On May 30, 1912, a monument consisting of a stone pillar and a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln was dedicated. The memorial to the “Town of New Milford in Loving Memory of the Soldiers & Sailors of the Union Army & Navy 1861-1865" was a gift of Civil War veteran Edward Williams Marsh, a quartermaster sergeant and captain in Connecticut’s Second Regiment Heavy Artillery. Marsh was also recruiting officer for the first two men from New Milford

(Thomas Burr and George E. Carpenter) to enlist in

Connecticut’s 29th Regiment.