In 1865, the Ladies Soldiers and Society of Somers erected the Somers Soldiers Memorial in memory of the brave men from this vicinity who fell in the Great Rebellion, naming Capt. James M. McKeel, Sergt. Theodore Quick, Sergt. William E. Kniffin, William Donnell, Chauncey E. Tuttle, John Jones, Freeman Light, Charles Clark, Norman B. Purdy, Alvin Gregory, Chs. Vredenburgh, George Powers, Stephen Bowles, William Tryon, William C. Graham, Col. James Butler, Col., Maj. Edward Jones, Sergt. James B. Fanning, Corp. Thomas J. Austin, George Carrington, James Moriarity, Andrew Quick, Ezra Miller, James Quick, and Cornelius Vanscoy, with service identified in the 4th N.Y. H.A., 59th N.Y. V., 101st N.Y. V., 1st N.Y. C., 29th Conn. V., and 6th N.Y. H.A.