Civil War Flagpole
GAR Cemetery Plot
Maple Hill Cemetery
Kalkaska, Michigan
Flag Pole of unknown origin placed in the center of the GAR plot on the west side of the cemetery near the middle entrance off of US 131. The cemetery plot was purchased on January 20, 1893 for the GAR by C. H. Sinclair of GAR Post 444. The flag pole was in disrepair as off May 2012. Added to Memorials list: 6/1/2012
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To perpetuate the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) and the men who saved the Union between 1861-1865; to assist in every practicable way in the preservation and making available for research of documents and records pertaining to the G.A.R. and its members; to cooperate in doing honor to all who have patriotically served our country in any war; to teach patriotism, and the duties of citizenship, the true history of our country, and the love and honor of our Flag; to oppose every tendency or movement that would weaken loyalty to, or make for the destruction or impairment of our constitutional Union; and to inculcate and broadly sustain the American principles of representative government, of equal rights, and of impartial justice for all
