The original monument on this site was erected by the Grand Army of the Republic and bore the inscription, "I am dying, but I die for my country." Gen. P. A. Hackleman, born Nov. 15th, 1814, was the only general from Indiana killed in battle during the Civil War; he was killed at Corinth on Oct. 3, 1862. On the side facing the court house was an inscription for J. P. Bohlander, Co. H. 52 Ind. Inf., born July 17, 1835, who drowned in the Tenn. River on Jan. 2, 1865. The monument was rebuilt in 1963 by the Board of County Commissioners, William Allen, Walter Wendel, and Omer Prickel. It expresses grateful appreciation to the men and women from Franklin County who served their country during the Vietnam War, World War II, the Korean Conflict, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, and World War.