G.A.R. Monument

Utah sat out most of the Civil War, but not entirely: in 1862 Lincoln asked Brigham Young to raise a cavalry company to guard the overland mail, and Lot Smith led those Utah men into Union service. Some of the roughly eighty Civil War veterans who ended up in Salt Lake lie in this cemetery. Their monument was placed by the Grand Army of the Republic—the Union veterans' fraternity that, in 1868, invented the holiday we now call Memorial Day. Every May, the ritual they started still finds these graves.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Salt Lake City — 1.5 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Temple Square — 1.6 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Ensign Peak — 1.6 mi
  A short hike to the spot where Brigham Young surveyed the valley
• Red Butte Garden — 2.0 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views

More markers nearby

• Lindsey Gardens - First Playground — 0.3 mi
• Salt Lake City Cemetery Gold Star Mothers Memorial — 0.4 mi
• Japanese American Servicemen's Memorial — 0.4 mi
• Ladies' Literary Club Building — 0.5 mi