Holmes County Civil War Monument - Millersburg, OH
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silverquill
N 40° 33.236 W 081° 55.024
17T E 422355 N 4489645
This monument stands in front of the west entrance to the Holmes County Courthouse in Millersburg, Ohio.
Waymark Code: WMC3JE
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 07/20/2011
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Although this monument stands in front of the west entrance to the Holmes County Courthouse, it faces north so that the old jail house forms the background as one faces it. There is a bed of flowers surrounding the monument with an array of small U.S. flags.
And, although the monument consist of a statue of a Union soldier atop a granite pillar, there is on each side of the base the inscribed memorial to veterans of four wars along with the name of a prominent general from that war. The date 1887 appears on the back of the soldier at the bottom.
The inscriptions are as follows:
On the north face of the monument:
Rededicated July 1976
in honor of the veterans
who served their country
during the...
Spanish American War
World War I
World War II
Korea
Vietnam
[north face]
WASHINGTON.
Six Soldiers of the
Revolutionary War were
subsequently Residents of
Holmes County, Ohio.
[east face]
JACKSON.
In memory of the
Soldiers of the War of A.D. 1812
who became citizens
of Holmes County, Ohio.
[south face]
SCOTT.
More than Two Hundred men
from Holmes County, Ohio,
served in the War with Mexico.
They were engaged in the
Battles of Cerro Gordo, Contreras,
Cherubusco, Molino Del Ray
Chapultepec and San Cosme.
[west face]
GRANT.
In response to the different
calls of the Government,
Two Thousand and Fourteen Men
went from Holmes County during the
War of the Rebellion.
They were engaged in many Battles
from Philippi to Appomattox.
Dulce et decorum est pro Patria mori.
Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1887
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Holmes County
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Union
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