Civil War Memorial
Memory Plaque Lombard Post No. 170
Arlngton Park
Petoskey, Michigan
From the book "Michigan Civil War Monuments" by Geo. May: The boulder with bronze tablet in Petoskey's Arlington park reads: 1861-1865 G.A.R. to the honor and memory of Lombard Post No. 170, by Lombard W.R.C. No. 152, June 14, 1927.
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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
