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 In Memoriam - Pittsfield, IL Posted by:  YoSam.
N 39° 36.418 W 090° 48.330
15S E 688400 N 4386436
On a column at the main entrance to the county court house.
Waymark Code: WM51FH
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 10/26/2008
Views: 16
This tablet is reverently dedicated by Dick Gilmer Woman's Relief Corps. NO. 294, Auxiliary to The Grand Army of the Republic, Pittsfield, Illinois.
Location of Tablet: Washington St. on column at entrance to courthouse, Pittsfield.
County of Tablet: Pike County.
Tablet Text:
IN MEMORIAM
In loving and grateful tribute
to Pike County's Union Soldiers
of the Civil War, the 3,132 Heroic
men who offered their lives as
sacrifice to their country, 1861-1865,
and, joining hands in common cause,
repeated the oath of America's
soldier statesman.
"BY THE GREAT ETERNAL.
THE UNION MUST AND SHALL
BE PRESERVED."
Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1937
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Dick Gilmer Woman's Relief Corps. NO. 294, Auxiliary to The Grand Army of the Republic, Pittsfield, Illinois
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Union
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