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The New Britain Soldiers' Monument honors the soldiers and sailors who fought to maintain the Union, praising their sacrifice, valor, devotion, and service to mankind, and expressing the hope that future generations would cherish the fruits of their efforts and make their memory immortal. Its inscriptions invoke Lincoln, Grant, Webster, and Lowell with calls for charity, peace, liberty, union, and remembrance of both the living heroes and the dead. It records that they joined the mortal struggle and went down in the war of 1861–1865, and that the citizens of New Britain erected the monument in 1899. The surrounding columns bear the names of many battlefields, including Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Atlanta, Richmond, and Appomattox.
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New Britain, Connecticut · United States
