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McGilvery, John, 16th Infantry, volunteer ; McGrath, Daniel, 29th Infantry, volunteer ; McIntire, Geo. A., 3rd Infantry, vol- unteer ; Mclaughlin, Timothy, 20th Infantry, volunteer ; Morri- son, John, 19th Infantry, substitute; Mosher, Francis B., 21st Infantry, volunteer ; Mosher, Madison, 21st Infantry, volunteer ; Morton, Wm. H., 32nd Massachusetts, volunteer ; Murphy, Chas. D., V. S .; Murray, Louis, 16th Infantry, volunteer ; Muz- zey, Geo. E., 20th Infantry, volunteer; Muzzey, Geo. E., 7th Infantry, drafted.
Newland, Wm. H., 21st Infantry, volunteer; Nickerson, Hezekiah, Ist Cavalry, volunteer : Nock, Sylvanus, 6th Battery, volunteer ; Noyes, Alonzo, 5th Infantry, volunteer.
Oliver, Frank H., 15th Infantry, volunteer ; Oliver, Fayette, 3rd Infantry, volunteer.
Paige, Ezekiel, Jr., 14th Infantry, volunteer ; Parker, John H., IIth Infantry, substitute; Parker, Benj., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Pattee, Orlando J., 21st Infantry, volunteer ; Pattee, Orlando I., Coast Guards, volunteer ; Peasley, Richard, 21st Infantry, vol- unteer ; Peavey, John M., 9th Infantry, volunteer ; Peavy, Wm. D., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Penney, Chas. H., 21st Infantry, volunteer ; Penney, Ira D., 31st Infantry, volunteer ; Penney, Everett A., 19th Infantry, volunteer ; Penney, Wm. W., 15th Infantry, volunteer ; Penney, Peltiah, 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Penney, Joseph M., 7th Infantry, volunteer ; Percival, Edw. S., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Percival, Albert W., U. S. A., volun- teer ; Percival, Henry H., U. S. A., volunteer ; Percival, Geo. G., Soth U. S. C. I., volunteer ; Perkins, James L., 21st Infantry, volunteer ; Perley, Richard, 21st Infantry, volunteer ; Perley, Nathaniel, 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Perley, Henry J., 3rd Infan- try, volunteer ; Perry, George, 8th Infantry, volunteer ; Perry, Chas., 8th Infantry, volunteer ; Perry, James, 3rd Infantry, vol- unteer ; Perry, Joseph, 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Perry, David, 7th Infantry, volunteer ; Phelps, Wm. H., 13th Infantry, vol- unteer ; Pinkham, Andrew, 21st Infantry, volunteer ; Plaisted, James H., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Plummer, Edwin, 21st Infantry, volunteer ; Plummer, John H., 6th Battery, volunteer ; Pooler, Henry, 30th Infantry, volunteer ; Pooler, Gott 7th Infan- try, volunteer ; Pooler, Ephriam, 30th Infantry, volunteer ;
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Pooler, Joseph, Ist Heavy Artillery, volunteer ; Pooler, Joseph, 16th Infantry, volunteer ; Pooler, George, 29th Infantry, volun- teer ; Porter, John, 9th Infantry, volunteer ; Porter, Andrew H., 6th Battery, volunteer ; Preo, Peter, 8th Infantry, volunteer ; Prescott, Edmund, E., 21st Infantry, volunteer ; Preson, Thos. E., Hancocks Corps, volunteer ; Pulsifer, Alexander, W., 16th Infantry, volunteer ; Pullen, Frank D., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Pullen, James Burney, 30th Infantry, volunteer.
Quimby, Clement, 5th Infantry, volunteer ; Quimby, Albert, 30th Infantry, volunteer.
Ranco, Moses, Sth Infantry, volunteer ; Ranco, Abram, 9th Infantry, volunteer ; Ranco, George, 3Ist Infantry, volunteer ; Ranco, Joseph, 10th Infantry, volunteer : Rankins, Lucius, 8th Infantry, volunteer : Rankins. William. 20th Infantry, volun- teer ; Ray, Robert, U. S. Navy, substitute; Richards, Joseph, 2Ist Infantry, volunteer ; Ricker, James F., 3rd Infantry, volun- teer ; Roderick, John, 20th Infantry, volunteer ; Roderick, Peter, 19th Infantry, volunteer ; Rodgers, Edwin J., substitute ; Ronco, Frank, 29th Infantry, volunteer; Rowan, David, V. S .; Rowe, Elisha M., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Rowe, Welcome, 3rd Infantry. volunteer ; Rowe, Addison H., 9th Infantry, volunteer ; Roy, Lorenzo D., IIth Infantry, substitute.
Sands, Joseph, U. S. Navy, substitute: Sawyer, James A., unassigned, volunteer ; Savage, Stephen D., 17th Infantry, drafted ; Savage, Miner W., 12th Massachusetts ; Scammon, George S., IIth Infantry, volunteer ; Scates, Edgar, 20th Infan- try, volunteer ; Shaw, Resolvo, 20th Infantry, volunteer ; Shep- herd, Alfred, 21st Infantry, volunteer ; Shepherd, Richard A., 19th Infantry, drafted; Sherburn, Jacob, 3rd Infantry, volun- teer ; Shorey, Chas. R., 20th Infantry, volunteer ; Shorey, Chas. R., 3rd Infantry, volunteer : Sharp, Wm. J., 5th Battery ; Simp- son, Joseph D., 20th Infantry, volunteer ; Small, Abner R., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Smart, John M., 21st Infantry, volunteer ; Smart, John M., Coast Guards, volunteer ; Smiley, Albert R., 20th Infantry, volunteer ; Smiley, Chas. N., 20th Infantry, vol- unteer ; Smiley, Frank O., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Smith, James P., 16th Infantry, volunteer ; Smith, Lemuel H., 3rd Infantry, volunteer; Smith, Allen, V. S., volunteer; Soule,
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Martin B., 16th Infantry, volunteer ; Soule, John W., 16th Massachusetts, volunteer; Soule, Josiah, 20th Infantry, volun- teer ; Soule, Daniel A., 20th Infantry, volunteer ; Southard, Cyrus, 2nd Cavalry, volunteer ; Spaulding, Nathan F., 15th Infantry, volunteer ; Stevens, William A., 16th Infantry, volun- teer ; Stevens, Gilbert G., 26th Co. Infantry, unassigned ; Stevens, Jason R., 7th Infantry, volunteer ; Stevens, Wm. H., 20th Infantry, volunteer ; Stevens, Edwin C., 16th Infantry, vol- unteer ; Stuart, Chas. H., 3Ist Infantry, volunteer ; Sturtevant, Reward A., 20th Infantry, volunteer.
Tallouse, John, 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Tallouse, Martin, 16th Infantry, volunteer ; Thayer, Samuel J., 21st Infantry, vol- unteer ; Thayer, Welcome, 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Thayer, Adin B., 16th Infantry, volunteer ; Thing, Henry A., 3rd Infan- try, volunteer ; Thing, Chas. W., Ist Infantry, volunteer ; Thing, Chas. W., 14th Infantry, volunteer ; Thing, George S., Ist Dis- trict of Columbia Cavalry and Ist Cavalry, volunteer ; Thomas, John P. H., 2nd Cavalry, volunteer ; Thomas, David S., 16th Infantry, volunteer ; Thompson, James, 9th Infantry, volunteer ; Thompson, Asa L., 4th Battery, volunteer ; Thorn, James H., Ist District of Columbia Cavalry and Ist Cavalry, volunteer ; Tilley, Geo. M., 3Ist Infantry, volunteer ; Tozer, Henry M., 20th Infantry, volunteer ; Tozier, Walter N., 30th Infantry, vol- unteer ; Tozier, Albert F., IIth Infantry, volunteer ; Tozier, Henry E., 8th Infantry, volunteer; Tracy, Geo. C., 5th Battery R. R .; Trask, Alexander, 21st Infantry, volunteer ; Trask, Elbridge, Coast Guards, volunteer.
Vigue, Levi, Ist Cavalry, volunteer ; Vigue, Levi, 31st Infan- try, volunteer.
Ward, N. A., 17th Infantry, drafted; Watson, Andrew P., 2Ist Infantry, volunteer ; Welch, Moses A., 31st Infantry, vol- unteer ; Welch, James B., Ist District of Columbia Cavalry and Ist Cavalry, volunteer ; Wells, Howard W., 16th Infantry, vol- unteer ; West, Wallace W., 8th Infantry, volunteer ; West, James O., 3Ist Infantry, volunteer ; Wheeler, Geo. L., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Wheeler, John N., 16th Infantry, volun- teer ; White, Henry, Ist Cavalry, volunteer ; Williams, Andrew J., 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, volunteer ; Wilson, Geo.
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A. 21st Infantry, volunteer ; Wilson, John B., 96th U. S. C. I., volunteer ; Wingate, Henry, 14th Infantry, volunteer ; Winslow, Hiram C., 21st Infantry, volunteer ; Witham, Albert B., 4th Battery, volunteer; Woodbury, David, 3rd Uns. Co., R. R .; Woodman, Alvin B., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Woodman, Eras- tus W., 14th Infantry. United States Army, volunteer ; Wyman, Wm. W., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Wyman, Hiram, Coast Guards, volunteer ; Wyman, Hiram R., 9th Infantry, volunteer ; Wyman, Increase, 2nd Cavalry, volunteer ; Wyman, W. W., 2Ist Infantry, volunteer ; Wyman, Hiram, 21st Infantry, vol- unteer.
Young, Eugene H., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Young, Roscoe G., 3rd Infantry, volunteer ; Young, Eben W., 3rd Infantry, vol- unteer : Young, Laroy, F., 30th Infantry, volunteer ; Young, John M., 7th Infantry, volunteer.
Waterville furnished 525 soldiers during the Civil War, according to Adjutant-General's Report (page 24-1864-5) and yet the above list includes every name that can be found in town or State records, and numbers but 421.
The great discrepancy between these figures and the credits allowed this town by the Adjutant-General, occurs in several ways :
First : Many non-residents and foreigners were enlisted and credited on the town's quota whose enlistment papers would show some other residence, and would thus only count in the summary of town credits.
Second: A further discrepancy is caused by the commis- sioners of equalization refusing to credit the town; men orig- inally placed to their credit, and in refusing to credit commis- sioned officers.
All calls for men by the President prior to July 2nd, 1862, were filled by voluntary enlistments, promiscuously ; cities, towns and plantations not being called upon to furnish their proportional number of the State's allotment.
Men enlisting prior to July 2nd, 1862, were not credited upon the quota of any city or town in the State, but were simply placed upon the lists of names and classified to the cities and towns in which they resided.
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Maine furnished more than her allotment of men under the President's calls in 1861 and had great difficulty in inducing the Government to accept two of her regiments of infantry and the Ist Maine Cavalry. Waterville furnished more than her share, but never received any credit for the excess.
Of the list furnished the commissioners of equalization by the municipal officers of Waterville, they allowed 171 three years men, I two years man, 50 one year men, 42 nine months men.
Making a total of 264 men subsequent to July 2, 1862, and allowed a credit for same of $19,883.33.
Third: The town secured an additional credit for each re-en- listment, while but one name appears for the two.
Fourth : The twenty-six "paper men" for which Joseph Per- cival, Ist selectman, paid $11,050, and ten "paper men" for which Mr. Percival paid $4,250. As this brings up the whole corrup- tion of the "Paper credit" scandal, some explanation is necessary.
When the question of strengthening the armies of the Union was a simple one, of life or death with the Government, substi- tute brokers appeared in Augusta with lists of names which they claimed were those of men already in service not assigned to any quota.
These were offered to officers and agents of the towns and municipalities of Maine who were looking for men to fill their quota and re-inforce our depleted regiments. Where these sub- stitute brokers obtained these lists of names; by what villainous connivance and corruption the necessary authority was procured to enable the proper officers to certify officially to municipal offi- cers on their quotas, hundreds of names of men never enlisted,- without residence as required by law, without date of enlist- ment ;- to certify even to two, ten or twenty recruits to a town without any names,-will never be known!
No one will ever know how much money the cities and towns of Maine were swindled out of by these ghouls of living and dead soldiers, because no one will ever know how many "paper men" were sold to them; but the commissioners, report "an aggregate of 1,380 after deducting the 251 said to have been gratuitously distributed by the Governor of Maine."
Mr. Pike, the member of Congress from the 5th District, speaking in the debate in the National House of Representatives
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in February, 1865, on this matter, said: "But worse than this ; credits have been given by these states when no men have ever been furnished, anywhere, by anybody."
"Bold frauds! Paper men have been substituted for sailors, and up to this time fifty per cent. more sailors have been credited to the different states than there are in the navy altogether."
Under the President's call of April 15, 1861, for 75,000 militia for three months, the quota of Maine was 780; men furnished, 771.
Call of May 2, 1861, for 500,000 men, quota of Maine was 17,560; men furnished for three years, 18,104.
Call of July 2, 1862, for 300,000 men for three years, quota of Maine, 9,609 : men furnished, 6,644.
Call of August 4, 1862, for 300,000 militia for nine months : Quota of Maine, 9,609 ; men furnished, 7,620.
Calls of October 17, 1863, (embracing men raised by draft of 1863) and February 1, 1864, for 500,000 for three years: Quota of Maine, 11,803; Men furnished, 11,958; paid commutation, 1,986; total, 13,944.
Call of March 14, 1864, for 200,000 men for three years : Quota of Maine, 4,721 ; men furnished, 7,042.
Call of July 18, 1864, for 500,000 men (reduced by excess of credits on previous calls) : Quota of Maine, 1I, II6; men fur- nished, 11,042 ; paid commutation, II ; total, 11,053.
Call of December 19, 1864, for 300,000 men : Quota of Maine, 8,389 ; men furnished, 6,936.
Under these eight calls there were furnished by the different states and territories more men than were ever put into the field by any nation in the history of the world, as will be seen by the following summary :
(I) Total number of men furnished during the war
(credits) 2,778,304
To army 2,672,34I
To navy 105,963
(2) Estimated total number of re-enlistments. 564,939
In army 543,393
In navy 21,546
(3) Estimated total number of desertions 121,896
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From army 117,247 From navy 4,649
(4) Total number of deaths 364,116
In army 359,528
In navy 4,588
(5) Estimated total number of individuals in ser- vice 2,213,365
In army
2,128,948
In navy 84,417
(6) Estimated total number of survivors at termin- ation of service (deserters excluded) 1,727,353
In army 1,652,173
In navy 75,180
Estimated total number of survivors (deserters excluded) June 30, 1902. 930,380
Estimated average age of survivors at close of the war 28 years. According to the mortality tables, 355,091 have died since 1890, and the average mortality will be about the same until the year 1925, although the percentage among the survivors rapidly increases.
In 1930 there will remain 37,033; in 1935 there will remain 6,296; in 1940 there will remain 340; in 1945 there will be no survivor of the War of the Rebellion.
TOTAL NUMBER OF MEN FURNISHED BY THE STATE OF MAINE DURING THE WAR.
In 1861.
15 Regiments Infantry, I Cavalry, 6 Batteries Mounted Artillery, I Company Sharpshooters, 3 Companies for Coast Fortifications, Recruits, etc. 16,669
In 1862.
12 Regiments Infantry, I Regiment Heavy Artillery, Recruits, etc
In 1863. 15,690
2 Regiments Infantry, 2 Cavalry, I Battery of Artillery, Volunteers and Drafted men 10,223
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In 1864-5.
2 Regiments Infantry, 30 Companies Unassigned Infan- try, 6 Companies Sharpshooters, 3 Companies Coast Guards, Drafted men and Navy 30,363
72,945
Maine sent this great army of her sons to the field, sealed with the traditions of their ancestors for courage and devotion ; boys half of them, who passed straight from their mother's arms to the embrace of war.
There they left more than 7,000 of their number in known and unknown graves, among the hills and valleys of the South ; buried where they fell; buried from the hospitals in camp and field or from the great hospitals of the cities, despite the devotion of heroic women; buried from the prison pens of the South, where they perished so miserably of exposure, starvation, deli- rium and despair ; husbands, fathers, lovers, sons, comrades, friends ; the patriotic, the brave, the true.
They are our uncalendared heroes. The language of their lives is written in the annals of our country. They helped with point of sword or bayonet to pen a chapter in American history that will be read while patriotism is honored or liberty cherished.
Lowell speaks of the heroes of the Civil War as marching "on a shining track -heroes mustered in a gleaming row, -
Beautiful evermore, and with the rays
Of morn on their white shields of expectation."
BOUNTIES.
The Ist Regiment of Infantry was enlisted for two years, though mustered into the United States service for three months only. The $22 bounty was paid to this organization. The 2nd Regiment of Infantry was enlisted and mustered into the United States service for two years, and received only the same State bounty as the Ist Regiment. Having originally some two hun- dred more men than the First, and recruits who enlisted when large bounties were paid, the aggregate amount of State bounty paid it, is much more than that to the First.
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The 3rd. 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Regiments of Infantry were enlisted and mustered into the United States service for three years. They received the $22 State bounty at their muster into service. The re-inlisted men and some recruits of 1864 for those regiments received $300 State bounty. Recruits of 1862 and 1863 for those regiments received $55 State bounty.
The 10th Regiment was designed to be a re-organization of the Ist Regiment, which owed twenty-one months service to the government. The few men of the Ist Regiment who recognized their continuing liability to government under their enlistment, received no State bounty at the muster into United States ser- vice of this regiment ; the remainder were paid the State bounty of $22. Fifty-five dollars State bounty was paid to recruits for three years service who were assigned to this regiment.
The 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th Regiments of Infantry received no State bounty whatever. The amounts exhibited as paid to them were received by their recruits and re-enlisted men, in sums of from $55 to $300.
The 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Regiments of Infantry were paid a State bounty of $45. Recruits for these regiments were paid from $55 to $300 State bounty, except the 18th, which early ceased to exist as an infantry organization, and became the Ist Heavy Artillery, the recruits for which, as will be seen, were paid less than $100,000, mostly in $55 bounties.
The 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th Regi- ments of Infantry were enlisted and mustered into the United States service for nine months, and were paid no State bounty.
The 29th and 30th Regiments of Infantry received $100 State bounty.
The 3Ist and 32nd Regiments of Infantry were paid from $100 to $300 State bounty, their organization extending over the period during which these widely varying State bounties of from $100 to $300 were authorized. These regiments received but very few recruits. Two of the unassigned companies were incorporated into the 31st Regiment.
The Ist Veteran Regiment of Infantry was composed largely of the recruits and re-enlisted men of the 5th, 6th and 7th Regi- ments of Infantry, who had received from $55 to $300 State
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bounty. Enlistments in this regiment proper were paid from $100 to $300 State bounty.
The Ist Regiment of Heavy Artillery is alluded to above.
The Ist Regiment of Cavalry was paid no State bounty at its muster into the United States service. The amount shown was paid its recruits and re-enlisted men in State bounties of from $55 to $300 each.
The 2nd Regiment of Cavalry was paid $100 State bounty, generally, though some few of the men received more. Its organization was commenced with a State bounty of $100, but before it was mustered into the United States service, $300 was authorized.
The Ist Regiment of D. C., or Baker's Cavalry, was being enlisted from the authorization of $55 bounties to those of $300, though most of the men were paid $100 State bounty.
The first six batteries of Mounted Artillery received no bounty from the State. Their recruits and re-enlisted men were paid from $55 to $300 State bounty.
The 7th Battery received from $100 to $300 State bounty.
Coast Guards and unassigned companies received from $100 to $300 State bounty. The most of these companies were assigned to regiments in the field.
Hancock's Corps received $100 State bounty.
Ist Battalion Sharpshooters received from $100 to $300 State bounty.
Co. D, 2nd Regiment U. S. Sharpshooters, received $22 State bounty, and recruits and re-enlisted men from $55 to $300 each. United States' organizations, and those of other states, received from $55 to $300 State bounty.
The State paid for actual naval enlistments made subsequent to February 2, 1864, of our own citizens duly credited to locali- ties in this State, bounties of $100, $200 and $300, for one, two, or three years' service, except as stipulated in order of Novem- ber, 1864, confirmed by subsequent statute, that not exceeding $100 should be paid for any period of enlistment not less than one year, if place of recruit's credit had filled all calls without him. This order also applied to enlistments for land service in Maine organizations, as also for those of the government and other states.
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All these State bounty payments were made only for new bona fide enlistments, when the enlistment contract, and descriptive and muster-in-rolls were duly filed in the adjutant general's office, and when entering organizations other than those of Maine volunteers, in addition to the foregoing papers, the place of credit in this State was duly certified by the proper officer having offi- cial knowledge of the enlistment and credit.
Citizens of this State enlisted in the navy to the credit of local- ities herein, subsequent to February 2, 1864, though credited only by the "commission," were paid State bounty under the statute if, in addition to the receipts in duplicate invariably required, the enlistment and other papers above specified were filed in the adjutant general's office. It will be observed that a smaller amount of State bounty was paid the original members of the entire first ten regiments of infantry and company of sharp- shooters, the most of whom were mustered into United States service for three years, than was received by a single regiment of infantry two years later for a like enlistment, but a shorter period of service as eventually proved. The original members of thirteen regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry, and six batteries of mounted artillery, were paid no State bounty. The original members of five regiments of infantry received $45 each. The entire State bounties paid the original members of twenty-eight of our infantry regiments, from the Ist to the 28th inclusive, the Ist Cavalry, and first six batteries of Mounted Artillery, amounted to only about $400,000. All of the re-en- listed men of those organizations ( some 4,000 in number received $300 each, State bounty, and some of them a large local bounty in addition thereto, although the same was prohibited by the statute. Many members of the eight regiments for nine months' service are found among the recruits of old regiments in 1864, and received liberal State and local bounties. The same is found to be the case with members of the two "two years" regiments, and a large number of those of other regiments of 1861 and 1862, who were discharged for disability, and upon their recovery enlisted into our old and new organizations and were paid liberal bounties.
It is not generally known that the War of the Rebellion did not begin or close at the same time in all the states. The dates of
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the commencement and the termination of that war indicated in the opinion of the supreme court of the United States in the case of "The Protector" which is reported in twelve Wallace, 700, and is in substance, that the proclamation of the intended block- ade by the President may be assumed as marking the first of these dates, and the proclamation that the war had closed, as marking the second.
There were two proclamations of the intended blockade ; the first of the 19th of April, 1861, embracing the states of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas; the second of the 27th of April, 1861, embracing the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkan- sas, and the other issued on the 20th of August, 1866, embracing the state of Texas.
In the absence of more certain criteria, of equally general application we must take the dates of these proclamations as determining the commencement and the close of the war in the states mentioned in them.
WATERVILLE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION.
Many of our citizens still living will recall the terrible days of the war ; when battle was on and victory hung in the balance; when care for the sick and wounded, and honoring the dead, was the duty and desire of all the living,-that even then a few of our patriotic citizens inaugurated a plan to raise funds for the erection of a suitable monument to perpetuate the memory of our dead soldiers.
The inception and successful prosecution of this plan is due to the patriotism and untiring energy of Mr. G. A. Phillips, as to him more than any man living here to-day or who has ever lived here is due the present prosperity of Waterville.
The following facts, copied from the records of the Waterville Monument Association, will interest our older citizens, and should interest the younger.
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