(Front of base, upper portion:) RICH MOUNTAIN,/ANTIETAM, GETTYSBURG,/VICKSBURG, CLOYD MOUNTAIN,/OPEQUAN, APPOMATTOX (Front of base, lower portion:) TO THE DEFENDERS OF THE UNION/1861-1865 (Back of base, upper portion:) THEY COUNTED NOT THEIR/LIVES DEAR UNTO THEM. (Back of base, lower portion:) ERECTED BY THE SOLDIERS AID SOCIETY,/OF WHEELING, 1880 (From the Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum)