User:Mt003/Broom County Union Soldiers Monument

The Broome County, New York, Soldiers and Sailors Monument is a Civil War monument honoring the soldiers who served the Union during the American Civil War. The monument is located on the grounds of the Broome County Courthouse in Binghamton, New York. It was erected by the Soldiers Monumental Association in 1889 in order to commemorate Broome County’s Civil War dead. The monument was designed by the marble works frim Barnes and Congdon. The Association, founded in 1887 for the purpose of soldier commemoration, felt that the volunteers of Broome County who had died were not sufficiently remembered for their sacrifice; by monument standards, the decision to erect a monument and it's official unveiling was a relatively swift process.