Robert Finch Camp #14

GAR Memorials
Oakwood Cemetery
Traverse City, Michigan

Oakwood Cemetery Sign

GAR Memorial

East Side GAR Cemetery Plot
Traverse City

A large granite monument with a 2/3 sized Civil War Soldier at parade rest is in the center of the second GAR burial plot in Oakwood Cemetery. On the front (west) side an inscription reads;

McPherson
Post No. 18
G.A.R.

The other three sides are blank.

Inspected 12/8/2012
Added to camp Memorials Records 12/10/2012
G. R. Grieve
Memorials Officer

GAR Memorial

West Side GAR Cemetery Plot
Traverse City

A medium sized granite monument is in the center of the first GAR burial plot in Oakwood Cemetery. On the front (west) side is a symbol to the and under it an inscription reads;

McPherson
Post No. 18
Dept. of Mich. G.A.R.
1893

The other three sides are blank.

Inspected 12/8/2012
Added to camp Memorials Records 12/10/2012
G. R. Grieve
Memorials Officer

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