Civil War Memorial (Williamsport, PA)
Union
Monument type:
Statue - standing soldier
Artist:
Dedication Date:
1936-06-22
Address:
Lycoming
Pennsylvania
United States
Inscription:
Erected by the
People of Lycoming Co.
under the auspices of
The Grand Army
of the Republic
to the memory of
Their Heroic Dead
who Fell in Defence
of the Union
1861 to 1865
This tablet is dedicated
in memory of
"Our Fathers"
who served their country
1861 — 1865
by the Pennsylvania D. U. V.
of the Civil War
June 22, 1936
We were in peril. They
breasted the danger; the
Republic called, they
answered with their blood.
"Death makes no conquest
of these conquerors, for
now they live in fame,
though not in life."
"These dead shall not have
died in vain, that the nation
shall under God have a new
birth of freedom and that
the government of the people,
by the people, and for the
people, shall not perish
from the earth." A. Lincoln.
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Erected by:
The People of Lycoming County.
Funded by:
Local funding
Run by:
Indigenous Land
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Data Sources:
Historical Monument Database: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=119622
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