CIVIL WAR ERA CANNON

The civil war era cannon never saw active duty, but was forged in 1863.

Many civil war relics were distributed to Grand Army Divisions throughout the

United States. In May 1908 it was given it was given in memory of the Civil

War Grand Army Divisions in Kennedy. In 2001 the cannon was refinished

an remounted on a boulder in the River Side Cemetery . Assemblyman Bill

Parliment rededicated the cannon at the Memorial Day Ceremony that year.

Inscriptions on two plaques on the south side of the large granite stone

memorial marker found in the old section of the cemetery are as follows:

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Henry Smith

Co. G 49th N.Y.

Volunteers

Died Sept. 12, 1852

Aged 20 Years

Buried at Soldiers Home

Cemetery, Washington D C

Gilbert Harris

Corp. Co. G 49th N.Y.

Volunteers

Killed at the Bloody Angle

Spotslyvania, Virginia

May 12, 1864

Aged 39 Years

Buried on the Battlefield

INSCRIPTION ON THE MEMORIAL PLAQUE FOUND ON THE EAST SIDE
OF THE STONE IS AS FOLLOWS

To the patriotism of the Town of Poland which, with
unfailing loyalty, gave money and men in the time
of the Nation's peril.
To the One Hundred and Ten men who enlisted from the
Town of Poland for the Civil War of 1861 to 1865,
and to the soldiers of that war who have since
become it's citizens.
To the men who enlisted from the Town for the
War with Spain in 1898.
To the nine soldiers of the War of the Revolution,
and to the ten soldiers of the War of
1812 to 1814 who lie buried in the Town.

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