Postwar
The Vermont Monument, at the Battle of Monocacy, is a solid granite monolith, rectangular in shape, about four feet wide, two and one-half feet thick, and six feet high, standing on a granite base, with a sub-base about six feet long and four feet wide. The height of the whole is about eight feet. On the front is a bronze table in the shape of a Greek cross set into the granite upon which is inscribed in bronze letters the following:
| "THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY THE STATE |
| OF VERMONT TO DESIGNATE THE POSITION OF |
| THE TENTH VERMONT INFANTRY DURING THE |
| BATTLE FOUGHT HERE ON THE NINTH OF JULY, |
| 1864, TO SAVE WASHINGTON, "AND WE SAVED IT." |
| "SEVEN COMPANIES OCCUPIED THE WASHINGTON |
| PIKE WHILE THREE COMPANIES OCCUPIED THE |
| BUCKEYSTOWN ROAD OPPOSITE THE THOMAS |
| HOUSE." |
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