The people of Macedon honored local soldiers who died preserving the Union during the American Civil War of 1861-1865, including Lewis B. Knowles of Company B, 38th N.Y.V.; John Beuger, Job W. Dehart, Michael Dalton, B.E. Steele, Thomas Linkin, and Edwin Linkin of Company B, 160th N.Y.V.; James E. Gould of Company F, 25th N.Y.V.; Wm. Sours and Ira B. Lapham of Company C, 9th Artillery; Daniel Hewitt and Addison J. Bennett of Company B, 33d N.Y.V.; Wm. Brown and J.H. BUmp of Company A, 111th N.Y.V.; Matthew Mills of Company C, 17th U.S. Inf. N.Y.V.; Charles Carpenter; Jospeh B. Packard of Company B, 160th N.Y.V.; Abraham L. Packard of an Ohio regiment; Francis L. Johnson, musician; George S. Bradley of Company K, 98th N.Y.; Oliver Jones and Edwin Peters of Company L, 1st Artillery; and George Peters of Company A, 111th N.Y.V.