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](Photographs/FordCo/DodgeCityCem-250.jpg)
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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
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Dodge City, Ford County
GAR Plot in Maple Grove Cemetery (west of town center)
![Dodge City](Photographs/FordCo/DodgeCityGARcem-250.jpg)
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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
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Fort Dodge, Ford County
Soldiers Home
![Ft Dodge Soldiers Home](Photographs/FordCo/FtDodge-SoldiersHome-monument-250.jpg)
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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
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Fort Dodge, Ford County
Soldiers Home
![Ft Dodge Soldiers Home](Photographs/FordCo/FtDodge-SoldiersHome-cannon-250.jpg)
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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
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