More than 2.5 million Americans would fight on the Union’s side to end the southern states ... In 1866, the Grand Army of the Republic was organized to fill that need. Admission was limited ...

Intense Israeli airstrikes targeted Iran’s capital early Wednesday in a conflict that a human rights group said had killed at ...

The Grand Army of the Republic was first organized by Union veterans of the Civil War in 1866 in Illinois. The history published on the website of the Meeker County Museum and GAR Hall states that ...

After the end of the Civil War, Benjamin Stephenson in Decatur, Illinois, founded a veteran’s group known as the Grand Army of the Republic. It was organized as a brotherhood for Union veterans ...

The holiday, originally called Decoration Day, was formalized in 1868 by a Memorial Day Order issued by the Grand Army of the Republic's commander in chief, John A. Logan. For Memorial Day 2025 ...