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A granite obelisk standing at 34 feet high, Marblehead's Soldiers' Monument was erected in 1876, the same year as the town's Mugford Monument, and dedicated on the centennial July 4. Although its north-side inscription honours the memory of "Our…

Located in the Marshfield Hills Cemetery, this Soldiers' Monument is made entirely of Quincy granite and is comprised of a Union soldier at parade rest atop a trilogy of bases. Its primary inscription memorialises the 21 Marshfield men who died in…

This monument was erected in 2004

Image was taken in September 2009

Image was taken September 2009

"Massachusetts tribute to the 29th, 35th and 36th regiments, volunteer infantry" on monument. "G 6805" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division…