Grand Army Of The Republic, Department of Illinois: Transcription of the Death Rolls, 1879-1947

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Vendor: Heritage Books, Inc.
Type: Book
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These death rolls, which date from as early as the 1880s and continue to the 1940s, are an invaluable resource for genealogists and Civil War researchers. Yet the Proceedings in which they are printed are only available in a small number of libraries. The G.A.R. was founded in Illinois in 1866 and became the largest association of Union Civil War veterans, its national membership peaking in 1890 at 409,489. As the veterans died, the membership inevitably declined. The national membership dropped to 213,901 in 1910 and 16,597 in 1930. The last surviving G.A.R. member died in 1956. The G.A.R. was organized in departments, most of which comprised one state. The departments published annual reports that were often titled Proceedings of the ... Annual Encampment of the Department of ..., Grand Army of the Republic. By the 1880s many of the department Proceedings began to include death rolls of the departments members (or comrades) for the preceding year. These death rolls usually contain the comrades name, rank, company and regiment (or ship), date of death, and the name, number and location of the post to which he belonged.

Dennis Northcott and Thomas Brooks

2003, 8.5" x 11", paper, 537 pp

ISBN: 9780972834407

111-N3440