Soldiers’ Monument
The Record of the Erection and Dedication of the Soldiers Monument
May 30, 1885
DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT
The monument is of the best quality of Ryegate (Vermont) Granite, the main shaft left in rough finish, broken by the names of twelve great battles of the war:
ATLANTA.
GETTYSBURG.
MALVERN HILL.
VICKSBURG.
COLD HARBOR.
FREDERICKSBURG.
ANTIETAM.
PETERSBURG.
CHANCELLORSVILLE.
FORT WAGNER.
WILDERNESS.
CEDAR MOUNTAIN.
It stands thirty-one feet and eight inches in height. Above the solid base the large die has on its four sides the following inscriptions:
EAST SIDE.
Erected by the Citizens of Naugatuck, A. D. 1885, in
Memory of Her Sons who Fought to
Maintain the Union.
1861–1865.
WEST SIDE.
The Citizen Soldier.
Fearless in War,
Industrious in Peace.
NORTH SIDE.
May the God of Nations
Preserve our Country in the Blessed Bonds of
Peace now Established.
SOUTH SIDE.
The Deeds of Those
Who Died in Defense of the Government
Of the People are Immortal.
The shaft is surmounted by the figure of a soldier standing at ease, eight feet high.
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Naugatuck’s 236 Civil War Soldiers, 1861 to 1865
Robert Armstrong
John Adamson
Walter Anderson
George Anderson
Valentine Arenholtz
William J. Abernethy
Charles L. Alling
William Adams
Abiram Atwood
Frank Butler
William J. Beardsley
James E. Bennett
John Bulliher
Patrick Burke
George Butler
Luzerne Baldwin
Michael Burns
Charles A. Beardsley
Henry C. Baldwin
William Bodman
Franklin K. Beecher
Robert Baldwin
William Beardsley
John Burke
Luther M. Baldwin
Philip Boylan
William F. Bissell
Henry Baker
Matthew Boylan
Charles Bendalow
John Bacon
Minor S. Baldwin
Isaac H. Beecher
William Campion
Frank Carter
Michael Clow
Henry A. Cook
Joseph A. Chamberlin
Daniel B. Camp
Oliver G. Camp
Gilbert S. Clark
John Casey, 1st
Julius B. Cook
Robert Candee
Thomas Clancy
John Carry
James Dailey
Daniel Davis
Oliver Davis
William H. Dougal
Patrick Doling
Leonard L. Dougal
Peter H. Donly
Frederick L. Dougal
Nelson H. Davis
Marcus L. Delevan
Joseph Dogan
George H. Deming
James Delaney
John W. Eisenberg
John M. Ellis
Oliver Evans
Charles S. French
Francis Flanagan
Thomas French
Patrick Farrell
John H. Francis
Michael Fruin
Alfred H. French
Thomas Ford
Charles Farrell
Mason Gray
Owen Gannon
Michael Green
James Griffing
Hugh Gannon
Lucius Goodall
William Griffin
Simon Gaven
Frank C. Gerard
Lewis H. Gorham
Bolzor Grosh
Robert L. Hopkins
Joseph I. Hotchkiss, Jr.
James Harrison
Richard E. Hayden
Charles Hoadley
John S. Hayes
John W. Hogan
Joseph Horsley
Oliver Hitchcock
James Hewison
Edward W. Horton
Edwin J. Hickox
Frank B. Hitchcock
Abner F. Hoyt
James D. Hotchkiss
Alonzo Hotchkiss
Patrick Harrigan
Joseph Hunce
Henry T. Hoadley
Michael Horn
George E. Howgate
William S. Hooper
George Hoskins
A. Dwight Hopkins
George H. Hoadley
Charles Hoadley
George L. Hotchkiss
Amos H. Hotchkiss
Bernard Howrigan
William H. Hine
Henry B. Hopkins
Castle E. Isbell
Robert L. Isbell
Henry Jones
William Jackson
Jacob King
Robert Kennedy
Lewis D. King
Henry F. Keyes
Francis H. Keeney
Hugh Kelley
William J. Kane
Joseph O. Kane
Frederick C. Lord
George L. Lewis
Walter B. Lake
John W. Lawton
Franklin S. Lewis
Theodore S. Ladd
Henry C. Lord
Rufus W. Lewis
Charles F. Leonard
Elias F. Merrill
William S. Mann
Timothy Murnann
Frank D. Meers
Thomas Mulvey
James Malone
John Mignaulth
John McLellan
James McKennea
Frank Martin
Harry L. Maginnis
Michael Moran
Daniel McGinnis
Charles L. Neigh
John L. Nichols
Frederick O. Nichols
Franklin S. Nichols
Henry Nichols
Charles L. Norton
Isaac Nichols, 2d
Edward J. Nichols
John O’Donnell
Robert W. Osborn
Daniel Ogle
Jacob Paulus
Sereno Porter
Henry D. Patterson
Charles Pollitt
Charles W. Phelps
George E. Payne
Irwin Peck
Manuel Perry
Richard Platt
Doctor G. Potter
Charles H. Pickett
Elliott R. Pickett
Lawrence Phalan
Henry Phelps
Hiram Patterson
Jonathan H. Pierce
Charles Patterson
Willis E. Payne
Sheldon F. Payne
Nathan Payne
John Platt
James Quinlan
Cornelius J. Rollason
Sylvester P. Richards
Charles S. Riggs
Charles Radebold
James Riley
Patrick Ruth
Edward F. Smith
Andrew M. Sherman
William Strong
Hiram P. Spencer
John Shelley
Dennis Sweeney
Ashbell Stevens
Edward A. Stevens
Henry E. Sears
John Smith
Thomas Stafford
James Somers
Thomas Smith
George Smith
David R. Stevens
William S. Skeels
Lucian H. Spencer
John Sandley
Nelson S. Smith
Merritt C. Saunders
Thomas Saunders
Zerah S. Seymour
William E. Stevens
John Slaybracker
Benjamin W. Seymour
Dwight L. Smith
Alonzo P. Smith
John D. Smith
Charles Tobey
Edward Troy
John M. Thompson
Henry Treadway
Stiles S. Twitchell
George L. Tyler
George S. Tung
Edwin Terrell
Niles Tuttle
George F. Umberfield
Joseph Vanness
William H. Williams
Rev. Curtiss T. Woodruff
Horace N. Williams
Thomas White
Elijah S. Williams
John Williams
Collins E. Wilcox
Mordaunt L. Wilmot
Noyes S. Wilmot
Joel F. Webster
Peter Young
List of Naugatuck Men Enlisted in other Places
Names of the soldiers credited to Naugatuck, already given, the names of those who, while by birth or training Naugatuck men, enlisted elsewhere and appear in the quotas of other towns and other states. The list is imperfect. Those marked with a * are known to have died in the service:
James Adamson
Guy Beecher
*Hubert Beers — Ohio Cavalry Regiment.
Albert E. Budroe — Regular Army.
Charles A. Budroe — U. S. Navy.
Matthew Boylan — Missouri Regiment.
William N. Carroll — Fourteenth Conn. Regiment.
Michael P. Coen — Ninth Conn. Regiment.
Michael Cronan — Ninth Conn. Regiment.
James Conran
Duncan D. Gibbard — Fourteenth Conn. Regiment.
B. C. Hall — Twenty-Seventh Conn. Regiment.
Burr Hine
*Andrew B. Hitchcock — Fifteenth Conn. Regiment.
Charles Hopkins
Major Enos Hopkins — Michigan Regiment.
*Orson Howard — New York Regiment.
Frank Hunt — Connecticut Regiment.
*Lieut. John D. Isbell — Eighteenth Mass. Regiment.
Henry D. Lewis — Fifteenth Conn. Regiment.
Evelyn Porter
Dwight Russell — Fourteenth Conn. Regiment.
Phineas Warner