SEE ALSO-FORT SCOTT MEDAL OF HONOR MEMORIAL SIDE A

1ST LIEUT. WILLIAM D. HAWKINS UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS BATTLE OF TARAWA: NOVEMBER 20-21 1943 PRIVATE GEORGE F. POND CO. C, 3RD WISCONSIN CAVALRY U.S. ARMY DRYWOOD, KANSAS: MAY 15, 1864 PRIVATE WILLIAM H. LONGSHORE CO. C, 30TH OHIO INFANTRY ARMY ...

THE MEN IN WHOSE HONOR THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED WERE LED BY THE FIRES OF LIBERTY. THEY FOUGHT FOR NO NORTH, NO SOUTH, NO EAST, NO WEST, BUT FOR ONE GLORIOUS AND UNITED COUNTRY.

PVT. LONGSHORE RECEIVED HIS MEDAL OF HONOR FOR BEING PART OF THE "FORLORN HOPE" IN THE BATTLE OF VICKSBURG. A "FORLORN HOPE" IS A BAND OF SOLDIERS OR OTHER COMBATANTS CHOSEN TO TAKE THE LEADING PART IN A MILITARY OPERATION SUCH AS AN ASSAULT ON A DEFENDED ...

FORT SCOTT NATIONAL CEMETERY WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL NATIONAL CEMETERIES ESTABLISHED BY LINCOLN'S 1862 PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION.

IN MEMORY OF THE SOLDIERS OF THE 1ST REGIMENT KANSAS COLORED VOLUNTEERS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN BATTLE MAY 18, 1863 NEAR SHERWOOD, MISSOURI

IN MEMORY OF SPANISH AMERICAN WAR VETERANS 1898-1902, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT VOLUNTEERS.