Dorchester Civil War Soldiers Monument - Boston, MA - American Civil War Monuments and Memorials on Waymarking.com

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Town Seal
Dorchester
1630

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(Roundel on front of obelisk, in raised lettering:) IN HONOR OF THE CITIZEN & SOLDIERS/OF DORCHESTER WHO FOUGHT/IN THE WAR OF THE/REBELLION/1861---1865 (Roundel on rear of obelisk, incised lettering:) THEY DIED THAT THE/NATION MIGHT LIVE. unsigned

A tall granite obelisk adorned with a band of stars and a band of shields. The middle section of monument contains four marble roundels, one on each side of the obelisk. One roundel contains a relief of a cannon and another roundel contain a relief of the Dorchester Seal. The lower section of monument is inscribed with the names of war dead. The monument is surrounded by a wrought iron fence.

M.H. Warren Rufus Choate C.T. Black C.B.Young M.M. Shepard S.S. Chadwick J.B. Phelps J.W. Templeman C.H. Marsh I.A. Howe Dallas Southworth H.A.. Fuller W. W. Richards C.C. Millet August Deutling J.O. Hill S. Young James Driscoll C.L. French J.E. Harris John Doody C.E. Lambert S. B. Harris C.H. French Henry Morrow

W.C. Hewins B.R. Pierce Andrew Fais A.J. McIntire Frank Carr C.C. Baxter W.B. Caskins Andrew Wilson C.F. Dale Jas. Teelan J. H. Blackman Harrison Clover Lemuel Tileston Frederic Vent Sylvester Wheeler M. O'Conner J.C. Clapp T.S. Dennett Jeremiah Hendley C.E. Tolmar E. S. Hart William Quigley J.W. Sterling Fritz Goetz David Chapin

Benj. Stone, Jr. E.C. Foster C.A. Brown O.J. Dodge H.C. Foster Patrick Collins J. McCoverin A.C. Stone J.E. Robie Isaac Williams David Brown John Marter C.E. Tolman Charles Pool C.R. Baxter S.H. Cox Gunnison Deans G. W. Richardson E.Q. Richards R.T. McGukin F.H. Sumner M.W. Stone J.E. Bird Alexander Musgrave

H.W. Hall T.B. Fox, Jr. W.R. Porter F.E. Barnard Walter Humphreys O. F. Boynton J.H. Stimpson A.W. Clapp H.O. Burr E.O. Sumner E.B. Tileston George Holmes R.T. Holmes J.H. Bradshaw G.H. Clark W.E. Blake B.F. Bartlett Jas. Campbell T.S. Boynton R. Wesselhoeft C.W. McElroy W.F. Pope E.F. Adams H.A. Evans

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