Grand Army of the Republic Museum Director Eric Pry leads a summer school class of fourth-graders in the military museum in downtown Aurora in 2023. (Denise Crosby / The Beacon-News) ...

Post No. 88, Grand Army of the Republic. 2. Schoolchildren with flowers. 3. Co “B.” 17th Reg., I.N.G. 4. City Fire Department. 5. Secret and Benevolent orders. 6. Citizens on foot and in ...

In August 2020, I wrote for The Telegraph a column titled “Grand Army of the Republic’s legacy lives on.” It dealt with the Parrott Rifle, sometimes called “the cemetery cannon,” which ...

The Grand Army of the Republic Monument, unveiled May 30, 1905, sits among the graves of Civil War veterans at Yakima's Tahoma Cemetery. Donald W. Meyers/Yakima Herald-Republic ...

His great-grandfather, George Washington Lakin, was only 17 years old when he joined the Union Army during the Civil War. He served under Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman during the March to the Sea.

Description This stereograph has two arch-top images of men marching in a Grand Army of the Republic parade. In each image, rows of men proceed side by side down a street, with crowds in the ...

The Grand Army of the Republic became the preeminent veterans organization formed at the close of the Civil War. Membership reached its peak in 1890, when over 400,000 members were reported.

May 6th marked the 150th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Chancellorsville which started on April 30, 1863. The campaign pitted Union Army Major General Joseph Hooker’s Army ...

The SUVCW’s job was to look after the aging veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), and their families. Look after things, and help as needed.