MANUSCRIPT: destroyed.

PUBLICATION: L (1894) 281; LL 298; L (1931) 255-256.

The unveiling of "The Minute Man" monument at Concord, where the Norcross girls now lived, took place on 19 April 1875. Inscribed on the base of the statue are the lines for the occasion: "Here once the embattled farmers stood/And fired the shot heard round the world."