Civil War Monument - Portland, ME
Posted by: YoSam.
N 43° 39.445 W 070° 15.533
19T E 398490 N 4834593
Marker, more than text, on the monument
Waymark Code: WM104F4
Location: Maine, United States
Date Posted: 02/24/2019
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County of monument: Cumberland County
Location of monument: Preble St. & Congress St., Monument Square, Portland
Artist: Franklin Simmons, 1839-1913
Architect: Richard Morris Hunt, 1827-1895
Founder: Fonderia Nelli
Date dedicated: October 28, 1891
Marker Text:
1861 [wreath] 1865
More than four thousand men were enrolled from Portland in the army and navy for the War of the Rebellion. More than three hundred were killed in battle or died in service. Honor and grateful remembrance
to the dead, equal honor to those who, daring to die, survived.