The Soldiers’ Monument is located in front of the Town of Danby Offices, Route 96B, Danby, New York. The Monument stands in honor of those men from the Town of Danby who enlisted in the Union Army, and gave their lives during the Civil War. The following piece is taken from the History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, and Schuyler Counties, New York, Philadelphia: Everts and Ensign, 1879, pp. 470-471; the names, dates of death and ages of the men, as listed in the book, have been checked and verified against the Monument itself.

"On the 4^th of July, 1866, was organized the "Soldiers’ Monument Association of the town of Danby." It was a fitting day on which to form an association, the object of which was to perpetuate the memory of those gallant dead who entered the Union army from this town. The events that conspire to glorify the national birthday were similar in their aim and purposes to those which made it incumbent upon the people, as a sacred duty, to raise the noble shaft, and to engrave on it the names of those who fought and died to sustain the flag, and to uphold the institutions that their forefathers had suffered so much to declare inviolate and invincible just ninety years before. It was meant that this tribute should be paid the noble dead, just as it is right and proper to observe amid profound and general rejoicings the anniversary of the natal day of the "land of the free and the home of the brave." The directors of this patriotic enterprise were Charles B. KEELER, President; E. L. B. CURTIS, Levi C. BEERS, John L. HANCE, and Rev. Warren MEYO. The expense fund was inaugurated by a picnic, which was followed at intervals by other similar gatherings, dances, and literary and social entertainments, at which all contributed a little to the noble object. By these various means a sum aggregating about $1900 was raised, which, by vote of the people (which though resulting in a goodly majority, yet to the shame of those who covertly opposed it was not unanimous), was increased to $3000. A building committee, composed of E. L. B. CURTIS, John L. HANCE, and Josiah HAWES, was chosen, with authority to negotiate for the erection of a suitable monument. They finally agreed upon one, and it was duly raised with appropriate ceremonies. It is twenty-nine feet high, of pure Italian marble, with granite base. On it are engraved the names, dates of death, and ages of forty-five who heroically sacrificed their lives in striving to preserve the Union, and to uphold the greatest of all its institutions, ¾ Liberty. Fervently we all utter the appropriate wish, ¾ "May they rest in peace."

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