Civil War Memorial PlaqueThe following names are listed on a marble tablet beneath the expression, “That Our Posterity May Also Know Them And The Children That Are Yet Born” which alludes to a biblical verse in chapter 78 of the Book of Psalms. The date of the decease and the age of each soldier are given. This tablet originally resided at the rear of the Library Room in Memorial Hall and now rests on the southern wall of the Library’s Reference Room.

 

George Wright Cutler, October 21, 1861. 23.
Walter Raymond Lawrence, October 21, 1861. 28.
James Gardner Warner, October 21, 1861. 31.
Luther Gray Turner, November 1, 1861. 24.
Franklin Hawkes Farnsworth, May 31, 1862. 19.
James Burke, September 1, 1862. 26.
Robert Roberts Moses, October 3, 1862. 26.
Ebenezer Waters Richards, December 13, 1862. 37.
George Lee Thurston, December 15, 1862. 31.
Henry Maynard Putney, April 26, 1863. 20.
David Wilder Jones, May 3, 1863. 46.
James Dillon, May 10, 1863. 26.
Charles Timothy Fairbanks, June 19, 1863. 27.
Henry Albert Cutler, July 4, 1863. 19.
Oscar Frary, July 28, 1863. 27.
Stephen Adams Keyes, August 10, 1863. 19.
Walter Andrew Brooks, August 22, 1863. 20.
John Patrick Wise, March 15, 1864. 19.
John Chickering Haynes, March 19, 1864. 30.
Stephen Wesley Gray, April 4, 1864. 32.
James Andrew Bridge, May 15, 1864. 21.
Henry Jackson Parker, May 15, 1864. 28.
Sumner Russell Kilburn, May 16, 1864. 21.
Solon Whiting Chaplin, June 5, 1864. 40.
William Dustin Carr, June 20, 1864. 40.
Samuel Mirick Bowman, July 26, 1864. 28.
Caleb Wood Sweet, August 3, 1864. 23.
Edward Richmond Washburn, September 5, 1864. 28.
Horatio Elisha Turner, September 8, 1864. 20.
William Schumacher, September 13, 1864. 22.
Frederick Fordyce Nourse, September 13, 1864. 22.
George Walton Divoll, September 21, 1864. 37.
John Louis Moeglin, September 28, 1864. 53.
Oren Hodgman, September 30, 1864. 21.
Luke Ollis, October 13, 1864. 21.
Fordyce Horan, November 9, 1864. 21.
Francis Henry Fairbanks, January 4, 1865. 30.
Edward Russell Joslyn, April 10, 1865. 21.
Francis Washburn, April 22, 1865. 26.

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