Connecticut Yankees at Antietam by John Banks

Author:John Banks [Banks, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, New England (CT; MA; ME; NH; RI; VT), Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military
ISBN: 9781614239833
Google: W5F_CQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013-08-06T03:36:12+00:00

On June 17, 1885, veterans gathered at Newton Manross’s grave and monument in Forestville Cemetery in Bristol, Connecticut. Manross was much beloved by his regiment. Bristol (Connecticut) Public Library.

“From this little district school to the great institution of learning with which he was connected he kept in mind the resolve to benefit the world by his life and example,” said seventy-year-old William Relyea, who served as a private in the 16th Connecticut. “Captain Manross’ mind grew stronger and his mind was a delight to all who knew him.

“Such a man we honor here today by planting a tree in his memory,” added Relyea, who became the regimental historian. “He was a man beloved by all us soldiers in the Sixteenth. The day when he marched into camp at the head of his band of sturdy Bristol boys he put new life into the old Sixteenth, for they had realized they had not only a man of deep learning among them, but one who was patriotic and sincere to all.”

Newton and Charlotte Manross are buried side by side in Forestville Cemetery in Bristol, not far from the house where he grew up. Several paces away, a brownstone monument was placed in his memory by survivors of Manross’s Company K. Severely cracked and weathered, it stands in memory of a man who undoubtedly would have accomplished so much more had he survived Antietam.

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