What does GAR stand for?

Grand Army of the Republic

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Samples in periodicals archive:

His favorite hideaway in the graveyard is the Grand Army of the Republic plot, an area dedicated to the fraternity organization of Union Army soldiers from the Civil War.

GUARDING GRAVES

As scholars such as Susannah Ural Bruce have shown, after the war Irish Catholics had a very difficult relationship with the Union veteran organization, the Grand Army of the Republic, which was overwhelmingly Protestant and Republican.

"God Help the Irish!": The History of the Irish Brigade

Also, the local Grand Army of the Republic Post, which also closed around 1936, was named in honor Gen.

Town war memorial to be rededicated

Sotos' request has stirred an ethical and scientific debate on the board of directors of the Grand Army of the Republic Museum and Library, an off-the-beaten-path Civil War institution.

Author wants to test Lincoln's DNA; Bloody pillowcase may contain ...

One of these groups, the Woman's Relief Association, arose as an auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic (the Union army veterans association), and two others--the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy--were formed as hereditary associations which demanded descent from a veteran as necessary for membership.

Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America

So, in 1868 General Logan, then commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, named May 30 as a national day "for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country.

A day for remembering: Memorial Day traces its roots back to the ...

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And veterans' organizations--including the Grand Army of the Republic, the American Legion, and the Veterans Of Foreign Wars--waged successful campaigns for pensions and educational assistance.

Pooh-poohing the grand poohba: progressive social change ended when ...