Description:
Prominently located on Veteran Memorial Green, near an elementary school, library and town common, this monument was designed by the well-known female sculptor Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, who created a number of monuments to Union and Confederate troops throughout the early twentieth century. The monument is unusual, depicting a fallen standard-bearer handing a shattered Union flat to a sergeant who raises it up in his right hand, a rifle in his left. The monument was recently refurbished, and an inscription, funded in part by the League of Women Voters, was added to acknowledge Kitson's role in the monument's creation.
