THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – Friday, October 4, 2019 Page 15 Rededication of Civil War burial plot at Riverside Cemetery THE CEREMONY BEGINS: Members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War salute as the Color Guard stands behind the stone bearing the names of the Saugus soldiers and sailors buried in the Civil War Burial Plot at Riverside Cemetery. PRAISING “GORDIE”: Steve Castinetti, chairman of the Saugus Veterans Council, highlights the untold hours Vietnam War Veteran Gordon Shepard of Saugus spent at Riverside Cemetery restoring the veterans’ burial plot. THE THREE BROTHERS: Left to right: Stuart Chambers, Daniel Murray and Dexter Bishop, all members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, hold the evergreen wreath, a rose and a grape leaf wreath, which they later mounted on the stone inscribed with the names of the soldiers from Saugus laid to rest in the Civil War Burial Plot. YOUNG PATRIOTS: Students from Veterans Memorial Elementary School, accompanied by school staff , showed up at Riverside Cemetery with fl ags for a ceremony that honored 138 soldiers and sailors from Saugus who served during the Civil War. POSTING THE COLORS: The Honor Guard of the 1st Military District Sons of Veterans Reserve, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War lead a procession toward the Civil War Burial Plot. FIRING AWAY: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War shoot their rifl es as the colors are retired at the end of the ceremony. A LEGISLATIVE COMMENDATION: State Rep. Donald Wong (R-9th Essex), lef t , presen ts Gordon Shepard a citation from the Massachusetts House of Representatives recognizing his volunteer work restoring the Civil War Burial Plot at Riverside Cemetery. he General Edward Winslow Hincks Post 95 Grand Army of the Republic Burial Plot in Riverside Cemetery was the scene of T a solemn and majestic ceremony last Saturday (Sept. 28) as members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, dressed in A GRAVESIDE PERFORMANCE: Saugus Sachimes Alumni Arianna Quagenti, Allana Felix and William Fafard sing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” THE EMPTY CHAIR: A rifl e, a backpack and other gear on a chair – symbolic of the soldiers who went off to war but never returned home alive. replica Civil War uniforms, rededicated the site in an hour-long ceremony that drew a crowd of about 300 people. Saugus resiA SYMBOLIC HONOR: A wreath of grape leaves, a rose and a wreath of evergreen – which were placed by the “three brothers” of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War on the grave stone inscribed with the names of 25 Saugus members of the Grand Army of the Republic who were laid to rest in the Civil War Burial Plot at Riverside Cemetery. dent and Vietnam War Veteran Gordon Shepard received the organization’s 2019 Founder’s Award for outstanding service in the memory of Union Civil War Soldiers. He was recognized for his eff orts to restore the Civil War Burial Plot in the cemetery.
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