Colchester honored its dead who fell in the war for the Union, 1861-5. Erected Sept. 17, 1875, the monument bore rolls of honor naming Capt. C.W. Cook, Lt. M.A. Taintor, A.M. Fox, John Morgan, Ja’s Elderman, Sidney Valentine, Frank Wright, Wm. Alger, Ja’s Crawford, G.H. Gott, Giles James, C.J. Williams, C.A. Beckwith, S.H. Gillette, John Fitzgerald, Thom. Marrow, J.R. Shaylor, T.C. Lombard, Geo. Evans, Frank Beckwith, Henry Scholl, S.E. Stewart, Capt. Chas. Doyle, W.H. Douglass, H.C. Rogers, John Hemar, C.E. James, Sherman Valentine, C.S. Arnold, Timothy O’Connell, Ralph Allyn, Cha’s Bangston, Horatio Crandall, Thom. Kinney, C.F. Sheriden, D.L. Adams, F.M. Carver, J.H. Miner, C.R. Buell, A.B. Neal, Geo. Riley, O.A. Gillette, C.H. Potter, and R.F. Harvey.