GAR section of Forest Cemetery
This area includes a Parrott cannon, many tombstones of CW veterans, and the memorial to General Samuel Rice. There is also a red, white and blue “GAR” sign on the lawn. The cannon is a 4.2 inch Navy Parrott rifle cast at West Point Foundry in 1863. The weight is marked as 3460 pounds. Many of the tombstones are discolored. Samuel A. Rice was the Colonel of the 33rd Iowa Infantry. In August of 1863 he was promoted to Brigadier General. He was severely wounded at Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas and died July 6, 1864. His memorial, a 30 foot marble shaft, is just southeast of the GAR Section. Forest Cemetery is on the NE part of town. Take Avenue A/Highway 92 to N 9th Street – then north to the cemetery. The GAR section is in the west central part of the cemetery. Photos were taken 11/29/07 - the cannon close-up was taken 8/6/10.