Civil War Memorial
Greenwood Cemetery
Petoskey, Michigan
Monument Reads: "Sacred to the memory of our fallen heroes 18611865." Erected by W.R.C. No. 152 Petoskey Record — May 22, 1901: The W.R.C. at Greenwood Cemetery decorated the monument to the unknown dead. — 1902: A repeat of 1901
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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
