Hamilton County honored Union soldiers of the Civil War as volunteers who fought for their country between 1861 and 1865. It remembered 2,350,000 volunteers and 360,000 dead, invoked Lincoln as commander in chief, Grant as the general, and Farragut as the admiral, and praised the Boys in Blue for fighting the battles. It linked their service to Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Appomattox, and dedicated their memory to liberty, union, one country, and one flag.