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) ...

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 ...

Historians at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum have been restoring charters from a Civil War group.

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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 ...

Sons of Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic depart Memorial Day services Sunday, May 26, 2024 at St. Peter’s United Church of Christ cemetery in Seemsville.

Tom Wojcinski, of Hammond, dressed as a Grand Army of the Republic member, shows artifacts during a living history program at the Stagecoach Inn in Hebron on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024.

On April 28, 1881, 22 men signed the charter and were mustered into the Grand Army of the Republic as Post No. 18. That night, Anderson was elected the post’s first commander.

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 ...