Download or read book Grand Army of the Republic and Union Veteran Research written by Gary W. Clark and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grand Army of the Republic and Union Veteran Research is an extensive history and research guide for genealogists and family historians. Packed with beautiful images of the G.A.R. and its accomplishments, it also lists the major sources of veterans information and how to get it.This includes getting military and pension records from the National Archives and finding local sources of veteran, Civil War, and G.A.R. records.
Download or read book The Won Cause written by Barbara A. Gannon and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years after the Civil War, black and white Union soldiers who survived the horrific struggle joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)--the Union army's largest veterans' organization. In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking study, Barba
Download or read book Glorious Contentment written by Stuart McConnell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Army of the Republic, the largest of all Union Army veterans' organizations, was the most powerful single-issue political lobby of the late nineteenth century, securing massive pensions for veterans and helping to elect five postwar presidents from its own membership. To its members, it was also a secret fraternal order, a source of local charity, a provider of entertainment in small municipalities, and a patriotic organization. Using GAR convention proceedings, newspapers, songs, rule books, and local post records, Stuart McConnell examines this influential veterans' association during the years of its greatest strength. Beginning with a close look at the men who joined the GAR in three localities -- Philadelphia; Brockton, Massachusetts; and Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin - McConnell goes on to examine the Union veterans' attitudes towards their former Confederate enemies and toward a whole range of noncombatants whom the verterans called "civilians": stay-at-home townsfolk, Mugwump penion reformers, freedmen, women, and their own sons and daughters. In the GAR, McConnell sees a group of veterans trying to cope with questions concerning the extent of society's obligation to the poor and injured, the place of war memories in peacetime, and the meaning of the "nation" and the individual's relation to it. McConnell aruges that, by the 1890s, the GAR was clinging to a preservationist version of American nationalism that many white, middle-class Northerners found congenial in the face of the social upheavals of that decade. In effect, he concludes, the nineteenth-century career of the GAR is a study in the microcosm of a nation trying to hold fast to an older image of itself in the face of massive social change.
Download or read book History of the Grand Army of the Republic written by Robert Burns Beath and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives a written history of the Grand Army of the Republic, a veterans' fraternal organization for the Union armed forces of the U.S. Civil War.
Download or read book Glorious Contentment written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Army of the Republic, the largest of all Union Army veterans' organizations, was the most powerful single-issue political lobby of the late nineteenth century, securing massive pensions for veterans and helping to elect five postwar presidents from its own membership. To its members, it was also a secret fraternal order, a source of local charity, a provider of entertainment in small municipalities, and a patriotic organization. Using GAR convention proceedings, newspapers, songs, rule books, and local post records, Stuart McConnell examines this influential veterans' association during the years of its greatest strength. Beginning with a close look at the men who joined the GAR in three localities--Philadelphia; Brockton, Massachusetts; and Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin--McConnell goes on to examine the Union veterans' attitudes toward their former confederate enemies and toward a whole range of noncombatants whom the veterans called "civilians": stay-at-home townsfolk, Mugwump pension reformers, freedmen, women, and their own sons and daughters. In the GAR, McConnell sees a group of veterans trying to cope with questions concerning the extent of society's obligation to the poor and injured, the place of war memories in peacetime, and the meaning of the "nation" and the individual's relation to it. McConnell argues that, by the 1890s, the GAR was clinging to a preservationist version of American nationalism that many white, middle-class Northerners found congenial in the face of the social upheavals of that decade. In effect, he concludes, the nineteenth-century career of the GAR is a study in microcosm of a nation trying to hold fast to an older image of itself in the face of massive social change.
Download or read book History of the Grand Army of the Republic written by Robert Burns Beath and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the Grand Army of the Republic, the largest organization of Union Civil War veterans in the United States. Covering topics such as the formation of the organization, its activities, and its members, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of Union veterans in the late 19th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Services For The Use Of The Grand Army Of The Republic written by Grand Army of the Republic and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a collection of services and ceremonies used by the Grand Army of the Republic, a social and advocacy organization for Union veterans of the Civil War. With songs, prayers, and patriotic speeches, the services offer insight into the post-war culture of remembrance and commemoration. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Grand Army Men written by Robert J. Wolz and published by . This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The War Went On written by Brian Matthew Jordan and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and energized by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable. Despite this flood of historical scholarship, fundamental questions about the essential character of Civil War veteranhood remain unanswered. Moreover, because work on veterans has often proceeded from a preoccupation with cultural memory, the Civil War’s ex-soldiers have typically been analyzed as either symbols or producers of texts. In The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans, fifteen of the field’s top scholars provide a more nuanced and intimate look at the lives and experiences of these former soldiers. Essays in this collection approach Civil War veterans from oblique angles, including theater, political, and disability history, as well as borderlands and memory studies. Contributors examine the lives of Union and Confederate veterans, African American veterans, former prisoners of war, amputees, and ex-guerrilla fighters. They also consider postwar political elections, veterans’ business dealings, and even literary contests between onetime enemies and among former comrades.
Download or read book Official Program written by Grand Army of the Republic. National Encampment and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes programs of events and lists of members and committees. Allied organizations participating were: National Woman's Relief Corps, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
Download or read book Journal of the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic written by Grand Army of the Republic and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 83 contains final report of the finances from 1949 to the closing of the organization in 1956.
Download or read book Journal Volumes 1 13 written by Grand Army of the Republic and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journal is a record of the activities and experiences of the Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternal organization of Union Army veterans that was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The journal includes articles on a wide range of topics, from military history and politics to regional news and cultural events. It is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of the Union Army and its veterans. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Grand Army of the Republic Under It s First Constitution written by Oliver Wilson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1905, printed herein is the first Constitution of the Grand Army of the Republic, which was the veterans organization for Union veterans from the Civil War. and rituals, along with it's birth and organization.
Download or read book A social history of the Grand Army of the Republic 1867 1900 written by Stuart Charles McConnell and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was an organization of Union Civil War veterans formed in 1866 to lobby for pensions, provide charity for needy veterans and their families, boost ex-soldiers for public office and inculcate "patriotism" in American youth. Between the close of the war and 1900, almost half a million ex-soldiers subscribed to its ideological prescription for postwar society, and its story about the Union veteran's proper place in that society. Until 1872, the GAR served as a Radical Republican front organization and as a forum for a mild frontideologie -- distaste among ex-soldiers for civilian institutions and strong identification with wartime comrades. After a sharp decline in the 1870s, however, the GAR revived in the 1880s as a middle-class fraternal order. Membership rules were eased, the initiation ritual became a semi-religious rite, and clubbish activities at the local level -- group singing, elections, personal charity -- became pervasive. Business clientage was important in some posts; in others, the opportunity for entertainment or an impressive funeral were central. Socially, the order was predominantly white and exclusively male; it also tended to contain few immigrants or unskilled workers. As the GAR gathered strength in the 1880s, it became a powerful force in pension politics. Beginning in 1881, the GAR lobbied hard and successfully for generous state and federal aid. In doing so, the members arrived at a new conception of the veteran's relation to the nation: that of savior and saved. Radical "service pension" advocates in particular espoused the view that no payment could ever retire the debt the country owed the soldiers. In patriotic "campfires" of the 1890s, the aged veterans began to memorialize "their" war as a one-time-only event of national preservation -- a millennial view similar to that of Yankee Protestants on the eve of battle in 1860. This millennial memory ill-fit the sordid 1898 clash with Spain, just as the GAR's "nation"--White, male, Protestant, middle-class and orderly -- ill-fit the social realities of the United States in the 1890s. But the members stuck to their vision nonetheless, becoming active promoters of their version of "nationalism" well into the twentieth century.
Download or read book Our Onward March written by JONATHAN D. NEU and published by . This book was released on 2025-02-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides vital new evidence that Union veterans remained stubbornly opposed to the nation's reconciliationist tendencies and unwilling to surrender the causes for which they fought Union soldiers' service to the nation did not end in 1865. Instead, it persisted well into the twentieth century as hundreds of thousands of veterans joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and directed the reform and improvement of their communities through their fraternal membership in thousands of local posts around the country. In Our Onward March, Jonathan D. Neu shows how Union veterans of the GAR drew on lessons they learned in the Civil War--lessons about broad principles like democracy, freedom, and loyalty--to undertake grassroots civic projects designed to address the rampant social ills and challenging foreign policy issues associated with U.S. modernization. Armed this time with sage wisdom and unwavering principles, they mobilized again to consummate their wartime victory with reform-minded activism on behalf of establishing an even more perfect Union. Extending the boundaries of America's post-Civil War era, Neu investigates the GAR during the Progressive era, a period in the organization's history that scholars have overlooked. Countering stubborn notions that the GAR was merely a pension advocacy group or an insular bastion of sentimental nostalgia, he reveals instead that the organization reached a turning point in 1890, after which it became an active and decentralized civic association whose members worked to instill a commitment to public life, engagement with community issues, and pride in the democracy they had defended as young men. Anchored by illuminating new source material, including post-minute books and fraternal records, Our Onward March places aging GAR members squarely among the diverse constellation of turn-of-the-century social reformers, using their memory of the Civil War to promote robust, veteran-led civic engagement. By situating Union veterans in this context, we see a more accurate portrait of the GAR post in American culture--as a local center of progressive activism.
Download or read book Grand Army of the Republic written by Oklahoma Historical Society. Archives and Manuscripts Division and published by . This book was released on 1996* with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic written by Grand Army of the Republic and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 83 contains final report of the finances from 1949 to the closing of the organization in 1956.
