The Town of North Brookfield erected this memorial in 1869 in honor of its soldiers who lost their lives in defense of the country against rebellion during the Civil War, 1861–65. Those named are James P. Coolidge, George S. Prouty, Lyman H. Gilbert, Alvin M. Thomason, Louis D. Winslow, Andrew J. Fisher, James A. Knight, Lyman Tucker, Albert F. Potter, William Bates, David S. Moulton, John F. Lamb, Thomas Griffin, J. Henry Jenks, Alonzo E. Pellet, H.B. Maxwell, Peter Devlin, William Clark, Henry R. Bliss, Joseph C. Fretts, Charles Perry, John A. Hughes, Henry H. Moulton, William F. Hill, Charles H. Ashby, Albert F. Holman, Timothy McCarty, M.S. Dickinson, James Henderson, John W. Gilmore, and George L. Sherman.