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To protect the integrity of their organization, the Department successfully lobbied for a state law against the unjustified wearing of the Grand Army badge. They also successfully lobbied for soldier’s grave markers to be paid by the local county commissions. The Department conducted statewide inventories of soldiers’ graves and sought legislative appropriations to place a soldier’s marker at the grave of each soldier. Burial services played an important part in the GAR's activities. The Department established a museum and library, which was also the official repository of the organization’s records. In the furtherance of these goals, the Kansas Department held annual soldier’s reunions each fall and a business meeting each summer. By 1957 the Legislature assigned custody of all Grand Army records and artifacts to the Kansas State Historical Society.Īccording to the 1874 national charter, the Grand Army of the Republic purported to preserve fraternal bonds among surviving Union veterans perpetuate the memory and history of the dead assist veterans, widows, and orphans in need and promote allegiance to the United States and the United States Constitution. In 1945, the state Legislature made its last annual appropriation to the Grand Army for publishing the commander’s reports, an appropriation it began in 1899. The state encampment at Emporia, 1943, was the department’s last. The department held the first state encampment at Topeka in 1882 and by 1891 boasted more than twenty thousand members with over five hundred posts. After a period of delinquency, the Kansas Department reorganized March 16, 1880. The Veteran Brotherhood, State of Kansas, preceded the Kansas GAR and provided its initial foundation. The Kansas Department of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) initially organized December 7, 1866, for the purpose of furthering the interests and preserving the memory of veteran Union soldiers in Kansas. The stranger side of life: /r/OldSchoolRidiculousĮxtant buildings during construction: /r/HalfbuiltHistory.Grand Army of the Republic - Organizational History Modern photos overlaying historical photos: /r/OldPhotosInRealLife
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