Excerpt from History of the Saratoga Monument AssociationThe trustees held several meetings, and selected the spot upon which to erect the monument. But the breaking out of the civil war in 1861 cast such a gloom over the whole country, and taxed the patriotic energies of the people to such an extent, that the movement to build the monument was suspended up to the year 1872, during which time several of the original trustees had died. In the early autumn of that year, however, Mr. Corey, one of the most efficient of the trustees, took the matter up and pushed it earnestly.The first section of the act of the Legislature of the State of New York, passed April 19, 1859, chap. 498, laws of 1859, read as follows.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.