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Submitted by the Ischua Valley Historical Society (Maggie Fredrickson), here is a list of Veterans who enlisted in the Civil War from the towns of Machias, Franklinville, Ischua, Yorkshire, Farmersville, and Lyndon. 

"The Statute of Liberty, a gift from France, erected on Bedloe Island,  New York Harbor in 1886, is a symbolic landmark of the dreams and aspirations of mankind to live, under God, free and peacefully with each other."

(Cattaraugus Historical Society.  "Karl Wittman and his Statute of Liberty")