CIVIL WAR MONUMENT INSCRIPTION
DEFENDERS OF OUR COUNTRY |
WHO BECAME SOLDIERS NOT FROM AMBITION OR LUST OF WAR BUT FROM DEVOTION TO THEIR COUNTRY AND TO ASSERT THE SOVEREIGNTY OF HER LAW. |
P E A C E L I B E R T Y
RENDERS HOMAGE TO HER PATRIOT DEAD A RESCUED PEOPLE HOLD THEM IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE A.D. 1876 |
THROUGH UNMEASURED SUFFERING AND DEATH, THEY PRESERVED THE HONOR AND INTEGRITY OF THE NATION, AND MAINTAINED THE PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA. |