Citizens of Fulton County honored local soldiers who served in the Civil War to preserve the Union from 1861 to 1865, in the Spanish-American War, and in the World War from 1917 to 1919, including those who gave their lives for democracy. The memorial language invokes Abraham Lincoln’s words on duty, freedom, and government by the people, Theodore Roosevelt’s praise for those who fearlessly faced death for a good cause, and Woodrow Wilson’s tribute to those who served their nation in serving mankind.