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COLONEL WILLIAM COLVILL AND THE 1ST REGIMENT MINN. VOLS WHICH HE COMMANDED AT THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG ON JULY 2ND 1863. THIS WAS THE FIRST REGIMENT TENDERED TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR; AND IT SERVED THREE YEARS IN THE ARMY OF T ...

ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS OF GOODHUE COUNTY 1861-1865

ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS OF BLOOMINGTON, MEMORIAL DAY 1890, IN HONOR AND MEMORY OF OUR COUNTRY'S DEFENDERS 1861-1865

IN MEMORY OF OUR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 1861-1865

TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THE UNION SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE WAR 1861-1865. THEIR PATRIOTISM INSPIRED UNQUESTIONING DEVOTION, THEIR VALOR WAS ATTESTED ON HARD-WON BATTLEFIELDS. THEIR SUFFERING AND SACRIFICE EXALTED THE GLORIOUS CAUSE AND ENNOBLED THE ...

DEDICATED TO THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS WHO SAVED THE UNION 1861-1865

A COURAGEOUS SOLDIER AND MEMBER OF ETHAN ALLEN'S IMMORTAL BAND OF 83, WHO TOOK PART IN THE SURPISE ATTACK ON THE BRITISH GARRISON AT FORT TICONDEROGA AND THE ONLY REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.

THIS MEMORIAL IS A LASTING TRIBUTE TO PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE VETERANS WHO SERVED DURING PEACETIME AND DURING WARTIME.

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO WERE CALLED AND SERVED. EXCELSIOR AREA VETERANS KILLED IN ACTION WHILE FIGHTING IN OUR GREAT WARS.