The organization's purpose was to provide relief to Civil War veterans and their dependents. The GAR was organized on a national level and consisted of state and local chapters. The Grand Army of the Republic was established in North Dakota in approximately 1886. The Grand Forks chapter was the Willis A. Gorman Post #6.
On June 22, 1913, the GAR post formally dedicated the statue with a ceremony that included a military marching band and an address by the mayor of Grand Forks. Located off Belmont Avenue and Sixth Street, the monument stands more than 22 feet tall and is dominated by the figure of a 7-foot Union soldier.
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As the debate over statues and monuments in the South certainly will continue, the best approach is the Richmond commission's suggestion: Remove the most offensive monuments and give accurate context to the others.
Baxter Springs Civil War Monument erected in 1886 after Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) post collected more than 7,000 signatures from former soldiers. The monument is located in the Soldier's Lot of the Baxter Springs Cemetery, and is dedicated to the 132 soldiers who died in the Battle of Baxter Springs October 8, 1863.
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Beyond its 26-foot granite pedestal, the monument features a bronze sculpture of six men representing the “sons” of Virginia to whom the piece is dedicated, and a bronze equestrian statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee astride Traveller.
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After the violent white supremacist rally around a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville last August, which left one person dead, Stoney instructed the commission to consider taking down all the Monument Avenue statues.