Author: Robert Burns BeathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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History of the Grand Army of the Republic
Author: Robert Burns BeathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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The Won Cause
Author: Barbara A. GannonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807877700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
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, Barbara Gannon chronicles black and white veterans' efforts to create and sustain the nation's first interracial organization. According to the conventional view, the freedoms and interests of African American veterans were not defended by white Union veterans after the war, despite the shared tradition of sacrifice among both black and white soldiers. In The Won Cause, however, Gannon challenges this scholarship, arguing that although black veterans still suffered under the contemporary racial mores, the GAR honored its black members in many instances and ascribed them a greater equality than previous studies have shown. Using evidence of integrated posts and veterans' thoughts on their comradeship and the cause, Gannon reveals that white veterans embraced black veterans because their membership in the GAR demonstrated that their wartime suffering created a transcendent bond--comradeship--that overcame even the most pernicious social barrier--race-based separation. By upholding a more inclusive memory of a war fought for liberty as well as union, the GAR's "Won Cause" challenged the Lost Cause version of Civil War memory.
History of the Grand Army of the Republic
Author: J. W. CarhahanPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337913762
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Glorious Contentment
Author: Stuart McConnellPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807863300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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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.
History of the Grand Army of the Republic
Author: Robert Burns BeathPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019386040
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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.
History of the Grand Army of the Republic
Author: J. Worth CarnahanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 75
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History of the Grand Army of the Republic
Author: Robert Burns BeathPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230469355
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... L. Fay; Pennsylvania, Samuel Harper; Potomac, Solomon E. Faunce; Rhode Island, Chas. O. Ballou; Utah, W. H. Nye; Vermont, Ed. H. Trick; Virginia, Peter Morton; West Virginia, S. F. Shaw; Wisconsin, J. L. Wheat. DEPARTMENTS REPRESENTED. Arkansas, 8; California, 15; Colorado, 8; Connecticut, 11; Dakota, 8; Delaware, 4; Florida, 5; Gulf, 3; Illinois, 39; Iowa, 28; Kansas, 29; Kentucky, 9; Maine, 12; Massachusetts, 28; Maryland, 7; Michigan, 28; Minnesota, 16; Missouri 17; Montana, 2; Nebraska, 16; New Hampshire, 9; New Jersey, 12; New Mexico, 5; New York, 49; Ohio, 45; Oregon, 3; Pennsylvania, 48; Potomac, 11; Rhode Island, 9; Tennessee and Georgia, 5; Texas, 6; Utah, 3; Vermont, 12; Virginia, 4; Washington Territory, 5; West Virginia, 6; Wisconsin, 22. Total, 37 Departments and 547 Department Officers and Representatives; National Officers, 38. Total present, 585. ADDRESS OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. Commander-in-Chief Lucius Fairchild, in his address, congratulated the comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic on the evidences of permanent and healthy growth, and on the assurance that the loyal people of the country were with them heart and soul, anc? would so continue while the Order kept strictly within the path of duty marked out by the founders of the organization. He had devoted his whole time to the discharge of the duties of his office and had visited 28 of the 38 Departments. He referred to the Encampment for action the proposition of Mr. Jos. W. Drexel, of New York, to present to the Grand Army the cottage at Mount McGregor in which General Grant died. He had visited Charleston, South Carolina, to ascertain if the Grand Army could in any way be of service to the people of that stricken city, and finding from personal observation...
History of the Grand Army of the Republic
Author: J. Worth CarnahanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Records of Members of the Grand Army of the Republic
Author: William H. WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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