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- From: rlward1@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Robert Ward)
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- Subject: Re: Grand Army of the Republic Records
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.144755.25914@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:47:55 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.180648.19735@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <1992Nov16.192559.23574@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov16.192559.23574@midway.uchicago.edu> cjt1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.180648.19735@afterlife.ncsc.mil> rlward1@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Robert Ward) writes:
- >>
- >> A friend has an ancestor who was a member of a particular post of the
- >>Grand Army of the Republic, in Minnesota. This was an organization of Union
- >>Civil War veterans more or less analogous to the current American Legion.
- >>My friend knows the location and post number. He would like to know if the
- >>records of such posts, and this one in particular, are still in existence,
- >>and if so, where they might be accessed.
- >
- >I'd be interested in knowing more about this as well. There is a successor
- >organization to the GAR, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, so
- >I would guess that that group has inherited the post records.
- >--Chuck
- >
- >--
- >D'Angelo Law Library "The dogmas of the quiet past are
- >cjt1@midway.uchicago.edu inadequate to the stormy present. . .
- >uclcjt1@uchimvs1 We must disenthrall ourselves. . ."
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- Thanks, Chuck. This is a good lead. Any address or contact information
- for the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War in Minnesota?
-
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