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Salmon H. Lyman. Co. H. Private.
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AZ Research Salmon H. Lyman. Co. H. Private. |
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P.W. Lyman states is his book, History
of Easthampton, that Salmon H. Lyman was the; "...son of Dennis
Lyman, (and was) one of the first to volunteer, was the first to fall. In the first summer of the
war, when the soldiers were rallying to the standard, he went to New York, joined the regiment known
as the Anderson Zouaves, was home once on a furlough, spent one winter in camp, started out
with McClellan on his Peninsular campaign, and fought at the battle of Williamsburg;
soon after which be was taken sick, and removed to New York, where he died. His remains were brought
to his home, where they were buried with military honors, on the 18th of September, 1862." P.W.
Lyman states that Salmon H. Lyman served for about one year, then took ill
and died. He served with McClellan in the Penisula campaign and fought at the Battle of Williamsburg.
Easthampton honors it's fallen Civil
War soldiers with a
handsome bell tower and white Italian marble tablet on the southeast side of
the Easthampton's Old Town Hall. The pentagonal tablet is on the lower east
face of Victorian Italianate style bell tower which was designed by Charles
Parker and completed in June 1869. The marble
tablet features three small crosses and two
small columns. It is inscribed with the soldier's name, company, regiment, and
the cause, place, date and age of death.: |
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Reference:
Lyman., P.W. (1866) History of Easthampton. Trumbull & Gere. Northhampton. pp. 111 - 131. Google Books.
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMM750_Memorial_Tower_and_Tablet_Easthampton_MA |
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