Records of Ellis Post No. 6, Grand Army of the Republic Bulk, 1879-1908 1879-1937

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Records of Ellis Post No. 6, Grand Army of the Republic Bulk, 1879-1908 1879-1937

The Grand Army of the Republic Ellis Post No. 6 was founded in 1879 by General Louis Wagner in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. The Records of Ellis Post No. 6, Grand Army of the Republic, 1879-1939, consist of financial records, membership records, and war memorial sketch books detailing members' Civil War service.

4.0 Cubic feet; (3 volumes in 3 boxes, and 7 binders kept separately)

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Grand Army of the Republic. Ellis Post No. 6. (Philadelphia, Pa).

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General Louis Wagner founded Ellis Post No. 6 in 1879. The Post was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. The post dispersed its funds in 1928 to its remaining twenty-two members, which suggests the beginning of the disbanding of the Post. From the guide to the Records of Ellis Post No. 6, Grand Army of the Republic, Bulk, 1879-1908, 1879-1937, (Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library) ...

Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of Pennsylvania.

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Grand Army of the Republic

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Founded in 1866, in Decatur, Ill. From the description of Grand Army of the Republic scrapbooks, 1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276172404 The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of Civil War Union military veterans, formed in Decatur, Illinois in 1866. The GAR became one of the first advocacy groups in American politics, lobbying for black veterans, pensions, and supporting Republican candidates. The GAR waned during the 1870s as the ...