South Hadley honored the loyalty and patriotism of its citizen soldiers who fought for liberty and the Union in the Great Rebellion of 1861—1865 and especially the men of the town who gave their lives for the nation: Horace H. Acres, Hiram W. Aldrich, Henry E. Bates, John P. Beckwith, Elwyn G. Carley, Theodore A. Church, William H. Cook, Warren A. Graves, William Hallifas, Sedgwick Haven, William F. Ingraham, Jerry Mahoney, Joseph Miller, Josiah Moody, George V. Nash, Henry A. Oakley, Neville Preston, Conrad Rising, Victor Rosette, Charles Smith, and Rinaldo C. Thorp. Presented by William H. Gaylord in A.D. 1896, it invoked Abraham Lincoln’s words calling for increased devotion to the cause for which the dead gave the last full measure of devotion, so that they should not have died in vain and government of the people, by the people, for the people should not perish from the earth.