GAR Monument in Covington
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
North side of monument
Location:	Covington, Kentucky
Coordinates:	39°4′23″N 84°30′53″W / 39.07306, -84.51472Coordinates: 39°4′23″N 84°30′53″W / 39.07306, -84.51472
Built/Founded:	1929
Architectural style(s):	No Style Listed
Added to NRHP:	July 17, 1997
NRHP Reference#:	97000684 [1]
MPS:	Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
Governing body:	Local

South side of monument

The Grand Army of the Republic Monument, in the Linden Grove Cemetery of Covington, Kentucky, was built in 1929 by the O. P. Sine of Garfield Post No. 2 of the Grand Army of the Republic, a group comprised of the remaining veterans of the Union army.

This was the second memorial built by the Grand Army of the Republic in the commonwealth of Kentucky, with the first being built in Kentucky's capital city of Frankfort, Kentucky, the Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort. Most GAR monuments are built in courthouse squares, but both in Kentucky are in cemeteries.^[2] By the time interest in building such memorials to the Civil War had waned; most G.A.R. had been built long before Covington's. It is the only monument related to the war in Kentucky shaped like a sarcophagus. It measures three feet high, three feet tall, and is ten feet long. It is made of concrete, and was painted white.^{[3] [4]}

Most monuments to the War in Kentucky were made to honor Confederate soldiers/veterans/memories. However, Kenton County, Kentucky was one of the few places in Kentucky where sentiment was decidedly pro-Union, which is why the Grand Army of the Republic chose Covington in particular for this monument.^[5]

On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty-two different monuments to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. It is a few feet from the Veteran's Monument in Covington, which was also on the same MPS, but was built four years after the G.A.R. Monument was.

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