Greenwood Pioneer Cemetery, Col.-- Part 2: The GAR Monuments and Amanda Farnham Felch

Both Union and Confederate veterans are buried in the cemetery.  Of interest, the Confederates are buried in the north part and Union in the south.

A large pile of stones is all that remains of the GAR monument to Union soldiers, but an impressive monument to the Confederates remains.  This was paid for by the local GAR.  An example of the joining of the former Confederacy with the United States after the war.

Also, Amanda Farnham Felch and her husband Marshall are buried in the cemetery.  Both were Civil War veterans.  She was an Army nurse who served from July 1861 to May 1865 with the 3rd Vermont Volunteer Infantry and the 6th Corps of the Army of the Potomac.  She was at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and many other battles.  Later, she served under Dorothea Dix.

--Old Secesh