I. Introduction
A. Lead: “When the last comrade passes over to the bivouac on the other shore, ‘taps’ for all time on earth will be sounded for the Grand Army of the Republic.” –George Bailey Winship, Grand Forks GAR Member and Founder of the Grand Forks Herald.

B. Thesis:

II. Background
A. Historical monuments and collective memory
B. The memory group(s) behind your monument: There could still be a few memory groups of the monument but primarily the veterans of the Civil War would be the main memory group. The families of these veterans would also be a group. One particular group that generally was comprised of the wives of the veterans was the Womens Relief Corps, and would be a memory group. All veterans of the United States military should be a memory group.

III. Upstream: The person or thing to be commemorated by your monument:
Not only is the Grand Army of the Republic being honored by the monument but also the 150+ veterans of the Civil War who had started the Willis A Gorman post in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

IV. Establishment of the monument:
The land that the monument sits on was donated to the city and the purchasing of the statue was all done by George Winship of the Grand Forks GAR.

V. Downstream: Interpretation and subsequent developments pertaining to your monument

VI. Conclusion
A. Confirm the thesis
B. Relate your findings to the historical literature
C. Explain your findings to the memory group(s): While searching for information at the Chester Fritz Library's special collections, I came across the WRC's scrapbooks. They had pages dedicated to their efforts to help support the GAR. Some of the pages had been made to celebrate the dedication of the GAR memorial. Though that memory group has since passed on, they were a memory group for they had taken the time to put it in a scrapbook so that the memory of the ceremony would live on.