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IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO WERE CALLED AND SERVED. EXCELSIOR AREA VETERANS KILLED IN ACTION WHILE FIGHTING IN OUR GREAT WARS.

THIS MEMORIAL IS A LASTING TRIBUTE TO PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE VETERANS WHO SERVED DURING PEACETIME AND DURING WARTIME.

A COURAGEOUS SOLDIER AND MEMBER OF ETHAN ALLEN'S IMMORTAL BAND OF 83, WHO TOOK PART IN THE SURPISE ATTACK ON THE BRITISH GARRISON AT FORT TICONDEROGA AND THE ONLY REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.

DEDICATED TO THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS WHO SAVED THE UNION 1861-1865

TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THE UNION SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE WAR 1861-1865. THEIR PATRIOTISM INSPIRED UNQUESTIONING DEVOTION, THEIR VALOR WAS ATTESTED ON HARD-WON BATTLEFIELDS. THEIR SUFFERING AND SACRIFICE EXALTED THE GLORIOUS CAUSE AND ENNOBLED THE ...

IN MEMORY OF OUR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 1861-1865

ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS OF BLOOMINGTON, MEMORIAL DAY 1890, IN HONOR AND MEMORY OF OUR COUNTRY'S DEFENDERS 1861-1865

ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS OF GOODHUE COUNTY 1861-1865

COLONEL WILLIAM COLVILL AND THE 1ST REGIMENT MINN. VOLS WHICH HE COMMANDED AT THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG ON JULY 2ND 1863. THIS WAS THE FIRST REGIMENT TENDERED TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR; AND IT SERVED THREE YEARS IN THE ARMY OF T ...

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PRIVATE WILLIAM MAY OF THE 32ND IOWA INFANTRY REGIMENT WAS AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR CAPTURING THE FLAG OF THE LOUISIANA BOUANCHAUD BATTERY AT THE BATTLE OF NASHVILLE ON DECEMBER 16, 1864. PRIVATE MAY ALSO SERVED IN THE MEXICAN WAR.

GENERAL LEWIS GRANT WAS THE COLONEL OF THE 5TH VERMONT INFANTRY REGIMENT. LATER HE WAS PROMOTED TO BRIGADIER GENERAL AND LED THE "OLD VERMONT BRIGADE" IN MANY OF THE MAJOR BATTLES OF THE EAST. HE WAS AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR "PERSONAL GALLANTRY AND ...

TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN AN ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN MINNESOTA VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS AND THE SIOUX INDIANS SEPT. 23, 1862

ERECTED BY THE STATE OF MINNESOTA IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE HEROISM OF THOSE GALLANT SOLDIERS AND CITIZENS WHO FOUGHT THE BATTLE OF BIRCH COULEE AND TO PERPETUATE THEIR NAMES.

ON THE PRAIRIE HALF A MILE EAST OF THIS POINT, A PARTY OF ABOUT 160 TROOPS WAS ATTACHED BY SIOUX AT DAWN, SEPT. 2, 1862, DURING THE BATTLE, THE FORCE WAS SURROUNDED FOR THIRTY HOURS, LOSING OVER A THIRD OF ITS NUMBER IN KILLED AND WOUNDED. SEE ALSO-BAT ...

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ERECTED BY THE STATE OF MINNESOTA 1873

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