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East Haven honored men from the town who gave their lives in defense of their country by land and sea, dedicating this tribute in 1911 and rededicating it in 1990. Those remembered from the American Revolution, 1775-83, are Nathan Andrews, Abijah Bradley, Asa Bradley, Zabulon Bradley, Edward Goodsell, Jared Heminway, John Howe, Isaac Luddington, Isaac Pardee, Jacob Pardee Jr., Richard Paul, Isaac Potter, Medad Slaughter, Elijah Smith, Thomas Smith, and John Walker; John Howe died at Fort Hale and most of the others aboard British prison ships on Long Island Sound. Those remembered from the Civil War, 1861-65, are Charles Benoit, John H. Bradley, Frank Cardwell, George Carr, Edwin Crouch, Henry E. Doolittle, Augustus Fairchild, James Murphy, Martin Rood, Samuel Rose, Henry D. Russell, George E. Smith, Isaac B. Thompson, Henry Wilmot, and Claudius Zemioz; Charles Benoit and James Murphy died at Andersonville, Georgia Prison.
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