Robert Finch Camp #14

Civil War Cannon
Court House at Main & Otsego
Gaylord, Michigan

Gaylord Cannon

1X" Dahlgren Shell Gun - 1859 - 9035 lbs.

Gaylord Cannon

Plaque On Cannon

Gaylord Cannon Plaque

THIS GUN
Is One Of Twenty Six Nine Inch Guns
Composing the Battery of
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT'S
Historic Flagship
"HARTFORD"
During The War Of The Rebellion 1861-1865
At The Battles Of
New Orleans Vicksburg Port Hudson Mobile
Forevermore A Silent Reminder
To The Rising Generations Of The
Glorious Deeds Of Our Navy During
That Fierce Conflict In
Which The God Of Battles Watched
Over Our Nation And In Which This Gun Effectively
Spoke For Liberty And A
United Country.

Mounted
July 4th 1905

PURPOSE of the SUVCW

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