WA Snohomish GAR Cemetary

[Jim-Jammi]

Of the two GAR cemeteries in this state, both happen to be located in western Washington. That's not to say that there aren't other civil war veterans sprinkled all across our state, you can find them resting in pioneer and old soldiers home cemeteries from Seattle to Yakima, and all the quiet old towns in between. It's often easy to confine the American civil war -and the people that participated in it- to the epic battlefields of the east and south. However after the last shots were fired and the uniforms put away, many soldiers made the move westward.
The town I grew up in, Snohomish, happens to be the home of one of the two GAR cemeteries I mentioned.
It's actually a funny coincidence, because I had no idea when I was growing up that this cemetery had civil war veterans...even worse, I had VISITED this graveyard as a teen and somehow missed the large obelisk monument in the back. Who knew that my civil war studies would bring me almost literally to my backyard!

Anyways, on this typical drizzly Washington weekend, I paid a visit to the veterans who decided to make Snohomish, their final resting place.
>info about the veterans buried here and this cemetery<

the unassuming, but nice Memorial tucked in the back of the cemetery.( it could use a scrubbing though!)
attached are a few photos of some Veteran graves . there are many more than this though!

 

[lupaglupa]

Nice monument! It really tells the story of westward migration after the War to see so many different states represented.

 

[Virginia Dave]

Thank you for your post.

 

[bdtex]

Good stuff @Jim-Jammi . Thanks for posting it. Seriously. Maybe I will make it to your state some day. I saw a few old GAR markers at a cemetery in Louisiana a few years ago.

 

[Seduzal]

Thanks for sharing these awesome photos of history's mysteries found. It never fails to amaze me that Civil War history is found in other areas of the country..

 

[Jim-Jammi]

Good stuff @Jim-Jammi . Thanks for posting it. Seriously. Maybe I will make it to your state some day. I saw a few old GAR markers at a cemetery in Louisiana a few years ago.

Its such a beautiful state, you'd have a great time! I was recently reading Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac, and when I looked up the author to see what he did with his life, it turns out he traveled and explored Washington extensively and passed away there on a trip. Interesting stuff! And one of the first people to summit Mt. Ranier was a civil war vet named Hazard stevens. With a name like that it doesn't surprise me!