Robert Finch Camp #14

Civil War Arch

Memorial Lakeview Cemetery

Harbor Springs, Michigan

Notation on Arch, located near the Civil War Cannon in Lakeview Cemetery:

I.B. Richardson

G.A.R. 1861-1865

Post 13 W.R.C. 138

Information below provided by Darrell Smith, Harbor Springs American Legion Post, May, 2002

25-30 years ago the arch was rebuilt and I.B. Richardson's remains were put in the right hand column of arch.
Note G.A.R. flag at the right column)
20-30 years ago Post 13 and W.R.C. Post disbanded.

Arch Memorial

Although the headstones pictured below aren't memorials, we thought they were interesting. The third marker from the left and the 3rd marker from the right are Civil War (GAR) graves. The rest are from the Spanish American War. The graves are not in the main part of the cemetery but are off to the side near the road. Further research is needed.

GAR Graves

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