In 1873, the citizens of East Bridgewater honored their townsmen who gave their lives in the War of 1861–1865 while serving the United States, declaring that they died that a nation might live. Those remembered were Hartwell Atkinson, Bertrand Burgess, John Bryant, George D. Brown, Woodbridge Bryant, Charles McCarter, Alfred B. Cummings, William Curwin, Charles E. Dyes, John Dunlap, Allen B. Dunbar, Benjamin J. Eddy, Myron Gould, Nahum C. Hale, John Hudson, Calvin F. Harlow, Elisha S. Holbrook, Silas N. Grosvenor, Timothy Reardon, David P. Reynolds, John F. Steincardt, Andrew J. Stetson, Elijah H. Tolman, George H. Trow, James O. Underwood, Horace Vosmus, James Wilder, George H. Winsor, Eugene Sanger, George Sturtevant, John W. Sylvester, Benjamin F. Harden, Henry Z. Hale, Galen O. Hudson, Caleb L. Hudson, William W. Josselyn, James Kingman, Aaron M. Keene, David H. Lincoln, Morton D. Mitchell, William H. Mosher, John M. Nason, Pelec Osborne, Edmund T. Packard, Josiah Richmond, Wallace Ripley, Jeremiah Reardon, and Charles F. Shaw.