Republic records7/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Coney’s veteran correspondence courts martial meeting minutes of the Board of Managers, Memorial Building Committee, and reunion associations reunion registers, transfer cards, and department and post accounts. The records include letter books general correspondence P H. Administrative RecordsĬorrespondence, subject files, committee records, court records, and fiscal records pertaining to the organization’s activities. By 1957 the Legislature assigned custody of all Grand Army records and artifacts to the Kansas State Historical Society. 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. A list of supplementary finding aids to this collection follows at the bottom of this page. Click the headings of the abstracts listed below for more detailed descriptions. This guide includes a history of the organization and a list of state department commanders, and descriptions of the administrative records of the state department and the records created by local GAR posts and their auxiliaries. The records of the Grand Army of the Republic, Kansas Department, held by the Kansas State Historical Society are important for their documentation of Civil War veterans, military pensions and benefits, and regional and national political issues in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ![]() Grand Army of the Republic - Records Department of Kansas ![]()
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