A people that 
 jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places 
 of the field," ^ and his theme was, "The duty of re- 
 membering our dead soldiers." 
 
 A PASSAGE FROM DR. E. G. BECKWITH'S DISCOURSE. 
 
 In the course of the sermon he made the following 
 reference to a soldiers' monument : 
 
 Now what tribute shall a grateful people pay to such 
 fidelity ? . . . I have said they ought to have perpetual 
 remembrance in song and speech and flowers, But will you 
 do no more } Remember what has already been said, — 
 that the names of the men who fought the battles will 
 not be written much in histories. But they ought to be 
 written, if not where the world can read them, at least 
 where their fellow citizens can read them. Oh, let us not 
 give them tears and flowers only. Let us give them a 
 memorial hall ; or let us give them at least a column, an 
 arch, a fountain, some trophy of bronze that may outlive 
 the years, and bear up the story of their deeds into heaven's 
 sunlight in the sight of all the city. Let us engrave their 
 names where every child in the city can read them as he 
 
 1 Book of Judges v. i8. The discourse was published in full in the IVaUr- 
 biiry American of June 4th, 1S80; Mr. Kellogg's oration in the American oi 
 June 1st. 
 
 2 
 
lO HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 comes and goes. Let us engrave them so plain that every 
 citizen of the busy city will see them even through the dust 
 of our driving industry. Let us set them so high that the 
 earliest rays of the morning sun will illumine them, and the 
 last rays of the evening sun wreathe them with its golden 
 glory. We owe it to their memory. We owe it to our 
 honor. I think our own good name and plighted faith as a 
 city are in it. I do not know what you promised the brave 
 men who went out from this city for your defense; but I 
 have no doubt you promised to keep their names hallowed. 
 But whether promised or not, it is due. Let us then pay 
 that debt to duty and loyalty, and let us pay it soon. We 
 have waited long. Is it because we are planning something 
 royally worthy ? So may it prove. But let us not be 
 fatally slow in our planning. It is time we had made per- 
 manent record of the names and deeds of our honored 
 dead. 
 
 A PASSAGE FROM THE HON. S. W. KELLOGG'S ADDRESS. 
 
 Mr. Kellogg's address closed with the following 
 appeal : 
 
 To the eighty brave men who sleep in our own home ceme- 
 teries, or in unknown graves, — to their living comrades yet 
 spared to us, to take charge of this day's ceremonies, — 
 the citizens of Watcrbury have yet another duty to dis- 
 charge. Waterbury at the breaking out of the Rebellion 
 was but a small city of ten thousand inhabitants ; and yet 
 eight hundred, and more, of her sons — nearly one in twelve 
 of her population — went forth to the war. This city has 
 prospered and grown, until, as I venture to predict, the cen- 
 sus of this week will show her population to be nearly 
 
MR. KELLOGG S APPEAL. II 
 
 twenty thousand. Its wealth and its prosperity have outrun 
 its increase of population. And yet — I grieve to say it ; it 
 is with sorrow and a feeling of shame that I must say it — we 
 have erected no monument ; we have placed here no lasting 
 memorial of these brave men who died for us, to perpetuate 
 their memory and their virtues. Ten years after the war, 
 a generous and patriotic citizen of Waterbury, the late 
 S. W. Hall, left by his will a direction to his executors to 
 expend a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars for a 
 memorial to our dead soldiers, leaving it to their discretion 
 to use it when a proper amount was otherwise raised. His 
 executors are ready to apply this liberal bequest for that 
 purpose, whenever a suitable sum shall be raised to provide 
 a memorial such as the dead and the living soldiers who 
 went out from us deserve at our hands, and such as the 
 wealth and prosperity of our city demand for them. Shall 
 this duty be longer delayed .-' Shall it not be done now ? 
 Whether it be a monument of bronze or marble, whether it 
 be a memorial building, whether it be a triumphal arch, or 
 a memorial fountain whose waters shall sparkle and play in 
 the morning sunlight and in the parting day, let not this 
 year 1880 pass over our heads with this work undone. I 
 know there are willing hearts, and hands abundantly able to 
 do this, here and now; — let us see that some monumental 
 structure, honorable to the dead and to the living, shall not 
 fail of completion before the annual return of this Memo- 
 rial Day. 
 
 A MONUMENT COMMITTEE APPOINTED. 
 
 The fact that both of these gentlemen made public 
 appeals at this time in behalf of a soldiers' monmTient 
 was not a mere coincidence ; a concerted movement 
 
12 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 had already begun, which revealed itself soon after- 
 ward in another direction. It appears from the 
 records of Wadhams Post that on the 17th of June 
 the following action was taken by that body : 
 
 Voted, That George W. Tucker, David B. Hamilton, and 
 Frederick A. Spencer are hereby appointed a permanent 
 committee on the erection of a soldiers' monument. 
 
 The centlemen named in this vote were members 
 of Wadhams Post, had served in the army during the 
 war, and two of them had attained to positions of 
 distinction in the military service of the State of 
 Connecticut.^ They had already manifested in vari- 
 
 ' George W. Tucker enlisted in the Twenty-third Regiment, Connecticut Vol- 
 unteers (one of the nine-months regiments, Charles E. L. Holmes, colonel), on 
 the 15th of August, 1862. He was made First Sergeant, was subsequently 
 promoted to be Second Lieutenant, and was mustered out on the 31st of 
 August, 1863. Mr. Tucker connected himself in 1863 with Company "A," 
 Second Regiment Connecticut Militia (afterward "Connecticut National 
 Guard "), and held successively the offices of sergeant, lieutenant, captain, 
 major, and lieutenant-colonel. He left the State service in 1874. 
 
 Frederick A. Spencer was connected with the State militia of Connecticut 
 from April, 1855, to July, 1858. He was Sergeant in Company " H," now Com- 
 pany "A," of the Second Regiment. He entered the United States service on 
 the 15th of May, 1862, as First Lieutenant of the Second Regiment of Colorado 
 Cavalry. In 1862, and again in 1S65, his regiment was stationed among the 
 Indians; during 1863 and 1S64 it was in active service in Missouri and 
 Arkansas. Lieutenant Spencer was wounded in battle during the raid of the 
 Confederates under Major-General Sterling Price, October 21st, 1863. He was 
 mustered out September 23d, 1865. In 1876 Mr. Spencer was appointed Pay- 
 master on the staff of Colonel Stephen R. Smith of the Second Regiment of 
 the State National Guard. In March, 1877, he was chosen Captain of Com- 
 pany "A" of the same regiment. In May, 1882, he was appointed Major and 
 Brigade Inspector of Rifle Practice on the staff of Brigadier- General Smith, 
 and held the position until January 1885, when he resigned. 
 
THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE. 1 3 
 
 oiis ways their interest in securing a soldiers' monu- 
 ment for Waterbury, and were looked upon by their 
 comrades as abundantly qualified to assume the gen- 
 eral charge of the enterprise. They were accordingly 
 left unhampered by specific instructions in regard to 
 the design of the monument or its location, or the 
 methods to be adopted for raising the required funds. 
 
 A DESIGN SECURED. 
 
 Soon after the appointment of these gentlemen as 
 a committee, an informal meeting of business men 
 and " veterans " was held at the rooms of the Water- 
 bury Brass Association, to take into consideration the 
 subject of a soldiers' monument in all its phases. 
 About twenty persons were present. Various ques- 
 tions were discussed, assurances of aid were extended 
 which were regarded as placing the project on a firm 
 basis, and the conviction was expressed that the com- 
 mittee should proceed at once to procure a suitable 
 design for the proposed monument, and to ascertain 
 its probable cost. 
 
 David B. Hamilton entered the service in iS6i. On the memorable rgth of 
 April, in that year, he was in Baltimore, just after the attack upon the Union 
 soldiers. The next day he was in Washington, and enlisted in the company of 
 volunteers raised for the defense of the Capital by Colonel Cassius M. Clay. 
 This was one of two companies of a hundred and fifty men each, made up of hotel 
 guests and other non-residents. In a week or two he returned to Waterbury 
 by the way of Annapolis, enlisted for active service, and was soon afterward 
 commissioned as First Lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment of Connecticut Volun- 
 teers. He was promoted to be Captain in September, 1862, and was honorably 
 discharged for disability on the loth of January, 1S63. 
 
14 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 Without further delay the committee proceeded to 
 carry out these suggestions. Designs for a monu- 
 ment were called for, and were received from more 
 than a dozen competitors. These were submitted, 
 without their authors' names, to the judgment of a 
 special committee, composed of sixteen representative 
 citizens. The design which fourteen of these gentle- 
 men fixed upon as superior to any of the others 
 proved to be that which Mr. George E. Bissell of 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y., formerly a resident of Water- 
 bury, had sent in.^ A miniature model of the monu- 
 ment which Mr. Bissell proposed to build was placed 
 on exhibition in a show window of one of the stores 
 of the city in February, 1881, and at the same time 
 full descriptions of it were published in Waterbury 
 and Hartford newspapers.^ 
 
 According to Mr. Bissell's first design, the monu- 
 ment was to consist of a granite column, raised upon 
 an octagon die, with octagon base and sub-bases, and 
 surmounted by a bronze statue, representing Liberty 
 in danger, unfurling the flag of the nation in alarm. 
 
 ' George Edwin Bissell was born in New Preston, Conn., on the i6th of 
 February, 1839. He removed to Waterbury when about 14 years of age. 
 On the 20th of A"ugust, 1862, he enlisted in the Twenty-third Regiment, 
 Connecticut Volunteers, and was mustered out, with the rest of the regi- 
 ment, on the 31st of August, 1863. He subsequently received an appointment 
 as assistant Paymaster in the United States Navy, on the steamship " Mary 
 Sanford" of the South Atlantic squadron, and held that position until the close 
 of the war. Since the war he has been a resident of Poughkeepsie, except 
 when he has been studying abroad, and has pursued the profession of sculptor. 
 
 -See the IVaterlniiy Americati of February 9th, 18S1. 
 
MR. BISSELLS FIRST DESIGN. 1 5 
 
 Standing upon the die, and grouped around the foot 
 of the column, were bronze figures, representing a 
 company of soldiers falling into line. "They have 
 heard the cry of Liberty, and are coming from all 
 quarters to her support." Standing out from the 
 four corners of the base were rectangular pedes- 
 tals, supporting bronze figures representing respect- 
 ively the North, the South, the East, and the West. 
 One was a mechanic, abandoning the implements 
 of his trade and grasping a sword ; another was 
 a farmer, leaving his plow in the furrow, and seiz- 
 ing a gun ; another was a woman seated, " holding 
 in one hand the laurel wreath of victory, and in 
 the other the olive branch of peace and the wheat 
 sheaf of plenty ; " and the fourth was a group rep- 
 resenting a mother relating to her sons the history of 
 the great conflict, with the aid of a model of the first 
 iron-clad gunboat, the " Monitor," and a miniature 
 piece of ordnance. The height of the figures sur- 
 rounding the base of the shaft was four feet and a 
 half ; of the figures on the pedestals at the corners 
 of the base, six feet ; of the statue of Liberty, four- 
 teen feet. The entire height of the proposed monu- 
 ment was sixty feet. This design, in which one of 
 the artist's motives was to produce an impression of 
 height, was adopted by Mr. Bissell on the supposi- 
 tion that the monument was to stand on the Green 
 amidst tall trees. When, in the summer of 1883, the 
 present site, near St. John's church, was fixed upon, 
 
l6 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 it became necessary to abandon the first design and 
 adopt one of a quite different character; otherwise 
 the monument would have invited comparison with 
 the tall spire of the church, and would inevitably 
 have suffered from the contrast. 
 
 tup: subscription paper. 
 It was at first supposed that the sum of fifteen 
 thousand dollars would be sufficient to provide a 
 suitable monument. It was found, however, that to 
 erect such a monument as Mr. Bissell had designed 
 would require more than twice that amount. The 
 committee, nothing daunted, determined to go for- 
 ward with the work, and also decided that the neces- 
 sary funds should be raised not by a town or city tax, 
 as in other places, but by the voluntary contributions 
 of the people. A subscription paper was drawn up, 
 in which Mr. James S. Elton, one of the executors 
 of the will of Samuel W. Hall, was named as treas- 
 urer of the monument fund. The subscription paper 
 was as follows : 
 
 Whereas, It is becoming that a suitable monument be 
 erected to the memory of all soldiers and seamen who were 
 residents of and belonged to the town of Watcrbury, 
 county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, at the 
 time of their enlistment, and who died in the military or 
 naval service of the United States of America in the late 
 war ; and 
 
 Whereas, It is proposed to raise a fund for said purpose, 
 and James S. Elton, of Watcrbury aforesaid, has consen- 
 
SUBSCRIPTIONS INVITED. I7 
 
 ted to sec to its proper distribution and expenditure, and 
 has accepted the trust as treasurer of said fund for the 
 purpose aforesaid, 
 Now, therefore, in consideration of the premises, and to 
 the end that such a monument may be erected in the town 
 and city of Waterbury, we, the subscribers, do hereby sever- 
 ally, each for himself and his respective executors and 
 administrators, promise and agree to pay the several sums 
 set opposite our respective names to the said James S. 
 Elton, treasurer, aforesaid, or his successor, on or before 
 the first day of January, 1883, for the uses and purposes 
 aforesaid. 
 
 Dated at Waterbury, this loth day of February, 1881. 
 
 The local press had already been made use of to 
 create a more general interest in the projected monu- 
 ment. The Waterbury American of February 3d, 
 1881, contained an article entitled, "Sliall we Have a 
 Soldiers' Monument.? " in which the appointment of a 
 special committee by Wadhams Post was referred to, 
 and the following appeal was made for contributions : 
 
 Everybody will, of course, wish to contribute to the 
 monument fund according to his means and disposition, and 
 the committee will give all an opportunity to do so. Any 
 amount will be acceptable, and it ought not to require much 
 effort to raise the required sum. It is a shame that Water- 
 bury should have so long neglected the duty she owes to 
 the memory of her dead heroes Many towns in this State, 
 of not more than two or three thousand inhabitants, have 
 erected soldiers' monuments, and this growing city should 
 no longer be derelict in extending to the soldiers, who went 
 3 
 
l8 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 forth from their homes in the prime of their manhood, and 
 shed their blood for their country, the honor to which they 
 are entitled. 
 
 On the loth of February the committee made 
 their first report to Wadhams Post, and the following- 
 action was taken : 
 
 Voted, That the committee on a soldiers' monument be 
 instructed to present to this Post on Thursday evening, 
 February 24th, a subscription paper, — that each comrade 
 may have an opportunity to subscribe what he feels able to 
 give to the monument fund. 
 
 The subscription papers which had been prepared 
 were now circulated throughout the city, in stores 
 and manufactories, and at the same time the follow- 
 ing appeal was published, addressed " To the Busi- 
 ness Men of Waterbury." It was dated February 
 25th, 1 88 1, and was signed by the members of the 
 committee, "in behalf of Wadhams Post, G. A. R." 
 
 It will be twenty years in April next, since the firing on 
 Fort Sumter called out the first gallant band of young 
 men from your factories and work-shops, and from their own 
 loved homes, to a four-years war. It will be sixteen years 
 next April since the war was virtually ended by the sur- 
 render at Appomattox. Eight hundred brave men went 
 forth from among you to bear the toil, perils, and privations 
 of war. Eighty of this number lie buried in soldiers' 
 graves. You remember the promises and pledges that were 
 made to these men — "that, living or dead, their devotion 
 to their country should ever be honored, and tlicir names 
 
AN APPEAL TO BUSINESS MEN. I9 
 
 and their deeds kept in grateful remembrance." The surviv- 
 ing soldiers have waited long and patiently for a crowning 
 act to fulfil these promises. They are glad that, while they 
 marched and fought and suffered, the war gave business 
 and prosperity and wealth to your manufacturing industries 
 at home. They rejoice that peace is now within your walls, 
 and prosperity in all your homes. They think the time 
 has come, in its fulness, when the promises made to them 
 should be fulfilled, and that from your abundance you should 
 now contribute a sufficient sum to erect at once a suitable 
 monument in honor and remembrance of your own volunteer 
 soldiers, the living and the dead. 
 
 A generous bequest of the late Samuel W. Hall is in the 
 hands of his executors, ready for this work. The members 
 of Wadhams Post of the "Grand Army" propose to contrib- 
 ute according to their means, for the immediate erection of 
 a suitable memorial to their dead comrades. Will you not 
 come forward and unite with them now in raising a sum 
 sufficient to erect a monument worthy of Waterbury, and 
 worthy of the men who gave all they had, even their lives, 
 that the blessings of free government might survive to you 
 and your children ? ' 
 
 The response on the part of the "veterans" was as 
 prompt and as hearty as could have been expected. 
 On the 28th of February the committee reported 
 that they had already received subscriptions "from 
 members of the Post and other ex-soldiers" to the 
 amount of two thousand dollars; "and as they have 
 as yet seen only about sixty of the three hundred ex- 
 
 i See the IVaterl/ury American, February 26th, 1S81. 
 
20 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 soldiers residing in Waterbury, and all seem to be 
 desirous of contributing something, they are confi- 
 dent that the total subscription from the soldiers will 
 reach at least two thousand five hundred dollars — 
 perhaps three thousand."^ 
 
 But the task of raising the fund by popular sub- 
 scription, in the community at large, was necessarily 
 slow, and subject to frequent interruptions. As 
 Memorial Day (1881) approached, it was sought to 
 communicate a new impulse to the work, and 
 arrangements w^ere made for another celebration. 
 The Rev. Joseph Anderson, D.D., pastor of the 
 First Church, was invited to conduct a memorial 
 service, on Sunday evening, May 29th. The "com- 
 rades" of Wadhams Post were present in a body, and 
 an address was delivered on " The Duty of Com- 
 memorating the Nation's Dead, and How we may 
 Fulfil it." 
 
 PASSAGES FROM DR. ANDERSON'S ADDRESS. 
 
 Dr. Anderson, having spoken in general terms of 
 the duty of retrospection and commemoration, pro- 
 ceeded as follows : 
 
 Let me remind you that such commemoration as I speak 
 of is especially appropriate in regard to a nation's dead 
 soldiers. In the history of every people there are many 
 others who are worthy besides those who have perished in 
 war — teachers, preachers, authors, artists, inventors, discov- 
 erers, statesmen — the obscure as well as the conspicuous; 
 
 ' See the Waterbury American, February 28th, 18S1. 
 
A PLEA FOR COMMEMORATION. 21 
 
 and we should welcome every biography, every monument, 
 designed to perpetuate the remembrance and to display the 
 character of those who in any sphere have attained to great- 
 ness. But in the case of those who have perished in war, 
 those considerations are obvious and impressive which in 
 other cases have to be laboriously developed. There we 
 have not only noble acts, but willing self-sacrifice. To the 
 saying of the ancient poet, the hearts of all true men 
 respond with a throb of approval, Dulce et decorum est pro 
 patria mori ; and the grandeur of their death makes those 
 who die doubly dear to our memory, and prompts us at once 
 to commemorate them. In regard to those who died in our 
 own Civil War, such a feeling must exist in its strongest 
 form. We had read of war, but we had not tasted its bitter- 
 ness, or recognized the grandeur and terror of its opportuni- 
 ties. We had heard of heroism in suffering and death, but 
 had not seen our beloved ones put to the test. But now 
 our own eyes saw the struggle, the sacrifice, the triumph in 
 death. By the outpouring of their blood upon the battle- 
 field, we heard men testifying of themselves "as poor, yet 
 making many rich ; as having nothing, and yet possessing 
 all things." Here was courage, here was nobleness, here 
 was true greatness-; and shall we not give it our tribute .-* 
 How can we refrain .-* 
 
 Here — upon the high ground of right, I may almost say 
 of justice — we might well take our stand. But there is 
 nothing to forbid our looking in another direction also, and 
 considering the reciprocal benefits which accrue to iis from 
 a proper commemoration of the dead. . . . There is 
 nothing that solidifies and strengthens a nation like a rever- 
 ent reading of the nation's own history — whether that 
 history is recorded in books, or embodied in customs, insti- 
 
22 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 tutions, and monuments. A people that studies its own 
 past, and rejoices in the nation's proud memories, is likely 
 to be a patriotic people, the bulwark of law, and the cour- 
 ageous champion of right in the hour of need. For we 
 must remember that in the life of a nation ideas are not the 
 only things of value; sentiment also is of great value; and 
 the way to foster sentiment in a people, and to develop it in 
 the young, is to have a well-recorded past and to be familiar 
 with it. Let young and old read the nation's history; let 
 them stand upon its sacred spots; let them visit its battle- 
 fields ; let them study its monuments, and learn their full 
 significance; and when the new ordeal comes, as come it 
 doubtless will, the nations will witness again the uprising of 
 a great people. 
 
 Thus do I place before you the duty of commemorating 
 the nation's dead, and some of the reasons which should 
 prompt us to its fulfilment. A question which remains to 
 be considered is: How this good purpose — supposing it to 
 exist — shall be carried out.'' It will hardly do to say, "The 
 dead will be remembered at any rate"; it seems desirable 
 that special measures of commemoration should be adopted, 
 especially by a people living so exclusively in the present 
 (or, rather, in the future) as we do. 
 
 In view of this fact, we should place a high estimate 
 upon the simple and beautiful custom to which I referred at 
 the beginning — that custom which the nation will recog- 
 nize on the morrow at thousands of graves. Because of its 
 very simplicity it has a good prospect of becoming per- 
 petual ; and we ought to bear in mind that there is nothing 
 more nearly permanent in human life than a well-established 
 custom. But the existence of such a custom as this is itself 
 suggestive of something more. The flowers with which we 
 
A PLEA FOR A MEMORIAL. 23 
 
 "laurel the graves of our dead" — scattered once a year, to 
 wither in a day — have a certain inadequacy about them. 
 In a society well established, rich, and strong, we think of 
 something more substantial, something tangible, monumen- 
 tal, and therefore enduring though customs should change 
 and fail. I wonder whether we appreciate the value, in 
 this respect, of soiid and noble monuments.'* 
 
 A few days ago, in the Central Park, New York, I 
 made my first visit to the great obelisk which has recently 
 been conveyed across the seas from Egypt. I had opportu- 
 nity to look at it for a few moments only, but I could not, if 
 I would, throw off the impression it made upon me. As I 
 recall my long ride through that May morning, I think of 
 the glimpses of landscape I had from time to time, of the 
 masses of the yellow bloom of forsythia, of the noble build- 
 ings which a great city is erecting for the education and 
 entertainment of its people; but my thoughts return, after 
 all, to the Alexandrian obelisk. It is but a rough stone, 
 covered with characters which I could not read, the fine 
 lines broken by the wear and tear of years. But the associ- 
 ations of a long, long history cluster around it, in the 
 imagination of any intelligent looker-on, as the ivy clings 
 to a ruined tree or wall. Every man reads its story for 
 himself, and finds his soul enriched by it. But he remem- 
 bers, at the same time, that its real history can be traced, 
 that its hieroglyphics can be deciphered, that the object 
 it was meant to commemorate is not unknown, that it 
 embodies a precious record concerning the oldest of civ- 
 ilized nations; and bowing in presence of its hoary majesty, 
 he understands, as never before, the historical value of 
 monuments. Neither can he forget that the entire history 
 of the countrv whence it came is written in the same grand 
 
24 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 way — on monuments of stone, of whicli the pyramids are 
 the chief. The obeHsks and temples and tombs of Egypt 
 are a sufficient evidence of the permanency of the stone 
 records of a people ; and the same lesson is taught by the 
 inscribed slab recently discovered in the land of Moab, by 
 the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, whose ancient inscrip- 
 tions have been compelled in our own day to deliver up 
 their secret ; by the Parthenon of Athens, the Colosseum at 
 Rome, the stone temples of India, and the mysterious 
 structures of Mexico, Central America, and Peru. 
 
 Such facts as these suggest that if we would adopt 
 measures of commemoration which are likely to be perma- 
 nent, it would be well to resort to some tangible memorial, 
 — to follow in the steps of the ancients, who were wise in 
 this, as in many another thing, and erect some structure of 
 stone or brass, which shall be monumental in its character, 
 and convey its lesson to the eye and the inmost spirit from 
 generation to generation. Such is the course which any 
 city or town like this might well adopt. I am glad that, 
 after years of delay, but not of indifference, the citizens of 
 Waterbury are waking up to the recognition of this as 
 a duty. 
 
 It is an interesting question, when a memorial structure 
 is proposed, What form shall it take ? With us, to-night, 
 the question is not only interesting, but important; but 
 after all, it is a secondary question. The main thing is to 
 have our souls imbued with the thought and purpose of com- 
 memoration — so thoroughly imbued therewith that we shall 
 follow up thought with action ; and this condition secured, I 
 shall not fear for the result. 
 
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 ON THE EAST SIDE. 
 
A PLEA FOR THE MONUMENT. 2$ 
 
 The remainder of the address was devoted to a 
 consideration of the several kinds of commemorative 
 monuments which had been suggested, — such as a 
 monumental fountain, a hospital or school, a memo- 
 rial hall, and a " lofty shaft of stone." In reference 
 to the last the following remarks were made : 
 
 The best design of this kind offered for the considera- 
 tion of the citizens of Waterbury, many of you have seen in 
 miniature presentment in a conspicuous place upon our 
 streets. If you stopped to examine it, you recognized the 
 excellent purpose of the artist and the large variety and 
 freshness he has introduced into a subject with which many 
 have experimented and failed ; and you doubtless cherished 
 a feeling of pride when you thought that Waterbury could 
 claim the sculptor as her own. 
 
 The speaker frankly expressed his own preference 
 for a memorial hall, and described with some detail 
 the structure he would erect, if left to an unrestricted 
 choice. He closed his address, however, with the 
 following appeal : 
 
 Such is the monument I should build, if the task of 
 selection were devolved upon me. I could not refrain, on 
 this occasion, from picturing it before you. But you will 
 please remember that this is merely the view of a single 
 citizen, and that I would not thrust it forward in a way to 
 imperil the good enterprise which so many of us have at 
 heart. As I said, the form of the memorial is in a certain 
 sense a secondary matter ; the main thing now is to develop 
 into full strength the purpose of commemoration, and 
 
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26 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 embody it in a subscription which will leave no room for 
 uncertainty in regard to the ultimate result. When the 
 time comes, wise men will decide with wisdom in regard to 
 the form of their tribute. 
 
 I must not detain you longer, to make any special plea 
 for your generous gifts ; I would only remind you, my fellow 
 citizens, of this : that your prosperity, to-day, is due in no 
 small degree to the victories which our brothers-in-arms 
 achieved in those days of deadly conflict, and that now, 
 while they are sleeping in early graves, you have a debt to 
 pay them. The debt is upon us all. Let us cancel it — if 
 we can cancel it at all — in a generous and beautiful w^ay.' 
 
 Through the following summer and autumn the 
 subscription list increased slowly but steadily. On 
 the 4th of June, the first instalment of subscribers' 
 names was published in the Waterbury American^ 
 and at the same time it was stated that " the outlook 
 for securing the amount necessary to build a monu- 
 ment which should be a lasting tribute to the dead, 
 and a credit to the city, was very promising." It 
 was added, with reference to those who failed to 
 subscribe, "It will be a matter of regret to every one 
 in future years, not to be able to say that he contrib- 
 uted something toward the payment of the eternal 
 debt we owe to our patriot dead." On the i8th of 
 June, another list of names was published, and it was 
 announced that the amount thus far subscribed was 
 seventeen thousand and seventy-two dollars. The 
 
 ' Published in full in the Waterbury American of May 30th, 1881. 
 
THE SUBSCRIPTION COMPLETED, 2/ 
 
 amount reported five months later — on the 26th of 
 November — was twenty-three thousand, two hundred 
 and fifty-two dollars. When, at a subsequent date, 
 the subscription list was completed, it was found that 
 the whole number of collectible personal subscrip- 
 tions exceeded one thousand, one hundred and fifty. 
 The amount thus raised, not including the proceeds 
 of certain entertainments mentioned elsewhere, was 
 twenty-three thousand, eight hundred and twenty- 
 three dollars.^ 
 
 In view of the progress made, the committee felt 
 justified in contracting for the monument. A con- 
 tract for the whole work — granite and bronze — for 
 the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, was conclud- 
 ed with Mr. George E. Bissell, of Poughkeepsie, 
 on the 24th of April, 1882, and Mr. Bissell, in order 
 to pursue his work under the most favorable circum- 
 stances, made arrangements for a temporary residence 
 in Paris, He went abroad in February, 1883, and 
 returned in September, 1884. 
 
 * Unfortunately, the amounts received from two or three of the manufac- 
 tories were not accompanied by the subscribers' names, and a few individual 
 donors preferred to be nameless. The lists as transmitted to the treasurer 
 were carefully copied by his assistant, Mr. E. A. Pendleton (a member from 
 March, 1864, to July, 1865, of the Ninth Ohio Independent Battery, Light 
 Artillery), who in some cases visited the manufactories to obtain necessary 
 corrections. The names, classified by Mr. Pendleton according to amounts 
 subscribed, are reproduced in Part III. of this volume. For convenience of 
 reference these names have, with considerable labor, been arranged alphabeti- 
 cally. Subscriptions which could not be collected are of course not included. 
 
28 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING THE SITE. 
 
 Meanwhile a discussion, such as inevitably occurs 
 in all such cases, was begun in the newspapers in 
 regard to the proper site of the monument. At the 
 beginning it was generally understood that it should 
 be placed on or near the centre of the Green. Sub- 
 sequently, a position further west came to be regard- 
 ed as more suitable, although there was some differ- 
 ence of opinion as to whether it should stand on the 
 west end of the Green, among the trees, or a little 
 beyond it, in the vacant space near St. John's church. 
 
 The preference of a majority of the committee was 
 expressed in a petition which was presented to the 
 Common Council of the city on the i6th of January, 
 1882, requesting: 
 
 That the Common Council set apart, and grant the per- 
 petual use of, a lot of land about twenty feet square on the 
 open space west of Center Square, and near St. John's 
 Church, for a soldiers' monument to be erected there ; and 
 permit the undersigned to lay foundations for the same. 
 
 The petition was re^rred to the road commission- 
 ers, who on the 6th of February reported in favor of 
 granting it. The report was adopted concurrently in 
 the Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen ; but in the 
 Board of Aldermen some opposition was made to the 
 proposed location, and a strong desire expressed that 
 it should stand on the Green.^ 
 
 ^ Alderman E. L. Bronson spoke in opposition to the report. He did not 
 consider the proposed site satisfactory. He favored placing the monument on 
 
THE SITE DISCUSSED. 29 
 
 A few days later (February loth) a communication 
 appeared in the Waterbury American, referring to 
 the difference of opinion which had found expression 
 in regard to the site, and insisting that both of the 
 sites which had been mentioned in the discussion 
 were objectionable, because the ground was too low, 
 because the shade-trees on the Green would hide the 
 monument during eight months of the year, and 
 because it would be liable to become covered with 
 moss and thus discolored and ultimately ruined. The 
 writer added : 
 
 We have an elevated spot in this city, worthy of more 
 attention than it has received up to this time. It is the 
 triangular space at the intersection of East Main, North 
 and South Elm, and Cole streets — a place the view of which 
 is unobstructed to a great part of our city the year round. 
 Although not very near the City Hall, the monument, if 
 placed there, would be in close proximity to our High 
 School and other schools, and would teach to those in atten- 
 dance there the lesson it is fitted to convey, in their youth, 
 that they may not forget it in their older days. 
 
 The Valley Democrat oi February i8th referred to 
 this communication, and made a plea for the East 
 Main street site in the following terms : 
 
 the Green, and said that plenty of room could be made by cutting down not 
 more than four trees. The monument would then be an ornament, and not an 
 obstruction. Alderman E. A. Smith insisted that the monument could not 
 possibly obstruct travel, if placed outside of the Green, on the site asked for. 
 He added: " Everybody says, Keep it off the Green." See the Waterbury 
 American of February 7th, 18S2. 
 
30 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 By diligent inquiry among our citizens, especially among 
 those who have furnished the money for the memorial 
 stone, we find that nine out of ten favor that site, and, if re- 
 port be true, Wadhams Post also, through whose exertions, 
 principally, the enterprise has nearly reached a successful 
 ending. After a tour of the city, we are convinced that a 
 more feasible spot could not be selected. . . . Let our 
 people ponder this matter, and talk it over thoroughly, 
 before taking action. 
 
 The matter was argued still further, on the same 
 side, in the American of February 23d : 
 
 Placed at the junction of these streets, the monument 
 would be, properly speaking, in the midst of the people. 
 Notwithstanding that the bulk of the money needed for the 
 erection of this magnificent tribute to our dead heroes was 
 contributed by the wealthier citizens, living in the vicinity 
 of the site selected, still, with all honor to their munificence, 
 it should be remembered that a few thousands of the rich 
 man's money did not cost him so much as the few dollars 
 given of the poor man's scantier earnings. When, during 
 the late struggle, volunteers were needed to fill the Union 
 ranks, were they all wealthy citizens who came forward and 
 offered assistance in the glorious cause .'' It is but just that 
 all those whose strong arms were then raised in defence of 
 their country's rights should have something to say, and 
 should be heard too, as to the disposition of a monument 
 erected to the memory of their martyred comrades. Be- 
 sides, the place proposed is pre-eminently suitable for the 
 purpose. East Main and Cole streets are constant thorough- 
 fares, and the former is one of our pleasantest drives. The 
 surroundings are admirably adapted to the erection of a 
 
THE SITE DECIDED. 3 1 
 
 monument which should be placed where the greatest num- 
 ber can enjoy it. . . . It is to be hoped that our "city 
 fathers" will give the matter due consideration. 
 
 The section of the city referred to in these com- 
 munications was considered by the committee so 
 unattractive that it seemed to them hardly worth 
 while to give this proposal much thought. The 
 decision in regard to the other two sites they pre- 
 ferred to leave to the vote of those who had given the 
 chief part of the fund by which the monument was 
 secured. Opportunity was accordingly given to each 
 of those who had subscribed twenty-five dollars or 
 more to express his preference by postal card, and it 
 appeared that with two exceptions these subscribers 
 were in favor of the site west of the Green which the 
 Common Council had approved. In the course of 
 the following year, however, it seemed probable that 
 it might be best, after all, to place the nionument on 
 the west end of the Green rather than in the open 
 space beyond it, and on the i6th of July, 1883, a 
 petition, signed by the committee and the treasurer of 
 the monument fund was presented to the Common 
 Council, in the following terms: 
 
 The undersigned respectfully petition your honorable 
 body to set apart, and grant the perpetual use of, a lot of 
 land about thirty feet square, on the westerly end of Centre 
 Square or Green, for a soldiers' monument to be erected 
 thereon; also permission for the undersigned to excavate, to 
 lay the foundation for the same. 
 
32 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 The petition was granted. The committee, feeling 
 that they had full liberty, in view of the twofold 
 action of the city authorities, to place the monument 
 in either of the two positions, as might seem best, 
 returned ultimately to the site outside of the Green, 
 which the Common Council had first approved, and 
 which the chief contributors preferred. 
 
 A FOUNDATION PROVIDED BY THE TOWN. 
 
 One week after this vote of the Common Council, 
 important action in reference to the monument was 
 taken by the Town. It seemed only reasonable to the 
 committee, and to those with whom they advised, that 
 a monument having been provided by the voluntary 
 gifts of the people, the Town should furnish a foun- 
 dation for it. A special town meeting was therefore 
 called, for the 21st of July, 1883, "for the purpose of 
 appropriating money to build the foundation for a 
 soldiers' monument ; also to appoint a committee to 
 superintend the erection thereof." The meeting, 
 although held on Saturday night, was very largely 
 attended by " interested tax-payers," and the follow- 
 ing votes were unanimously passed : 
 
 Voted, That the sum of three thousand, five hundred 
 dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the 
 same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of locating, 
 building and erecting the foundation for a soldiers' monu- 
 ment, to be erected in such place as shall be granted there- 
 for by the city authorities ; the same to be completed for the 
 aforesaid sum. 
 
THE FOUNDATION BUILT. 33 
 
 Voted, That James S. Elton, Davdd B. Hamilton, George 
 W. Tucker, and Frederick A. Spencer be and they arc 
 hereby appointed a committee to erect such foundation ; and 
 the selectmen are hereby authorized and directed to draw 
 their order on the treasurer from time to time for such sums 
 as said committee shall certify to have been expended there- 
 on, not exceeding however, in the whole, the sum hereby 
 appropriated. 
 
 The laying of the foundation was entrusted to the 
 Messrs. A. I. and G. S. Chatfield, of Waterbury, by 
 whom also the materials were furnished. The work 
 was begun on the 6th of August, and completed on 
 the 8th of September. It was performed with the 
 greatest care and thoroughness, under the immediate 
 supervision of the Messrs. Chatfield, and of one of 
 the members of the monument committee. The 
 structure thus built was placed under cover during 
 the winter, and in May, 1884, the circular embank- 
 ment around the foundation was raised, and the wall 
 surrounding it was laid — the materials for this wall 
 having been furnished, on contract, by Mr. Charles 
 Jackson, of Waterbury. 
 
 THE "GRAND ARMY" FAIR. 
 
 It had already become apparent, before the Town 
 was asked to provide for the building of the founda- 
 tion, that the amount derived from personal subscrip- 
 tions would hardly be suiBcient to cover the entire 
 cost of the monument itself. Other methods of rais- 
 5 
 
34 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 ing funds had already been employed. In 1881, 
 Company "A" of the Second Regiment, Connecticut 
 National Guard (one of the Waterbury companies, 
 known locally as the Chatfield Guard), had contrib- 
 uted two hundred and seventy-two dollars — the pro- 
 ceeds of a Fourth of July picnic; and in February, 
 1882, a dramatic entertainment (entitled "'61 to 
 '65 ") had been given by Wadhams Post, at the City 
 Hall, which added to the fund one hundred and 
 thirty-seven dollars. But in May, 1883, the Post 
 determined to work on a larger scale, and appointed 
 a committee to make arrangemehts for an extensive 
 public Fair in behalf of the monument fund. The 
 committee consisted of Messrs. George W. Tucker,* 
 Frederick A. Spencer, Thomas R. Martin, Imri A. 
 Spencer, Abbott C. Peck, and John M. Gallagher. 
 During the latter part of 1883 a Union Armory was 
 built for the use of the military companies of Water- 
 bury. It was dedicated on the 20th of December, 
 and early in the following January preparations were 
 made for holding a Fair in that place. The object in 
 view was well fitted to arouse the interest of the 
 entire community, and a hearty response was givfen 
 to the various appeals that were made. 
 
 The Fair was opened at the Armory — which was 
 specially decorated for the occasion — on Tuesday 
 evening, January 14th, 1884, and was continued until 
 the following Saturday night. It was open to the 
 public each afternoon and evening. The attendance 
 
THE FAIR AND ITS EXHIBITS. 35 
 
 was large throughout the week, and on the opening 
 and closing nights the Armory was crowded to 
 excess. As in all public fairs, the exhibition consist- 
 ed of donations and loans. Donations in large vari- 
 ety were received from various business firms and 
 manufactories in the city. Among the articles enu- 
 merated in the newspaper reports at the time were 
 suites of furniture for parlor, dining-room, and bed- 
 room, dinner sets of crockery, silver-plated goods, 
 tin-ware, stoves, lamps, clothing, sewing machines, 
 Waterbury watches, silk flags, the inevitable bed- 
 quilt, and innumerable fancy articles of every kind 
 and price.^ The " loan exhibition " consisted, first, of 
 war relics, of all sorts, — souvenirs of the war for the 
 Union and of previous national contests ; secondly, 
 " Indian relics," — a numerous collection of aboriginal 
 stone implements and pottery, selected from an exten- 
 sive private cabinet; thirdly, paintings, engravings, 
 etchings, bronzes and porcelains, — a large number 
 of valuable works of art, belonging to various families 
 in the city.^ Among the paintings were included 
 portraits of two of the most liberal subscribers to the 
 monument fund, Samuel W. Hall and Charles Bene- 
 dict — both of them deceased — and also of two 
 prominent soldiers well known in Waterbury, — 
 Colonel John Kellogg, of the United States Army, 
 
 ' See the American and the Republican of January 14th to 20th, 1884. 
 ^ A quite full account of the pictures and bronzes in this art exhibition was 
 published in the Waterbury American of January iSth and 19th, 1884. 
 
36 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 who died at City Point, Va., April 25th, 1865, and 
 Colonel Thomas F. Burpee, of the Twenty-first Reg- 
 iment, Connecticut Volunteers, who was killed at the 
 battle of Cold Harbor, Va., June 17th, 1864. Among 
 the notable gifts were certain articles of value and 
 of historical interest, the destination of which was to 
 be decided by the votes of visitors. There were 
 three fireman's trumpets, of silver, and a gold-headed 
 cane, the wood of which was taken from the " Law- 
 rence," the flag-ship of Commodore Oliver H. Perry 
 in the famous battle of Lake Erie, in 1813.^ 
 
 ' This cane has so many interesting associations connected with it, relating 
 to the war of i8i2-'i4, and also the war for the Union, that it will not be 
 deemed inappropriate that its present owner should give the main facts of its 
 history, as condensed from the account published by Mr. George P. Chapman, 
 of Waterbury, in the Waterbury American of January 5th, 1S84. 
 
 The " Lawrence " was one of a small fleet of vessels built at Erie, Penn., 
 during the spring and summer of 1813. It was launched, with another sloop- 
 of-war, the " Niagara," on the ist of July. The fleet sailed from Erie on the 
 I2th of August, and the battle was fcught on the loth of September. The 
 formal surrender of the British ofificers took place on the deck of the "Law- 
 rence." About ten days afterward, the fleet returned to Erie, and remained 
 there until peace was declared, in 1814. As there was no further use for the 
 vessels, they were dismantled, towed to the north side of the harbor, and sunk, 
 — so that they might be raised and refitted if occasion required. Here they 
 remained until 1836, when they were raised and sold at auction. The " Law- 
 rence " and " Niagara," being unfit for commercial purposes, were sunk again 
 at the same spot. 
 
 Mr. George P. Chapman visited the sunken flag-ship on the 27th of June, 
 1871. On the day of the visit, the lake was so calm and the water so clear that 
 every rib and plank could be distinctly seen. A piece of timber was with some 
 difficulty separated from the hull of the vessel and towed ashore. From this 
 the wood of the cane was cut. It was given to Mr. Ezra L. Chapman, and by 
 him to the committee in charge of the Fair. 
 
 The " Lawrence " was raised again in 1876, when it was sawed into sections, 
 
ACCOMPANIMENTS OF THE FAIR. 37 
 
 The refreshment tables, which occupied a promi- 
 nent place in the entertainment provided for the pub- 
 lic, were in the charge of ladies of the city, chiefly 
 members of the Auxiliary Relief Corps connected 
 with Wadhams Post. A special musical programme 
 was arranged for each evening, in which the various 
 musical organizations of the city took part, — the 
 Citizens' Cornet Band, the City Brass Band, Hallam's 
 Orchestra, the Waterbury Orchestra, the Amphion 
 Club, and the Concordia Society. At the opening of 
 the Fair a chorus of seventy-five voices participated 
 in the singing, and there were various vocal and 
 instrumental solos on the several evenings. On 
 Wednesday evening, Company "G" of the Second 
 Regiment, known as the Sedgwick Guard, was pres- 
 ent, and on Thursday evening Company " A," known 
 as the Chatfield Guard, — both of these companies in 
 full-dress uniform. 
 
 and at the time of the national Centennial transported to Philadelphia and 
 placed on exhibition. Here it was in charge of Sergeant G. H. Bates, a soldier 
 who achieved some notoriety by means of a pedestrian trip from Vicksburg to 
 Washington which he made shortly after the war, bearing the " stars and 
 stripes " unfurled through the States lately in rebellion. At the close of the 
 Centennial Exhibition, the old vessel was sold to Sergeant Bates, to be worked 
 over into historical souvenirs. 
 
 The " Lawrence " was so named by order of Congress in honor of Commo- 
 dore James Lawrence, who was killed in the famous fight between the United 
 States ship " Chesapeake " and the British ship "Shannon." The last words 
 of Commodore Lawrence, as he was carried below, mortally wounded — 
 "Don't give up the ship ! " — were inscribed on Commodore Perry's battle-flag, 
 which was run up to the mast-head at the beginning of the Battle of Lake 
 Erie. 
 
38 H [STORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 THE SPIRIT OF THE FAIR. 
 
 . On the first evening, previou.s to the opening of 
 the concert, the Rev. Joseph Anderson, D. D., being 
 called upon to extend a welcome to the multitude 
 who had come together, made a brief impromptu 
 address, of which a condensed report was published 
 as follows : 
 
 Ladies and gentlemen : I venture to say that the antici- 
 pations of those who planned this Fair, as well as the expec- 
 tations of you who have assembled here this evening, are 
 more than reaHzed. In the name of the men of Wadhams 
 Post of the Grand Army of the Republic I welcome you, 
 and desire to express the satisfaction they feel. Sometimes 
 we are led to think that the nation has recovered from the 
 war too easily ; that it has forgotten the struggles and the 
 bloodshed of the dark days of twenty years ago, and the 
 graves of its dead heroes. But such occasions as this serve 
 to show that we believe in the men who died for us. How- 
 ever engrossed we may be with the multitude of objects 
 spread out before us here, we cannot forget the great pur- 
 pose for which this Fair is held — the completion of our 
 soldiers' monument, which is to be, for us and for those 
 who come after us, a thing of beauty and a joy forever. 
 The monument will certainly be built, in honor of the sol- 
 diers and sailors of Waterbury. Let us each see to it that 
 by our attendance here, and by our contributions, we help on 
 the good work. 
 
 In the Waterbury Republican of the next day 
 appeared the following editorial reference to the Fair, 
 in an article entitled " Sacrifices Remembered " : 
 
THE FRUITS OF THE FAIR. 39 
 
 The successful opening', last evening, of the " Grand 
 Army" Fair at the Armory, in aid of the soldiers' monu- 
 ment fund, was alike a compliment to Wadhams Post and 
 an expression of the deep interest which this community 
 takes in the object to which the proceeds will be directed. 
 Although the trials and sufferings of the war for the Union 
 are things of the past, and live only in the memories of 
 middle-aged and older men, nevertheless the new genera- 
 tion which has come upon the stage feels grateful to the 
 heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed so much, that our 
 country might be preserved in its entirety and the rights of 
 man respected. On such occasions as that of last evening 
 it is demonstrated that if in one sense republics are ungrate- 
 ful, in another sense they are grateful to the last degree. 
 Waterbury reverently cherishes the memory of the men 
 who fell in the long strife, and cherishes also the memory of 
 those who having returned from the field of honor are one 
 by one dropping off, as death lays its icy fingers upon them, 
 A monument to their heroism Waterbury will raise, and 
 last night's expression was of the right kind. 
 
 By such utterances as these the spirit of the enter- 
 prise and the intent of those who conducted it were 
 correctly represented. The interest of the commu- 
 nity in the Fair increased from day to day, and 
 reached its culmination in the enthusiasm of the 
 great assemblage which crowded the Armory on the 
 closing night. The result pecuniarily, as well as 
 otherwise, was satisfactory; for the committee was 
 able, after all expenses had been paid, to pass over to 
 the treasurer two thousand, five hundred dollars — a 
 
40 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 sum sufficient to raise the monument fund to the 
 requisite amount. 
 
 In comparison with this large addition to the fund, 
 the gift of thirteen dollars contributed by the little 
 girls of the Waterbury Industrial School will seem 
 insignificant. But it is worthy of mention here, not 
 only because in it some of the poorest families in the 
 city were represented, but because it was given intel- 
 ligently, and in response to an appeal to the patriot- 
 ism and sympathy of the children. The contribution 
 consisted of the proceeds of their mite-chest from 
 October, 1883, to May, 1884. The secretary of the 
 school, in conveying their gift to the treasurer, wrote: 
 "Their enthusiasm was much aroused by the idea 
 that they, too, might have an interest in the soldiers' 
 monument by even a small contribution." Its receipt 
 was acknowledged in the following terms : "It is a 
 pleasure to know that the children also are interested 
 in this beautiful memorial to our soldiers. I trust 
 that in all their lives they may regard it with the 
 pride that comes to every loyal heart, and with a 
 feeling of satisfaction that their contributions helped 
 in its construction." ^ 
 
 THE CASHING OF THE BRONZE STATUES. 
 
 It has already been mentioned that the decision 
 made in the summer of 1883 to place the monument 
 
 ' Letters of Miss Katharine L. Peck, October i8th, and of Mr. E. A. Pendle- 
 ton (for the Treasurer), October 22d, 1884. 
 
THE BRONZES AND INSCRIPTIONS. 4I 
 
 near St. John's Church involved an entire change in 
 its general character. Mr. Bissell was at work in 
 Paris, during the greater part of that year, developing 
 his new plans, and in February, 1884, sent a new 
 design to the committee, accompanied with a state- 
 ment of the proposed changes. These changes were 
 considered a great improvement, and the new design 
 was promptly adopted. The work of modelling the 
 figures had meanwhile been going on, and they were 
 cast (in bronze) in Paris, between September, 1883, 
 and August, 1884, — the "Emancipation" group at 
 the foundry of F. Barbedienne, and the other figures, 
 the lamp-posts and the reliefs, at the establishment 
 of J. Gruet, Jr. ^ 
 
 A contract for the stone-work of the monument was 
 made by Mr. Bissell with the Mitchell Granite Works, 
 of Quincy, Mass., on the iith of February, 1884; 
 and it was understood that the entire work should be 
 completed by the end of September. As it was 
 designed that the north and south faces of the lower 
 die of the monument should be occupied by appro- 
 priate inscriptions, the Rev. Dr. Anderson was invited 
 by the committee to select and prepare them. It was 
 
 ^ The " Mechanic " and the " Farmer " were shipped for America in Decem- 
 ber, 18S3; the "Veteran "in July, 1884; the "Emancipation" group and the 
 statue of " Victory " in September, 1884. The lamp-posts were reported as 
 having been shipped soon after the " Victory," but they did not reach Water- 
 bury in time for the dedication. The relief which occupies the east panel was 
 modelled in Munich, but was cast in Paris, and shipped from there in June, 
 1885 ; the other relief was shipped in August following. 
 6 
 
42 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 decided that the south face should bear an inscription 
 setting forth briefly the purpose of the monument 
 and the motives of its builders, and that the north 
 face should contain a suitable poetical or prose quota- 
 tion. The first of these inscriptions was completed 
 in time for the dedication of the monument; the 
 other was not written until more than a year after- 
 ward.^ 
 
 THE ERECTION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 The date of the dedication of the monument was 
 fixed for October 23d. On the 9th of that month not 
 a stone of the structure had been laid, and a week 
 later very little had been accomplished on the ground, 
 while the materials had not yet been all shipped 
 from the Granite Works at Quincy. As all the 
 arrangements for the dedication were made wifh 
 reference to its taking place on the 23d, the commit- 
 tee very naturally became uneasy lest the work should 
 not be completed in time. On the 15th the chairman 
 wrote to the builders of the suspense and anxiety 
 which every one felt. By putting up electric lights, 
 however, and having the work pushed forward by 
 
 * It may interest those who are curious in such matters to know that the 
 germ of the descriptive inscription, on the south face, was furnished by Mr. 
 Bissell, and that it was enlarged and brought into its present form by Mr. 
 Frederick J. Kingsbury and Dr. Anderson. The two stanzas inscribed on the 
 north face were composed by Dr. Anderson, after various unsuccessful efforts 
 to find in the writings of some American statesman or poet a passage which 
 could be appropriately applied to both the surviving and the dead heroes of the 
 war. In these efforts several friends very kindly cooperated. 
 
COMPLETION OF THE WORK. 43 
 
 night as well as by clay, postponement was avoided. 
 In the Waterbury Republicaji of October 21st the 
 " situation " on Monday night was vividly pictured as 
 follows : 
 
 The work on the soldiers' monument went steadily on, by 
 the bright light of the electric lamps, which drowned all 
 inferior luminaries. The faces of the workmen on the 
 column stood out in a clear-cut, pallid relief, and the parallel 
 lines of light and darkness fell across the upper part of the 
 shaft and made it look like heavily-veined marble. At a 
 distance of about a hundred feet from the pedestal was a 
 ring of interested spectators, who seemed to find unceasing 
 pleasure in blinking at the light and noting the tiny sparks 
 that fell from the stone-masons' chisels. The scene, taken 
 altogether, was a striking reminder that Waterbury's great 
 day was almost at hand. 
 
 There was no disastrous accident ; so that the 
 monument was built, the several bronze figures were 
 raised to their places, the surmounting statue was 
 lifted to its high position, the embankment around 
 the foundation graded and turfed, and the whole 
 work completed, by noon of the appointed day, — with 
 the exception of the bronze reliefs which were to 
 occupy the panels on the east and west sides of the 
 lower die, and the inscription which was to be engraved 
 on the north face. The reliefs were put in their 
 places a year after the dedication of the monument — 
 in October, 1885; the inscription on the north face 
 was engraved in April, 1886. 
 
44 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 Before passing to the account of the dedication, it 
 will be proper to give a somewhat detailed description 
 of the completed monument.^ 
 
 It has already been said that Mr. Bissell's first 
 design was made on the supposition that the monu- 
 ment was to stand on the Green, amidst the trees. 
 One of its main divisions was a column of considera- 
 ble height. In the new design, suggested by the new 
 site, while several of the original features were 
 retained, the total height was reduced from sixty feet 
 to forty-eight, and the apparent altitude was dimin- 
 ished by substituting for the column a pedestal six 
 feet square. 
 
 The monument stands in the center of a circular 
 embankment, which measures forty feet in diameter. 
 It rests on a rock foundation, twenty feet square, set 
 ten feet deep in the earth, carefully built and thor- 
 oughly grouted. The blue-stone coping of the foun- 
 dation, which serves as a sub-base for the monument, 
 
 'This is, of course, not the place for a critical estimate of the work; all that 
 is aimed at is such an account of it as will enable those who have not seen it 
 to know what it is (with the help of the accompanying illustrations), and assist 
 those who are accustomed to seeing it to appreciate it more fully. Perhaps the 
 most intelligent criticism thus far published is that which appeared in the New 
 York Mail and Express, some time in December, 1884, and was reproduced, 
 substantially, with a view of the monument, in Cassell's Magazine of Art for 
 1885, pp. 21-24 of the American appendix. One or two expressions in the fol- 
 lowing description are appropriated from that article ; other descriptive phrases 
 from an article in the Waterlmry American of October 22d, 1884, and a few 
 others from the sculptor's own memoranda. 
 
EMBANKMENT AND SUPERSTRUCTURE. 45 
 
 is about four feet above the original surface of the 
 ground. The embankment of earth which surrounds 
 this foundation is held in place by a retaining wall of 
 rock-faced ashlar (of Ouincy granite) two feet high, 
 with a " fine-axed " coping of the same material. The 
 circular outline is broken, at points corresponding 
 with the four corners of the monument, by projecting 
 pedestals, which rise two feet above the coping and 
 serve as supports for bronze lamp-posts nine feet high. 
 The design of these posts, which is the same for all 
 the four, consists of a slender cannon standing erect 
 upon a cannon-ball, with four guns resting against 
 it. Festoons of oak leaves and laurel encircle the 
 base of the post, and a laurel wreath hangs across the 
 trunnions of the cannon. 
 
 The monument proper consists of a quadrangular 
 structure of granite, in Renaissance forms, raised 
 upon a series of steps, and surmounted by a colossal 
 bronze statue. Above the three steps which consti- 
 tute the base, is a die twelve feet square and, with its 
 cap, four feet in height, with panels on the east and 
 west sides, and projecting polished faces on the north 
 and south. The west panel is occupied by an alto- 
 relief in bronze, nine and a half feet wide and two 
 and a half high, with a decoration at each end in the 
 form of Roman fasces, standing erect, — emblem of 
 the American Union. The scene represented is a 
 charge of Federal troops upon a Confederate battery. 
 The number of visible figures is about forty ; but 
 
46 HISTORV OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 they are massed in such a way as to produce the im- 
 pression that large re-inforcements are entering the 
 fight. The relief in the east panel — which differs 
 from the other, not only in subject, but in method 
 of treatment — represents the first fight of iron-clads. 
 It bears the title, in raised letters, " Hampton Roads, 
 March 9, 1862," and represents the famous battle 
 between the "Monitor" and the " Merrimac," — the 
 moment chosen for illustration being that at which 
 the " Merrimac " attempts to retreat. Each of the 
 upper corners is occupied by a medallion, sixteen 
 inches in diameter. That on the left contains, in 
 the foreground, the figures of President Lincoln 
 and Captain John Ericsson, the inventor of the 
 " Monitor." With the aid of a small model which 
 Mr. Lincoln holds in his hands. Captain Ericsson 
 explains the working of the vessel which he pro- 
 poses to build. In the background are Mr. John F. 
 Winslow, one of the builders of the " Monitor," 
 and an officer of the navy, who stands with one 
 arm resting on a model of the hull of an old line- 
 of-battle ship, and looks over Captain Ericsson's 
 shoulder. This officer represents the faith of the 
 naval oflficials in wooden ships, and the refusal of 
 the Navy Department to adopt the new invention.^ 
 
 ' Mr. Bissell writes : " President Lincoln endorsed the ' Monitor,' private 
 capital built it, and a volunteer crew, under Captain Worden, fought and won 
 with it, before the Navy Department accepted and paid for it. I have intro- 
 duced this group to honor Captain Ericsson and Mr. Lincoln, and the patriotism 
 of the business men of America." 
 
THE PEDESTAL AND ITS STATUES. 47 
 
 The medallion on the right represents the working 
 of the large guns in the turret of the " Monitor." The 
 central figure in the background is that of Captain 
 John L. Worden. 
 
 The section of the monument next above the die 
 which has just been described consists of a pedestal 
 sixteen and a half feet in height, with a base eight 
 and a half feet square. Its shaft, which is six feet by 
 six, and nine feet high, has pilasters at the corners, 
 and the four sides are enlivened by niches with 
 arched tops. The pilasters have Ionic capitals, and 
 in the space between the capitals there is a decora- 
 tion of festoons. The entablature is decorated on its 
 lower edge with an " egg and dart " moulding, and a 
 simple cornice projects above it. In the four niches, 
 or rather, in front of them, upon pedestals which rest 
 on the broad platform of the cap that surmounts the 
 die, are placed bronze statues, somewhat larger than life 
 size, representing the War for the Union in its begin- 
 ning and ending, and symbolizing its grandest results. 
 The figures on the east and west sides, taken together, 
 illustrate what has well been called "the uprising of 
 a great people." The manufacturing East is repre- 
 sented by a mechanic, who holds in one hand ajdrawn 
 sword and in the other its scabbard. He has heard 
 the call to arms, has sprung to his feet, and is leaning 
 forward with a look of eagerness and determination 
 in his face. Behind him stands a piece of machinery 
 belonging to a rolling-mill, and a cog-wheel lies on 
 
48 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 the ground near by. The figure on the opposite side 
 of the pedestal represents the agricultural West. A 
 weather-beaten farmer has seized his gun, and is step- 
 ping over a broken fence-rail as he goes forth to enter 
 the ranks with his fellow-countrymen. 
 
 The familiar bar-post and the broken bar over which the 
 farmer is stepping, suggest not only the plowed field, but 
 the orchard, the meadow, the hillside pasture and lowing 
 cattle, fields of golden grain, rich harvests, and the comfort- 
 able cottage, with its inviting porch and generous welcome, 
 — all abandoned and sacrificed /r^ /«/rm. 
 
 The figure on the north side represents a seated 
 veteran, resting beside a comrade's grave. He is 
 clad in the well-known overcoat and cape, and his 
 accoutrements are cast off, as if fighting days were 
 over. His gun rests between his knees. His right 
 arm lies upon his knapsack, which stands on end, 
 and his briar-wood pipe hangs loosely from his fingers. 
 His face is full of experience and pensive thought. 
 At his feet are the palm branch, the laurel wreath, 
 and immortelles — emblems of victory, reconciliation, 
 death, and fame. This may well be regarded as a 
 memorial statue, reminding all who look upon the 
 monument of the sacrifices which their countrymen 
 made in their behalf. 
 
 While the returned veteran illustrates in one way 
 the fruits of the war, they are set forth in quite 
 another way by the group on the south side of the 
 pedestal. The central figure is seated in a chair of 
 
Ao. I.V _ -uir^cn, Photographers. 
 
 Photo-Gravure Co. New York 
 
 ON THE WEST SIDE 
 
MEANING OF THE BRONZE GROUP. 49 
 
 state, the panelled back of which is occupied by a 
 wreath of oak leaves and laurel ; and within this, in a 
 medallion, is an eagle, from whose beak depends a tab- 
 let bearing the word " Emancipation," the key, of 
 course, to the meaning of the group. The seated fig- 
 ure, whose face is full of motherly tenderness, leans for- 
 ward in an attitude of listening. Her clasped hands 
 rest on a large book which stands on her knee half- 
 open ; her right foot is upon a cannon, beside which 
 lies a broken shackle. The fillet which binds her 
 hair is ornamented with a miniature shield, graven 
 with stars and stripes, \yhich marks her out as repre- 
 senting the American government. A well-dressed 
 school-boy — his bundle of books beside him — stands 
 at her knee, and while she leans forward to listen to 
 him she looks down benignantly upon a ragged little 
 negro sitting on a cotton-bale at'her feet, who holds in 
 one hand a hoe, and is trying with the other to force 
 open the leaves of the book upon her knee. In the 
 school-boy, making an earnest appeal in behalf of 
 the young negro, the North is represented (by one 
 of its children — for "children have no prejudices, 
 and know no color-line ") as appealing to the govern- 
 ment to extend to the African race and to the entire 
 South the educational and other advantages which it 
 has long enjoyed, and which have survived the ordeal 
 of war. And the negro, who represents an emanci- 
 pated people, illustrates by his position and action 
 7 
 
50 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 the eager desire of his race to secure the education 
 and enlightenment which they know to be necessary 
 to success in a free repubHc. 
 
 The upper section of the monument consists of a 
 bronze statue of Victory, ten feet and a half in height, 
 standing upon a round pedestal, the diameter of 
 which is five feet, and its entire height five feet and 
 a half. Victory is represented with her right arm 
 partly raised, grasping in her right hand a wreath 
 of laurel. In her extended left hand she holds an 
 olive branch. At her feet lies a cornucopia from 
 which are poured forth the rich fruits of the orchard, 
 the field, and the vineyard. The symbolism is easily 
 understood : the laurel wreath — the conqueror's crown 
 — is offered to the victorious soldiers of the North; 
 the olive branch — emblem of peace — to the South, 
 vanquished but not hated. The "horn of plenty" 
 represents the unfailing resources of a rich and fertile 
 country, and prophesies the more abundant prosperity 
 of the future. 
 
 The inscription upon the south face of the main 
 die is as follow^s: 
 
 IN HONOR OF THE PATRIOTISM 
 
 AND TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THE 
 
 900 BRAVE MEN 
 
 WHO WENT FORTH FROM THIS TOWN TO FIGHT IN 
 
 THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 
 
 THIS MONUMENT HAS BEEN ERECTED BY THEIR 
 
 TOWNSMEN THAT ALL WHO COME AFTER THEM MAY 
 
 BE MINDFUL OF THEIR DEEDS, AND FAIL NOT IN THE 
 
 DAY OF TRIAL TO EMULATE THEIR EXAMPLE. 
 
ON THE SOUTH SIDE 
 
TO THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. 5 1 
 
 Below this are the dates 1 861-1865. The dates on 
 the north face are 1 865-1 885, and the inscription is 
 as follows: 
 
 Brave men, who, rallying at your country's call, 
 Went forth to fight, — if Heaven willed, to fall ! 
 
 Returned, ye walk with us through sunnier years. 
 And hear a nation say, God bless you all ! 
 
 Brave men, who yet a heavier burden bore, 
 
 And came not home to hearts by grief made sore ! 
 
 They call you dead ; but lo ! ye grandly live, 
 Shrined in the nation's love forevermore ! 
 
 There are no names of dead soldiers inscribed upon 
 the monument, — partly because it was believed to 
 be impossible to obtain a complete and accurate list 
 of the Waterbury men who had died in the war, and 
 partly because the monument has been regarded by 
 the committee, and by all who were specially interested 
 in it, as erected in honor of those who survived as 
 well as those who died. This view of the case is 
 recognized in both the inscriptions. 
 
 There remains to be added a list of the articles contained 
 in the copper box which was placed inside of the monu- 
 ment. They are as follows : A Catalogue of the Volunteer 
 Military Organizations of Connecticut ; Journal of the Pro- 
 ceedings of the National Encampment of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic, held at Minneapolis, Minn., in July, 1884; 
 Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Connecticut De- 
 partment of the Grand Army, at Middletown, in January, 
 
52 HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 1884 ; a complete Roster of Wadhams Post, No. 49, G. A. R. ; 
 a copy of the G. A. R. Gazette ; a copy of the Washington 
 National Tribune ; copies of the Waterdurj/ American, daily 
 and weekly, Waterbiiry Republican, daily and weekly, and 
 the Valley Democrat (published in Waterbury) ; a "Water- 
 bury Directory" for 1884; the latest "Municipal Register" 
 and " Reports of the Town Officers " of Waterbury ; a 
 copy of the engraved Invitation to the Dedication, with 
 the accompanying list of the members of the several 
 Dedication committees; and lastly, photographs of the 
 late Samuel W. Hall, Mr. George E. Bissell, and several 
 other citizens who were prominently connected with the 
 procuring and building of the monument. 
 
II. 
 
 DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
" It is for us, the living, . . . to be dedicated to the great 
 task remaining before us, — that from these honored dead we take 
 increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full 
 measure of d&votion ; that we here highly resolve that the dead 
 shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall under God have 
 a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by 
 the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." — 
 Abraham Lincoln, Address at the Dedication of the Soldiers' 
 Cemetery, Gettysburg, Fenn., November i^th, 1863. 
 
DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 COMMITTEES APPOINTED. 
 
 About the middle of September, 1884, the com- 
 mittee on the Soldiers' Monument fixed the date 
 of the dedication on the 23d of October. A letter 
 was addressed to Mr. Daniel Kiefer, Commander 
 of Wadhams Post, No. 49, of the Grand Army of 
 the Republic, announcing " the near completion " 
 of the monument, and asking him to appoint a 
 general committee and the following special com- 
 mittees, to make the necessary arrangements for 
 a proper celebration of the Dedication Day : A 
 reception committee, committees on invitations, on 
 transportation, on carriages, on a collation, on music, 
 on the press, and on printing. On the 19th of Sep- 
 tember these committees were announced, as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 The General Committee : Major G. W. Tucker, Major 
 
 F. A. Spencer, Captain D. B. Hamilton ; Rev. Dr. Joseph 
 Anderson, Major C. R. Bannon, Captain P. F. Bannon, 
 
 G. W. Beach, W. E. Beecher, J. C. Booth, Aner Bradley, 
 F. J. Brown, R. K. Brown, C. H. Carter, H. F. Caswell, 
 A. S. Chase, D. L. Chipman, G. H. Cowell, F. L. Curtiss, 
 Charles Dickinson, Nathan Dikeman, Captain J. B. Doh- 
 
56 DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 crty, Rev. J. E. Duggan, Hon. J. S. Elton, Louis Feldt, 
 
 E. L. Frisbie, C. P. Goss, N. D. Granniss, H. C. Griggs, 
 J. H. Hart, Rev. W. A. Harty, Martin Hellman, R. E. 
 Hitchcock, Israel Holmes, Charles Jackson, Maier Kaiser, 
 J. P. Kellogg (secretary), Hon. S. W. Kellogg, Commander 
 Daniel Kiefer, E. G. Kilduff, F. J. Kingsbury, E. C. 
 Lewis, E. A. Locke, John McDonald, Captain T. R. 
 Martin, Mayor H. A. Matthews, Henry Merriman, Rev, 
 R. W. Micou, L. I. Munson, I. E. Newton, John 
 O'Neill, Jr., Colonel G. S. Parsons, H. H. Peck, C. M. 
 Piatt, D. S. Plume, John Ryan, H. F. Sanford, J. L. 
 Saxe, H. W. Scovill, Benjamin Sedgwick, E. A. Smith, 
 J. R. Smith, J. W. Smith, S. C. Snagg, E. D. Steele, 
 G. E. Terry, C. I. Tremaine, Hon. E. T. Turner, H. L. 
 Wade, J. W. Webster, Captain Alfred Wells, N. J. Wel- 
 ton, Louis Wenzel, L. C. White. 
 
 The Reception Committee : Hon. S. W. Kellogg, Major 
 G. W. Tucker, Major F. A. Spencer, Captain D. B. Ham- 
 ilton ; Major C. R. Bannon, G. W. Beach, F. J. Brown, 
 C. H. Carter, H. F. Caswell, Hon. J. S. Elton, Louis 
 Feldt, C. A. Hamilton, Israel Holmes, J. P. Kellogg 
 (secretary). Commander Daniel Kiefer, E. G. Kilduff, 
 
 F. J. Kingsbury, E. C. Lewis, Mayor H. A. Matthews, 
 L. I. Munson, Colonel G. S. Parsons, H. H. Peck, D. S. 
 Plume, I. A. Spencer, Hon. E. T. Turner, J. W. Webster. 
 
 The Committee on Invitations : Major G. W. Tucker, 
 Major F. A. Spencer, Captain D. B. Hamilton ; G. H. 
 Cowell, J. P. Kellogg (secretary). Captain T. R. Martin, 
 John O'Neill, Jr. 
 
 On Transportation : Superintendent G. W. Beach, J. W. 
 Davis, Major E. S. Hayden, Hon. E. T. Turner. 
 
VARIOUS COMMITTEES. 57 
 
 On Carriages : J. R. Smith, Major C. R. Bannon, Cap- 
 tain A. I. Goodrich, W. W. Munson, W. T. Neeld, P. B. 
 Norton. 
 
 On Collation : I. A. Spencer, F. B. Brown, Henry 
 Brown, Joseph English, J. M. Gallagher, John Higgins, 
 W. A. Hollman, William Rubber, W. H. Hunt, O. R. 
 Kelsey, George McKenna, W. C. McKinley, Frank 
 Marsh, Christopher Miller, William Miller, John Stone, 
 W. C. Tuttle, Andrew Winter. 
 
 On Music : Commander Daniel Kiefer, J. E. Bartlett, 
 A. J. Blakesley, T. I. Driggs, Herman Heringer, F. D. 
 Hotchkiss, H. F. Sanford, W. J. Stanley, G. A. Stocking, 
 Edward Witherspoon. 
 
 On the Press: C. R. Baldwin, O. R. Kelsey, J. H. 
 Morrow, Harrison Whitney. 
 
 On Printing: Adjutant J. A. Hubbard, Oscar Cor- 
 nish, J. H. Morrow, E. B. Sanford. 
 
 A SECOND APPROPRIATION BY THE TOWN. 
 
 As the preliminary preparations went forward, it 
 was determined to make the dedication of the mon- 
 ument a notable event in the history of the town. 
 It soon became apparent that such a celebration of 
 the day as was contemplated would involve a consid- 
 erable outlay of money, and it was decided to apply 
 to the town for an appropriation to meet the ex- 
 penses. At the annual town meeting, held on the 
 6th of October, the following vote was unanimously 
 passed : 
 
58 DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 Voted, That the sum of two thousand five hundred dol- 
 lars be appropriated from the town treasury for the com- 
 pletion and dedication of the Soldiers' Monument. 
 
 INVITED GUESTS. 
 
 At an early stage in the preliminary arrangements, 
 it was decided to invite the governors of the New 
 England States, and other prominent men, to be 
 present at the exercises. The card of invitation 
 issued by the committee on invitations consisted 
 of three leaves, the first of which bore an en- 
 graved vignette of the monument, and, above and 
 below it, the following title : " Dedication, Soldiers' 
 Monument, Thursday, October 23, 1884: Waterbury, 
 Conn." The second leaf contained the following 
 invitation : 
 
 To : 
 
 Dear Sir : 
 
 The honor of your presence is requested on Thursday, 
 /October 23d, at the dedication of the monument erected 
 by the citizens of this place, in commemoration of the ser- 
 vices of Waterbury's soldiers and sailors, in the war of the 
 Union. 
 
 The ceremonies will be of a character worthy of the 
 occasion. 
 
 The third leaf contained the names of the members 
 of the several committees, as given above, and of 
 the marshal and assistant marshal. 
 
ACCEPTANCES AND "REGRETS." 59 
 
 The invitations to be present at the dedication 
 were presented to the New England governors, in 
 person, by Mr, George H. Cowell. Governor Thomas 
 M. Waller, of Connecticut, promised in his letter of 
 acceptance of October 5th, to bring six or seven 
 members of his staff with him. The sfovernors of 
 
 O 
 
 Maine and Rhode Island also accepted the invitation. 
 At the outset there seemed Qrood reason for believing 
 that the other governors also would be present ; but 
 on the 4th of October the following letter of regret 
 was addressed to the chairman of the committee of 
 invitation by the Governor of Vermont : 
 
 My Dear Sn< : 
 
 I have been obliged to delay my reply to your cordial 
 invitation that the State of Vermont be represented by her 
 executive and staff at the dedication of your Soldiers' 
 Monument on the 23d instant, for the purpose of being 
 better enabled to make definite answer. I hoped that after 
 the organization of the General Assembly, which has just 
 convened, I might find it possible to say to you, as my 
 great desire is to say, "Yes, with all my heart." But the 
 sentiment now uppermost amongst our assembled legisla- 
 tors seems to be, that our labors here at the capital must be 
 pressed forward, that we may come to a final adjournment 
 before the Presidential election, and not be obliged to 
 return after that event. That will of course bring the 
 busiest days of my executive term upon me in the examina- 
 tion of, and passing upon, the acts and resolves of the 
 Assembly at that time, and, in view of such a contingency, 
 
60 DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 and of a lack of any precedent for the absence of the gover- 
 nor from the capital during the sittings of the Assembly, I 
 am reluctantly constrained to say that I shall be obliged to 
 forego the pleasure of accepting your invitation to be pres- 
 ent on this exceptionally interesting occasion. 
 
 We give our comrades our annual tribute of the flower, 
 the violet, and the rose, everywhere, and it is still more 
 inspiring to see the people of your patriotic city commem- 
 orating their deeds in the more enduring tribute of the 
 monument of granite. We must keep tbeir memory ever 
 green. It is a duty which their patriotism inspires within 
 us, and this obligation to their memory will endure while 
 love of country continues to inspire the hearts of men. 
 
 Thanking you for your kind invitation, I remain. 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 Samuel E, Pingree. 
 
 On the 9th, the Governor of Massachusetts wrote 
 as follows : 
 
 Dear Sir : 
 
 Acknowledging the receipt of a communication of the 
 committee conveying the invitation to me to visit Water- 
 bury on the 23d of the current month, I desire to express 
 my thanks for the courtesy, and to say that I regret that 
 engagements already made within this State, and my ofificial 
 duties, will prevent me from accepting the same. 
 
 The occasion will be one of significant interest to the 
 citizens of Waterbury, as well as to those of the whole State 
 of Connecticut, and I trust that the celebration will give 
 
ADDITIONAL "REGRETS." 6l 
 
 renewed expression to the debt of obligation which the 
 people feel toward the heroes of the late war. 
 
 Very respectfully yours, 
 
 George D. Robinson. 
 
 On the 13th, tlic Governor of New Hampshire 
 wrote : " I shall be pleased to attend the dedication 
 ceremonies, if it is possible ; but I am unable to say 
 positively as yet." But on the 20th he wrote as 
 follows : 
 
 Dear Sir : 
 
 In further reply to the invitation of the citizens of Water- 
 bury to attend the dedication ceremonies of the Soldiers' 
 Monument on Thursday next, I regret to say that it will be 
 impossible for me to be present as I had hoped. The occa- 
 sion is one in which I take a deep interest, and I should 
 delight to do honor to the brave men who sacrificed their 
 lives in the service of our common country. The dedication 
 of a monument to commemorate their heroism is especially 
 fitting, and it would be a great pleasure for mc to unite in 
 the ceremonies which have been planned with such -care, 
 and promise to be of such unusual interest. But there are 
 circumstances beyond my control which prevent my accept- 
 ance of your invitation. I beg you to extend to the citizens 
 of Waterbury my congratulations, and accept my thanks 
 for you courtesy. I remain, 
 
 Yours respectfully, 
 
 S. W. Hale. 
 
62 DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 Among the letters of regret there was another which 
 may appropriately be reproduced, because, although 
 a brief and strictly personal note, it is so well fitted 
 to awaken in the minds of Waterbury soldiers 
 memories of the early war-period. It was written by 
 the Right Rev, Thomas F, Hendricken, D.D., bishop, 
 at the time of his death,^ of the Roman Catholic 
 diocese of Providence, R. I., but during the war, 
 and for some time after, pastor of the Church of 
 the Immaculate Conception, in Waterbury. His 
 letter, dated October 1 8th, was as follows: 
 
 My Dear Major Spencer: 
 
 My miserable health prevents me from the enjoyment of 
 being present at the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument 
 in Waterbury. I am happy to find that I am not forgotten. 
 You remember, I was on the platform and addressed the 
 first company of brave men who left your city for the seat 
 of war. I am not as strong as I was then. 
 Faithfully yours, 
 
 Thomas F. Hendricken, 
 
 Bishop of Providence. 
 
 PREPARATIONS. 
 
 The general plan of the celebration, as finally 
 developed by the monument committee, was an- 
 nounced in a large poster, headed, " Honor to the 
 Nation's Defenders ! " prepared at the time, for the 
 information of those in adjoining towns who desired 
 
 ' Bishop Hendricken dlud June utii, i8S6. 
 
THE PROGRAMME. 63 
 
 to be present. After a brief statement in reference 
 to the sculptor and his work, it proceeded as follows: 
 
 The Monument has just been completed, and will be 
 Unveiled and Dedicated on Thursday, October 23d. 
 
 It is intended that the day devoted to the Dedication of 
 this noble historical memorial shall be a Memorable Day in 
 the history of Connecticut. Invitations to be present have 
 been accepted by the Governors of several of the New Eng- 
 land States, the Mayors of several cities, the Second Regi- 
 ment entire, ' Grand Army ' Posts from all parts of the State, 
 and various Civic Societies and companies of Firemen. All 
 these will take part in a Grand Procession, commencing at 
 1 1 o'clock, A. M. Music will be furnished by brass bands, 
 and by a chorus of three hundred voices. 
 
 The Ceremony of Unveiling and Dedication will be con- 
 ducted by Wadhams Post, No. 49, G. A. R., at one o'clock, 
 p. M. The Presentation of the Monument to the Town will 
 be made by the Hon. F. J. Kingsbury, and the Monument 
 will be accepted in behalf of the Town by John O'Neill, Jr., 
 Esq. The Oration will be delivered by the Hon. O. H. Piatt, 
 United States Senator from Connecticut. 
 
 The programme thus outlined was carried out to 
 the letter, and it involved no small amount of labor 
 for the various committees. Early in October — for 
 example — Mr. T. I. Driggs, of the committee on 
 music, organized a chorus of three hundred voices, 
 to lead the singing. During the month he gave 
 them the necessary rehearsals, and acted as con- 
 ductor at the dedicatory exercises. Again, on Tues- 
 
64 DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 day preceding the dedication, five large tents, with 
 tables to accommodate nearly two thousand persons, 
 were erected in a vacant lot not far from the Green ; 
 and on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, 
 contributions for the tables, pledged beforehand, were 
 collected, under the supervision of Mr, I. A. Spencer, 
 chairman of the committee on a collation. On Mon- 
 day, the speakers' stand, and a large platform for 
 the chorus of three hundred and the invited guests, 
 were erected. On Tuesday, preparations were made 
 for decorating and illuminatino^ the Green. The 
 sum of three hundred dollars was thus expended, 
 with very pleasing results ; but the decorations were 
 almost ruined, and the illumination (in which w-ere 
 to be displayed a thousand Chinese lanterns, num- 
 berless " blazing stars," and powerful electric lights 
 falling upon richly colored banners and flags sway- 
 ing beneath the overarching trees) was completely 
 prevented, by a storm on Wednesday night of un- 
 usual severity. The reception committee also had 
 plenty of work to do. Arrangements w^ere made 
 for the public reception of distinguished guests at 
 the Union Armory and the City Hall, for private 
 receptions also, at the residences of prominent citi- 
 zens, and for the proper entertainment of the large 
 number of Grand Army Posts, civic societies, and 
 other organizations which were expected to be 
 present. 
 
 On Wednesday afternoon the visiting governors 
 
RECEPTIONS BEFOREHAND. 65 
 
 — Frederick Robie of Maine, and Augustus O. 
 Bourne of Rhode Island — with their staffs, were met 
 at Hartford by Governor Waller and staff, and a 
 delegation of Waterbury gentlemen, and by them 
 escorted to Waterbury on a special train. 
 
 EVENING RECEPTIONS. 
 
 In the early evening, receptions were held in behalf 
 of the visiting governors and other distinguished 
 guests, at several private residences, as follows : 
 
 At Major G. W. Tucker's, for Governor Waller and 
 the following members of his staff: Adjutant-Gen- 
 eral D. N. Couch, Quartermaster-General Thomas 
 McManus, Surgeon-General E. L. Bissell, Commis- 
 sary-General W. W. S kiddy, Paymaster-General J. 
 
 B. Coit, Colonel W. N. Woodruff, Colonel E. M. 
 Graves, Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Woodbridge. 
 
 At Mr. F. J. Kingsbury's, for Governor Robie and 
 the following members of his staff: Adjutant-Gen- 
 eral G. L. Beal, Surgeon-General A. C. Hamlin, 
 Colonel A. B. Nealey, Colonel C. C. Burrell, and 
 Colonel W. A. R. Boothby. 
 
 At the Hon. E. T. Turner's, for Governor Bourne 
 and the following members of his staff: Adjutant- 
 General Elisha Dyer, Jr., Quartermaster-General 
 
 C. R. Dennis, Colonel G. O. Eddy, Colonel W. R. 
 Stiness, Colonel A. H. Watson, Colonel A. C. Sand- 
 ers, Colonel G. H. Utter, Lieutenant-Colonel S. W. 
 
66 DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 Nickerson of Quartermaster-General Dennis's staff, 
 and Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. White of Adjutant- 
 General Dyer's staff. 
 
 At Mr. L. C. White's, for Brigadier-General S. R. 
 Smith of the Connecticut National Guard, and the 
 following members of his staff: Lieutenant-Colonel 
 L. L. Morgan, Lieutenant-Colonel C. M. Carlton, Ma- 
 jor J. B. Clapp, Major E. S. Hayden, Major C. L. 
 Burdette, Major W. H. Stephenson, Captain W. H. 
 Stratton, Captain C. G. Lyon. 
 
 At each of these houses the host and hostess were 
 assisted in receiving by ladies and gentlemen of the 
 city, and friends from other places, including some of 
 the most prominent citizens of Connecticut. 
 
 The raging storm which broke upon the city early 
 in the evening, and continued through the night, did 
 not materially interfere with the attendance at these 
 receptions. Shortly after 8 o'clock. Mayor Matthews 
 and the other city officers, including the Court of 
 Common Council, were conveyed from the City Hall 
 to the headquarters of Governor Waller, at Major 
 Tucker's residence, and thence to the other houses 
 where receptions were held. The comrades of Wad- 
 hams Post, in full uniform, with their officers and the 
 Post drum-corps, made a similar tour, and private 
 citizens in large numbers — ladies as well as gentle- 
 men — swelled the multitude of the callers. Later 
 in the evenino- the o;overnors and their staffs ex- 
 changed calls ; and still later the guests and hosts 
 
DECORATIONS. 6/ 
 
 together found their way to the Union Armory, 
 where a general reception under the management of 
 a special committee, of which Mr. G. L. White was 
 chairman, was held, which was continued almost until 
 daylight. 
 
 THE CITY DECORATED. 
 
 The morning of Dedication Day arose in splendor. 
 The effect of the storm upon the decorations which 
 had been prepared in all parts of the city was some- 
 what disastrous, but enough of bright color and 
 graceful form remained to produce an impression of 
 unusual brilliancy. The display, upon public build- 
 ings and private houses, was rich and elaborate be- 
 yond all previous example in Waterbury. It included 
 United States flags in great profusion, ranging in size 
 from the largest to the most diminutive ; flags of for- 
 eign countries; bunting in all imaginable combina- 
 tions, hanging from roofs, draping windows, looped 
 across verandas, and wound around columns ; Japan- 
 ese and other festoons ; Chinese lanterns ; stars of 
 various kinds ; shields, inscribed with the names of 
 States, or of battles, or of distinguished men ; ban- 
 ners, horse-shoe designs and trimmed letters ; tablets 
 bearing the word " Welcome ! " or some appropriate 
 motto ; all these, and every other variety of patriotic 
 tokens. In the newspapers of the following day en- 
 tire columns were devoted to an enumeration of the 
 private residences and business houses whose owners 
 
68 DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 or occupants had in this way given expression to 
 patriotic sentiment. 
 
 At an early hour the people of the surrounding 
 towns began to flock into the city. By ten o'clock 
 the Second Regiment, Connecticut National Guard, 
 had arrived, and had been escorted by the Waterbury 
 companies, "A" and " G," to the Armory. The ar- 
 rival of the train which brought the Regiment from 
 New Haven was preceded and followed by the arrival 
 of other special trains on the different railroads, con- 
 veying the various Posts of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic and numerous civic societies. The num- 
 ber of visitors was estimated at from twenty to thirty 
 thousand. Stores were closed, factories were silent, 
 and after 1 1 o'clock bank doors were shut. The 
 noise of the fife and drum, and the sonorous notes 
 of brass bands, were heard in all directions. The 
 multitude came forth from their houses, in holiday 
 attire, to recognize a great occasion. All classes 
 joined in the celebration ; for the time the anxieties 
 and conflicts of an exciting presidential campaign 
 were forgotten, and the bitterness of political parti- 
 sanship was laid aside. 
 
 From 9 o'clock to ii, the City Hall was made the 
 scene of a special reception tendered to the visiting 
 governors and other distinguished guests by the city 
 government. While this w-as still in progress, the 
 line began to form for the grand procession, in four 
 divisions, under the leadership of Chief Marshal 
 
THE PROCESSION. 69 
 
 F. A. Spencer. The First Division formed on Leav- 
 enworth street and Centre square, the Second Regi- 
 ment holding the right of the line, resting on the 
 Green. The Second Division formed on Grand 
 street ; the Third on State street, and the Fourth 
 on Church street. When the command to march 
 was given, at 1 1 o'clock, the procession moved for- 
 ward in the followino- order: 
 
 O 
 
 THE PROCESSION. 
 
 Platoon of Police, George M. Egan, chief. 
 
 Chief Marshal, Major F. A. Spencer. 
 
 Aids, Captain T. R. Martin, Major E. S. Hayden, I. H. 
 
 Chase, W. B. Merriman, G. L. White, C. E. Turner. 
 
 F/RST DIVISION. 
 
 Second Regiment, Connecticut National Guard : 
 Second Regiment Band, George Streit, leader. 
 
 Colonel C. P. Graham and Staff. 
 
 Company I, of Meriden, Captain H. B. Wood. 
 
 Company C, of New Haven, Captain J. H. Keefe. 
 
 Company D, of New Haven, Captain L. I. Thomas. 
 
 Company H, of Middletown, Captain E. O. Shaler. 
 
 Company F, of New Haven, Captain G. S. Arnold. 
 
 Company A, of Waterbury, Captain J. B. Doherty. 
 
 Company G, of Waterbury, Captain P. F. Bannon. 
 
 Company B, of New Haven, Captain William Kaehrle. 
 
 Company K, of Wallingford, Captain B. A. Treat. 
 
 Company E, of New Haven, Captain H. R. Loomis. 
 
^0 dedication of the monument. 
 
 Invited Guests and Speakers in Carriages : 
 
 Governor T. M. Waller, of Connecticut. 
 
 Governor Waller's Staff. 
 
 Governor A. O. Bourne, of Rhode Island. 
 
 Governor Bourne's Staff. 
 
 Governor Frederick Robie, of Maine. 
 
 Governor Robie's Staff. 
 
 Senator J. R. Hawley, Hon. S. W. Kellogg, 
 
 Mr. G. W. Burnham, Mr. Charles Dickinson. 
 
 Mr. F. J. Kingsbury, Mr. John O'Neill, Jr., 
 
 Senator O. H. Piatt, Dr. Joseph Anderson. 
 
 Captain D. B. Hamilton, G. E. Bissell, sculptor. 
 
 General S. R. Smith and Staff. 
 
 Department Officers of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 
 Visiting Mayors. 
 
 Town Officers. 
 
 City Officers. 
 
 Members of the Press. 
 
 SECOND DIVISION. 
 
 Assistant Marshal, H. L. Wade. 
 Aids, Captain James Spruce, Captain Theodore Oliver, Capt- 
 ain E. C. Colby, E. A. Pendleton, J. H. Hart, W. T. Neeld. 
 
 Citizens' Band, Waterbury, George A. Young, leader. 
 Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, Depart- 
 ment OF Connecticut: 
 Wadhams Post, No. 49, Waterbury, 
 Daniel Kiefer, commander. 
 Nathaniel Lyon Post, No. 2, Hartford, 
 H. S. Brown, commander. 
 
THE PROCESSION. /I 
 
 Elias Howe, Jr., Post, No. 3, Bridgeport, 
 
 D. Worcester, commander. 
 
 Drake Post, No. 4, South Manchester, 
 
 M. S. Chapman, commander. 
 
 E. A. Doolittle Post, No. 5, Cheshire, 
 
 H. Hotchkiss, commander. 
 
 Merriam Post, No. 8, Meriden, 
 
 C. C. Kinne, commander. 
 Stanley Post, No. 11, New Britain, 
 
 M. M. Keency, commander. 
 
 G. W. Thompson Post, No. 13, Bristol, 
 
 S. M. Norton, commander. 
 
 Trumbull Post, No. 16, Southington, 
 
 D. J. Phillips, commander. 
 Admiral Toote Post, No. 17, New Plaven, 
 
 H. J. Peck, commander. 
 
 James E. Moore Post, No. 18, Danbury, 
 
 H. M. Fanton, commander. 
 
 Kellogg Post, No. 26, Birmingham, 
 
 W. H. Tyther, commander. 
 
 Palmer Post, No. 33, Winsted, 
 
 L. J. Johnson, commander. 
 
 Torrington Band. 
 
 Steele Post, No. 34, Torrington, 
 
 W. H. McCarty, commander. 
 
 A. H. Button Post, No. 36, Wallingford, 
 
 W. M. Mix, commander. 
 
 Upson Post, No. 40, Seymour, 
 
 W. S. Cooper, commander. 
 
 Isbell Post, No. 43, Naugatuck, 
 
 D. M. Gibbud, commander. 
 
72 DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT, 
 
 Custer Post, No. 46, Sandy Hook, 
 
 D. W. Camp, commander, 
 
 Robert O. Tyler Post, No, 50, Hartford, 
 
 H. E. Taintor, commander. 
 
 Henry C. Mervvin Post, No. 52, New Haven, 
 
 E. M. Graves, commander, 
 Mansfield Post, No, 53, Middletown, 
 
 J. C, Broatch, commander. 
 
 N. S. Manross Post, No. 57, Forestville, 
 
 E. C, Chapman, commander, 
 
 Burnside Post, No, 62, Unionville, 
 
 R. N. Calhoun, commander, 
 
 D. C, Rodman Post, No. 65, East Hartford, 
 
 Leander Cotton, commander. 
 Charles L, Russell Post, No. 68, Thomaston, 
 
 F. E, Crocker, commander, 
 
 P. M. Trowbridge Post, No, 69, Woodbury, 
 M, D. Smith, commander. 
 
 Chatfield Camp, No. 9, Sons of Veterans, Waterbury, 
 
 L. F. Burpee, captain. 
 
 " Big Four " Drum Corps, 
 
 Nathan Hale Camp, No. i, Sons of Veterans, New Haven, 
 
 C, K. Farnham, captain. 
 
 Veterans, not members of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 
 THIRD DIVISION. 
 
 Assistant Marshal, Captain J. L. Saxe. 
 
 Aids, James Hill, William Greene, L, M. Meyer, John Galvin. 
 
 City Band, Waterbury, William Bergen, leader. 
 
THE PROCESSION. 73 
 
 Ives Degree Camp, Uniformed, Independent Order of Odd 
 
 Fellows, Waterbury, L. I. Munson, commander. 
 Roman Catholic Total Abstinence and Benevolent Society, 
 
 Waterbury, Henry Byrnes, president. 
 Ancient Order of Hibernians, Waterbury, Edward Burns, 
 
 president. 
 Young Men's St. Aloysius Total Abstinence and Benevolent 
 
 Society, Waterbury, J. J. McDonald, president. 
 Concordia Singing Society, Waterbury, Paul Meerlander, 
 
 president. 
 Turnverein, Waterbury, Carl Leisinger, president. 
 
 fourth division. 
 
 Assistant Marshal, Chief Engineer S. C. Snagg. 
 
 Aids, Assistant Engineers T. D. Bassett and W. E. Beecher. 
 
 Wheeler and Wilson Band, Bridgeport, 
 
 S. C. Rosenberg, leader. 
 
 Phoenix Engine Company No. i, Waterbury, 
 
 T. H. Hayes, foreman. 
 Monitor Hose Company, No. 3, Waterbury, 
 
 G. P. Roberts, foreman. 
 Protector Hose Company, No. 4, Waterbury, 
 
 Thomas Kelly, foreman. 
 
 Rose Hill Hose Company, No. 5, Waterbury, 
 
 J. A. Hynes, foreman. 
 
 Mutual Hook and Ladder Company, No. i, Waterbury, 
 
 T. L. Sanford, foreman. 
 
 Citizens' Engine Company, No. 2, Waterbury, 
 
 E. H. Lyman, foreman. 
 
 Steamer No. i. 
 
 Steamer No. 2. - 
 
74 DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 The line of march was as follows: From Centre 
 square into Exchange place and Bank street, down 
 Bank street to Meadow street, through Meadow to 
 South Main,''up South Main to Exchange place and 
 East Main street, through East Main, eastward, to 
 its junction with the Wolcott road, thence by a 
 countermarch westward to Cherry street, up Cherry 
 to North Main, down North Main to Centre square, 
 along the north side of Centre square to Prospect 
 street, up Prospect to Grove, through Grove to 
 North Willow, down North Willow to West Main, 
 eastward through West Main to State, through State 
 to Grand, through Grand to Church, and through 
 Church to the monument. 
 
 Somewhat after one o'clock the procession reached 
 its terminus. The platforms which had been erected 
 on the west end of the Green, under the shadow of 
 the monument, were crowded with guests and mem- 
 bers of the choirs. As viewed from West Main 
 street, the scene was an imposing one. In the fore- 
 ground stood the monument, its impressiveness in- 
 creased, rather than diminished, by the broad space 
 around it, and the massive pile of St. John's church, 
 near by. The Green, beyond, was in its full beauty, 
 its grassy carpet overarched and sheltered by the 
 long and regular rows of many-tinted 6lms. At the 
 entrance to the archways of elms were the spacious 
 platforms, handsomely decorated, and occupied with 
 attentive spectators. The vistas which opened be- 
 
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THE INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. 75 
 
 yond were brilliant with the products of the deco- 
 rators skill. Round about were the various visitinof 
 organizations, their members numbering not less 
 than two thousand five hundred, including men in 
 bright uniforms who bear arms to-day, men in dark 
 blue uniforms who bore arms in the terrible conflict 
 — their sons now with them — men in the various 
 uniforms of the societies of peace, and men in civil- 
 ian's dress, — while the streets in every direction were 
 crowded with masses of people/ 
 
 DEDICATORY EXERCISES. 
 
 As soon as the guests and various officials were 
 seated, and the Posts of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic were in their places in front of the plat- 
 form, the exercises of dedication were begun, with 
 Marshal Spencer as chairman. The services were 
 conducted in close adherence to a printed pro- 
 gramme, entitled, " Order of Exercises at the Unveil- 
 ing and Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument, at 
 Waterbury, Conn., Thursday, October 23, 1884." 
 They were introduced by a brief address from Gov- 
 ernor Waller, who spoke as follows: 
 
 GOVERNOR waller's ADDRESS. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen : This day's memo- 
 rial service, to the heroes of your city in the War of the 
 Rebellion, does honor to the livino- as well as the dead. 
 
 ' Waterbury American, October 23d, 1SS4. 
 
^6 DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT, 
 
 The monument you consecrate to the memory of your citi- 
 zens and sons, who offered their lives to their country, 
 redounds to the glory of the survivors as well as the slain. 
 It speaks to the future concerning the men of the present 
 as well as the past. Though its inscriptions are scant on 
 the subject, the thoughtful beholder will remember, in gen- 
 erations to come, as he looks upon its figures and admires 
 its art, that a people capable of appreciating and commemo- 
 rating the patriotism of others, as you have done, must have 
 possessed in their souls the same virtues themselves. 
 
 It is this spirit that has brought these distinguished rep- 
 resentatives of other States of the Union, and this great 
 throng and multitude of people, to this day's celebration. It 
 is this spirit that, in the very midst of the tumult and fierce- 
 ness of political warfare, makes patriotism eloquent and 
 partisanship dumb. We gather to celebrate our country 
 and its brave defenders, and, for this day at least, 
 
 leave all meaner things 
 To low ambiiion and the pride of kings. 
 
 The men to whose memory and courage we are here to do 
 homage showed their devotion to our country, its interests 
 and institutions, at the risk of their lives. You who occupy 
 their places as citizens in these days of peace would, I am 
 sure, be as ready as they were, at the call of duty, to leave 
 opposing party banners and march together as they did, 
 under the flag of our country, and to the music of the 
 Union, to fight in its defense. 
 
 After a selection of music by the Citizens' Band, 
 the chairman, addressing the commander of Wad- 
 hams Post, said, " I have been authorized to place in 
 your charge this monument, that it may be dedicated 
 
THE COMMANDER S ADDRESS. 7/ 
 
 by you to the noble purpose for which it has been 
 erected." Commander Kiefer responded as follows: 
 
 Mr. Chairman : In the name of my comrades of the 
 Grand Army of the Republic, representing as they do all 
 soldiers and sailors who defended the integrity and author- 
 ity of the nation, I thank you, and those whom you repre- 
 sent, for this beautiful monument. Without articulate 
 speech, it is eloquent. It needs no words. It is itself an 
 oration. It is significant of brave and loyal obedience to 
 the command of the nation always and everywhere, since 
 the obligations of citizenship are not restricted to time or 
 place, or to the conflict of arms. It affords encouragement 
 for the future, since the recognition and approval it gives 
 of patriotic -fidelity and heroism will be an incentive for the 
 display of public valor and virtue in all coming times. 
 There can be no doubt that the honor you pay to the sol- 
 diers and sailors of Waterbury, and to their memorable 
 " deeds, will serve not only to make American citizenship in 
 these days more honorable, but also to maintain and per- 
 petuate, through all future generations, the union and au- 
 thority of the United States of America. 
 
 The song known as Keller's American Hymn 
 beginning, 
 
 Angel of Peace, thou hast wandered too long, 
 was then sung by the full chorus, after which the 
 comrades of Wadhams Post were called to their feet, 
 and the prayer of dedication was offered by the Rev. 
 Dr. Joseph Anderson, as follows: 
 
 PRAYER. 
 
 Almighty God, Creator and Preserver of men, we rejoice 
 
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 in thee as our Father; we lift up our voice to thee as the 
 Ruler of all nations. We are ever dependent upon thy 
 providential care; we are the recipients of thy perpetual 
 bounty. We recognize thy hand in the shaping of our lives, 
 and in the history of this great people. Thou hast been 
 with us in prosperity and in adversity, in peace and in war. 
 By thy strength we have triumphed over our enemies ; 
 tlirough thy guidance and wisdom we have preserved our 
 national life and the nation's unity in the day of its peril. 
 
 We thank thee for thy constant protection ; we thank 
 thee for our well-being and growth, for our progress in 
 days of peace, and for the heroism and self-sacrifice, the 
 courage and patience of the people in the time of war. We 
 thank thee for the triumph of our arms, beholding therein 
 the victory of righteousness, truth, and liberty, and the 
 promise of future development and glory for the nation. 
 We thank thee for the complete re-establishment of peace, 
 for the disappearance of sectional differences, for the re- 
 union of hearts once alienated and filled with bitterness. 
 
 We desire, O God, our King, to remember the great and 
 wonderful past through which thou hast led us. Especially 
 would we cherish in our memory the valiant deeds of the 
 men who, in the uprising of a great people, went forth to 
 fight, to suffer and to die, for the saving of the nation. As 
 we bless thee for our country, we bless thee for these its 
 courageous defenders, — the sainted dead, and the living, 
 also, whose fellowship we still enjoy. As we dedicate 
 this monument to the patriotism of all these heroes, and 
 to the memory of those who have gone, we would not forget 
 the wives and mothers, the fathers and brothers and sisters, 
 who remained at home in the day of battle, but who consti- 
 tuted the great reserve upon which the safety of the nation 
 
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 depended. To them also we dedicate it. Above all, we 
 consecrate it to thee, and we consecrate ourselves anew — 
 our affections and our services — to our country and to the 
 kingdom of God. Accept us, we beseech thee, in this 
 sacred act ; regard our holy purpose ; bless us as citizens, 
 and continue unto us as a people the riches of thy loving 
 kindness. 
 
 We pray, O God, that thy favor may rest upon the men 
 under whose auspices this monument has been erected, 
 upon him who has embodied their thought and purpose in 
 forms of beauty, and upon our town and city, recipients 
 to-day of a gift in which coming generations shall take 
 pleasure. May prosperity continue to dwell with us ; may 
 thy blessing rest upon our homes, upon our industries, and 
 all our institutions ; upon the members of the Grand Army 
 of the Republic, upon our soldiers, our firemen, and the 
 various organizations represented here to-day. Bless, we 
 beseech thee, the mayor of our city, the governor of our 
 commonwealth, the governors of other States closely 
 related to our own, the president of the nation, and all 
 others in authority. Endue them plenteously with heav- 
 enly gifts ; grant them in health and prosperity long to 
 live, and finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and 
 felicity. Visit with like blessings, we pray thee, the man, 
 whoever he may be, who, by the vote of this great people, 
 shall, ere long, be introduced into the noble succession of 
 chief magistrates of the nation. Be with us, O thou 
 Father of peace, in the political conflict through which our 
 country is passing, that all bitterness and malice and evil- 
 speaking may be put away from us, and that the final issue 
 may be for the good of the nation and the honor of thy 
 name. 
 
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 Thus do we offer our prayer. Hear us, we beseech thee ; 
 forgive our errors and sins, fill us with thy peace, and 
 receive us, when thou wilt, to the fulfilment of our noblest 
 hopes and the enjoyment of thy heavenly rest. And to 
 thee, O God, our Father, our Saviour, our Comforter, be 
 the glory forevermore. Amen. 
 
 The prayer was followed by the brief address of 
 dedication, in the words of the ritual of the " Grand 
 Army," pronounced by Commander Kiefer: 
 
 Attention ! Wadhams Post, Number 49, Department of 
 Connecticut, Grand Army of the Republic ! 
 
 In the name of the Grand Army of the Republic, I now 
 dedicate this monument. I dedicate it to the memory of 
 those who in the navy guarded our inland seas and ocean 
 coasts. I dedicate it to the memory of those who in the 
 army fought for our hillsides, and valleys, and plains. I 
 dedicate it to the memory of those who, on land and on sea, 
 fought for the union, who fought for the authority of the 
 constitution, who fought for their country, and fell in de- 
 fence of the flag, " that government of the people, by the 
 people, and for the people, should not perish from the 
 earth." I dedicate it to the dead and to the living. 
 
 Comrades, salute ! 
 
 Mr. Chairman, our service of dedication is ended. In 
 the name of my comrades, I thank you and those you rep- 
 resent for the courtesy extended to us at this time. 
 
 After another musical selection by the band, the 
 addresses of presentation and reception followed. 
 
Adt & Brother, Photoghaphebs. 
 
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 ON THE NORTH SIDE 
 
THE PRESENTATION TO THE TOWN. 8 1 
 
 The presentation of the monument to the town was 
 made by Mr. F.J. King-sbury, in the following terms: 
 
 MR. Kingsbury's address. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, Friends, and Fellow Citizens : Ahnost 
 twenty years after the firing of the last gun in the great 
 war for the preservation of the Union, we are met here 
 to-day to celebrate the completion of a monument in honor 
 of the men who went out from this town to fight our battles 
 for us. But we are not sorry that we have waited — even 
 waited long. For, while we have to regret that some who 
 desired to see this day have not seen it, so long as this 
 work remained undone, yet still to be done, the hope of it, 
 the reason of it, and the meaning of it have been ever pres- 
 ent with us ; and so the thought of the past and the hope 
 for the future have been to us as truly monumental as the 
 bronze and the granite in which they have finally resulted. 
 As I stand here to-day, memory goes back to that bright 
 Sunday morning in April, almost a quarter of a century 
 ago, when, as we came from yonder church doors, it was 
 told with bated breath that Sumter had been fired on, that 
 war had begun. I remember how, time after time, in the 
 next four years, we gathered here at each successive call for 
 troops to bid God-speed to our parting friends, to look upon 
 many faces that we should never see again, to press many 
 hands for the last time. It was along this street that the 
 funeral train passed which bore the honored Chatfield to a 
 soldier's grave, while our noble war governor, the lamented 
 Buckingham, followed as a mourner in solemn, reverent 
 grief. In yonder building our faithful, loyal, loving women 
 met day after day, week after week, year after year, to pre- 
 pare clothing and supplies for our soldiers in the field, to 
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 hope and pray, to wait and wonder, to work and weep. It 
 was here that we met once more, for the last time, to wel- 
 come our little band of rcturnino; heroes, our eyes wet with 
 tears of gratitude for those who had been spared, and of 
 bitter grief for those who w^ere never to return. 
 
 It seemed fitting, then, that on this spot, hallowed by 
 these memories, a memorial should rise to tell something of 
 the story of those years. But it seemed better still that no 
 tax should be laid — that generous hearts and willing hands 
 should do the work. Therefore we were patient, biding our 
 time. So, while the plan for a monument, or rather the 
 hope of one, was never lost sight of, it was not until the 
 generous bequest of the late lamented Samuel W. Hall, the 
 public's benefactor in so many ways, that a worthy memo- 
 rial began to seem possible. Then the Wadhams Post of 
 the Grand Army of the Republic took the matter resolutely 
 in hand. They appointed Major George W. Tucker, Major 
 Frederick A. Spencer, and Captain David B. Hamilton a 
 committee to push forward the work ; and to their untiring 
 perseverance this town stands largely indebted for this 
 ornament of its public square, this enduring memorial of its 
 patriotic men. Their enthusiastic appeal brought forth a 
 generous response. The committee were fortunate in secur- 
 ing the services of Mr. George E. Bissell, whose long resi- 
 dence in the town, as well as his faithful and honorable ser- 
 vice in our naval force, made his selection for the work 
 peculiarly fitting. After many months of labor at home 
 and abroad he has completed his task. The result is before 
 you. 
 
 Selectmen of Waterbury, chosen representatives of this 
 ancient and honorable town, in the name of the subscribers, 
 and under the auspices of Wadhams Post, and by the direc- 
 
THE ACCEPTANCE BY THE TOWN. 83 
 
 tion of the committee, I now present this monument to you. 
 Take it henceforth into your care and keeping ; guard it, I 
 pray you, as a sacred trust ; protect it from careless hands 
 and from the ravages of time. It is the memorial of many 
 a loving parent's blighted hopes, of many a widow's an- 
 guished heart, of many orphans' tears. It is a monument 
 of toils, of privations, of starvation, of dungeons and prisons, 
 of lingering disease in the hospital, of glorious death on the 
 battle-field. It is the memorial of heroes who dared to do 
 and die that we might live — one people, one nation, one 
 Union, — forever one, forever free ! 
 
 The address of acceptance, in behalf of the town, 
 was made by Mr. John O'Neill, Jr. 
 
 MR. o'nEILL's address. 
 
 Sir: It gives me great pleasure, I assure you, to accept, 
 in behalf of the busy people of this busy town, this beauti- 
 ful monument, which has been erected by the contributions 
 of those whom you represent, to the memory of those 
 nine hundred who went out from this town into service in 
 our late civil war. And, sir, it is meet and proper, right 
 and just, thus to perpetuate their memory, for they were 
 essential men, every one. Every man was a man of weight 
 in his own place. 
 
 It was no light thing for these men to go away. Not 
 one of all this number, so far as I know — and I knew the 
 greater part of them — bettered his own condition in any way 
 by going. They left good homes, all of them ; there was 
 an abundance of employment for them here ; wages were 
 good ; they had enough to eat, enough to drink, enough to 
 wear, a good bed to lie upon, and spending money in their 
 
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 pockets. But they all went out cheerfully and bravely 
 and boldly. How well I remember the fervor and earnest- 
 ness of those men who first went away to the war ! The 
 public pulse beat hard and strong and fast ; the public 
 temperature was at fever heat. There was hardly room for 
 all of those who first applied for places in the ranks. The 
 three-months men were up and gone almost before we 
 knew it. Then came the nine-months men, and then came 
 the three-years men ; for it had just begun to dawn upon us 
 that we had a long, hard struggle on our hands. Many 
 were the hardships which they endured. Long and weary 
 marches, both by day and by night, hard food, and sometimes 
 little even of that, hard beds to lie upon, hard work and 
 poor pay,' — this was the common allotment of them all. 
 We were benefitted by their going away. By their enlist- 
 ment we were relieved from those oppressive drafts. Our 
 property, our homes, our State and our national govern- 
 ment — yea, our very lives, even — were secured to us by 
 their endeavors. They staked their lives for us and ours ; 
 they fought for peace ; they fought that we might be free 
 from civil strife ; they fought that we might enjoy, in peace, 
 under one government, our own beautiful homes and quiet 
 firesides, and the bountiful products of this great land. 
 
 Whilst these men were gone out yonder, we remained at 
 home and prospered — prospered as did no other town in 
 all this valley, — and there is no other valley like it on 
 the globe ! Our population multiplied beyond that of any 
 other town or city in the State. Our manufacturing and 
 other industrial interests increased beyond all precedent ; 
 our brass industry, especially, has grown with a marvellous 
 growth, so that it is known throughout the length and 
 breadth of this broad land. Our work-shops have never 
 
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 ceased running by day, and many of them have encroached 
 upon the night season also. We have no jails, — though I 
 believe we did apply for one, and our Legislature thought 
 that we did not need it. Our poor-house is nearly empty, 
 and our taxes have been comparatively small. We have 
 grown rich in the goods of this world as no other town, or 
 village, or hamlet in this State has grown. I trust we have 
 also grown in righteousness. 
 
 And to whom, sir, after Providence, are wc most indebted 
 for all this ? All honor to them, to every man, to the native 
 born, and to the foreign born also. Their memory shall be 
 preserved — preserved as long as time, as long as bronze and 
 granite shall last. This nation, this State government 
 may pass away, but their deeds shall endure forever. This 
 noble work of art shall always be a reminder to us of those 
 perilous days. We will keep it, sir. We will protect it. 
 No vandal hand, from amongst our sons, shall ever mar its 
 beauty. No man, for our neglect, shall ever say to us, 
 " Shame ! shame upon you ! " 
 
 These are the sentiments which pervade us now. Let 
 us gaze awhile upon this admirable production. 
 
 As Mr. O'Neill closed his address, the drapery 
 which had concealed the monument fell, and the 
 granite pedestal with its impressive bronze figures 
 and the surmounting statue, stood out in full view, 
 while the multitudes around raised their voices in 
 applause. At the same moment the chimes in the 
 spire of St. John's, close by, began to sound, and the 
 notes of " Hail Columbia ! " mingled with the shouts 
 of the people. Following upon this, the three hun- 
 
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 dred voices joined in the " Soldiers' Cliorus," from 
 Faust, beginning : 
 
 Glory and love to the men of old ! 
 Their sons may copy their virtues bold ; 
 
 after which the chairman introduced Senator Piatt, 
 of Meriden, as the orator of the day. 
 
 SENATOR PLATT's ORATION. 
 
 Mr. Chairman and Fellow-citizens : Time, which softe'ns 
 grief, increases our admiration of heroism. The war made 
 many mourners, but, as the years roll on, the mourners are 
 one by one united to those they mourn in the land where 
 tears and sorrows are unknown, and new generations take 
 inspiration from the heroic lives and deaths of the men who 
 wrought out national deliverance in the storm of battle. 
 Patriotism is immortal. The name of the humble soldier 
 who gave his life to his country may not be handed down to 
 posterity as that of a patriot and martyr, but his spirit lives 
 on through the ages. Except in a few conspicuous in- 
 stances, the story of the suffering and devotion of the early 
 defenders of the Christian faith is merged in the record of 
 the steadfastness and triumph of that " noble army of mar- 
 tyrs " whose blood is " the seed of the church." Except as 
 families cherish the recollection that they are descended 
 from revolutionary ancestors, the story of the individual 
 hero is mainly forgotten ; but the spirit of the martyr, the 
 example of the patriot, still lives. Time gilds their lives 
 with ever-increasing lustre, and as the world grows older 
 men seek new methods by which to testify their reverence 
 and admiration. The martyr becomes a saint ; the patriot 
 soldier becomes the herald of freedom. 
 
THE ORATION. 8/ 
 
 The soldiers of the war for the Union belong to this 
 generation ; their noble zeal, their self-denial, their sacrifice, 
 their suffering, their death, their triumph are known to us. 
 We have not forgotten the scenes of their departure. We 
 remember how we followed them along their wearisome and 
 perilous march with our prayers. We remember how, with 
 hushed hearts, we waited the news of the battles in which 
 they triumphed or were defeated. We remember how sadly 
 we read the death-roll, how we mourned the fallen, how our 
 sympathy went out to those sick and in prison, how we 
 rejoiced as the survivors came marching home, following 
 the torn banners which told of a reunited country and 
 liberty re-established. While life and memory last, these 
 scenes will remain ineffaceable heart-photographs. We 
 thought we understood the soldier's devotion then. We 
 thought we then realized how much he was uplifted by 
 patriotism above his fellows. We thought we fully appre- 
 ciated the soldier. We thought we could so read the future 
 as to comprehend the vast interests at stake in the contest 
 and the vast results which the victory would accomplish. 
 We tried to speak our sentiments then, but words were 
 tame indeed. Language, though eloquent, could never 
 quite express what we felt of gratitude, of sympathy, and 
 reverence. 
 
 Time has passed ; nearly a quarter of a century has flown ; 
 some of the heart-wounds of those days have healed a little. 
 The grief with which we mourn the lost is perhaps a little 
 less acute, but there has been growing in the popular heart 
 from that day to the present hour a deep sense of our 
 obligation to the soldier, of admiration and reverence, till 
 now language no longer conveys the sentiment for which 
 we would find expression. We have struggled to voice 
 
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 our admiration in song and story. We have feebly tried to 
 write our gratitude in pension laws, and to testify our sym- 
 pathy in the maintenance of Soldiers' Homes. We have 
 essayed to express our grief in the lengthened lines of 
 head-stones in our national cemeteries. Once every year 
 we speak our sympathy as we scatter on the graves of the 
 patriotic dead the beauty of the lily and the sweetness of 
 the rose. We have consecrated Gettysburg as a shrine to 
 which present and future generations shall accomplish pil- 
 grimages to keep alive the spirit of national devotion by 
 the memory of the courage which on that well-fought field 
 turned back the tide of rebellion that so nearly engulfed us. 
 
 This monument which we dedicate to-day, this willing 
 and loving gift of the citizens of Waterbury, is but another 
 method by which they seek to make known what the "lips 
 can ne'er express." Here, in the heart of this beautiful 
 city, in its most public place, under the shadow of one of 
 its sanctuaries, they place this artistic combination of granite 
 and bronze, that it may speak for them. Here it will stand 
 forever, mute, and yet how eloquent, silent, and yet how 
 vocal, a monument not to commemorate the dead alone, but 
 to speak forever the faith and heroism both of the dead and 
 the living. 
 
 It has many voices — voices for to-day and for the long 
 future as well. 
 
 To you who were actors in the contest it will speak of a 
 moment on which your whole lives turned, of the sweet 
 homes you left, of the dear ones from whom you parted, of 
 the companionship of the camp, of the wearisome march, of 
 the bivouac under the stars or in the pitiless storm, of the 
 dangerous picket, of the deadly skirmish line, of the rush 
 
THE ORATION. 89 
 
 and roar and Shock of battle, of the impetuous charge, of 
 the stubborn resistance, of the standard streaming in vic- 
 tory or drooping in retreat, of wounds, of suffering in 
 hospital and in prison, of the joy of the final triumph, and 
 the elation of final return. As you look, it will speak to 
 you of places where comrades were stricken down by your 
 side, "the one taken and the other left." The rifle-pit, the 
 frowning earth-work, the line of battle, the shrieking shell, 
 the singing bullet will all seem real again. It will speak of 
 the brother who did not return, of the husband whom the 
 wife will never more embrace, of the son whom the mother 
 will never more counsel and bless. You who returned will 
 recall the exact places where on Southern hillsides you 
 hastily buried your fallen fellows, where they still sleep in 
 lonely graves to which in the spring-time none come with 
 floral offerings. It will speak, too, of the steadfast courage 
 which carried you through, of the valor which made you 
 strong, of the patriotism which made you great. It will 
 make you conscious that the months and years which you 
 gave to your country were the richest and grandest of your 
 lives. 
 
 As we who were not actors in the contest look upon it, 
 we shall be reminded of duty yet only partially performed, 
 of trusts yet only partially discharged. We shall be re- 
 minded that a saved people should never permit its gratitude 
 to the saviors to wane. We shall realize that, much as has 
 been done for the soldier, more remains to be done ; that our 
 present pension system needs perfecting and reforming; 
 that the rule which, after the lapse of twenty years, makes 
 the granting of a pension depend on proof by the applicant 
 that his disability originated in the army, though once fair, 
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 has become unjust and oppressive. We shall see that our 
 pension laws need amendment, so that any soldier who 
 fought his country's battles, now sick, suffering, or dis- 
 abled, without fault on his part, shall receive a pension 
 reasonably commensurate with his disability. We shall 
 realize that eight dollars per month is a very meager pen- 
 sion for the widow who lost her husband, or the mother 
 who gave her son to her country. I am sure that this 
 people wishes to be just and even generous in its provision 
 for its disabled heroes and those who were dependent upon 
 them. 
 
 Again, this monument tells us, and will tell future gen- 
 erations, that there were in Waterbury more than nine hun- 
 dred men who were willing to die that their country might 
 live. We think it noble to live for others, but here is a 
 voice which proclaims how immeasurably grand it is to die 
 for others. We never catch the full meaning of the in- 
 spired declaration, "So God created man in his own image, 
 in the image of God created he him," until we see man 
 rising to the sublimity of self-sacrifice ; and then we feel 
 and know that this humanity, which seems at times so weak 
 and unlovely, is after all akin to divinity. In these days of 
 peace the heroic spirit seems to lie dormant, but I can never 
 forget one evening when over yonder in Hotchkiss Hall many 
 young men like those I see around me to-day faced the 
 great question whether they were willing to die for others, 
 and answered it affirmatively by stepping forward and sign- 
 ing their names to the company roll. Other armies have 
 been recruited from among those who sought glory or were 
 lured by some bright vision of fame and renown, but the 
 Union volunteer simply put his life in place of his country's 
 life. The world's long history furnishes no sublimer spec- 
 
THE ORATION. 9 1 
 
 tacle of self-sacrifice, no diviner instance of a Godlike 
 manhood. 
 
 This monument will speak, to all who stand before it and 
 listen to its voice, of a nation preserved, of a republic re- 
 established. We saw but dimly then, we see but partially 
 even yet, the far-reaching result of the efforts of the noble 
 men who perilled all for the nation's continuance. The 
 contest was but a part of the grand struggle which has 
 been going on since the earliest dawn of history for the 
 freedom and enfranchisement of man. It was but a forward 
 movement in the grand march of humanity, now nearly 
 sixty centuries old. We think now that perhaps it may 
 have been the last outpouring of blood needed to secure 
 the ascendancy of free government in the world ; that a 
 victory was achieved which so solidified and strengthened 
 this republic, born of struggle and nursed by faith, that it 
 will soon take its rightful position at the front of all nations, 
 and from its vantage ground of power and influence, by the 
 beneficence of its example, lead the whole world to see that 
 nations can only be great as their citizens are truly free. 
 Whether we have witnessed the last great battle for republi- 
 canism, or whether it is yet to come, we feel sure that no 
 contest since the Caucasian race took up its grand westward 
 movement, ever contributed so much toward the freedom 
 and enlightenment of man, and the final triumph of free 
 government, as the contest to which the Union soldier gave 
 his life. 
 
 Our hearts throb proudly as we think of the country 
 which the triumph of the Union army gave us. It is one 
 country — one forever — a great nation. Yonder floats its 
 flag! Look up into its field of blue; thirty-eight stars are 
 there, not one missing. No State is unrepresented in that 
 
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 shining constellation ; other stars will soon be added. We 
 are fifty-seven millions, — one people as we are one country; 
 one in interest, one in hope, one in destiny. Never since 
 the dawn of civilization were such people associated in a 
 government ; a government which embraces every element 
 of strength, of progress, of mental, social, and moral develop- 
 ment ; a government whose citizens are the freest, happiest, 
 most contented, most prosperous on earth. Here labor finds 
 its best reward, enterprise its most ample compensation, 
 education its widest diffusion, endeavor its surest success. 
 Here the hand of power is least felt, for the citizen pos- 
 sesses the hand of power. Here individual advancement is 
 most possible. No one is so lowly born, or so limited by 
 environment, but that all the possibilities of wealth, of 
 power and influence, are open to him. Here woman is most 
 truly the equal of man. Here the richest and the poorest, 
 the proudest and the humblest, are equal in civil right, equal 
 in privilege, equal in responsibility, equally charged with 
 the welfare of all. F'riction there may be, contention there 
 may be, but the common love of country makes them power- 
 less for harm. Ours is the flower of civilization, the best 
 type of humanity. Those who fear what the future may 
 have in store for this nation need only look underneath 
 the surface to dispel their fear. Are we not strong.? I^et 
 ten millions of men, capable of bearing arms and willing to 
 defend the nation, answer. Are we not intelligent.? Let 
 our colleges and academies, let the open doors of free school- 
 houses wherein nine millions of children may be educated, 
 answer. I^et the factories wherein ingenuity and skill are fos- 
 tered, — let the small farms cultivated by the owners, each of 
 which is an educational home, — let the business enterprises 
 in which men are developed and broadened in knowledge of 
 
THE ORATION. . 93 
 
 affairs, answer. Are we not rich.'' Let forty-four billions 
 of accumulated wealth, more evenly distributed than any- 
 where else in the world, answer. Let the thousand millions 
 of dollars deposited in savings-banks, and the homes owned 
 by laboring men, answer. Are we iwt sympathetic .-• Let 
 the charitable institutions which adorn every State, let our 
 asylums and our Soldiers' Homes, let the daily deeds of 
 unostentatious generosity, answer. Are we not increasing 
 in power and influence.? Let the fifteen millions that will 
 be added to our population during this decade, answer. 
 Are we not free } Let the acceptance of the world-wide 
 invitation sent to all who are distressed or oppressed to make 
 their homes with us, answer. If we do not boast ourselves 
 of our greatness, it is surely time to realize it and to proclaim 
 to the world that the little republic, established barely a cen- 
 tury ago, in faith not free from doubt, is to-day the wealth- 
 iest, strongest, freest, most beneficent nation on earth. 
 
 Who shall measure its future.? As men climb the heights 
 of learning, of science or art, they fondly think each steep 
 ascent is bringing them to the highest summit of all ; but 
 they only reach the top of the ascent to see other heights 
 that are to be surmounted. So in the history of our nation, 
 we may feel that we have nearly reached the summit of 
 national development, but we shall soon see that we are 
 called to ascend higher. The crowning glory of free gov- 
 ernment is in the far eternities. To the coming generations 
 which shall welcome the now unforseen national progress, 
 this monument shall speak, as it does to us, of the pathway 
 opened to human advancement by the men who " endured 
 hardness as good soldiers." 
 
 In our system of repubhcan government the family home 
 is the unit. Happy homes make a happy government ; the 
 
94 DEDICATJON OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 multiplication of the family home constitutes the town, the 
 city, the county, the state, the nation ; the character of the 
 unit pervades the aggregation. A free government must be 
 one vast family home, where the interest of each member 
 is sacred, where all recognize the tie and the obligation of a 
 common brotherhood. From such a nation selfishness and 
 bickering should be banished ; the highest good of all should 
 be the common motive. To such motive the patriotism of 
 the volunteer soldier should be a perpetual incentive. Each 
 Waterbury soldier had a family home, and through all the 
 dreadful struggle there was stretched from the soldier to 
 his hearthstone an unseen thread, along which messages 
 flitted like the angels of God. When the soldier was victo- 
 rious, the sweetest praise came from his own home ; when 
 he languished in prison or in hospital, grief pervaded the 
 family ; when he lay dead on the battle-field, the light of 
 the home went out in darkness forever. The self-denial of 
 the soldier was for his home ; the anguish that swept the 
 nation's heart was concentrated in the nation's homes ; suf- 
 fering and anguish were vicarious ; and the homes of the 
 future will be happier, the sense of brotherhood in the great 
 national home will be more sacred, by reason of the desola- 
 tion which smote our firesides and our nation. 
 
 But a monument like this has voices which can never be 
 uttered in words. The statue of the Egyptian Memnon is 
 said to have uttered, when smitten by the rays of the rising 
 sun, a sound like the twang of a harp-string. Each hearer 
 could interpret for himself alone the meaning of the sound. 
 So, as Connecticut's sons and daughters shall bow rever- 
 ently before this monument, they must feel in their hearts, 
 rather than hear with their ears, the ^.oicc which speaks 
 to them. 
 
CLOSING KXERCISES. 95 
 
 At the close of the oration the chorus sans: the 
 hymn, 
 
 My country, 'tis of thee, 
 Sweet land of liberty. 
 Of thee I sing, 
 
 to the tune " America." The chairman announced 
 to the commander of the Post that the exercises 
 were ended, and the commander addressed the com- 
 rades of the Post as follows : 
 
 Attention ! Wadhams Post, Number 49, Department of 
 Connecticut, Grand Army of the Republic ! 
 
 Comrades, we now close these services, and go from 
 this place ; but the monument we have dedicated remains, 
 guarded by the memory of our dead. So long as it shall 
 endure, it will speak to us, and to all, of loyalty and hero- 
 ism in the army and the navy, and of that significant national 
 authority of which our flag is the symbol to every true 
 American heart. 
 
 Dr. Anderson then pronounced the benediction, 
 the comrades of Wadhams Post responded "Amen," 
 and the ceremonies of dedication were completed. 
 • At the close of the exercises of dedication the 
 Second Regiment withdrew to West Main street, 
 and on that spacious avenue, in the presence of thou- 
 sands of spectators, went through the dress parade. 
 At the end of this drill, the visiting guests betook 
 themselves to the refreshment tables which had been 
 prepared for them — the men of the " Grand Army" 
 Posts and the " Sons of Veterans " to the mammoth 
 
g6 DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 tents near by, and the Second Regiment to the 
 Union Armory, where they were waited upon by 
 " ninety young ladies, employes of the Waterbury 
 Watch Company." The festivities of the day cul- 
 minated in a reception given by the " Waterbury 
 Club," at their rooms, from 2 o'clock to 6, for which 
 special invitations had been issued. Many of the 
 distinguished visitors in attendance at the dedication 
 were included among the guests. After an elaborate 
 collation the day closed with speech-making. 
 
 On the evening of the Dedication Day, the follow- 
 ing stanzas, constituting a dedicatory ode, were pub- 
 lished in the Watej^btcry American. They were 
 written by the Rev. John G. Davenport, pastor of 
 the Second Congregational Church. 
 
 OCTOBER 23D, 1884. 
 
 I. 
 
 Granite and bronze uprear 
 
 To our glorious slain ! 
 Granite the courage that wavered not, faltered not; 
 Granite the purpose heroic that altered not ; 
 Granite the noble hearts bared 
 
 To the murderous rain: 
 The tribute though meager, 
 Grateful and eager, 
 
 With tears for their pain, 
 Granite and bronze we rear 
 
 To our <rlorious slain. 
 
MR. Davenport's poem. 97 
 
 II. 
 Bronze and granite uplift 
 To our patriots dear ! 
 Tarnish the bronze, but their purity paleth not ; 
 Perish the bronze, but their memory faileth not. 
 Shrined are our love and our grief 
 
 In the emblems we rear ; 
 With swelling emotion 
 We hail their devotion ; 
 Bronze and granite for aye 
 Will utter them dear. 
 
 III. 
 
 'Neath these October skies 
 Honor our dead ! 
 Pure as the azure the love that impelled them ; 
 Stainless the fervor that seized them, that held them ; 
 • Lustrous the valor that crowned 
 Every patriot's head ; 
 Gallant the foe they fought, 
 Nobly each hero wrought, 
 Just where his duty led ; 
 Under these glowing skies 
 Honor our dead ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 Publish, O city, the praise 
 Of the heroes asleep ! 
 Break, bending elms, into beauty and glory! 
 Flash out, ye banners, the heart-thrilling story ! 
 Chime all ye bells, while the trumpets 
 Their harmony sweep ! 
 
98 DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 Lips with the theme aflame 
 Utter their peerless fame ! 
 O that our praises might waken 
 These heroes asleep ! 
 
 V. 
 Stand, O granite and bronze, 
 While the ages shall roll ! 
 Tell the unborn the great deeds of their sires ! 
 Move them to greatness as duty requires ! 
 Bid them by action heroic 
 Sweet freedom extol ! 
 
 Read}^, at countr\-'s call — 
 Ready to fight or fall ; 
 Faithful to man and to God 
 While the centuries roll. 
 
 In the same newspaper, on the evening preceding 
 the dedication, the soldiers' monument was the 
 theme of a noticeable editorial article. This History 
 (in which an effort has been made to place on record, 
 and thus to preserve, the perishable literature relating 
 to the origin, progress, and completion of the mem- 
 orial of a loyal people to their heroic sons), cannot 
 be brought to a conclusion more appropriately than 
 by reproducing the closing paragraphs of that article 
 in these pages. 
 
 The war recedes further and further from us with each 
 passing year. The great men that it gave to the country, 
 both in council and on the field, are many of them now 
 among the shades, as voiceless as the dead of the earlier 
 Revolution. The issues on which it was warred are fast 
 
AN EDITOR S WORD OF APPROVAL. 99 
 
 becoming obliterated by the triumph of the principles it 
 represented, slowly permeating even the hearts of those 
 who were conquered. The younger among our voters can 
 only know of its victories and its defeats, as they know of 
 other great conflicts, from the study of its history, except 
 as now and then they hear the tales of battle and bivouac 
 from the lips of some veteran. To the older among us it 
 is hard to realize how far behind us is the war. On their 
 minds those hours of doubt and struggle and triumph are 
 deep cut in memories that no effacing lapse of time can 
 dim. And long may those memories remain among us — 
 not the printed word but the living tongue — to recall a 
 heroism that redeems even by reflected light a present so 
 entirely given up to money-seeking and money-getting. 
 
 But it is well to carve these thoughts in the imperishable 
 rock. Those who participated in the glory of the late war 
 are but mortal, though immortal are their deeds. Another 
 generation, and death will have removed scores of familiar 
 faces from the grand review of the army of the republic. 
 Add another generation still, and the shadows cast by the 
 great struggle over our present life will be mingled with the 
 twilight of a hazy past. But the monument will still stand. 
 It will tell of the tender memories in which those days were 
 enshrined, long after even the men who reared it have 
 been gathered to their fathers. It will speak of something 
 higher and nobler than mere self-seeking. It will keep 
 alive the flame of patriotism which in another crisis shall 
 prove that the blood of the heroes of the civil war still 
 runs in the veins of their descendants. 
 
 "These heroes are dead. They died for us. They 
 sleep in the land they made free, careless ahke of sunshine 
 and of storm, each in his windowless palace of rest. Earth 
 
lOO DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT. 
 
 may run red with other wars ; they are at peace. In the 
 midst of battle, in the roar of the conflict, they found the 
 serenity of death. I have but one sentiment for soldiers 
 living or dead : Cheers for the living, tears for the dead." ' 
 
 ' The words quoted were spoken by Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. 
 
III. 
 
 THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
"Those who went through those dreadful fields, and returned 
 not, deserve much more honor than we can pay. But those who 
 went through the same fields and returned alive, put just as 
 much at hazard as those who died, and in other countries would 
 wear distinctive badges of honor as long as they lived." — Ralph 
 Waldo Emerson, Address at the Dedication of the Soldiers' 
 Monument, Concord, Mass., April 19///, 1867. 
 
LIST OF PERSONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS AND 
 OTHER DONATIONS. 
 
 The amount of the bequest of S. W. Hall was five 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 J. C. Booth subscribed two thousand five hundred dollars. 
 
 Charles Benedict subscribed one thousand five hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 The following persons subscribed one thousand dollars 
 each : Mrs. Olive M. Elton, J. S. Elton, F. J. Kingsbury. 
 
 The following persons subscribed five hundred dollars 
 each : A. S. Chase, D. B. Hamilton, E. C. Lewis, H. H. 
 Peck, G. W. Welton, L. C. White. 
 
 The following persons subscribed three hundred dollars 
 each : C. E. L. Holmes, Israel Holmes, C. M. Piatt, W. S, 
 Piatt, I. A. Spencer, J. E. Smith. 
 
 W. H. Brown of New York city subscribed two hundred 
 and fifty dollars. 
 
 The following persons subscribed two hundred dollars 
 each : Franklin Farrell of Ansonia, S. W. Kellogg, Mr. 
 and Mrs. G. S. Parsons (jointly), D. S. Plume, H. W. 
 Scovill, N. J. Welton. 
 
 J. W. Smith subscribed one hundred and fifty dollars. 
 
 The following persons, fifteen in number, subscribed 
 one hundred dollars each : J. M. Burrall, F. L. Curtiss, C. P. 
 
I04 THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 Goss, H. C. Griggs, J. W. Hill, Daniel Kiefer, D. F. Maltby, 
 Samuel Root, E. A. Smith, J. R. Smith, G. W. Tucker, 
 E. T. Turner, H. L. Wade, Alfred Wells, H. V. Welton. 
 
 The following persons subscribed seventy-five dollars 
 each : John Mullings, F. A. Spencer, M. L. Sperry. 
 
 The following persons, fourteen in number, subscribed 
 fifty dollars each : C. R. Baldwin, G. A. Boughton, E. M. 
 "Burrall, H. S. Chase, N. D. Granniss, C. A. Hamilton, 
 R. W. Hill, R. E. Hitchcock, S. B. Lane, F. A. Mason, 
 L. I. Munson, Alfred North, M. D., F. B. Rice, E. J. Root. 
 
 E. C. Colby subscribed thirty dollars. 
 
 The following persons, twenty-four in number, subscribed 
 twenty-five dollars each : C. D. Ailing, I. H. Atwood, G. W. 
 Beach, J. M. Birrell, Charles Dickinson, W. O. Guilford, 
 G. C. Hill, Maier Kaiser, John Lines, T. R. Martin, F. B. 
 Merriman, S. B. Munn, Thomas O'Connor, R F. Parsons, 
 A. A. Paul, C. H. Pope, W. E. Risley, G. W. Roberts, 
 George Root, W. C. Scott, William Shannon, G. E. Somers, 
 E. D. Steele, LeRoy Upson. • 
 
 The following persons subscribed twenty dollars each : 
 R. R. Callander, N. W. Greenman, J. L. Saxe, E. D. Welton. 
 
 The following persons subscribed fifteen dollars each : 
 W. E. Fulton, G. B. Lamb, Joseph Munger, Mr. and Mrs. 
 R. K. Reid (jointly), Edward Shannon, Frederick Wilcox. 
 
 The following persons, forty-three in number, subscribed 
 ten dollars each : E. T. Abbott, Frederick Allen, C. C. 
 Andrews, W. S. Atwood, Conrad Berger, John Blair, E. L. 
 Bronson, J. C. Brown, Robert Cairns, I. H. Chase, Edward 
 Church, Joseph Clark, J. W. Davis, II. W. French, F. H. 
 Frost, A. I. Goodrich, C. H. Goodwin, J. H. Hart, E. W. 
 Hayward, J. C. Hitchcock, W. A. Hullman, William Hub- 
 
SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS. IO5 
 
 bers, O. C. King, C. E. Lamb, E. F. Lewis, W. F. Lewis, 
 Andrew McClintock, A. C. Mintie, W. A. Morris, Seth 
 Norton, E. A. Pendleton, G. S. Piersbn, S. N. Plume, 
 M. A. Pond, Lewis Raymond, G. P. Roberts, Chauncey 
 Seeley, Elliott Somers, James Spruce, Samuel Taylor, 
 Charles Treadway, Andrew Winter, R. S. Woodruff. 
 
 The following persons subscribed eight dollars each : 
 Robert Banzigcr, C. E. Seymour. 
 
 The following persons, one hundred and twenty in num- 
 ber, subscribed five dollars each : M. B. Alcott, H. H. Ash- 
 enden, H. H. Atwood, J. F. Baldwin, N. A. Beecher, 
 W. W. Beecher, Anthony Blackburn, G. G. Blakeslee, 
 Carl Bremen, F. B. Brown, H. W. Brown, R. H. Buck, 
 George Buckley, H. A. Burton, R. A. Cairns, L H. Camp, 
 L. M. Camp, Albert Campbell, James Callahan, G. W. 
 Champlin, E. L. Chapman, G. P. Chapman, E. W. Church, 
 George Clark, G. W. Cooke, W. H. Cooke, W. E. Crane, 
 J. B. Cuddy, H. W. Curtiss, D. M. Davis, L. S. Davis, W. H. 
 Davis, C. M. DeMott, Nathan Dikeman, A. M. Dickinson, 
 William Dodds, John B. Doherty, H. T. Durand, J. A. Eden, 
 J. E. Ellis, F. I. Ells, E. W. Ely, William Engert, Thomas 
 Eyman, George Fairchild, D. D. Gregory, E. P. Gregory, 
 M. D., J. G. Hallas, E. B. Harper, C. H. Harrub, O. M. 
 Healey, John Higgins, E. A. Hitchcock, W. R. Hitchcock, 
 D. L. Hungerford, C. H. Hurlburt, T. R. Hyde, Jr., W. H. 
 Jones, W. H. Jones, Jr., C. W. Judd, Francis Kane, J. 
 Keefe, A. J. King, Henry Kirk, R. T. Lattin, John Leg- 
 getf, Jr., B. H. Lewis, J. W. McWhinnie, W. H. Mason, Jr., 
 M. D. W. Mears, L. P. Mitchell, Marion Morris, Harvey 
 Moss, \V. W. Munson, E. C. Murfield, J. A. Pebbles, Abbott 
 C. Peck, C. H. Perkins, E. B. Piatt, George L. Piatt, W. B. 
 
 14 
 
I06 THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 Porter, James Potter, E. A. Rose, E. D. Rush, Sterne 
 Russell, J. A. Sandland, J. E. Sandland, Henry Sanford, 
 C. H. Sawn, L. H. Schuyler, H. G. Scott, Albro Scovill, 
 A. J. Sherman, C. E. Shipley, Evic A. Smith, W. P. Snagg, 
 J. Stevens, C. L. Stocking, Isaac Straw, S. S. Taylor, Jere- 
 miah Terrell, G. C. Thomas, Frederick Tompkins, George 
 Tompkins, J. O. Treat, R. M. True, F. E. Vogel, E. R. 
 Walker, P. H. Walsh, C. A. Warner, U. A. Warner, Frank- 
 lin Warren, William Webb, R. H. Welton, W. S. Welton, 
 F. R. White, Lewis White, W. W. White, William Wilson, 
 James Wright. 
 
 F. D. Brown subscribed four dollars. 
 
 The following persons, twenty-three in number, sub- 
 scribed three dollars each : P. R. Byrnes, Adam Callan, 
 A. M. Comstock, J. W. Dayton, F. G. Gorse, William Hen- 
 derson, James Hill, W. W. Hubbell, E. D. Ketchum, Eugene 
 King, Samuel Lowe, Charles Lundberg, William Milton, 
 Hartley Phillips, W. L. Piercy, Joseph Rodier, E, J. Schuy- 
 ler, F. H. Smith, D. L. Somers, W. J. Stanley, L, D. Terrell, 
 Morton Tracy, James Webb. 
 
 Thomas Quigley subscribed two dollars and seventy-five 
 cents. 
 
 The following persons subscribed two dollars and fifty 
 cents each : E. P. Nobbs, E. W. Nobbs. 
 
 The following persons, one hundred and three in number, 
 subscribed two dollars each : F. E. Adams, H. B. Adams, 
 J. L. Alcott, David Allman, Levi Anderson, Charles 
 Arroll, A. W. Ashborn, Andrew Baird, J. C. Baldwin, 
 Edward Barrett, H. M. Calder, F. L. Champlin, George 
 Colon, John Connor, E. B. Coon, John Corcoran, O. W. 
 Cornish, J. H. Delaney, Frank Dheron, John Early, 
 
SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS. ID/ 
 
 Sigismond Engert, C. I. Gale, Patrick Gorman, William 
 Grimes, Charles Haas, John Hanlon, W. H. Healey, David 
 Henderson, S. D. Hine, H. H. Holland, J. H. Horan, 
 M. S. Howland, Maurice Joy, Jacob Kahl, L. C. Kahl, 
 Conrad Kiefer, Martin Keefe, Peter Keefe, Edwin Keeling, 
 William Keeley, J. W. Kindregan, Herman Latus, J. C. 
 Latus, Arthur Lawson, George Lawton, John Leggett, 
 H. H. Lewis, Jeremiah Luddy, T. C. Euther, D. A. 
 McGraw, John Malone, Frank Miller, William Miller, 
 William Moore, G. W. Morrell, Calvin Moss, Ludovic 
 Milleaux, W. H. Munson, D. H. Nichols, P. T. O'Neil, 
 Miles Oviatt, Frank Parsons, John Place, James Piatt, 
 Thomas Powers, S. N. Pritchard, F. E. Robbins, F. L 
 Roberts, W. A. Rogers, R. H. Root, E. C. Sanderson, 
 F. A. Sanford, Patrick Shannahan, Edward Sherman, L. H, 
 Smith, Simon Smith, J. T. Smith, S. M. Sperry, R. Stacy, 
 James Steenson, George Stearns, D. B. Stoddard, A. O. 
 Storz, Joseph Teller, G. B. Thomas, John Thompson, W. H. 
 Thompson, J. H. Totten, George Turner, H. C. Vail, G. H. 
 Vandover, S. B. Vietz, James Wallace, Frederick Warner, 
 John Whiffler, S. J. White, Harrison Whitney, Alexander 
 Wilson, L. K. Wilson, L. F. Wolff, F. K. Woolworth ; Mary 
 A. Dobbins, Charlotte B. Warner. 
 
 J. J. Tompkins subscribed one dollar and fifty cents. 
 L. E. French subscribed one dollar and twenty-five 
 cents. 
 
 The following men, three hundred and ninety-one in 
 number, subscribed one dollar each : G. A. Adams, C. R. 
 Allen, Daniel AUman, Timothy Almond, B. F. Andrews, 
 E. L. Ashley, N. A. Atwood, Frederick Austin, John 
 Bagley, John Bahen, C. A. Baldwin, Patrick Baldwin, 
 
I08 THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 M. A. Balfe, E. S. Ball, Archibald Bannatyne, Michael 
 Bannon, Charles Barnes, L. S. Beach, J. H. Biddle, Rol- 
 lin Bird, John Bissinger, C. S. Blakcman, C. K. Bond, 
 William Booth, William Borchardt, P. H. Borst, Frederick 
 Bowers, F. J. Bowers, Jr., William Bowes, Patrick Boylan, 
 J. H. Bradley, Walter Branch, John Brennan, Lawrence 
 Brennan, Philip Brennan, Thomas Brennan, J. F. Briody, 
 John Brown, J. D. Brown, Michael Brown, William Brown, 
 
 E. H. Buck, John Buckley, Joseph Buckley, James Burns, 
 John Burns, A. F. Butler, Edwin Byrnes, Owen Cairns, 
 Charles Call, James Cannell, Edward Cappal, B. F. Carpen- 
 ter, William Carrian, Dennis Carroll, Frank Carroll, Thomas 
 Carey, F, S. Caswell, William Charters, F. F. Chatfield, J. 
 
 F. Cleasby, John Collins, Henry Cowley, Daniel Connor, 
 Patrick Connor, Patrick Coogan, L. L. Cook, Patrick Coora- 
 lan, Joseph Costello, Cornelius Creen, James Cronan, James 
 Cronan, 2d, William Cunningham, Edward Curley, Thomas 
 Darling, Nazaire Dauphinais, W. H. Davis, Gustave Davison, 
 J. J. Dawson, Albert Deggett, Albert Derbyshire, Jeremiah 
 Devine, Joseph Devine, J. O. Devine, John Derwin, R. B. 
 Dewes, Orson Dikeman, John Dillon, Thomas Dillon, G. M. 
 Dingwell, William Dodds, Thomas Donahue, John Donovan, 
 John Doty, J. A. Dougherty, Joseph Dougherty, John 
 Downey, George Downs, James Duffey, M. Egan, James 
 English, Edward Fagan, John Fagan, John Farrell, John 
 Fenn, William Fenn, Frank Fenton, Robert Ferguson, 
 James Finnegan, G. S. Fiske, John Fitzgerald, Patrick 
 Fitzgerald, James Pltzgerald, Thomas Fitzmorris, George 
 Fitzsimons, Henry Flanagan, John Flynn, M. A. Plynn, 
 Edward Foley, Edward Fox, William Frisbie, G. E. Frost, 
 George Gabriel, Patrick Galvin, David Garrigus, Nathaniel 
 Gault, C. L. Gaylord, Martin Geraghty, John Glynn, Wil- 
 
SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS. TO9 
 
 liam Gorgan, David Gorman, James Gorman, T. F. Gorman, 
 C. H. Gough, J. W. Grant, C. H. Griffith, A. J. Grilley, 
 J. H. Grilley, O. B. Grilley, W. E. Grilley, Patrick Guil- 
 foile, William Guilfoile, Frederick Haase, Frederick Hablit- 
 zel, Patrick Hackett, G. B. Hall, G. F. Hallam, Joseph 
 Hallas, Lucien Hallock, Timothy Hanlon, Thomas Har- 
 grave, W. R. Harrison, C. B. Hart, Patrick Hart, Thomas 
 Hartwell, J. H. Harvey, J. R. Hawkes, John Hayes, Patrick 
 Hayes, Timothy Hayes, J. Hayward, Dennis Healey, James 
 Healey, John Healey, Philip Healey, Timothy Healey, 
 Charles Heiser, Marcus Hellman, Nicholas Hemlock, John 
 Henderson, John Hendricks, Patrick Hennessy, Walter 
 Hennessy, C. Herbert, Herman Heringer, T. Hine, 2d, John 
 Hogan, W. A. Holgate, G. E. Holt, E. E. Hotchkiss, J. 
 Howard, Felix Hughes, Felix Hughes, 2d, Patrick Hughes, 
 Thomas Hughes, F. B. Hull, George Husker, James Hustis, 
 John Hutchinson, J. A. Hynes, David Jacquerry, C. S. John- 
 son, W. E. Jones, James Joy, Edward Kane, Finton Keefe, 
 Edwin Keeling, William Keenan, James Kelley, Michael 
 Kellcy, John Kelly, Kiern Kelly, Thomas Kelly, Patrick 
 Kennedy, Dennis Kilbride, Michael Kinnerney, S. F. Kin- 
 ney, John Lane, John Langworthy, W. H. Laughlin, John 
 Lawlor, John Lawlor, 2d, Thomas Lawson, Michael Leary, 
 A. Lewis, E. E. Lewis, Maurice Lines, Charles Logan, C. 
 Lounsbury, William Loveridge, J. E. Lowe, H. D. Lund, 
 Daniel Lynch, Thomas Lynch, Jr., J. T. Lyons, Jeremiah 
 Lyons, Louis Maas, Charles Mabbott, T. McBurney, Eugene 
 McCarthy, Finton McCarthy, John McCarthy, James McCor- 
 mick, John McCormick, Robert McCormick, M. McDonald, 
 Thomas McElligott, John McGinn, Edward McGinness, 
 Owen McGowan, Daniel McGrath, M. McGraw, M. McGuire, 
 M. F. McKennerney, James McKenney, Edward McLaugh- 
 
I lO THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 lin, Ncal McLaughlin, Daniel McMahon, Andrew McNeil, 
 John Madigan, Bernard Mahler, Charles Maillard, Thomas 
 Malone, E. A. Manross, Maurice Mansfield, W. H. Marsh, 
 F. Martin, C. Melchinger, Andrew Meyers, Samuel Mirfield, 
 Henry Mitchell, William Mitchell, William Mitchell, 2d, 
 James Moore, John Morris, J. W. Moss, E. L. Munson, 
 Hugh Murphy, Jeremiah Murphy, Peter Murphy, Robert 
 Murphy, Robert Murphy, Jr., James Murtha, William 
 Nagel, Philo Newell, Kiern Ney, F. H. Nichols, John 
 Norton, John O'Brien, Thomas O'Hearn, Patrick O'Meara, 
 James O'Reilly, Peter O'Reilly, Philip O'Reilly, W. W. 
 O'Reilly, Maris Oliver, William Pallctt, G. W. Palmer, 
 J. W. Parsons, Edward Payne, J. M. Peffers, Hawley 
 Penfield, Edward Phalen, Jeremiah Phalen, John Phalen, 
 P. J. Phalen, William Phalen, D. S. Pichard, Edward 
 Pierce, Thomas Pierce, Charles Porter, Richard Powers, 
 Benjamin Pritchard, John Ouinn, Owen Ouinn, John 
 Rafters, Emmet Reardon, John Reardon, Andrew Reid, 
 Barney Reid, J. E. Reise, Gottlieb Rieger, B. F. Riley, 
 Michael Riley, P. F. Riley, William Robinson, William 
 Rockett, E. W. Russell, J. W. Ryan, Joseph St. Louis, 
 C. A. Sandland, William Saundens, Gottlieb Schlagg, 
 Frederick Schmidt, Emil Schneider, C. B. Schoenmihl, 
 John Schwartz, A. P. Scovill, Thomas Seerey, Dennis 
 Shannahan, Daniel Sheeney, L. S. Shepard, R. J. Shipley, 
 John Shumm, Ernest Simons, George Simpson, Jacob 
 Single, John Slavin, Joseph Slavin, William Smith, C. S. 
 Snow, William Somers, Edward Spender, F. E. Stanley, 
 Frederick Starr, Bennet Stiles, John Sutherland, Edward 
 Sweeney, John Sweeney, William Sweeney, Burton Terrell, 
 Noble Terrell, G. F. Terrill, C. M. Thayer, Frank E. Thomas, 
 John Thompson, James Tiernan, Thomas Tiernan, F. W. 
 
SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS, III 
 
 Tobey, James Tobin, James Tobin, 2cl, F. B. Tompkins, W. 
 E. Trowbridge, R. W. Turner, T. J. Tuttle, W. S. Tuttle, 
 Ellsworth Tyler, J. A. Tyler, William VomWeg, J. A. 
 Walker, James Wall, G. T. W^aterhouse, James Watts, W. 
 W. Webster, S. F. Weibel, John Welch, H. D. Welton, 
 James Welton, Thomas Wheelahan, E. H. Wheeler, James 
 Wheeler, Thomas White, C. M. Wilson, Henry Wilton, 
 Thomas W^ilton, Thomas Wilton, 2d, James Wiseman, John 
 Wood, J. H. Woolworth, E. E. Wright, J. F. Yeomans. 
 
 The following women, fifty-seven in number, subscribed 
 one dollar each : Sylvia Andrews, Anna Ash, Anna Bag- 
 ley, Nellie Barrett, Aggie Bissell, Rosa Boden, Bridget 
 Bowes, Mary Breen, Kate Claffery, Mary Cleary, Mary 
 Coen, Bridget Cook, Nellie Courtney, Nellie Cronan, 
 Nellie Dayton, Susie Dooley, Libbie Dorman, Julia A. 
 Dunbar, Anna Dunn, Bridget Early, Lizzie Fagan, Jennie 
 Fitts, Maggie Fitzgerald, Mary Flood, Bridget Flynn, 
 Ellen Fuller, Annie Hayes, Maggie Horan, Lizzie lies, 
 Mary Kavanagh, Anna A. Keach, Nellie Kelley, Nellie 
 Kilcarey, Mary Kirby, Mary Laflflin, Fannie Lilley, Rosa 
 Lilley, Bridget Luddy, Annie McGrath, Maggie McGrath, 
 Rosa McGivney, Nellie McMahon, Mary McNally, Anna 
 Mack, Lizzie Mack, Nellie Mack, Nettie Meach, Lucy 
 Riley, Lizzie Rourke, Kate Shannahan, Mrs. Christina 
 Sharpe, Maggie Story, Mary Strong, Mary Theto, Lizzie 
 Tihn, Sarah Welton, Mary White. 
 
 The following men, one hundred and sixty-eight in 
 number, subscribed fifty cents each : William Aegan, 
 David Allman, J. Allman, John Andersen, E. E. Bacon, 
 Thomas Bahan, Hugh Baird, Harry Balfe, J. F. Behan, 
 Frank Bergan, William Blackburn, George Blanchard, M. P. 
 
112 THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 Bowman, Peter Brcnnan, James Brown, Patrick Bulger, 
 John Burk, John Burke, John Burns, Andrew Calam, M. 
 Carmody, Michael Carney, John Carolan, John Carroll, 
 William Casey, Michael Cavin, Thomas Chute, John Claffee, 
 John Claffee, 2d, Felix Clark, John Claxton, Michael Cook, 
 Thomas Cook, Samuel Collins, John Conklin, Charles Con- 
 nor, James Conroy, Edward Coy, Thomas Crannell, E. C. 
 Crocker, Joseph Cullen, Edward Cullum, Patrick Cullum, 
 William Cullum, William Darling, Roger Dawson, Thomas 
 Delaney, William Delaney, William Delaney, 2d, Philemon 
 DeLarue, John Derwin, Patrick Devine, John Dillon, Patrick 
 Dillon, E. S. Dodd, Martin Dodd, William Dowling, James 
 Downes, John Downing, John Dwyer, John English, 
 Gustav Epstein, Edward Fitzgerald, Charles Fitzpatrick, 
 Daniel Flaherty, James Flynn, Thomas Ford, Charles 
 Fray, W. J. Frost, Henry Gallagher, John Gaynor, 
 Thomas Gerrity, Henry Greene, J. H. Gregory, Timothy 
 Guilfoile, M. W. Hahn, P. R. Hahn, Isaac Hall, George 
 Hanley, T. Harris, James Hayden, Daniel Hayes, M. A. 
 Hayes, Edward Healey, A. B. Hitchcock, W. A. Holl- 
 man, Lawrence Horan, Laughlin Horan, Charles Home, 
 William Hughes, John Hurley, C. D. Jessell, John Jes- 
 sup, G. W. Johnson, William Kearney, Pierce Keefe, 
 Jeremiah Kelly, Michael Kelly, Patrick Kelly, John Ken- 
 ney, John Kennedy, John Kenny, James Kerly, Henry 
 King, G. Kirk, William Lacy, P. H. Larnc, Augustus Lar- 
 son, M. A. Lawlor, Patrick Lawlor, Timothy Lawlor, James 
 Leeney, Charles Leisring, M. McCarthy, James McCollough, 
 G. H. McCoy, James McDonald, Thomas McGrath, John 
 McLoughlin, Dennis Maloney, J. P. May, Charles Mattoon, 
 James Milton, Charles Morris, Henry Morton, Patrick Mul- 
 ligan, Edward Mullings, Frank Murray, John Mulvancy, 
 
SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS. II3 
 
 A. D. Nettleton, Robert O'Gorman, Patrick O'Neil, Edmund 
 Oliver, Daniel Phalen, Dennis Phalen, Richard Powers, 
 Patrick Ryan, Howard Seymour, Thomas Shannahan, 
 Thomas Shearon, H. S. Skinner, Henry Smith, W. F. 
 Somers, F. Spencer, John Stanley, Samuel Stearns, John 
 Shugrue, Garrett Sullivan, Patrick Sutton, C. J. Taylor, J. J. 
 Taylor, John Tehan, T. Tehan, Thomas Thebo, Joseph 
 Thompson, Daniel Walden, E. G. Walker, John Wall, Mar- 
 tin Wall, George Warren, M. D. Watkins, John Wenzel, 
 Thomas Weston, M. F. White, W. R. Willis, Alexander 
 Wing, Samuel Woods, G. E. Young. 
 
 The following women, ninety-five in number, subscribed 
 fifty cents each : Minnie Ash, Emma Austin, Sarah 
 Barnes, Mary Beardy, Ida Benning, Lizzie Betts, Sarah 
 Bctts, Mary Boyce, Mary Brophy, Alice Campbell, Lydia 
 Chapman, Lizzie Collins, Mary Collins, Maggie Connors, 
 Annie Costello, Mary Crosby, Mary Cunningham, Sarah 
 DowHng, Jennie Downey, Maggie Downey, Minnie Dow- 
 ney, Mary Eagan, Anna Egan, Katie Egan, Annie Finlay, 
 Nellie Finlay, Katie Flood, Jennie P^ox, Mary C. Fox, 
 Mary Fray, Annie Gillan, Mary Griffin, Nellie Griffin, 
 Mary Guilfoile, Kate Hayden, Katie Hayden, Julia Hayes, 
 Julia E. Hayes, Mary Hayes, Julia Healy, Mrs. C. J. 
 Heath, Maggie Heffran, Bertha Holmes, Mrs. Ann Hol- 
 ohan, Mrs. Lizzie K. Hough, Ettie Hughes, Mary Hughes, 
 Emma lies, P'annie Keefe, Mary Keefe, Kate Kelley, 
 Annie Kelly, Katie Kelly, Kate Kemnan, Mary Kenney, 
 Mary Kenney, 2d, Nellie Kenney, Katie Kilduff, Kate 
 Larkin, Bridget Lawlor, Annie Luddy, Josephine Lynch, 
 Maggie Lynch, Rosa Maas, Mary McAlenny, Mary McAu- 
 liffe, Mary McCormick, Bridget McGrath, Mary McLaughlin, 
 Kate McMahon, Jennie Marsh, Julia Martin, Nellie Martin, 
 15 
 
114 THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 Emma Mitchell, Lizzie Mullen, Anna Munson, Kate Nuhn, 
 Anna O'Grady, Mary O'Hara, Phebe Oliver, Isabella Patrick, 
 Maria Pegusen, Annie Phalon, Ellen Quinlan, Kate Quin- 
 lan, Rosa Riley, Emma Schlegel, Lizzie Sears, Mary E. 
 Sears, Ellen Tait, Jennie Taylor, Mary A. Thompson, Mary 
 Ward, Maggie Whims, Lottie White. 
 
 The following men, twenty-nine in number, subscribed 
 twenty-five cents each : Henry Baker, 2d, Henry Burns, 
 Peter Burns, Edward Cleary, W. T. Connell, Walter Cos- 
 tello, George Cox, James Dwyer, Andrew Erdman, Robert 
 Fitzpatrick, Ernest Heiser, George Kielmeyer, Reuben 
 Kingston, James Lawlor, Nathaniel Low, James Lynch, 
 John Lynch, James McClain, John Maney, John Moora, 
 James Morehead, George Oakes, Martin Perkinson, Ru- 
 dolph Ringenberg, T. C. Spencer, James Thompson, 
 Charles Totten, J. T. Williams, Henry Wilton, 2d. 
 
 The following women, fifteen in number, subscribed 
 twenty-five cents each : Jennie Clark, Mary Delaney, 
 Anna Downcs, Nellie Durham, Minnie Garom, Anna 
 Gleason, Mary Haller, Mary A. Horan, Maggie Kenney, 
 Maggie Phalen, Mary Phalen, Sarah Peck, Ann Timis, 
 Minnie White, Kate Williams. 
 
 The employes of Messrs. Piatt Brothers & Company 
 subscribed one hundred and ten dollars. 
 
 The employes of the Carrington Manufacturing Company 
 subscribed fifty dollars. 
 
SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS. II5 
 
 The girls of the Waterbury Industrial School subscribed 
 thirteen dollars. 
 
 The Young Men's Social Club subscribed ten dollars. 
 
 The nameless subscriptions amounted to eighty-six dol- 
 lars and ninety-six cents. 
 
 The proceeds of the picnic of Company A, Second 
 Regiment, Connecticut National Guard (Chatfield Guard), 
 July 4th, 1 88 1, were two hundred and seventy-one dollars 
 and eighty-six cents. 
 
 The proceeds of the dramatic entertainment given by 
 Wadhams Post, No. 49, Grand Army of the Republic, in 
 February, 1882, were one hundred and thirty-seven dollars 
 and one cent. 
 
 The proceeds of the fair held under the auspices of 
 Wadhams Post, in January, 1884, were two thousand, five 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 A subscription amounting to one hundred and sixty 
 dollars was received through Mrs. George Nichols of 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., being the balance (with interest) left 
 from the proceeds of a fair held by the Soldiers' Aid So- 
 ciety of Waterbury in 1865. ' 
 
 'This fair was held March 14th to i6th, 1865, in Hotchkiss Hall. The net 
 profits were $1,177.06. This amount, less one hundred dollars, was forwarded 
 to W. T. Lee, Treasurer of the " Soldiers' Home " Fund, Hartford. The 
 balance of one hundred dollars was retained as a "reserve fund " for possible 
 future uses. (See the Waterbury American of March 24th, 1S65.) This money 
 remained in the keeping of Mrs. Nichols (formerly Miss Alice S. Paul) until 
 the subscription for the Soldiers' Monument was undertaken, when, on con- 
 sultation with other ladies who had been active in the entertainment of 1865, 
 Mrs. Nichols transferred it, with the accrued interest, to the Monument Fund. 
 
Il6 THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 SUMMARY. 
 
 Bequest of five thousand dollars, - - - ^5,000.00 
 One subscription of two thousand five hun- 
 dred dollars, ------- 2,500.00 
 
 One subscription of one thousand five hundred 
 
 dollars, - - 1,500.00 
 
 Three subscriptions of one thousand dollars 
 
 each, 3,000.00 
 
 Six subscriptions of five hundred dollars each, 3,000.00 
 
 Six subscriptions of three hundred dollars each, 1,800.00 
 One subscription of two hundred and fifty 
 
 dollars, 250.00 
 
 Six subscriptions of two hundred dollars each, 1,200.00 
 One subscription of one hundred and fifty- 
 dollars, -------- 150.00 
 
 Fifteen subscriptions of one hundred dollars 
 
 each, -------- 1,500.00 
 
 Three subscriptions of seventy-five dollars each, 225.00 
 
 Fourteen subscriptions of fifty dollars each, - 700.00 
 
 One subscription of thirty dollars, - - - 30.CO 
 Twenty-four subscriptions of twenty-five dollars 
 
 each, 600.00 
 
 Four subscriptions of twenty dollars each, - 80.00 
 
 Six subscriptions of fifteen dollars each, - 90.00 
 
 Forty-three subscriptions of ten dollars each, 430.00 
 
 Two subscriptions of eight dollars each, - 16.00 
 One hundred and twenty subscriptions of five 
 
 dollars each, - 600.00 
 
 One subscription of four dollars, - . - 4.00 
 
 Twenty-three subscriptions of three dollars each, 69.00 
 One subscription of two dollars and seventy-five 
 
 cents, 2.75 
 
SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS. II7 
 
 Two subscriptions of two dollars and fifty cents 
 
 each, $S-00 
 
 One hundred and three subscriptions of two 
 
 dollars each, - - 206.00 
 
 One subscription of one dollar and fifty cents, 1.50 
 
 One subscription of one dollar and twenty-five 
 
 cents, - - - - -. - - - 1.25 
 
 Four hundred and forty-nine subscriptions of 
 
 one dollar each, ------ 449.00 
 
 Two hundred and sixty-five subscriptions of 
 
 fifty cents each, ------ 132.50 
 
 Forty-four subscriptions of twenty-five cents 
 
 each, - - - 11.00 
 
 Individual subscriptions without individual 
 
 names, - - - 269.96 
 
 Proceeds of entertainments, - - - - 3,068.87 
 
 Total, -------- $26,891.83 
 
Il8 THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 TREASURER'S REPORT. 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 Personal subscriptions and donations as above 
 
 (pp. 103-117), $26,891.83 
 
 From the Town of Waterbury, — unexpended 
 balance of the appropriation for building the 
 foundation, — the same to be applied to the 
 purchase of Monument lamp-posts, - - 828.42 
 
 From the Town of Waterbury, — unexpended 
 balance of the appropriation for dedication 
 purposes, — through W. H. Cooke, cashier, - 13.05 
 
 Interest on money loaned and invested, - - 2,890.16 
 
 $30,623.46 
 
 DISBURSEMENTS. 
 
 By orders of the Chairman of the Monument Committee : 
 To G. E. Bissell, — contract for Granite and 
 
 Bronze Monument, dated April 24th, 1882, $25,000.00 
 To G. E. Bissell, for changes in the plan, - 800.00 
 
 To G. E. Bissell, for bronze lamp-posts, - - 1,000.00 
 For stone pedestals of lamp-posts, - - - 340.00 
 
 For lamps (frame, glass, etc.) complete, - - 275.00 
 
 For freights and cartage, ----- 40.22 
 
 For Custom-House fees and commissions, - 127.17 
 
 For printing, and telegram to Paris, - - 8.25 
 
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. II9 
 
 To G. W. Tucker, for telegrams to Paris, 
 
 postage, etc., - - $18.00 
 
 To Smith & Root, for insurance, - - - 30.00 
 
 For electric lights, used during the erection 
 
 of the Monument, - - - - - - 113.23 
 
 To E. T. Turner & Company, — bill connected 
 
 with the G. A. R. Fair, - - - - 5.34 
 
 To Partree & Parker, for use of omnibus, - 5.00 
 
 To the New York & New England Railroad 
 Company, for a special train to Hartford 
 
 and back, 110.00 
 
 Refunded to the Town of Waterbury, for bill 
 of Apothecaries' Hall Company, for materials 
 for the foundation of the Monument, - - 148.80 
 
 To the Monument Committee, for dedication 
 purposes, additional to the appropriation 
 made by the Town (see tJic annexed report 
 of their cashier), ------ 1,125.00 
 
 Decline in the value of investments, - - 431-25 
 
 Interest paid for money borrowed, - - - 200.73 
 
 Charges for compiling list of subscribers for 
 
 publication, ------- 30.00 
 
 Cash balance, expended in preparing and pub- 
 lishing 750 illustrated copies of the " His- 
 tory of the Soldiers' Monument in Waterbury, 
 Conn.," -------- 815.47 
 
 $30,623.45 
 
 JAMES S. ELTON, Treasurer. 
 E. A. Pendleton, Clerk. 
 
I20 THE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 REPORT OF THE CASHIER OF THE MONUMENT COMMITTEE. 
 
 Disposition of the anwiuit draivn from tJie Monument Fund 
 for Dedication purposes. 
 
 To C. N. Hall, for omnibus for band, - - ;^io.oo 
 
 To P. B. Norton, balance of bill for carriages, 118.00 
 
 To Partree & Parker, for carting seats, etc., - 74-72 
 
 To Earle's Hotel, for lodging band, - - 22.00 
 To the Scovill House, for lodging invited 
 
 guests, 50.00 
 
 To R. H. Radford, for badges, - - - 75-15 
 
 To G. L. White, for collation on railroad train, 38.00 
 For carriages for the visiting governors and 
 
 others, in Hartford, ----- 17.00 
 
 To the Wheeler & Wilson Band, for services, - 120.00 
 To Holmes, Booth & Haydens, for the use of 
 
 table cutlery, - - 29.00 
 
 To E. T, Turner & Company, for the veil for 
 
 the Monument — materials and making, - 44-74 
 
 To E. R. Lampson & Company, for piping, - 20.28 
 
 To M. J. Daly, for piping, - - - - 5.58 
 
 T. J. Jackson's bill, ------ 38.50 
 
 J. E. Coer's bill, - 18.00 
 
 J. W. McDonald's bill, ----- 6.75 
 
 To H. A. Hill, for entertainment, - - - 312.00 
 
 To C. A. Marston, for supper for band, - - 15.00 
 
 To William Laird, for distributing handbills, - 3.00 
 To G. H. Cowell, for expenses of inviting the 
 
 New England governors, - . - - 44.93 
 To G. W. Tucker, for entertainment of official 
 
 guests; .--.--- 20.00 
 
 To G. E. Bisscll, for expenses to New York, 5.08 
 
CASHIERS REPORT. 121 
 
 For expressage, telegrams, messengers, etc., - $4-6o 
 
 For stationery and stamps, . - - . ii.oo 
 
 For miscellaneous expenses, - . - . 8.62 
 
 Unexpended balance, returned to the treasurer, 1305 
 
 ^1,125.00 
 
 In behalf of the Monument Committee, 
 
 W. H. COOKE, Cas/iier. 
 
 APPROPRIATIONS MADE BY THE TOWN 
 OF WATERBURY. 
 
 (A.) 
 
 Appropriation for building the founda- 
 tion OF THE Monument, . - - - ^3,500.00 
 
 Disposition of the Appropriation according to the Select- 
 men's Report to the Tozvn of Waterbury for 1884. 
 
 A. I. & G. S. Chatfield, bill, - - - - ^1,439.67 
 
 W. M. Hurlburt, bill, ----- 31.91 
 
 Charles Jackson, bill, - . - - - 1,200.00 
 
 Apothecaries' Hall Company, bill, - - - 148.80 
 
 James S. Elton, Treasurer, - - $828.42, 
 Less amount refunded to pay 
 
 Apothecaries' Hall Company, - 148.80, 679.62 
 
 1^3,500.00 
 16 
 
122 SELECTMEN S REPORT. 
 
 {B.) 
 Appropriation for Dedication purposes, - ^2,500.00 
 
 Disposition of the Appropriation according to the Select- 
 
 Dicn's Report to the Tozvn of Waterbury for 1885. 
 
 For transportation of the Second Regiment, 
 
 Connecticut National Guard, - - - 1^472. 10 
 
 For decorating and illuminating the Park, - 300.00 
 
 For Printing, — invitations, cards, etc., - - 197.00 
 To I. A. Spencer, — expenses of Collation 
 
 Committee, - - 483.29 
 
 To W. M. Cottle, for tables, etc., for collation, 169.10 
 To W. M. Hurlburt, for platforms for speak- 
 ers and chorus, ------ 208.00 
 
 For carriages for invited guests, - - - 300.00 
 To Driggs & Smith, for music used by the 
 
 chorus, - 6"]. 66 
 
 To the City Band, for services, - - - 88.00 
 
 To the Citizens' Band, for services, - - - 100.00 
 
 To W. J. Wolff, for grading and turfing, - 27.27 
 
 To the Waterbury Printing Company, - - 32.47 
 
 To the Western Union Telegraph Company, - 10.19 
 To R. N. Blakeslee, for horses for Gatling 
 
 gun, - - - 15.00 
 
 To G. E. Bissell, for expenses to New York 
 
 and Boston, ------- 29.92 
 
 ^2,500.00 
 
IV. 
 
 THE MEN WHOM THE MONUMENT 
 COMMEMORATES. 
 
" We sit here in the Promised Land 
 That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; 
 But 'twas they won it, sword in hand, 
 Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. 
 We welcome back our bravest and our best ; — 
 Ah me ! not all ! some come not with the rest, 
 Who went forth brave and bright as any here ! 
 I strive to mix some gladness with my strain, 
 But the sad strings complain. 
 And will not please the ear. . . . 
 In these brave ranks I only see the gaps. 
 Thinking of dear ones whom the dumb turf wraps, 
 Dark to the triumph which they died to gain. 
 Fitlier may others greet the living, — 
 For me the past is unforgiving : 
 I with uncovered head 
 Salute the sacred dead." 
 
 J. Russell Lowell, Ode at the Harvard 
 Commemoration, yuly 21 si, 1865. 
 
SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY IN THE WAR FOR 
 THE UNION. 
 
 The following is a List of the Soldiers from the 
 Town of Waterbury who Enlisted during the 
 War of the Rebellion, i86i to 1865, and were 
 Killed, or Died, or were Honorably Discharged. 
 
 first regiment connecticut volunteers. 
 
 APRIL 20, 1861, FOR THREE MONTHS. 
 
 Field, Staff, and Band. 
 
 Major John L. Chatfield, promoted Colonel Third Connecti- 
 cut Volunteers, mustered out August 12, 1861. 
 
 Hospital Steward Joseph Colton, mustered out July 31, 
 1861. 
 
 Musician F. W. Hart, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Musician George A. Boughton, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Company D. 
 Captain Marcus Coon, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 First Lieutenant Samuel W. Carpenter, mustered out July 
 
 31, 1861. 
 Second Lieutenant W. E. Morris, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Sergeant Edward P. Hudson, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Sergeant Luman Wadhams, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Sergeant Andrew McClintock, color sergeant, mustered 
 
 out July 31, 1 86 1. 
 Sergeant Andrew J. Ford, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
126 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 Corporal Jay P. Wilcox, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Corporal Alfred Carpenter, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Corporal Samuel L. Williams, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Corporal Henry Snagg, mustered out July 31, 1861, 
 Musician Frank Hurlbut, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private W'illiam Baldwin, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private Andrew J. Barnard, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private George W. Barnum, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private George Beebe, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private James A. Blake, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private David Blodgett, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private Frederick Blodgett, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private Alexander Bloomfield, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private James A. Breckenridge, mustered out July 31, 
 
 1861. 
 Pr 
 Pr 
 Pr 
 Pr 
 Pr 
 Pr 
 Pr 
 Pr 
 Pr 
 Pr 
 
 vate Arthur Byington, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 vate James Callahan, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 vate Edward Carroll, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 vate William Gary, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 vate Henry Castle, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 vate Patrick Claffee, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 vate Gustave DeBouge, mustered out July 31,. 1861. 
 
 vate Edward W. Dudley, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 vate Thomas Duffey, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 vate Redficld Duryec, promoted Adjutant Third Con- 
 necticut Volunteers, mustered out August 12, 1861. 
 Private Sebastian Echter, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private Frank Edens, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private Christopher P^'ick, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private Wilbur F. Gillett, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private Mason Grey, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private James C. Hazely, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 12/ 
 
 Private Charles N. Herring, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Edward J. Hickox, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Arthur Hitchcock, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Amos S. Hotchkiss, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Frank Howard, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Seth W. Hungerford, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private George Hunt, mustered out July 31, i86r. 
 
 Private Silas P. Keeler, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private John Kelly, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private John Landigan, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private John Lawson, mustered out July 31, t86i. 
 
 Private Henry Leonard, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Joseph N. Lewin, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Prank Long, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private P'rederick C. Lord, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Robert Maine, transferred to Third Connecticut 
 
 Volunteers, discharged May 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Augustus Martinson, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Archibald McCollum, mustered out July 51, 1861. 
 
 Private David Miller, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Fergus L. Mintie, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private David Mix, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Philo Mix, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Elford Nettleton, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Elsworth H. Norton, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private John O'Neill, Jr., mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Charles W. Parker, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private David D. Pattell, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Andrew A. Paul, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Frank C. Peck, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Birdsey Pickett, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 Private Sylvester H. Piatt, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
128 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 Private Julius Saxe, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private Thomas Smedley, discharged May r, 1861. 
 Private Henry L. Snagg, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private Joseph H. Somers, mustered out July 31, 1861, 
 Private Edgar C. Sterling, discharged, disability, May r, 
 
 1861. 
 Private N. W. Tomlinson, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private Charles B. Vail, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private George Van Horn, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private Elijah White, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 Private Harrison L. Wilson, mustered out July 31, 1861. 
 
 SECOND REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 MAY 7, 1861, FOR THREE MONTHS. 
 
 Company D. 
 Private John McManus, prisoner at Bull Run, July 21, 
 1861. 
 
 THIRD REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 MAY 14, 1861, FOR THREE MONTHS. 
 
 Field and Staff. 
 Chaplain Junius M. Willey, honorably discharged. 
 
 Company B. 
 Musician John Zeigler, discharged by court martial. 
 Private Albert Gakeler, mustered out August 12, i86r. 
 Private Charles Lombardy, mustered out August 12, 1861. 
 Private Herman Zicbel, disabled, discharged May 31, 1861. 
 
 Company D. 
 Private Michael Fitzgerald, mustered out August 12, 1861. 
 Private Thomas Fitzgerald, mustered out August 12, 1861. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. I29 
 
 SECOND REGIMENT NEW YORK CAVALRY. 
 
 AUGUST I, 1861, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 First Lieutenant Marcus Coon, promoted Captain Janu- 
 ary 15, 1862. 
 
 Corporal Cornelius H. Bailey, killed by a horse October 
 12, 1861. 
 
 Corporal Alexander Bloomfield, mustered out . 
 
 Private John Lawson, died at Andersonville, Ga., July 27, 
 1864. 
 
 Private Ellsworth H. Norton, killed in action September 
 16, 1863. 
 
 Private Alonzo M. Robe, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 June 23, 1865. 
 
 FIRST REGIMENT CONNECTICUT CAVALRY. 
 
 NOVEMBER 26, l86r, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Company A. 
 Private William Allen, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 
 Company B. 
 Private John Dougherty, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private James B. Farrell, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private James Preston, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 
 Company C 
 Private Frederick Carlisle, discharged, term expired. 
 Private Andrew Doran, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private John Geiger, mustered out January 19, 1865. 
 
 Company D. 
 Second Lieutenant Edward M. Neville, promoted Captain, 
 mustered out January 19, 1865. 
 
130 SOLDIERS OF WATERRURY 
 
 Private Samuel N. Bradley, captured May 5, 1864; released 
 
 Private Wilbur Gillett, discharged and enlisted in the 
 Fifth United States Cavalry November 7, 1862. 
 
 Private William H. Knapp, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 
 Private John R. Skidmore, promoted Captain, mustered 
 out August 2, 1865. 
 
 Company E. 
 Private William Clemens, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Hiram Drake, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Patrick Fitzpatrick, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Edward Harvey, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Alexander Smith, transferred to United States 
 Navy, April 25, 1864. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Private Henry Overing, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Ira B. Webster, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 
 Company G. 
 Private Eberhard Gaab, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Charles Spierling, discharged by order of the 
 Secretary of War, June 30, 1865. 
 
 Company H. 
 Private Patrick Crannell, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private John Farrell, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private John Maley, discharged June 29, 1864. 
 Private Thomas Whims, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 
 Company K. 
 Private Charles H. Hine, died May 16, 1864. 
 Private Leopold Hodapp, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. I3I 
 
 Private William Jeffrey, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private George L. Lyons, mustered out June i, 1865. 
 Private Philip Moran, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Daniel Nonan, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Patrick Ouinn, captured June i, 1864. 
 Private Jabez T. Richardson, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Eugene Sugrue, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 
 Company L. 
 Private John Connery, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private James McCarty, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Charles H. Morris, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Joshua B. Sickler, mustered out June 20, 1865. 
 Private James Welch, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private James Wilson, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 
 Company M. 
 Private Levi Scott, died March 16, 1864. 
 
 Unassigned Recruits for the First Regiment Connecticut 
 
 Cavalry. 
 
 Private James Donnelly, not taken up on the rolls. 
 
 Private Robert Grant, not taken up on the rolls. 
 
 Private Frederick Hall, not taken up on the rolls. 
 
 Private George Harper, not taken up on the rolls. 
 
 Private William Johnson, not taken up on the rolls. 
 
 Private Edward Martin, not taken up on the rolls. 
 
 Private Henry Meyer, not taken up on the rolls. 
 
 Private John Morgan, not taken up on the rolls. 
 
 Private Emerson Morse, not taken up on the rolls. • 
 
 Private Samuel Poppelton, not taken up on the rolls. 
 
 Private Charles Robinson, not taken w\> on the rolls. 
 
132 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 Private James Taylor, not taken up on the rolls. 
 Private George White, not taken up on the rolls. 
 Private Yurigi Zaffi, not taken up on the rolls. 
 
 FIRST LIGHT BATTERY CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 NOVEMBER 26, 1861, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Private Xaverius Droesbeck, mustered out June ii, 1865. 
 Private Adolph W. Eckert, mustered out June 11, 1865. 
 
 SECOND LIGHT BATTERY CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 AUGUST I, 1862, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Private Charles E. Longdin, mustered out August 9, 1865. 
 Private Eldridge B. Piatt, mustered out August 9, 1865. 
 
 THIRD LIGHT BATTERY CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 OCTOBER 27, 1864, FOR ONE YEAR. 
 
 Private William A. Adams, mustered out June 23, 1865. 
 Private John Baldwin, mustered out June 23, r865. 
 Private Henry P. Bronson, mustered out June 23, 1865. 
 Private Frederick Cross, mustered out June 23, 1865. 
 Private Martin Perry, mustered out June 23, 1865. 
 
 FIRST REGIMENT HEAVY ARTILLERY CONNECTICUT 
 VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 MAY 23, 1S61, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Field, Staff, and Band. 
 
 Quartermaster Sergeant Henry A. Pratt, promoted First 
 
 Lieutenant, mustered out March 18, 1865. 
 Musician Phineas D. Warner, mustered out July 17, 1862. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. I33 
 
 Cotnpaiiy B. 
 
 Private Frederick E. Adams, transferred to Third Con- 
 necticut Light Battery, mustered out September 
 25, 1865. 
 
 Private Henry Kron, mustered out May 21, 1864. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Second Lieutenant Charles R. Bannon, promoted Captain 
 and Battery Major, mustered out September 25, 
 1865. 
 
 Sergeant James Callahan, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 September 25, 1865. 
 
 Private Andrew Bentley, mustered out September 25, 1865. 
 
 Private Frank Blake, discharged April i, 1862. 
 
 Private William Blake, disabled, discharged April i, 1862. 
 
 Private Charles Coyle, mustered out September 25, 1865. 
 
 Private Levi Fardon, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 September 25, 1865. 
 
 Private Charles Haight, disabled, discharged January 31, 
 1864. 
 
 Private John Kelly, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out Sep- 
 tember 25, 1865. 
 
 Private James Kilduff, mustered out September 25, 1865. 
 
 Private John Kilduff, disabled, discharged January 15, 1863. 
 
 Private John P. Kilduff, mustered out September 25, 1865. 
 
 Private George Larkin, re-enlistcd veteran, promoted Sec- 
 ond Lieutenant, mustered out ^ September 25, 1865. 
 
 Private Thomas Leary, mustered out May 5, 1865. 
 
 Private James McCann, mustered out March 7, 1865. 
 
 Private John McGra, mustered out September 25, 1865. 
 
 Private Thomas O'Connor, mustered out March 11, 1865. 
 
 Private Daniel Rafferty, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 September 25, 1865. 
 
134 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 Private James T. Raymond, disabled, discharged April i, 
 1862. 
 
 Private Samuel C. Snagg, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 September 25, 1865. 
 
 Private Eugene Sullivan, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 September 25, 1865. 
 
 Private John Thornton, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 September 25, 1865. 
 
 I'rivate Frederick R. White, re-enlistcd veteran, died Sep- 
 tember 23, 1865. 
 
 Company D. 
 Private Edward Barry, mustered out May 21, 1864. 
 
 Company E. 
 Private Robert Kyle, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 
 September 25, 1865. 
 Private Lawrence Leonard, mustered out September 25, 
 1865. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Private Thomas Delaney, disabled, discharged February 13, 
 1864. 
 
 Company G. 
 
 Wagoner Thomas J. Peck, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 
 September 25, 1865. 
 Private Patrick Gogin, mustered out September 25, 1865. 
 
 Compajiy H. 
 Private Robert McNeil, mustered out May 21, 1864. 
 
 Company I. 
 Private John M. Bassett, died February 5, 1864. 
 Private Richard S. Baxter, died October 7, 1864. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 1 35 
 
 Private Joseph H. Cummings, promoted to First Lieu- 
 tenant, mustered out August 25, 1864. 
 
 Private Levi B. Downs, promoted Lieutenant colored 
 troops December 25, 1864. 
 
 Private Lewis A. Downs, disabled, discharged June 4, 1862. 
 
 Private George E. Fields, disabled, discharged June 8, 1861. 
 
 Private George Fitzsimons, mustered out May 22, 1864. 
 
 Private Henry B. Judd, mustered out April 17, 1865. 
 
 Private William MelJor, disabled, discharged. 
 
 Private Robert Nelson, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 September 25, 1865. 
 
 Private Edward L. Peck, mustered out May 22, 1864. 
 
 Private William E. Smith, died February 2, 1862. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 Private Richard B. Ellis, mustered out September 25, 1865. 
 Private William Shunahan, mustered out September 25, 1865. 
 
 Coinpa7iy L. 
 
 Private Alfred Bleuet, mustered out September 25, 1865. 
 Private Alexander Hine, mustered out September 25, 1865. 
 Private Richard Morrow, mustered out September 25, 1865. 
 
 Company M. 
 Private Patrick Smith, mustered out September 25, 1865. 
 
 SECOND REGIMENT HEAVY ARTILLERY CONNECTICUT 
 VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 AUGUST I, 1862, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Company A. 
 Private James Gibbons, mustered out August 18, 1865. 
 Private Benjamin H. Rathbone, died at Andersonville, 
 Ga., November 15, 1864. 
 
136 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 Company B. 
 Private Thomas Carroll, 2d, mustered out August 18, 1865. 
 Private Philip Davies, transferred to the United States 
 
 Navy April 4, 1864. 
 Private John Murphy, transferred to the United States 
 
 Navy April 4, 1864. 
 Private John V>. Stall, killed in action June i, 1864. 
 
 Compajiy C. 
 
 Private William Butler, died April 9, 1864. 
 Private James Rogers, killed in action May 5, 1864. 
 Private William S. Wilson, mustered out April 18, 1865. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 Private Joseph Cleveland, transferred to the United States 
 
 Navy April 14, 1864. 
 Private Truman D. Wooster, disabled, discharged January 
 
 12, 1865. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Private Daniel McDonald, mustered out June 9, 1865. 
 
 Company G. 
 Private Charles H. Bentley, mustered out August 18, 1865. 
 Private John Byrnes, Avounded June i, 1864, mustered out 
 
 August 18, 1865. 
 Private John McLaughlin, mustered out August 18, 1865. 
 Private Michael Shannon, mustered out August 18, 1865. 
 
 Company I. 
 Private George Parsons, transferred to the United States 
 
 Navy April 13, 1864. 
 Private Henry Taylor, disabled, discharged April 29, 1865. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 1 37 
 
 Company M. 
 
 Private Charles Allen, wounded October 19, 1864, mus- 
 tered out August 18, 1865. 
 Private Peter Fitzgerald, mustered out August 18, 1865. 
 Private George Schmidt, mustered out August 18, 1865. 
 
 Uiiassigncd Recndts for the Second Reghnent Heavy 
 Artillery, C. V. 
 
 Private John McKenzie, not taken up on the rolls. 
 Private Stephen Newman, not taken up on the rolls. 
 
 FIFTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 JULY 23, 1S61, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Company A. 
 Private William H. Langdon, wounded May 25, 1862, 
 
 disabled, discharged June 27, 1862. 
 Private George F. Stone, died November 22, 1863. 
 
 Company C. 
 Sergeant William Higgins, died of wounds October 20, 1862. 
 
 Company D. 
 First Lieutenant David B. Hamilton, promoted Captain, 
 
 disabled, discharged January 10, 1863. 
 Second Lieutenant Edward J. Rice, promoted Captain, 
 
 resigned July 22, 1863. 
 Sergeant William T. Darrow, promoted Second Lieutenant, 
 
 resigned May 2, 1862. 
 
 Corporal Daniel Hawthorne, killed in action August 9, 1862. 
 
 Corporal Frederick Madden, died October 18, 1863. 
 
 Musician John V. Main, transferred to invalid corps March 
 
 15, 1864. 
 iS 
 
138 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY . 
 
 Private William Balfe, mustered out July 22, 1864. 
 
 Private Horatio H. Bolster, mustered out July 22, 1864. 
 
 Private John Bricker, killed in action August 9, 1862. 
 
 Private Elisha A. Buck, mustered out July 22, 1864. 
 
 Private Joseph A. Canfield, wounded August 9, 1862, dis- 
 abled, discharged January 16, 1863. 
 
 Private William B. Crossland, disabled, discharged Decem- 
 ber 10, 1862. 
 
 Private John Darwin, mustered out July 22, 1864. 
 
 Private John G. Ellis, discharged October 25, 1862. 
 
 Private John F. Gough, wounded August 9, 1862, dis- 
 abled, discharged January 3, 1863. 
 
 Private Lorenzo Held, killed in action August 9, 1862. 
 
 Private John Hill, killed in action August 9, 1862. 
 
 Private Elias H. Howland, died September 4, 1861. 
 
 Private William H. Judd, mustered out July 22, 1864. 
 
 Private John H. McCormick, wounded August 9, 1862, 
 re-enlisted veteran, mustered out July 19, 1865. 
 
 Private August Meyer, killed in action July 20, 1864. 
 
 Private James H. Mintie, mustered out July 22, 1864. 
 
 Private Hugho Oberempt, wounded, re-enlisted veteran, 
 mustered out July 19, 1865. 
 
 Private William O'Brien, re-enlisted veteran, killed by 
 accident February 13, 1864. 
 
 Private Timothy Quinn, mustered out July 22, 1864. 
 
 Private Matthias H. Ray, mustered out July 22, 1864. 
 
 Private Frederick G. Rixecker, re-enlisted veteran, killed 
 in action March 16, 1865. 
 
 Pri\ate W'illiam E. Shelton, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 out July 19, 1865. 
 
 Private Patrick Stevens, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 July 19, 1865. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 1 39 
 
 Private Eugene Sugrue, wounded, disabled, discharged 
 
 October 29, 1862. 
 Private Joseph Thompson, died May 27, 1862. 
 Private Nelson C. Welton, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 
 out July 19, 1865. 
 
 Company F. 
 Private Matthew Schreckler, disabled, discharged January 
 13, 1863. 
 
 SIXTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 SEPTEMBER I3, 1861, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Field, Staff, and Band. 
 Colonel John L. Chatfield, died of wounds August 9, 1863. 
 Adjutant Redfield Duryee, promoted Colonel, resigned 
 May 29, 1864. 
 • Musician Dennis Blakeslee, mustered out September i, 1862. 
 Musician John Bryan, mustered out September i, 1862. 
 Musician Frank H. Hunt, mustered out September i, 1862. 
 
 Company C. 
 Corporal Gustave Debouge, killed in action July 18, 1863. 
 Private Henry Grauman, mustered out September 11, 1864. 
 Private George Henninger, killed in action June 17, 1864. 
 Private Albert Kreitling, died November 30, 1861. 
 Private Charles Lomberti, died of wounds August 19, 1863. 
 Private Simeon Schwartz, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 out August 21, 1865. 
 
 Company E. 
 Captain Edward P. Hudson, wounded July 18, 1863, re- 
 signed February 19, 1864. 
 
140 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 First Lieutenant W. H. H. VVoostcr, resigned March 23, 
 1862. 
 
 Sergeant James A. Blake, re-enlisted veteran, missing May 
 16, 1864. 
 
 Sergeant Edwin L. Cooke, transferred to Veteran Reserve 
 Corps September I, 1863. 
 
 Sergeant Orrin A. Robbins, mustered out September 11, 
 1864. 
 
 Sergeant Julius Saxe, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 August 21, 1865. 
 
 Corporal John W. Hill, disabled, discharged July 30, 1862. 
 
 Corporal Frank Howard, enlisted in United States Army, 
 discharged October 14, 1863. 
 
 Corporal Frank King, mustered out September 11, 1864. 
 
 Corporal Ralph G. Robbins, died September 2, 1862. 
 
 Wagoner Frederick Blodgett, mustered out September 1 1, 
 I864. 
 
 Private John Abbott, re-enlisted veteran, transferred to 
 Veteran Reserve Corps, mustered out August 9, 
 1865. 
 
 Private John Bagarly, mustered out September 11, 1864. 
 
 Private Michael Brady, wounded May 14, 1864, mustered 
 out August 21, 1865. 
 
 Private Charles S. Brown, transferred to Signal Corps Uni- 
 ted States Army October 13, 1863. 
 
 Private John D. Brown, disabled, discharged P^ebruary 6, 
 1863. 
 
 Private Thomas Carey, wounded, re-enlisted veteran, mus- 
 tered out August 21, 1865. 
 
 Private Ira P:. Clough, mustered out August 21, 1865. 
 
 Private Joseph Colton, promoted Quartermaster, resigned 
 September ij, 1864. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. I4I 
 
 Private Patrick Dalton, wounded May 20, 1864, mustered 
 
 out August 21, 1865. 
 Private Thomas Dillam, mustered out August 21, 1865. 
 Private Lyman Doolittle, disabled, discharged September 
 
 8, 1862. 
 Private Michael Dunn, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 
 August 21, 1865. 
 Private John Fahey, mustered out September 12, 1864. 
 Private Daniel Higgins, wounded May 10, 1864, mustered 
 
 out August 21, 1865. 
 Private John E. Jeffrey, discharged September 7, 1863. 
 Private Michael Lalley, disabled, discharged July 24, 1862. 
 Private Joseph Langdale, mustered out August 21, 1865. 
 Private Joseph W. Lewin, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 
 out August 21, 1865. 
 Private Hugh Loughlin, wounded, rc-enlisted veteran, 
 
 killed in action October 7, 1864. 
 Private John Lynch, mustered out August 21, 1865. 
 Private John Main, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out Au- 
 gust 21, 1865. 
 Private Horace Moulthrop, re-enlisted veteran, died of 
 
 wounds October 22, 1864. 
 Private Horatio Nelson, transferred to the Signal Corps 
 
 United States Army February 29, 1864. 
 Private Michael O'Brien, killed in action October 7, 1864. 
 Private Thomas O'Connor, died January 13, 1863. 
 Private Simon O'Donnell, mustered out June 10, 1865. 
 Private John O'Sullivan, mustered out August 21, 1865. 
 Private Andrew A. Paul, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 
 August 21, 1865. 
 Private Timothy Phalen, drowned June 8, 1862. 
 
142 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 Private William Rigney, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 August 21, 1865. 
 
 Private Carl Rueck, mustered out September 11, 1864. 
 
 Private James Sawyer, mustered out September 12, 1864. 
 
 Private Albert M. Scott, wounded, re-enlisted veteran, 
 mustered out August 21, 1865. 
 
 Private John Sears, disabled, discharged January 8, 1865. 
 
 Private George H. Smith, wounded, mustered out Sep- 
 tember 12, 1864. 
 
 Private William W. Swan, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 out August 21, 1865. 
 
 Private George Welch, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 August 21, 1865. 
 
 Private Richard Welch, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 August 21, 1865. 
 
 Private Jay P. Wilcox, promoted Captain Company B, 
 killed in action May 10, 1864. 
 
 Private John Woods, killed in action May 15, 1864. 
 
 Private W. H. H. W^ooster, promoted Quartermaster, mus- 
 tered out August 21, 1865. 
 
 Company F. 
 Private Luther Davis, died August 14, 1862. 
 Private John Hendrincks, mustered out August 21, 1865. 
 Private James Wallace, mustered out September 11, 1864. 
 
 Company G. 
 Private William A. Johnson, mustered out August 21, 
 
 1865. 
 Private Robert King, mustered out August 21, 1865. 
 Private John McDonald, mustered out August 21, 1865. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. I43 
 
 Company H. 
 Private Abram Sherman, mustered out August 21, 1865.. 
 
 Company I. 
 Private Emil Pearn, wounded May 16, 1864, mustered out 
 
 August 21, 1865. 
 Private James Ramsey, mustered out August 21, 1865. 
 
 Company K. 
 Private Hugh O'Donnell, mustered out August 21, 1865. 
 Private James Young, mustered out August 21, 1865. 
 
 SEVENTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 SEPTEMBER 1 7, 1861, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Company A. 
 Private Robert K. Reid, 2d, prisoner at Andersonville, Ga., 
 
 mustered out June lO, 1865. 
 Private Robert K. Reid, 3d, died in Andersonville, Ga., 
 
 August 29, 1864. 
 
 Company C 
 Private Adolph Bennings, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 Private August Le Sage, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Company D. 
 Private John P. Wilcox, mustered out September 13, 1864. 
 
 Company F. 
 Private Michael Landers, died August 9, 1862. 
 Private John Swain, missing June 17, 1864. 
 Private Herman Ziebel, disabled, discharged March 22, 
 1864. 
 
144 SOLDIERS OF WATERIJURY 
 
 Company K. 
 Private John Shay, died February 25, 1865, 
 
 EIGHTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 OCTOBER 5, 1861, FOR THREE YEAUS. 
 
 Company A. 
 Private Benjamin F. Monroe, rejected, November 2, 1861. 
 Private Gregory Monroe, disabled, discharged January 4, 
 1862. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 Private Patrick Crannell, mustered out December 12, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Company E. 
 Captain Martin B. Smith, promoted Lieutenant Colonel, 
 
 wounded, mustered out December 20, 1864. 
 First Lieutenant Henry N. Place, resigned March 18, 
 
 1862. 
 Second Lieutenant Luman Wadhams, resigned April 8, 
 
 1862. 
 Sergeant Nelson Bronson, promoted First Lieutenant, 
 
 wounded, honorably discharged January 17, 1863. 
 Sergeant John T. Bronson, promoted Second Lieutenant, 
 
 resigned October 2, 1862. 
 Sergeant Samuel L. Williams, re-enlisted veteran, wound- 
 ed, disabled, discharged August 8, 1865. 
 Corporal William G. Bcnham, disabled, discharged May 
 
 31, 1863. 
 Corporal Silas P. Keeler, re -enlisted veteran, wounded, 
 
 disabled, discharged February 16, 1865. 
 Corporal Simeon L. Rogers, mustered out September 24, 
 
 1864. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. I45 
 
 Corporal George W. Root, disabled, discharged May 10, 
 
 1862. 
 Private James Burns, rejected November 21, 1861. 
 Private Samuel Chittenden, transferred to Veteran Reserve 
 
 Corps, mustered out September 24, 1864. 
 Private Andrew J. Cotney, wounded, re-enlisted veteran, 
 
 mustered out December 12, 1865. 
 Private Frank Edens, wounded, re-enlisted veteran, dis- 
 abled discharged June 30, 1865. 
 Private Horace Garrigus, wounded, re-enlisted veteran, 
 
 mustered out December 12, 1865. 
 Private J. Henry Garrigus, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 
 out December 12, 1865. 
 Private Lewis Granniss, wounded, disabled, discharged 
 
 March 4, 1863. 
 Private Alonzo Harper, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 
 December 12, 1865. 
 Private Arthur Honner, wounded, re-enlisted veteran, 
 
 mustered out December 12, 1865. 
 Private Oscar L. Jerome, died November 8, 1862. 
 Private William Pendleton, disabled, discharged May 31, 
 
 1862. 
 Private George L. Piatt, mustered out June 26, 1865. 
 Private Richard T. Piatt, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 
 out December 12, 1865. 
 Private William R. Post, wounded, mustered out Decem- 
 ber 30, 1864. 
 Private James F. Robbins, disabled, discharged May 14, 
 
 1862. 
 Private Franklin M. Rose, killed in action, May 7, 1864. 
 Private Thomas Scotton, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 
 December 12, 1865. 
 19 
 
146 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 Private Elmon E, Smith, disabled, discharged June 27, 
 
 1862. 
 Private Henry N. Smith, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 
 out December 12, 1865. 
 Private William A. Spencer, disabled, discharged June 
 
 30, 1863. 
 Private Harrison Taylor, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 
 December 12, 1865. 
 
 Company F. 
 Private James E. Fenner, mustered out December 12, 
 1865. 
 
 Company I. 
 Private William Hickey, mustered out December 12, 1865. 
 
 Company K. 
 Private William Patterson, mustered out December 12, 
 1865. 
 
 NINTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 NOVEMBER I, 1861, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Field and Staff. 
 Sergeant-Major Patrick T. Claffee, promoted Adjutant, 
 died October 2, 1862. 
 
 Company A. 
 Private John Haggerty, mustered out August 3, 1865. 
 Private James McDonald, died November 6, 1862. 
 Private Terence McDonald, disabled, discharged June 12, 
 
 1865. 
 Private William J. Thompson,, not taken up on the rolls. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. I47 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Private James Carey, re-enlisted veteran, no record of 
 
 discharge. 
 Private John Fahy, wounded, mustered out August 3, 
 
 1865. 
 Private Nicholas McCormick, mustered out August 3, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Company C. 
 Private Thomas White, mustered out June 8, 1865. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Captain John Foley, resigned December 20, 1862. 
 
 Second Lieutenant William Carroll, resigned December 
 20, 1862. 
 
 Sergeant Richard Claxton, died October 29, 1862. 
 
 Sergeant Frederick Jewess, killed on picket October 19, 
 1862. 
 
 Sergeant Daniel Leahy, mustered out October 26, 1864. 
 
 Sergeant Timothy Ryan, died August 22, 1862. 
 
 Sergeant George Wilson, disabled, discharged December 8, 
 1862. 
 
 Corporal John T. Alexander, disabled, discharged Decem- 
 ber 8, 1862. 
 
 Corporal John Coen, killed on railroad May 27, 1863. 
 
 Corporal Michael Coen, mustered out October 26, 1864. 
 
 Corporal Michael Cronan, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 out August 3, 1865. 
 
 Corporal Peter Doyle, mustered out October 26, 1864. 
 
 Corporal Henry Menholdt, re-enlisted veteran, mustered, 
 out August 3, 1865. 
 
 Corporal James Tobin, died October 26, 1862. 
 
148 SOLDIERS OF VVATERBURY 
 
 Musician James McMullen, disabled, discharged October 
 
 16, 1862. 
 Wagoner Terrence Logan, disabled, discharged. 
 Private David Almond, wounded, disabled, December 27, 
 
 1862. 
 Private Patrick Buggy, mustered out June 10, 1865. 
 Private Michael Daley, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 
 August 3, 1865. 
 Private Patrick Delaney, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 
 out August 3, 1865. 
 Private Thomas Delaney, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 
 out August 3, 1865. 
 private John Delawn, disabled, discharged October 16, 
 
 1862. 
 Private John Fanning, died November 13, 1863. 
 Private Michael Feeny, discharged December 8, 1862. 
 Private Edward Garretty, mustered out October 26, 1864. 
 Private John Green, died August 15, 1862. 
 Private Thomas H. Hogan, mustered out October 26, 
 
 1864. 
 Private John Hurlbut, re-enlisted veteran, no record of 
 
 discharge. 
 Private John Kelleher, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 
 August 3, 1865. 
 Private John McAlier, mustered out October 26, 1864. 
 Private Peter McCormick, disabled, discharged December 
 
 8, 1862. 
 Private Patrick McDermot, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 
 out August 3, 1865. 
 Private John McLoughlin, died September 17, 1862. 
 Private Charles Metzler, mustered out October 26, 1864. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. I49 
 
 Private Eugene Moriarty, disabled, mustered out October 
 
 23, 1863. 
 Private Patrick Morrisey, died October 9, 1862. 
 Private Allen Noyes, discharged November 19, 1861. 
 Private Miles Quinlin, mustered out October 26, 1864. 
 Private William Rabbitt, disabled, discharged December 
 
 8, 1862. 
 Private Patrick Roach, disabled, discharged October 16, 
 
 1862. 
 Private William Webber, disabled, discharged October 16, 
 
 1862. 
 Private John Welch, mustered out October 26, 1864. 
 Private John Whaland, disabled, discharged December 9, 
 
 1862. 
 Private Thomas White, died October 15, 1862. 
 Private George Worthers, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 
 August 3, 1865. 
 Private William York, mustered out October 26, 1864. 
 
 Company K. 
 Private Robert Read, discharged October 25, 1862, 
 
 Unassigned Recruits for the Ninth Regiment C. V. 
 
 Private George Brown, not taken up on the rolls. 
 Private Peter Cain, not taken up on the rolls. 
 Private Henry Noon, not taken up on the rolls. 
 
 TENTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 
 
 OCTOBER 26, 1861, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Company A. 
 Private John T. Moulthrop, disabled, discharged April 24, 
 1863. 
 
ISO SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 CompciJiy E. 
 Private John Coleman, mustered out May 25, 1865. 
 
 Company F. 
 Private John Bentley, re-enlisted veteran, wounded, mus- 
 tered out August 25, 1865. 
 
 Company H . 
 Private Charles Martin, disabled, discharged June 6, 1865. 
 Private Edward Welch, mustered out May 30, 1865. 
 
 Company I. 
 Private Henry A. Heisa, mustered out August 25, 1865. 
 Private Andras P. Kraiberg, mustered out August 25, 
 1865.. 
 
 Unassigned Recruit for tJie TentJi Regiment C. V. 
 Private Thomas Burns, not taken up on tlie rolls. 
 
 ELEVENTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 NOVEMBER 27, 1861, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Company D. 
 Private James McDonald, mustered out December 21, 
 
 1865. 
 Private Frank McLoughlin, mustered out December 21, 
 1865. 
 
 Company E. 
 Private Nicholas Lorenz, wounded, mustered out Decem- 
 ber 21, 1865. 
 
 Co7?ipauy G. 
 Private Henry Appel, mustered out December 21, 1865. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. I5I 
 
 Company I. 
 
 Private Oliver Balcomb, mustered out December 21, 1865. 
 Private Lozare Luce, killed in action June 18, 1864. 
 Private Lewis Renz, died at Andersonville, Ga., August 
 
 3, 1864. 
 Private August Thomas, mustered out December 21, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 Private James Dagnan, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 
 December 21, 1865. 
 Private Henry Reese, mustered out June 20, 1865. 
 Private William H. Wood, mustered out December 21, 
 
 1865. 
 
 TWELFTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 DECEMBER 31, 1861, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Field, Staff, and Band. 
 
 First Assistant Surgeon M. C. Leavenworth, died No- 
 vember 16, 1862. 
 
 Company A. 
 
 Private Daniel R. P. Gilbert, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 out August 12, 1865. 
 
 Company C 
 Private George Bentlcy, died September 20, 1862. 
 
 Company F. 
 Private Thomas Nolan, died January 3, 1864. 
 
152 SOLDIERS OF WATEKBURY. 
 
 Unassigncd Recruits for tlie Twelfth Regiment, C. V. 
 Private George Benson, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Jean Contani, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Karl Dietz, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Joseph Howard, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private James McGann, not taken up on the rolls. 
 Private Joseph Sheridan, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private John Sullivan, mustered out August 2, 1865. 
 Private Henry Thompson, not taken up on the rolls. 
 
 THIRTEENTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 JANUARY 7, 1862, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Private Elisha S. Blackman, re-enlisted veteran, disabled, 
 
 discharged July 20, 1864. 
 Private George L. Lyons, disabled, discharged June 27, 
 
 1862. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 Private John Dillon, re-enlistcd veteran, mustered out 
 April 25, 1866. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Private Charles A. Adams, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 out April 25, 1866. 
 
 Private John Hidehogg, transferred to the Veteran Re- 
 serve Corps March 15, 1864. 
 
 Private Patrick Leary, died Augu.st 21, 1862. 
 
 Private Michael McGrath, re-enlisted veteran, mustered 
 out April 25, 1866. 
 
 Private John Quinn, disabled, dischargetl June 8, 1863. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. I53 
 
 Private John S. Ranney, re-enlisted veteran, mustered out 
 April 25, 1866. 
 
 Company K. 
 Corporal Hobert E. Mansfield, transferred to the United 
 
 States Army February 28, 1863. 
 Private William Montgomery, mustered out April 25, 1866. 
 
 FOURTEENTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 AUGUST l8, 1862, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Field, Staff, and Band. 
 Surgeon Philo G. Rockwell, resigned March 8, 1863. 
 
 Company A. 
 Private Christian Bull, died in hospital. 
 Private Seth W. Hungerford, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 Private Charles Loomis, transferred to the United States 
 
 Navy April 24, 1864. 
 Private Benjamin F. Merrill, disabled, discharged March 
 
 9, 1863. 
 Private Joseph Orr, transferred to Second Connecticut 
 
 Heavy Artillery May 31, 1865. • 
 Private Samuel Y. Perry, transferred to the United States 
 
 Navy April 24, 1864. 
 Private Thomas Purcell, transferred to Second Connec- 
 ticut Heavy Artillery May 31, 1865. 
 Private Charles Roberts, transferred to the United States 
 
 Navy April 24, 1864. 
 Private Francis Storms, mustered out July 25, 1865. 
 Private John Wolff, transferred to Second Connecticut 
 
 Heavy Artillery May 31, 1865. 
 
154 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 Company B. 
 Private Henry A. Lawrence, disabled, discharged May 9, 
 
 1865. 
 Private Louis Senglaub, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 Private Nelson L. Stowe, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 
 Company C. 
 Captain Samuel W. Carpenter, transferred to Veteran 
 
 Reserve Corps September 14, 1863. 
 First Lieutenant Frederick J. Seymour, promoted Cap- 
 tain, honorably discharged December 21, 1862, 
 Second Lieutenant James F. Simpson, promoted Captain, 
 
 wounded, honorably discharged November 14, 1864. 
 Sergeant John E. Durand, disabled, discharged. 
 Sergeant James J. Gilbert, discharged December 31, 1863. 
 Sergeant Henry L. Snagg, promoted Captain, wounded, 
 
 resigned May 5, 1864. 
 Sergeant George A. Stocking, promoted Captain, wounded 
 
 twice, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 Sergeant Henry W. Wadhams, promoted First Lieutenant, 
 
 killed in action, May 26, 1864. 
 Corporal Henry F. Bissell, transferred to Veteran Reserve 
 
 Corps, mustered out July 6, 1865. 
 Corporal Matthew Budge, disabled, discharged March 30, 
 
 1863. 
 Corporal Lucius Curtiss, disabled, wounded, discharged 
 
 March 30, 1863. 
 Corporal Henry Keeler, killed in action, September 17, 
 
 1862. 
 Corporal Alexander McNeil, missing in action, February 
 
 6, 1864. 
 Corporal David Mix, killed in action, September 17, 1862. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. I55 
 
 Corporal Birdsey Pickett, died May lo, 1863. 
 
 Wagoner Augustus Bayer, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private George A. Adams, ist, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private Treat D. Andrews, disabled, discharged January 
 6, 1863. 
 
 Private Frederick Austin, died at Richmond, Va., April 8, 
 1864. 
 
 Private Jonathan R. Baldwin, disabled, discharged Decem- 
 ber 28, 1863. 
 
 Private Charles A. Beebe, killed in action, June 3, 1864. 
 
 Private Henry W. Brown, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private Theodore D. Byington, wounded three times, 
 transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, mustered 
 out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Private Bazil Candee, died September 11, 1864. 
 
 Private William Carey, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private Henry tastle, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private John D. Chatfield, mustered out June 21, 1865. 
 
 Private Lyman B. Chatfield, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private Edwin A. Craw, discharged January 3, 1863. 
 
 Private Michael Delaney, died September 12, 1863. 
 
 Private Frederick A. Ellis, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private William H. Ellis, killed in action October 27, 
 1864. 
 
 Private Thomas Farrell, transferred to Veteran Reserve 
 Corps August 13, 1864. 
 
 Private David L. Frisbie, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private James F. Gaunt, disabled, discharged March 19, 
 1863. 
 
 Private Duncan D. Gibbud, transferred to Veteran Re- 
 serve Corps, mustered out July 10, 1865. 
 
156 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 Private William C. Goodrich, discharged November 9, 
 1862. 
 
 Private Thomas M. Hill, wounded, mustered out June 5, 
 1865. 
 
 Private Clark L. Hurd, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private John Jones, died of wounds October 12, 1862. 
 
 Private Daniel B. Joyce, wounded, mustered out July 5, 
 1865. 
 
 Private Kdward A. Judd, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private Edward Kilduff, wounded twice, mustered out 
 May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private John Lines, mustered out May 31, 1865, 
 
 Private Valentine Lungwitz, wounded, mustered out May 
 31, 1865. 
 
 Private James S. Mallory, transferred to the United States 
 Navy August 20, 1862. 
 
 Private James Marks, transferred to Second Connecticut 
 Heavy Artillery May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private Thomas J. McLaud, transferred to Second Connec- 
 ticut Heavy Artillery May 3, 1865. 
 
 Private Patrick McMahon, died May 15, 1865. 
 
 Private Charles B. Merrill, mustered out May 17, 1865, 
 
 Private Leonard J. Merchant, wounded, discharged De- 
 cember 23, 1863. 
 
 Private Gregory Monroe, disabled, discharged March 9, 
 1863. 
 
 Private John Mulville, wounded, disabled, discharged Jan- 
 uary 5, 1863. 
 
 Private George W. Munson, transferred to Veteran Re- 
 serve Corps, mustered out July 15, 1865. 
 
 Private William H. Nelson, Jr., wounded, mustered out 
 May 31, 1865. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 1 5/ 
 
 Private Patrick T. O'Neil, mustered out May i6, 1865. 
 
 Private William Patrick, wounded twice, mustered out 
 May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private Seth W. Percy, wounded, transferred to Veteran 
 Reserve Corps, drowned August 2, 1864. 
 
 Private Frederick E. Pritchard, transferred to Veteran 
 Reserve Corps, mustered out July 6, 1865. 
 
 Private William L, G. Pritchard, promoted Second Lieu- 
 tenant, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private William A. Rice, killed in action May 6, 1864, 
 
 Private Frederick S. Robertson, mustered out May 31, 
 1865. 
 
 Private Sylvanus E. Root, died January i, 1864. 
 
 Private William C. Scott, disabled, discharged November 
 3, 1863. 
 
 Private Patrick S. Shay, disabled, discharged October i, 
 ,1862. 
 
 Private Charles R. Smith, died at Waterbury, Conn. 
 
 Private Henry M. Smith, transferred to Veteran Reserve 
 Corps, mustered out August 19, 1865. 
 
 Private John H. Smith, killed in action September 17, 
 1862. 
 
 Private Dwight L. Somers, transferred to Veteran Re- 
 serve Corps January 15, 1864. 
 
 Private John Stone, mustered out May 30, 1865. 
 
 Prixate James Tobin, wounded, discharged. 
 
 Private Charles A. Upson, wounded, died at Anderson- 
 ville, Ga. 
 
 Private Frederick Weber, died 
 
 Private John Welch, transferred to the United States 
 Navy April 24, 1864. 
 
 Private Frederick F. Welton, died March 22, 1863. 
 
158 SOLDIERS OF WATERHURY 
 
 Private Abner C. White, transferred to Veteran Reserve 
 Corps January 15, 1864. 
 
 Private Robert Wolff, wounded twice, mustered out May- 
 Si, 1865. 
 
 Private John Wortley, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 
 Company D. 
 Private Peter Benjamin, transferred to Second Connec- 
 ticut Heavy Artillery May 31, 1865. 
 Private Reuben G. Snagg, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 Private Franklin P. Somers, disabled, discharged May 7, 
 1865. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Private John Carroll, transferred to Second Connecticut 
 
 Heavy Artillery May 31, 1865. 
 Private Walter B. Dorman, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 Private William O. Guilford, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 Private P'rederick W. Kurtz, mustered out May 31, 1865. 
 Private George Kurtz, mustered out Ma}'- 31, 1865. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Private Antone Capilene, transferred to Second Connecti- 
 cut Heavy Artillery May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private Constant Dennis, transferred to Second Connecti- 
 cut Heavy Artillery May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private David Gebhart, killed in action. May 6, 1864. 
 
 Private Charles Meyer, transferred to Second Connecticut 
 Heavy Artillery May 31, 1865. 
 
 Private John C. Nye, died at Andersonville, Ga., August 
 1864. 
 
 Company G. 
 
 Private Charles Rupp, transferred to Second Connecticut 
 Heavy Artillery May 31, 1865. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 1 59 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Private Thomas Hussie, transferred to the United States 
 Navy April 23, 1864. 
 
 Private Albert McCuth, died at Andersonville, Ga., Oc- 
 tober 10, 1864. 
 
 Company I. 
 
 Sergeant Edward A. Fox, promoted First Lieutenant, 
 
 disabled, discharged February, 1863. 
 Corporal Samuel H. Seward, promoted First Lieutenant, 
 
 disabled, wounded, resigned July 9, 1864. 
 Private Charles E. Hine, disabled, discharged January 29, 
 
 1863. 
 Private Arthur Hitchcock, transferred to Veteran Reserve 
 
 Corps, mustered out May 8, 1865. 
 Private Edison Scutt, wounded, disabled, discharged March, 
 
 1863. 
 Private John Smith 2d, died at Andersonville, Ga., July 8, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 Private Peter Gray, transferred to Second Connecticut 
 
 Heavy Artillery May 31, 1865. 
 Private Leopold Kleine, transferred to Veteran Reserve 
 
 Corps February 15, 1864. 
 Private Albert Manskey, disabled, discharged April 26, 
 
 1865. 
 Private Charles Pincus, transferred to Second Connecticut 
 
 Heavy Artillery May 31, 1865. 
 Private John Stark, transferred to Second Connecticut 
 
 Heavy Artillery May 31, 1865. 
 
l60 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 FIFTEENTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER 
 INFANIRY. 
 
 AUGUST 20, 1S62, FOR THRK.K YKARS. 
 
 Couipany A. 
 
 Private Louis Billiard, transferred to Seventh Connecticut 
 Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Private Daniel G. McLellan, transferred to Seventh Con- 
 necticut Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Private John M. Corlca, killed in action March 8, 1865. 
 
 Private Henry Davidson, transferred to the United States 
 Navy May 17, 1864. 
 
 Private Francois Dubois, transferred to Seventh Connec- 
 ticut Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Private Pierre Duret, transferred to Seventh Connecticut 
 Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Company C 
 Private Francis Fitzgerald, transferred to Seventh Con^ 
 
 necticut Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 Private John Heeney, missing in action March 8, 1865. 
 Private George Jones, transferred to Seventh Connecticut 
 
 Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 Private Charles Lardig, missing in action March 8, 1865. 
 
 Compajiy D. 
 
 Private Franz Bauer, missing in action March 8, 1865. 
 
 Private Julius Bruderlein, transferred to Seventh Connec- 
 ticut Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Private August Gogoll, transferred to Seventh Connec- 
 ticut Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Private Thomas Holland, transferred to Seventh Connec- 
 ticut Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNIO?^. l6l 
 
 Private George Holmes, transferred to Seventh Connec- 
 ticut Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Private George Mueller, mustered out May 25, 1865. 
 
 Private Edward A. Purnell, transferred to Seventh Connec- 
 ticut Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Private Albert Leo St. Clair, transferred to Seventh Con- 
 necticut Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Private Michael Steiner, transferred to Seventh Connnec- 
 ticut Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Company F. 
 Private Edward Darwin, transferred to Seventh Connec- 
 ticut Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Company G. 
 
 Private Patrick Murphy, died of wounds April 8, 1865. 
 
 Private Thomas O'Malia, transferred to Seventh Connec- 
 ticut Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Private Melville H. Robinson, transferred to Seventh Con- 
 necticut Volunteers, 
 
 Private William Simpson, transferred to Seventh Connec- 
 ticut Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Captain Henry B. Peck, died January 30, 1863, at George- 
 town, D. C. 
 
 Private Louis Bezel, transferred to Seventh Connecticut 
 Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Private Frank Donahue, transferred to Seventh Connecti- 
 cut Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Private James Phillips, transferred to Seventh Connecticut 
 Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
l62 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 Co7npauy I. 
 Private Dennis Dowling, killed in action, March 8, 1865. 
 Private Harry Richards, mustered out June 14, 1865. 
 Private George Riley, transferred to Seventh Connecticut 
 Volunteers, mustered out July 20, 1865. 
 
 Company K. 
 Private Joseph Riley, not taken up on the rolls. 
 Private Charles Warner, mustered out June 7, 1865. 
 Private Thomas Yohsen, transferred to the United States 
 Navy May 17, 1864. 
 
 EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 AUGUST 20, 1862, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Company D. 
 Private Clarence Wakeley, mustered out June 27, 1865. 
 
 TWENTIETH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 SEPTEMBER I, 1862, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Company A. 
 
 Private Robert L. Benham, disabled, discharged February 
 23, 1863. 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Private Gilbert M. Stocking, died January 25, 1865. 
 
 Company E. 
 Private James B, Bailey, killed in action May 3, 1863. 
 
 Cotnpany H. 
 
 Captain Charles S. Abbott, mustered out November 10, 
 1862. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 163 
 
 Sergeant Alexander E. Mintie, wounded, promoted First 
 Lieutenant, discharged May 3, 1865. 
 
 Corporal Nathan W. Greenman, mustered out July 6, 1865. 
 
 Corporal James McWhinnie, wounded, discharged May 4, 
 1864. 
 
 Wagoner Thomas B. Davis, transferred to Veteran Reserve 
 Corps February 15, 1864. 
 
 Private Noble D. Baldwin, disabled, discharged Novem- 
 ber 23, 1863. 
 
 Private Joseph J. Bronson, wounded, mustered out June 
 13, 1865. 
 
 Private Samuel O. Bronson, mustered out June 13, 1865. 
 
 Private William A. Cargill, disabled, discharged March 
 25, 1863. 
 
 Private Arthur J. Clark, mustered out June 13, 1865. 
 
 Private James Ferrier, transferred to Fifth Connecticut 
 Volunteers, mustered out July 19, 1865. 
 
 Private Franklin A. Hall, mustered out May 25, 1865. 
 
 Private Robert Hunt, mustered out June 13, 1865. 
 
 Private David Karrman, mustered out June 13, 1865. 
 
 Private Andrew J. Lord, killed in action July 20, 1864. 
 
 Private Philip Moran, disabled, discharged April 15, 1863. 
 
 Private James B. Perkins, wounded, mustered out June 
 13, 1865. 
 
 Private Thomas C. Perkins, mustered out May 26, 1865. 
 
 Private George W. Roberts, wounded, mustered out June 
 
 13. 1865. 
 Private William F. Seymour, wounded, died at Kingston, 
 
 N. C, July 29, 1864. 
 Private Robert N. Smith, mustered out June 13, 1865. 
 Private Henry A. Todd, died August 24, 1863. 
 Private Silas Wil mot, disabled, discharged October 6,1863. 
 
164 SOLDIERS OF WATERBUKY 
 
 Company I. 
 
 First Lieutenant James Spruce, promoted Captain, mus- 
 tered out June 13, 1865. 
 
 Corporal Robert E. Prior, wounded, promoted First Lieu- 
 tenant, mustered out June 13, 1865. 
 
 Musician A. Fayette F'iske, disabled, discharged January 
 29, 1863. 
 
 Private Edward T. Danford, disabled, discharged February 
 6, 1863. 
 
 Private Isaac G. Fardon, disabled, discharged December 
 10, 1862. 
 
 Private Henry P'^arrell, died December 20, 1862. 
 
 Private James Faucett, killed in action July 20, 1864. 
 
 Private William M. Ford, died of wounds May 6, 1863. 
 
 Private Thomas W. Hargraves, transferred to Veteran Re- 
 serve Corps, mustered out July 6, 1865. 
 
 Private Robert L. Hotchkiss, mustered out June 13, 1865. 
 
 Private Barney W. Kelley, died December 13, 1862. 
 
 Private Peter McCannaugh, wounded, disabled, discharged 
 June 27, 1865. 
 
 Private John McLaren, died December 30, 1862. 
 
 Private Edward W. Robbins, disabled, discharged March 
 27, 1863. 
 
 Private William Et Talmadge, died December 21, 1862. 
 
 Private Nathan W. Tomlinson, wounded, transferred to 
 Veteran Reserve Corps, mustered out July 13, 1865. 
 
 Private P^ederick A. Warner, mustered out June 13, 1865. 
 
 Private Heman A. Weeks, wounded, disabled, discharged 
 June 25, 1865. 
 
 Company K. 
 Private Dennis Buggy, mustered out June 13, 1865. 
 "Private Michael Cocn, died December 7, 1862. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 165 
 
 Private James Connell, mustered out June 13, 1865. 
 Private Lewis Curtiss, wounded, mustered out June 12, 
 
 1865. 
 Private James Devine, disabled, discharged April 23, 1863. 
 Private Timothy Devine, killed by cars September 30, 
 
 1865. 
 Private James Downey, mustered out June 13, 1865. 
 Private Joseph P. Jeffrey, transferred to Veteran Reserve 
 
 Corps, mustered out August 28, 1865. 
 Private William Johnson, disabled, discharged January 15, 
 
 1863. 
 Private Dennis Kilduff, died July 3, 1864. 
 Private Thomas Leary, mustered out June i, 1865. 
 Private Robert C. McDowell, mustered out June 13, 1865. 
 Private Joseph Sander, transferred to Fifth Connecticut 
 
 Volunteers, mustered out July 19, 1865. 
 Private Martin Weems, disabled, discharged April 16, 
 
 1863. 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 NOVEMTER I4, 1862, FOR NINE MONTHS. 
 
 Field ajid Staff. 
 Colonel Charles E. L. Holmes, resigned June i8, 1863. 
 Commissary Sergeant Henry L. B. Pond, mustered out 
 August 31, 1863. 
 
 Company A. 
 
 Captain George B. Thomas, discharged November 11, 
 1862. 
 
 First Lieutenant Alfred Wells, promoted Captain, cap- 
 tured June 24, 1863. 
 
l66 SOLDIERS OF WATERBUKY 
 
 Sergeant Edward Croft, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Sergeant Henry T. Bronson, mustered out August 31, 
 1863. 
 
 Sergeant McKendrie W. Bronson, promoted Second Lieu- 
 tenant, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Sergeant George W. Tucker, promoted Second Lieuten- 
 ant, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Corporal Amos M. Geer, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Corporal David H. Meloy, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Corporal Edward T. Root, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Corporal Henry M. Stocking, mustered out August 31, 
 1863. 
 
 Musician Wallace Hurlbut, mustered out August 31, 
 1863. 
 
 Musician William Rennison, mustered out August 31, 
 1863. 
 
 Wagoner Wesley H. Bronson, mustered out August 31, 
 1863. 
 
 Private Frederick L. Allen, mustered out August 31, 
 1863. 
 
 Private George H. Benedict, mustered out August 31, 
 1863. 
 
 Private George E. Bissell, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Private Eli Bronson, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Private Edwin A. Camp, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Private Henry Carter, died June 25, 1863.. / 
 
 Private Frank Claffey, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Private Frederick Cook, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Private William Darling, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Private Charles Darrow, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Private John Doran, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Private Ernest J. Forrest, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. iGj 
 
 Private Henry Hall, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Mark Harrison, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Joseph K. Judson, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Charles E. Lamb, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Jacob M. Nelson, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private William Nuttall, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Edward B. Piatt, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private John Reed, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Robert K. Reid, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private P'rederick B. Rice, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Edward Rush, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Henry F. Sanford, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Thomas H. Shurrocks, mustered out August 31, 
 
 1863. 
 Private Lewis E. Snow, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Henry M. Tucker, captured June 24, 1863. 
 Private Frederick L, Warren, mustered out August 31, 
 
 1863. 
 Private Stephen B. Wedge, mustered out August 31, 
 
 1863. 
 Private August Wendehack, mustered out August 31, 
 
 1863. 
 Private James H. Whiting, promoted Adjutant, mustered 
 
 out August 31, 1863. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Corporal William S. Buckmaster, mustered out August 
 
 31, 1863. 
 Private James Burns, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Thomas Lynch, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Elisha Tuttle, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
l68 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 Cotnpany H. 
 
 First Lieutenant James M. Birrell, resigned April 6, 1863. 
 Second Lieutenant Charles D. Hurlbut, promoted First 
 
 Lieutenant, captured June 24, 1863, released. 
 Sergeant George Allen, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Corporal B. Frank Bronson, mustered out August 31, 
 
 1863. 
 Corporal James Lahey, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Corporal James Limont, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private John J. Blackman, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private John Claffee, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private James Donahue, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Patrick Donahue, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Andrew J. Ford, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private John Frederickstall, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private George Hartley, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private E. Morton Hurlbut, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private William Jeffrey, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Patrick Kiernan, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Dennis A. Magraw, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private John Marshall, died June 8, 1863. 
 Private Newell Moulthrop, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 Private Edwin E. Shepard, mustered out August 31, 1863. 
 
 TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT COXNKCTICUT. VOLUNTEER 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 OCTOBER 22, 1S62, I"OK NINE MONTHS. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 Corporal Andrew J. Barnard, mustered out July 27, 1863. 
 Private Spencer Bronson, mustered out July 27, 1863. 
 
IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 169 
 
 TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER 
 
 INFANTRY (Colored). 
 
 MARCH 8, 1864, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Company A. 
 Private Nathan Ganisli, mustered out October 24, 1865. 
 
 Company B. 
 Private William Homer, mustered out October 24, 1865. 
 Private PIdward L. Jones, mustered out October 24, 1865. 
 
 Company H. 
 Private Thomas Brown, mustered out October 24, 1865. 
 
 Company K. 
 Private Charles Smith, died April 15, 1865. 
 
 THIRTIETH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER 
 INFANTRY (Colored). 
 
 JUNK 4, 1S64, FOR THREE YEARS. 
 
 Company B. 
 Sergeant Charles S. Jackson, mustered out November 7, 
 1865. 
 
 Company C 
 Private John Tasco, missing July 30, 1864. 
 
 BAND FOR HARLAND'S BRIGADE. 
 
 AUGUST I, 1863. 
 
 Musician John Bryant, mustered out July 3, 1865. 
 
\yo 
 
 SOLDIERS OF WATERBURY 
 
 FOURTEENTH REGIMENT UNITED STATES INFANTRY. 
 
 Ba)id. 
 
 Musician Albert Babcock, mustered out 
 
 Musician George A. Boughton, mustered out l^^ebruary 
 
 28, 1867. 
 
 Musician Horace Bronson, mustered out 
 
 Musician William (irilley, disabled, discharged December 
 
 19, 1863. 
 Musician James S. Thorp, mustered out August 18, 1864. 
 Musician Willard Tompkins, disabled, discharged March 
 
 29, 1862. 
 
 The following is a\ incomplete List of Enlisted Men who went 
 
 FROM WaTERBURY INTO THE NaVY DURING THE WaR. 
 
 George E. Bissell, 
 Bernard Cahey, 
 Patrick Carey, 
 John Collins, 
 Timothy Crowley, 
 Michael Cavanaugh, 
 Morgan Cavanaugh, 
 James J. Eagan, 
 Michael English, 
 Daniel Hickey, 
 John Higgins, 
 
 Patrick Higgins, 
 William A. H oilman, 
 Maurice F. Holohan, 
 Barney Horrigan, 
 Patrick Kiernan, 
 James Mooney, 
 Michael Mooney, 
 Frank Phalen, 
 John Phalen, 
 H. L. Snagg. 
 
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