Lincoln Herm - New Milford, CT - Abraham Lincoln on Waymarking.com

The Lincoln Herm is a 12 ft. x 7.75 by 7.25' slightly tapered gray granite pedestal supporting a 2.5' high by 1.5' wide bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln. The monument sculpted by Paul Winters Morris and the bust was cast at the John Williams, Inc. foundry. The monument was donated to the Town of New Milford by Edward Williams Marsh and dedicated on May 30, 1912.

The bust includes the head and top of the shoulders of Lincoln. He is wearing a shirt, bow tie, vest and coat. He is looking straight ahead. There are bronze plaques on the front and back of the base. On the left side is a bronze bas relief sculpture of a Union bugler next to a mortar. The right side bronze bas shows a sailor hauling on the halyard of a flag.

On the front face there is a 5' high by 2.75' wide oval bronze plaque with an inscription of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that Nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us —that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this Nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

On the back of the monument, the north side, there is the inscription: