Revolutionary War Soldiers' Monument
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Revolutionary War Soldiers' Monument

Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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  • 35 Gulf Street, Milford, Connecticut
    Milford, Connecticut, 06460 USA

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The Soldiers' Monument is located in the south west part of Milford Cemetery in Milford, CT.
Source of the following text : waymarking.com

A brownstone obelisk in Milford Cemetery was erected in 1852 to honors the 200 seriously ill Continental soldiers who were prisoners of war that were released from a British prison ship on January 1, 1777, and left to fend for themselves on a Milford beach. The names and hometowns of 46 men who subsequently died of their illness are engraved on the monument. The monument doesn't specifically name the disease which is believed to be smallpox.

Carved on the front of the 35' tall obelisk are 13 stars, the seal of the State of Connecticut and the two line inscription SOLDIERS' MONUMENT below is the year 1776.

A granite tablet is attached to the south face of the monument. It is inscribed:

IN HONOR OF

FORTY SIX AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO
SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN STRUGGLING FOR
THE INDEPENDENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY. THIS
MONUMENT WAS ERECTED IN 1852 BY THE JOINT
LIBERALITY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THE
PEOPLE OF MILFORD AND OTHER CONTRIBUTING
FRIENDS

TWO HUNDRED AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN A
DESTITUTE SICKLY AND DYING CONDITION WERE
BROUGHT FROM A BRITISH PRISON SHIP THEN
LYING NEAR NEW YORK AND SUDDENLY CAST UPON
OUR SHORE FROM A BRITISH CARTEL SHIP ON
THE FIRST OF JANUARY 1777.

THE INHABITANTS OF MILFORD MADE THE
MOST CHARITABLE EFFORTS FOR THEIR RELIEF OF
THESE SUFFERING STRANGERS. YET, NOTWITHSTANDING
ALL THEIR KIND MINISTRATIONS, IN ONE MONTH,
THESE FORTY-SIX DIED AND WERE BURIED IN ONE
COMMON GRAVE.

THEIR NAMES AND THEIR RESIDENCES ARE
INSCRIBED ON THIS MONUMENT.
The Soldiers' Monument is located in the south west part of Milford Cemetery in Milford, CT.
Source of the following text : waymarking.com

A brownstone obelisk in Milford Cemetery was erected in 1852 to honors the 200 seriously ill Continental soldiers who were prisoners of war that were released from a British prison ship on January 1, 1777, and left to fend for themselves on a Milford beach. The names and hometowns of 46 men who subsequently died of their illness are engraved on the monument. The monument doesn't specifically name the disease which is believed to be smallpox.

Carved on the front of the 35' tall obelisk are 13 stars, the seal of the State of Connecticut and the two line inscription SOLDIERS' MONUMENT below is the year 1776.

A granite tablet is attached to the south face of the monument. It is inscribed:

IN HONOR OF

FORTY SIX AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO
SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN STRUGGLING FOR
THE INDEPENDENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY. THIS
MONUMENT WAS ERECTED IN 1852 BY THE JOINT
LIBERALITY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THE
PEOPLE OF MILFORD AND OTHER CONTRIBUTING
FRIENDS

TWO HUNDRED AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN A
DESTITUTE SICKLY AND DYING CONDITION WERE
BROUGHT FROM A BRITISH PRISON SHIP THEN
LYING NEAR NEW YORK AND SUDDENLY CAST UPON
OUR SHORE FROM A BRITISH CARTEL SHIP ON
THE FIRST OF JANUARY 1777.

THE INHABITANTS OF MILFORD MADE THE
MOST CHARITABLE EFFORTS FOR THEIR RELIEF OF
THESE SUFFERING STRANGERS. YET, NOTWITHSTANDING
ALL THEIR KIND MINISTRATIONS, IN ONE MONTH,
THESE FORTY-SIX DIED AND WERE BURIED IN ONE
COMMON GRAVE.

THEIR NAMES AND THEIR RESIDENCES ARE
INSCRIBED ON THIS MONUMENT.

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