CIVIL WAR MEMORIALS AND MONUMENTS

FORD COUNTY, KANSAS

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Dodge City, Ford County

Maple Grove Cemetery
(west of town center)

Dodge Citye

Type: Concrete Monument

Description: Painted concrete monument similar to other Civil War markers.

Inscriptions?

References:
reported by J Birket

Photographs:
J Birket, March 22, 2005

SUV Registry Status: Primary Memorial
SUVCW documentation needed





Dodge City, Ford County

GAR Plot in Maple Grove Cemetery
(west of town center)

Dodge City

Type: Concrete and Brick Monument

Description: Painted concrete monument with inscriptions:

"G.A.R. ~ Cemetery ~ 1887"

" ??? ~ Comrades ~ That Lie In The ~ Southland ~ In Unmarked ~ Graves"

Additional Inscriptions?

References:
reported by RM Thies

Photographs:
RM Thies, September 13, 1999

SUV Registry Status: Primary Memorial
SUVCW documentation needed





Fort Dodge, Ford County

Soldiers Home

Ft Dodge Soldiers Home

Type: Brick Monument

Description: This monument is located on the grounds of the Kansas State Soldiers Home. The brass plaque reads: "In ~ Memory ~ Of ~ General ~ Fredrick Funston".

References:
reported by J Birket

Photographs:
J Birket, March 22, 2005

SUV Registry Status: Primary Memorial
SUVCW documentation needed





Fort Dodge, Ford County

Soldiers Home

Ft Dodge Soldiers Home

Type: Cannon

Description: Located at the Fort Dodge Soldiers Home, east entrance, under roofed display area is a bronze smoothbore 12-Pounder Napoleon, M1857. The carriage has been recently restored.

References:
Stark, 1997, Thies, 2004

Photographs:
RM Thies April 18, 1997
J Birket March 22, 20054

SUV Registry Status: Primary Memorial
SUVCW documentation needed




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Updated October 26, 2006 - DE McGovern