The First Civil War Monument - Lancaster, WI
N 42° 50.868 W 090° 42.593
15T E 687127 N 4746457
The first Civil War Monument is located on the NE corner of the Grant County Courthouse at 126 Main St in Lancaster, WI.
Waymark Code: WM5N69
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 01/24/2009
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The monument reads:
"We here highly resolve that these honored 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 and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves ......... are, and henceforward shall be free."
The marker reads:
"The First Civil War Monument
Popular subscription for this Civil War Monument was started on September 16, 1862 and completed with public funds. The monument was dedicated on July 4, 1867 "... to the memory of the brave soldiers of Grant County who fell in defense of universal liberty in the great rebellion of A.D. 1861."
Rededicated July 4, 1967
Grant County Historical Society"
Date Installed or Dedicated: 07/04/1867
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Grant County Historical Society
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Union
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