Robert Finch Camp #14

12 Pounder Bronze Howitzer
VFW Hall, Manistee
Manistee County

This Cyrus Alger & Co # 836 12 Pounder Bronze Howitzer is being stored in Manistee. The tube is in a broom closet in the Hall while the carriage is in a locked storage shed. The cannon & carriage were on display out side on a concrete slab on the SW corner of the Hall until vandals broke the anchor chain & rolled the cannon in to the Manistee River. The wood carriage needs restoration. The VFW's long term plans for the cannon are to restore & put on permanent display at the Veterans Memorial Park a few blocks away. The history of the cannon has yet to be recorded by Camp 14.

Added to Memorials list: 6/2/2012
Inspection date: April 5. 2012 by G. R. Grieve

Howitzer

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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