Sculptor Melmar Mosman created the eight-foot bronze infantry soldier scanning the horizon, in anticipation of
#MIDDLETOWN CIVIL WAR HOSPITAL FULL#
Some, like David Lincoln, were killed by Confederate bullets others died frokm diseases that ran rampant through military camps.īy 1874, the city of Middletown erected a statue to honor her 110 soldiers and sailors who gave what Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address called "the last full measure of devotion" in the bloodiest war in American history. At war's wnd, only 23 remained to be mustered out. The young soldiers were friends, cousins, classmates and neighbors back in Middletown. Ninety-four Middletown soldiers joined Company B of Connecticut's 14th Regiment, which fought fiercely in nearly every major battle, beginning in 1862. African American men from Middletown served in the 29th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, the state's all-black unit, and in the 31st Regiment U.S. They were the sons of old local families, as well as recent immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and England. More than 900 soldiers and sailors from the city served during the conflict. They included young David Lincoln, who gave his life in the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862.
By the end of the Civil War, one of every nine Middletown men wearing the Union uniform was dead.
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