New Britain Soldiers' Monument
[ south side ]
With Malice Toward
None With Charity
For All With Firm
Ness In The Right
Lincoln
Oh Rare And Royal
Was The Sacrifice
[ east side ]
Let Us Have Peace
Grant
For You And Me They
Put Their Armor On
This Monument Is Built In
Grateful Remembrance Of
The Soldiers And Sailors
Who In The War To Maintain
The Union Offered Their
Lives In The Cause Of Mankind
That Coming Generations
Taught By Their Example May
Cherish The Fruits Of Their
Valor And Devotion And Make
Their Memory Immortal
[ north side ]
Liberty And Union
Now And Forever
One Inseparable
Webster
For You And Me They
Stood In Grim Array
[ west side ]
To Heroes Living
And Dear Martyrs
Dead
Lowell
They Joined The Mortal
Struggle And Went Down
MDCCCLXI – MDCCCLXV
Erected By The
Citizens Of New Britain
MDCCCXCIX
[ battle names on the four columns surrounding the monument ]
Bull Run • Roanoke Island • New Bern • Fort Jackson • Fort Pulaski • Falmouth • Hilton Head • Yorktown • Chapin's Bluff • Cedar Creek • Fort Fisher • Kinston • Bentonville • Hatcher's Rum • Richmond • Appomattox • Pocotaligo • Secessionville • Chickahominy • Malvern Hill • Baton Rouge • Gainssville • Chantilly • South Mountain • Antietam • Georgia Landing • Fredericksburg • Irish Bend • Suffolk • Chancellorsville • Lawrence Fourche Crossing • Brashear City • Gettysburg • Morris Island • Bolivar Heights • Fort Wagner • Winchester • Mine Run • Olustee • Plymouth • Old River • Wilderness • Spotsylvania • Chester Station • Resaca • Mansura • Drewry's Bluff • Cold Harbor • Kennesaw Mountain • Bermuda Hundred • Port Hudson • Snickers Ford • Peachtree Creek • Martinsburg • Petersburg Mine • Ream's Station • Deep Bottom • Atlanta • Fisher's Hill • Newmarket • Petersburg • Chapin's Farm • Fort Sedgwick
Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street and Main Street, on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
