Rice County Civil War Memorial - Lyons, Kansas - American Civil War Monuments and Memorials on Waymarking.com

The memorial has a statue of a Union soldier standing at parade rest.  He is wearing a long coat, a cape and a cap.  He is holding his rifle with both hands on the barrel with butt resting in front of his right foot.  The statue is standing on a tall granite base with the following inscription:

In Memory Of
The Defenders
Of Our Union
1861 - 1865

"Lest We Forget"

Erected By Rice County 1918 

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