Of 2nd.Reg. Me.V.M. a native of Wayne Kennebec County, Me. who died at Richmond Va. from wounds received at the battle of Manasses July 21st.
From The History of Wayne, Maine:
Lyman E. Richardson enlisted as a 2nd Lietenant, April 25, 1861, age 27, in Company E of the 2nd Maine Regiment. He was the first Wayne man to answer President Lincoln's call for volunteers. His index card states he enlisted from Wayne, was born in Rumford, and his occupation was teaching. Lyman was mortally wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861). In his regimental history of the 2nd Maine, titled Second to None, Jim Mundy wrote:
Lt. Lyman Richardson was a 27-year-old schoolteacher in Garland before the war. He was one of the regiments first martyrs and had his leg torn off by a cannonball. A huge crowd, for the first time, witnessed the erection of a monument to him in Garland later that year. He had survived capture, a rough stretcher ride, and amputation of his leg without benefit of chloroform, only to die on August 4, 1861, in Richmond, Virginia.
Lyman was the first teacher in Wayne's newly dedicated (December 15, 1853) Dexter District schoolhouse.
From The History of Wayne, Maine:
Lyman E. Richardson enlisted as a 2nd Lietenant, April 25, 1861, age 27, in Company E of the 2nd Maine Regiment. He was the first Wayne man to answer President Lincoln's call for volunteers. His index card states he enlisted from Wayne, was born in Rumford, and his occupation was teaching. Lyman was mortally wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861). In his regimental history of the 2nd Maine, titled Second to None, Jim Mundy wrote:
Lt. Lyman Richardson was a 27-year-old schoolteacher in Garland before the war. He was one of the regiments first martyrs and had his leg torn off by a cannonball. A huge crowd, for the first time, witnessed the erection of a monument to him in Garland later that year. He had survived capture, a rough stretcher ride, and amputation of his leg without benefit of chloroform, only to die on August 4, 1861, in Richmond, Virginia.
Lyman was the first teacher in Wayne's newly dedicated (December 15, 1853) Dexter District schoolhouse.
Of 2nd.Reg. Me.V.M. a native of Wayne Kennebec County, Me. who died at Richmond Va. from wounds received at the battle of Manasses July 21st.
From The History of Wayne, Maine:
Lyman E. Richardson enlisted as a 2nd Lietenant, April 25, 1861, age 27, in Company E of the 2nd Maine Regiment. He was the first Wayne man to answer President Lincoln's call for volunteers. His index card states he enlisted from Wayne, was born in Rumford, and his occupation was teaching. Lyman was mortally wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861). In his regimental history of the 2nd Maine, titled Second to None, Jim Mundy wrote:
Lt. Lyman Richardson was a 27-year-old schoolteacher in Garland before the war. He was one of the regiments first martyrs and had his leg torn off by a cannonball. A huge crowd, for the first time, witnessed the erection of a monument to him in Garland later that year. He had survived capture, a rough stretcher ride, and amputation of his leg without benefit of chloroform, only to die on August 4, 1861, in Richmond, Virginia.
Lyman was the first teacher in Wayne's newly dedicated (December 15, 1853) Dexter District schoolhouse.
From The History of Wayne, Maine:
Lyman E. Richardson enlisted as a 2nd Lietenant, April 25, 1861, age 27, in Company E of the 2nd Maine Regiment. He was the first Wayne man to answer President Lincoln's call for volunteers. His index card states he enlisted from Wayne, was born in Rumford, and his occupation was teaching. Lyman was mortally wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861). In his regimental history of the 2nd Maine, titled Second to None, Jim Mundy wrote:
Lt. Lyman Richardson was a 27-year-old schoolteacher in Garland before the war. He was one of the regiments first martyrs and had his leg torn off by a cannonball. A huge crowd, for the first time, witnessed the erection of a monument to him in Garland later that year. He had survived capture, a rough stretcher ride, and amputation of his leg without benefit of chloroform, only to die on August 4, 1861, in Richmond, Virginia.
Lyman was the first teacher in Wayne's newly dedicated (December 15, 1853) Dexter District schoolhouse.
Inscription
The patriots reward is above.
On the right side of the monument it reads:
Husband where art thou for I gaze around and see thee not. I listen for the sound of that dear voice whose soft and gentle tone of love and kindness came to meet mine own.
Thou hast found a home of pure and lasting rest. Now upward, upward until I fix my trust
and then oh then when this poor drooping dust shall sleep in death, most gladly will I rest
To hail thy spirit in it's native skies, in yonder heaven washed pure from every stain, Oh husband dear we soon shall meet again.
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