Petition
To Recognize the G.A.R. Plot of Union Cemetery, Redwood City, California
on the Official Roster of Civil War Cemetery Sites with the U.S. National Cemetery System
(under the U.S. Dept. of Veteran Affairs)
Whereas,
The state of California organized and sent Federal troops to support the Union in the Eastern Campaigns AND to protect the nation's interest in the safety of the Trans-Mississippi Far West;
Thousands of Civil War Veterans who served from states throughout the country made California their final homes;
On July 17, 1862 Congress enacted legislation to establish national cemeteries "for soldiers who shall have died in the service of the country."
The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Plot of Union Cemetery is the final interment of more than forty Civil War veterans;
The original intent of General Order #75 was to recognize clusters of Civil War veterans who were interred long after the close of the war;
The veterans who were buried in the G.A.R. plot of Union Cemetery were part of an officially recognized fraternal association, the Grand Army of the Republic, the George S. Evans Post #72;
The veterans' history of military service and participation in the U.S. Civil War is well documented through the research of primary source materials held in the National Archives of the United States;
There is no single California Civil War Cemetery recognized on the official roster of Civil War Cemeteries with the U.S. National Cemetery System.
We, the undersigned, support the recognition of the G.A.R. plot of Union Cemetery as a Civil War Cemetery site under the support of the National Cemetery System including appropriations for perpetual care and inclusion on the official roster and database of Civil War Cemetery sites.
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