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2. List of memorials to the Grand Army of the Republic - Wikipedia

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   It contains the graves of 200 Civil War veterans. [92] On May 29, 1914, the community dedicated a monument at the northwest corner of the cemetery consisting of an obelisk and statue of a soldier on a base. [93] Tacoma: Oakwood Hill Cemetery has large section containing several hundred GAR veterans who were members of the Custer Post and their ...

3. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

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   Collection of the records began in 1864; no special attention was paid to Confederate records until just after the capture of Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, when with the help of Confederate Gen. Samuel Cooper, Union Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck began the task of collecting and preserving such archives of the Confederacy as had survived the war.

4. List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients - Wikipedia

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   Listing of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen who received the Medal of Honor during World War II. United States Army Center of Military History. June 8, 2009 "United States Army Center of Military History Medal of Honor citations archive". Medal of Honor statistics.

5. Remains of nearly 30 Civil War veterans found in a funeral ...

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   The remains of several more Civil War veterans were sent to Maine, Rhode Island and other places where family connections were found. Among them was Byron Johnson. Born in Pawtucket in 1844, he ...

6. Grand Army of the Republic - Wikipedia

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   Cimbala, Paul A. Veterans North and South: The Transition from Soldier to Civilian after the American Civil War (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2015). xviii, 189 pp. Dearing, Mary R. Veterans in Politics: The Story of the GAR (1974) online, a scholarly history; Gannon, Barbara A. The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the ...

7. Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War - Wikipedia

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   Canonsburg's Paxton Camp, Sons of Veterans, from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, circa 1905 [1]. SUVCW, named initially the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America, was founded by Major Augustus P. Davis in November 1881 to ensure the preservation of principles of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and to provide assistance to veterans. [2]

8. 100 years of forgetting: How America’s veterans went from ...

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   After the war ended, we could not do enough for our veterans. The GI Bill ensured that post-WWI problems would not be repeated. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, respect for veterans reached an ...

9. Category : Military personnel of the American Civil War

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   American Civil War veterans and descendants organizations (4 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Military personnel of the American Civil War" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.