Woonsocket Civil War Monument - Woonsocket, Rhode Island - American Civil War Monuments and Memorials on Waymarking.com

"Commissioned at a cost of $5000 in 1868 and dedicated in 1870, Woonsocket's Civil War Monument is the work of Hartford sculptor, J.G. Batterson. Typical in design, it is a well executed work, representative of the better-quality but essentially modest Civil War memorials erected all across the cuotnry in the decades following the conflict.

The monument has special significance in Woonsocket (which lost 39 men in the war), for that community, though a major industrial center, was not an independent political jurisdiction until 1867. One of the first acts of its town council was to commission this monument--the first civic gesture of a new and proud town. It was, moreover, the first Civil War monument erected in the state." - Woonsock MRA NRHP document pg. 95.

The monument is inscribed as follows:

In Grateful Remembrance
Of Her Brave Sons, Who During The
Great Rebellion
Gave Their Lives That The Republic Might Live
The Town Of Woonsocket
Erected And Dedicated This Monument
May 28, A.D. 1870.

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