Meriden Soldiers Memorial

To The Memory Of

Our Fellow Citizens

Who Died

In Defense of the Government. 1861 – 65

Erected     1873

[ battle names on the column ]

Antietam • Gettysburg • Vicksburg • Fort Fisher • Appomattox • Atlanta • New Berne • Roanoke Island

[ west side plaque ]

John S. Jameson   Serg’t   M   1st Cav   Andersonville, Ga   Aug. 31, 1864

Frederick J. Hiller   Private   D   1st Cav   Han’r Ct. House, Va   May 31, 1864

Wm G. Hall   Private   K   1st Cav   Andersonville, Ga   July 16, 1864

Henry A. Plumb   Private   L   1st Cav   Richmond, Va   Aug. 4. 1863

Randolph Davis   Private   L   1st Cav   Frederick, Md   Jan. 4, 1865

James F. Foster   Private   M   1st Cav   Baltimore, Md   Mar. 14, 1864

Truman M. Baldwin   Private   B   1st Cav   Galisbury, N.C.   Feb. 1865

Julian A. Griffin   Private   A   1st H.A.   Broadway Ldg., Va   Aug. 2, 1864

Charles McPartland   Private   K   1st H.A.   Petersburg, Va   Mar. 25, 1863

Wm Cassidy   Private   K   1st H.A.   Broadway Ldg., Va   Sept. 1, 1864

Patrick Duff   Private   K   1st H.A.   Petersburg, Va   Mar. 25, 1865

Felix Quinn   Private   K   1st H.A.   Meriden, Conn   Oct 27, 1863

Edgar A. Hildreth   Private   L   1st H.A.   Bermuda Hund., Va   Sept. 9, 1864

Wm W. Richardson   Private   D   2d H.A.   Fairfax Semy, Va   April 24, 1864

Charles W. Griswold   Private   F   2d H.A.   ,   April 23, 1865

Ht W. Miller   Private   H   2d H.A.   Cold Harbor, Va   June 1, 1864

Wm Fitzgerald   Private   I   2d H.A.   Strasburg, Va   Oct. 19, 1864

Adolphus H. Barr   Private   D   5th   Resaca, Ga   May 15, 1864

Michael Canary   Private   G   5th   Meriden, Conn   May 9, 1862

Oscar Crusius   Corp.   H   6th   James Island, S.C.   June 13, 1862

Edwin F. Collins   Private   F   6th   Point Of Rocks, Va   Oct. 16, 1864

John Kern   Private   H   6th   Fort’ss Monroe, Va   Nov. 7, 1864

August Schutt   Private   H   6th   In Prison,   Oct. 28, 1864

Charles Gangloff   Private   H   6th   Drury’s Bluff, Va   May 21, 1864

Jacob Mayer   Private   H   6th   Hilton Head , S.C.   June 21, 1862

Howard Maschmeyer   Private   H   6th   Hilton Head , S.C.   Sept . 5, 1863

Wm Maschmeyer   Private   H   6th   Beaufort, S.C.   Oct. 23, 1862

Jacob Eaton   Chap’n     7th   Wilmington, N.C.   Mar. 20, 1865

E. Lewis Bull   Adjt     7th   Hilton Head, S.C.   Oct. 20, 1862

Edwin J. Merrian   2d Lieut   C   7th   Hampton, Va   Oct. 5, 1864

Oliver D. Sellew   Serg’t   A   7th   Florence, S.C.   Oct. 18, 1864

Alfred P. Green   Serg’t   C   7th   Meriden, Conn   Jan 9, 1865

Marshall F. Belden   Corp'l   A   7th   Fort Wagner, S.C.   Jult 11, 1863

James W. Belden   Corp'l   C   7th   Charleston, S.C.   Dec. 22, 1864

Watson W. Davis   Corp'l   C   7th   Jefferson Bk,, Mo   May 12, 1865

Seth W. Hotchkiss   Private   A   7th   Fort’ss Monroe, Va   Aug. 7, 1864

Wm F. Ackerman   Private   C   7th   Fort Pulaski, Ga   May 12, 1862

George Burroughs   Private   C   7th   Tybee Island, Ga   Feb. 2, 1862

George Blake   Private   C   7th   New Haven, Conn   Aug 7, 1863

John Byxbee   Private   C   7th   Beaufort, S.C.   May 3, 1864

[ south side plaque ]

Levi Barnes   Private   C   7th   Macon, Ga   Nov. 30, 1864

Henry Avery   Private   C   7th   Baltimore, Md   Mar. 18, 1865

George W. Andrus   Private   C   7th   Drury’s Bluff, Va   May 14, 1864

Silas Davis   Private   C   7th   Meriden, Conn   Mar. 1, 1863

Henry De Angelist   Private   C   7th   Jefferson Bk., Mo   May 31, 1865

Henry A. Edgerton   Private   C   7th   Goldsboro, N.C.   July 3, 1865

Joshua J. Jones   Private   C   7th   Talahassee, Fla   Mar. 10, 1864

Charles P. Lewis   Private   C   7th   Deep Run, Va   Aug. 16, 1864

James A. Miller   Private   C   7th   James Island, S.C.   June 14, 1862

Abraham Miner   Private   C   7th   Drury’s Bluff, Va   May 16, 1864

Charles L. Mcwhinney   Private   C   7th   Florence, S.C.   Feb. 28, 1865

Chauncey W. Roberts   Private   C   7th   Florence, S.C.   Nov. 10, 1864

William Schofield   Private   C   7th   Beaufort, S.C.   Dec. 27, 1862

Frederick A. Taylor   Private   C   7th   Florence, S.C.  

James Thrall   Private   C   7th   Meriden, Conn   Jan. 8, 1863

Charles F. Waterman   Private   C   7th   Fort Pulaski, Ga   June 21, 1862

John E. Warner   Private   C   7th   Andersonville, Ga   Dec. 3, 1864

Wm Warner   Private   C   7th   Florence, S.C.   Sept. 1864

Edmund Westerhood   Private   D   7th   Florence, S.C.  

Christian Kohlberg   Private   I   7th   Andersonville, Ga   Sept. 15, 1864

James Cook   Private   I   7th   Pocotaligo, S.C.   Oct. 22, 1862

George W. Holmes   Private   G   7th   Andersonville, Ga   Jan. 19, 1864

Levi C. Bingham   1st Lieut   K   8th   Walthal Jc., Va   May 9, 1864

Wm H. Johnson   2d Lieut   K   8th   Morehead City, N.C.   April 6, 1862

Wm G. Lewis   Corp’l   K   8th   Antietam, Md   Sept. 26, 1862

Chas H. Lewis   Corp’l   K   8th   Petersburg, Va   Sept. 17, 1864

John H. Simons   Corp’l   B   8th   Antietam, Md   Sept. 17, 1862

Wm Wright   Private   E   8th   Walthal Jc., Va   May 7, 1864

Wm H. Peterson   Private   E   8th   Petersburg, Va   May 10, 1864

Lawrence Riley   Private   I   8th   Walthal Jc., Va   May 7, 1864

Henry A. Lathrop   Private   K   8th   Hampton, Va   Sept. 29, 1864

Charles W. Allen   Private   K   8th   Hampton, Va   July 7, 1864

Wallace W. Bates   Private   K   8th   Roanoke Is’nd, N.C.   Feb. 24, 1862

Morris C. Clark   Private   K   8th   Meriden, Conn   July 5, 1867

John B. Comstock   Private   K   8th   Centerbr’k, Conn   April 8, 1862

John K. Doolittle   Private   K   8th   Antietam, Md   Oct. 9, 1862

George V. Dagle   Private   K   8th   Antietam, Md   Sept. 17, 1862

Henry Finken   Private   K   8th   Antietam, Md   Sept. 17, 1862

Henry W. L. Keach   Private   K   8th   Morehead City, N.C.   April 19, 1862

Alonzo I. Richardson   Private   K   8th   Antietam, Md   Sept. 17, 1862

[ east side plaque ]

Willis B. Richmond   Private   K   8th   Antietam, Md   Sept. 17, 1862

Joseph H. Walker   Private   K   8th   Hampton, Va   July 12, 1864

Edwin E. Westover   Private   K   8th   Portsmouth, Va   Mar. 27, 1864

John Lacourcier   Private   K   8th   Ft. Trumbull, Conn   Jan. 26, 1864

Elihu Talmadge   Private   K   8th   Drowned At Sea,   Jan. 31, 1862

Frank Tench   Private   K   8th   Petersburg, Va   Aug. 26, 1864

Wm. Casheen   Private   B   9th   Salisbury, N.C.   Dec. 9, 1864

Andrew carlin   Private   B   9th   New Orleans, La   July 23, 1862

Patrick Cain   Private   B   9th   Baton Rouge, La   Aug. 10, 1862

James Donohue   Private   B   9th   New Orleans, La   Oct. 29, 1862

John Ferris   Private   B   9th   New Orleans, La   Aug. 28, 1862

Patrick Greene   Private   B   9th   New Orleans, La   Aug. 12, 1863

Joseph Harrington   Private   B   9th   New Orleans, La   Nov. 3, 1863

Thomas Harvey   Private   B   9th   Carrollton, La   Sept. 11, 1862

Michael Magee   Private   B   9th   New Orleans, La   Oct. 16, 1863

Michael Malloy   Private   B   9th   New Orleans, La   Oct. 1, 1862

Luke Quinn   Private   B   9th   New Haven, Conn   June 16, 1864

Thomas Waldron   Private   B   9th   Vicksburg, Miss   July 20, 1862

Joseph Cassidy   Private   B   9th   Meriden, Conn   July 31, 1867

James Butler   Private   B   9th   Meriden, Conn   Mar. 28, 1863

James Doran   Private   B   9th   New Orleans, La   Dec. 6, 1862

Thomas F. Remington   Private   K   11th   Antietam, Md   Sept. 26, 1862

Charles R. Mecorney   Private   B   12th   Cedar Creek, Va   Oct. 19, 1864

John C. Brooks   Private   C   12th   Meriden, Conn   June 1, 1864

Thomas Burns   Private   C   13th   Port Hudson, La   June 14, 1863

Francis J. Hart   Private   C   13th   ,   Jan. 8, 1865

John Hunt   Private   G   13th   Winchester, Va   Oct. 17, 1864

Wm. Pendleton   Private   C   14th   Andersonville, Ga   July 6, 1864

Edward Hughes   Private   D   14th   Andersonville, Ga   June 22, 1864

John O’Brien   Private   D   14th   Ream’s Station, Va   Aug. 25, 1864

John Cunningham   Private   E   14th   Stony Mount’n, Va   Feb. 26, 1864

Wm. Leonard   Private   H   14th   Andersonville, Ga   Aug. 19, 1864

Madison Lamphear   Private   E   14th   Lyme, Conn   Mar. 8, 1865

Andrew Anderson   Private   K   14th   Andersonville, Ga   July 15, 1864

Julius Bassett   Capt’n   A   15th   Kinston, N.C.   Mar. 8, 1865

Marshall C. Augur   Or. Mr.     15th   Newbern, N.C.   Oct. 11, 1864

Wm. W. Thompson   1st Lieut.   F   15th   Newbern, N.C.   Oct. 29, 1864

Henry B. Levi   2d Lieut.   F   15th   Portsmouth, Va   Sept. 28, 1863

George N. Bailey   Corp’l   A   15th   Kinston, N.C.   Mar. 8, 1865

Benjamin R. Sherman   Corp’l   A   15th   Philadelphia, Penn   Dec. 18, 1862

[ north side plaque ]

George L. Roberts   Private   A   15th   Fairfax Sem’y, Va   Nov. 6, 1862

George Harwood   Private   A   15th   Andersonville, Ga   Aug. 16, 1864

James M. Ford   Private   A   15th   Andersonville, Ga   Aug. , 1864

Franklin P. Talmadge   Private   A   15th   Camp Chase, Va   Oct. 23, 1862

Charles F. Green   Private   A   15th   ,  

James S. Ely   Private   A   15th   New Haven, Conn   Mar. 29, 1864

James Greenland   Private   A   15th   Meriden, Conn   Aug. 4, 1865

Aaron J. Pratt   Private   A   15th   Newbern, N.C.   Sept. 24, 1864

Andrew B. Hitchcock   Private   A   15th   Newport News, Va   Mar. 21, 1864

Thomas Brooks   Private   A   15th   Portsmouth, Va   Sept. 21, 1863

Mark Kilbride   Private   A   15th   Portsmouth, Va   Aug. 9, 1863

James B. Parker   Private   A   15th   Hampton, Va   Sept. 30, 1863

Willis Redfield   Private   A   15th   Newbern, N.C.   Oct. 1, 1864

Charles C. Brown   Private   A   15th   Newbern, N.C.   April 16, 1864

William Uhl   Private   A   15th   Newbern, N.C.   Oct. 10, 1864

Robert O. Williams   Private   A   15th   Newbern, N.C.   May 1, 1865

Eugene Bouvard   Private   A   15th   Kinston, N.C.   Mar. 8, 1865

Sylvanus A. Hull   Private   F   15th   Newbern, N.C.   June 16, 1865

Joseph Rancorn   Private   F   15th   Newbern, N.C.   Oct. 1, 1864

David Crowley   Private   F   15th   Newbern, N.C.   Sept. 30, 1864

Alvah J. Cook   Private   F   15th   Newbern, N.C.   Oct. 13, 1864

Alvin Kenney   Private   F   15th   Newbern, N.C.   Oct. 14, 1864

James P. Baker   Private   F   15th   Newbern, N.C.   Oct. 20, 1865

Lyman S. Beach   Private   F   15th   Newbern, N.C.   Oct. 6, 1864

Franklin S. Carpenter   Private   F   15th   Newbern, N.C.   Oct. 13, 1864

John Ford   Private   F   15th   Newbern, N.C.   July 12, 1864

George C. Robinson   Private   F   15th   Newbern, N.C.   April 22, 1865

George H. Lewis   Private   F   15th   Washington, D.C.   Feb 11, 1863

Oscar M. Bailey   Private   F   15th   Suffolk, Va   May 8, 1863

Francis P. Baker   Private   F   15th   Portsmouth, Va   July 4, 1863

John N. Davis   Private   F   15th   Washington, D.C.   May 4, 1863

Giles I. Newton   Private   F   15th   Meriden, Conn   Aug. 16, 1865

James Cunningham   Private   F   15th   Meriden, Conn   Mar. 15, 1869

David K. Dunham   Private   F   15th   Meriden, Conn   Feb. 13, 1866

Cyrus Root   Corp'l   C   25th   Bayou Boeuf, La   April 27, 1863

George Hirschfield   U.S. Marine Corps       Andersonville, Ga   Sept. 16, 1864

Harrison Lamphear   U.S. Marine Corps       Brooklyn, N.Y.   Jan. 6, 1865

John E. Barlow   Private   E   1st L.A.C.   Carrollton, La   July 31, 1863

Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street and Catlin Street, on the right when traveling west on East Main Street.

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