Women's Relief Corps (U.S.). Fred Winthrop Relief Corps, No. 7 (Missoula, Mont.) Records 1904-1954

Women's Relief Corps (U.S.). Fred Winthrop Relief Corps, No. 7 (Missoula, Mont.)

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The Woman's Relief Corps was one of three auxiliary organizations of the Grand Army of the Republic (the other two being the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Sons of Veterans.) The national organization was formed in 1882, and by 1896 had 140,305 national members. The Missoula Corps, corps number seven, was founded in 1903. Membership in the Woman's Relief Corps was open to all loyal women who had the desire to assist in perpetuating the principles of the...

Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.). Dept. of Montana

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Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.)

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National organization formed in 1883 at the Denver Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, as an auxiliary to that organization and to continue to "care for the Veteran and his dependent ones and to perpetuate the memory of their heroic dead". As the number of Corps grew, each state elected its own governing body, subordinate to the national governing body. In addition to helping veterans, these women worked to get pension help for the nurses who served in the Civil War, founded a home for...