1903 War Memorial at Riverside. The plaque reads:"On this Memorial Site / Forever SET APART and Maintained by / Riverside Cemetery Association / There has been ERECTED this St. Joseph County / Native Boulder / By Ed. M. Prutzman Post, G.A.R. and Women's Relief Corps / Citizens GENEROUSLY ASSISTING,/ And on Memorial Day, May 30, 1903, / Dedicated / To the Perpetual Memory of the Soldiers of / All Wars - Defenders of the Republic./ Then surrounding the plaque are four more, stanzas of a poem, four lines on each. As you walk around the boulder clockwise, the poem reads--The neighing troop, the flashing blade,/The bugle's stirring blast,/The charge, the dreadful cannonade,/The din and shout are past.//No rumor of the foe's advance/Now swells upon the wind:/No troubled thought at midnight haunts/Of loved ones left behind.//No vision of the morrows strife/The warrior's dream alarms./No braying horn nor screaming fife/At dawn shall call to arms.//On fame's eternal camping-ground/Their silent tents are spread,/And glory guards with solemn round/The bivouac of the dead./

I have now discovered that these lines are from a longer poem, Bivouac Of The Dead, by Theodore O'Hara, a journalist who served in the Mexican War (1846 - 1847) and wrote the poem about that war.

Cemetery Map - Riverside, Three Rivers Mi.

After the March 6, 2026 clean up.

After the March 6, 2026 tornado clean up.

After the March 6, 2026 clean up.

After the March 6, 2026 clean up.

This is the actual inscription on the large War Memorial Stone,,