Randolph County's long military tradition reaches back to the nation's founding, with Revolutionary War soldiers and soldiers who fought in the Battle of 1812 buried in the county. During the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865, 2,373 soldiers from the county, including 52 black soldiers, fought for the Union, and 266 died in battle or from illness. Leading officers from the county included Silas Colgrove, who commanded the 27th Indiana Regiment at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg and later presided over one of the Civil War's most important military tribunals; Isaac P. Gray, who entered the Union Army as a colonel and took command of the 4th Regiment Indiana Calvary in 1862; Asahel Stone, who became Indiana State Quartermaster General, founded the Randolph County Bank, and donated land for Fountain Park Cemetery in Winchester; and Thomas M. Browne, who helped organize the Seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Calvary, was commissioned a lieutenant, and later became a brigadier general. Men from Randolph County also fought in the Spanish American War in 1898, and 1,345 men and women served during World War I from 1914 to 1918. During World War II from 1941 to 1945, more than 2,500 men and women from the county served both overseas and on the home front, and hundreds more served during the Korean Conflict from 1951 to 1953, the Vietnam Era Conflict from 1964 to 1973, and the Gulf War from 1990 to 1991, with that tradition continuing in the armed forces today. This service is reflected around the Randolph County Courthouse Square, where the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, dedicated in 1892 as the oldest major Civil War monument in Indiana, was designed by Lorado Taft and partially funded by James Moorman, a prominent local Quaker who also established the James Moorman Orphans Home; where the Doughboy Statue was dedicated on November 11, 1928, on the tenth anniversary of the end of World War I; where a memorial honors Revolutionary War soldiers buried in the county and contains the original courthouse tower bell; and where a World War II army tank recognizes veterans of that war. The Indiana National Guard in Winchester continues this tradition by preparing soldiers for possible military conflict and for service to the state and nation during natural disasters.