The Warwick Memorial Urn, dedicated on Decoration Day in 1887, was purchased by Warwick’s Michael Mullery Post 575 of the
New York Department, Grand Army of the Republic. The urn,
a green cast-iron planter set on a granite pedestal, honors local men
who lost their lives while fighting to preserve the Union. Originally, the
urn was placed to honor 40 men from the area who died and were
buried in far-off places that today we consider our Nation’s most
hollowed ground, among them: Gettysburg, Fair Oaks, Cold Harbor,
Spotsylvania, and Andersonville.

These 40 men had served in a number of different units, including
the 124th and 56th New York Volunteer Infantries, the 5th New York
Cavalry, the 7th New York Heavy Artillery, and the 20th US Colored Troops. Each year, on Decoration Day, their names were read aloud:

Martin Ackerman, Cornelius Allinson, Lewis Ashley, Jerome Babcock,
David A. Barrett, Francis A. Benedict, E.B. Benjamin, James Bertholf,
Sidney Bertholf, Joseph Brooks, Abram Brown, Joel Brown, Joel Cole,
Jeremiah Dolson, John Edwards, Thomas Farrell, Robert Gardner,
Isaac Garrison, Thomas Gaul, John S. Gray, Thomas Griffiths, John Hall,
William E. Hyatt, James Luckey, Oliver Lewis, Isaac Mason,
Robert McGuffie, Michael McMorris, James L. Pembleton,
Thomas Powell, George Riley, Joseph B. Roy, James Ryerson,
Robert Ryerson, George Shawcross, Harrison Storms, James Storms,
John Travis, Zopher Wilson and Alfred Youmans

Many of these men, more than 130 of them, now rest in the Warwick Cemetery.

Ellis Camp honors these men by placing the plaque, pictured at right, beneath the Warwick Urn at the Warwick Cemetery,
in their memory.