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In 1912, Edward Williams Marsh, captain of Company M, Second Connecticut Volunteers Heavy Artillery, gave Lincoln Herm to the town of New Milford in loving memory of the soldiers and sailors of the Union Army and Navy from 1861 to 1865 and of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States from 1861 to 1865. New Milford troops, besides being in many skirmishes, were engaged in the battles of Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Opequan, Fisher’s Hill, Cedar Creek, Sailors Creek, and Fort Fisher. The south-facing inscription gives Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863, beginning with the founding of a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to equality, then reflecting on the Civil War as a test of whether such a nation can endure, honoring those who died on the battlefield, and calling the living to continue the unfinished work so that the nation would have a new birth of freedom and government of the people, by the people, for the people would not perish from the earth.
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New Milford, Connecticut · United States
