. Old Concord. nness, bears its proud inscrip-tion commemorating the first forcible resistance to [73] Old Concord British aggression. By the wall lie buried the twoBritish privates killed in the Fight, over whom formore than a century and a quarter there was noother memorialthan the words Grave of BritishSoldiers carved on an unfinished slab. Thepresent slate tablet, with the verses from- JamesRussell Lowells fine poem, was placed in positiononly recently. In 1875, the centennial of the Fight,the bridge was rebuilt, and on the farther bank,where the militia had stood, was erected DanielCheste
. Old Concord. nness, bears its proud inscrip-tion commemorating the first forcible resistance to [73] Old Concord British aggression. By the wall lie buried the twoBritish privates killed in the Fight, over whom formore than a century and a quarter there was noother memorialthan the words Grave of BritishSoldiers carved on an unfinished slab. Thepresent slate tablet, with the verses from- JamesRussell Lowells fine poem, was placed in positiononly recently. In 1875, the centennial of the Fight,the bridge was rebuilt, and on the farther bank,where the militia had stood, was erected DanielChester Frenchs noble Minuteman. But themonuments subdue themselves to the rustic surroundings of the bridge shade andsoften bronze figure and granite shaft; only in thespring floods does the river change its placid mood ;and the visitor to the scene of Concord Fight, thespot where America altered her destiny, is temptedto muse upon a scene of peace rather than to kindlehis spirit in memory of war. [74]. Graves of British Soldiers
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