Summary Information

Title: Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Wisconsin Records
Inclusive Dates: 1861-1986

Creator:

• Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Wisconsin

Call Number: WVM Mss 1

Quantity: 29.6 linear ft. (54 archival boxes, 5 flat boxes, and 1 oversized folder)

Repository:

Wisconsin Veterans Museum
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Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Veterans Museum (Map)

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Abstract:

Administrative, organizational, financial, and program materials pertaining to the Wisconsin state and local units of the Grand Army of the Republic, a voluntary fraternal association of Civil War Union veterans. Includes national and state encampment registers and records; materials concerning patriotic instruction in the schools, Memorial Day, and patriotism; administrative and financial materials of the state department and its relations with local posts; Easel-Shaped Monument certificates; and a few materials on the G.A.R. Memorial Hall which housed the offices of the state department. Many records pertain to individual Wisconsin local posts; including reports, membership records, charters, minute books, financial records, resolutions, and scattered correspondence. War reminiscences can be found in several “Personal War Sketches” volumes. Most complete are records for Post No. 11 (Madison), Post No. 20 (Janesville), and Post No. 68 (Chippewa Falls). Scattered records pertain to the National G.A.R.; mostly concerning patriotic instruction. The correspondence, records, and reports of Hosea Rood, 1920 National Patriotic Instructor, are included in this series.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.wvm-mss00001

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