Association, E: Exercises Connected With the Unveiling of th

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Excerpt from Exercises Connected With the Unveiling of the Ellsworth Monument: At Mechanicville, May 27, 1874

It is believed that considerable sums of money were raised at this time throughout the country and in the army for the Ellsworth monument, but if so it is not known what became of it, for very little ever reached this committee. The momentous events of the war followed in such rapid succession, that the subject of building monuments for fallen heroes was driven from the minds of the people, the absorb ing question was, how can the life of the nation be saved?

After the close of the war, occasional attempts were made to proceed with the matter, but all, for some reason or other, were fruitless. In the meantime, Col. Noah L. Farnham, the lieutenant colonel and successor of Col. Ellsworth in command of the regiment, had died of wounds received at Bull Run, and half of the funds in the hands of the New York fire committee had been devoted to the erection of a monument to his memory. Among other ways in which the matter was pressed upon the attention of the people of Mechanicville, the subject was repeatedly agitated in the Mechanicville Star in 1871, the only apparent result of which was the eliciting of the following letter which explains itself.

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