Stamford Veterans Monument
[ inscription around the top ]
In Everlasting Memory of Stamford's Patriots 1641 – 1918
[ battle names inscribed in the panel between the fluted columns ]
1689 – 1763
Port Royal • Schenectady • Haverhill • Louisburg • Braddock's Defeat • Duquesne • Quebec
1775 – 1783
Lexington • Concord • Bunker Hill • Ticonderoga • Trenton • Saratoga • Bennington • Yorktown
1812 – 1814
Constitution Guerriere • Lake Erie • Chippewa • Lundy's Lane • Lake Champlain • Baltimore • New Orleans
1846 – 1848
Palo Alto • Monterey • Resaca De La Palma • Buena Vista • Vera Cruz • Chapultepec • Puebla
1917 – 1918
Cantigny • Lys • Vittorio-Veneto • Champagne • St. Mihiel • Belleau Wood • Montdidier • Noyon
1917 – 1918
Marne • Verdun • Aisne • Ypres • Chateau Thierry • Argonne • Meuse • Cambrai
1861 – 1865
Sumter • Bull Run • Antietam • Fredericksburg • Gettysburg • Chicamauga • Wilderness • Atlanta
1861 – 1865
Hampton Roads • Chattanooga • Shenandoah • Appomattox
1898
Manila Bay • San Juan • El Caney • Santiago
[ four bronze plaques are mounted around the base of the column listing names of Stamford Veterans ]
World War I
[ 2,631 names are listed. The following 32 names have stars indicating they made the supreme sacrifice. ]
Frank Ahner • David P. Anderson • Charles H. Beehler • Arthur B. Camel • Joseph W. Chute • William P. Costello • John H. Coulter • Oscar H. Cowan • Robert F. Crandall • Floyd E. DeForest • John A. Donnelly • Michael G. Dora • John F. Fitzpatrick • James E. Fitzsimmons • Augusto Fornaciari • George Fortunis • Martin H. Gill • Lester Howard • Thomas Jordan • Michael Lagiora • Samuel Levine • Thomas J. Mathews • William H, Mayette • Frank Morgan • James F. Randall • Frank S. Rivers • Harold St. George • Walter T. Sharpe • Ralph L. Taylor • Samuel Tresser • Alex Voronowicz • Julius D. Wagner
Spanish-American War [ 144 names are listed. ]
Civil War [ 700 names are listed. ]
War of 1812 [ 190 names are listed. ]
Mexican War [ 6 names are listed. ]
Revolutionary War [ 493 names are listed. ]
Colonial and Indian Wars [ 277 names are listed. ]
Marker is at the intersection of Grove Street and Main Street, on the right when traveling north on Grove Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
