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Gives a written history of the Grand Army of the Republic, a veterans' fraternal organization for the Union armed forces of the U.S. Civil War.
Excerpt from History of the Grand Army of the Republic I have been asked to write a few prefatory words to this History of the Grand Army of the Republic. That society whose watch-words are Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty - Fraternity so wide-spread as to embrace all who honored themselves by enlisting in the Union Army; a Charity so broad as to have included within its benefactions sufferers of every class, and of all sections of our country; a Loyalty that maintains "true allegiance to the United States of America based upon a paramount respect for, and fidelity to, its constitution and laws," that discountenances "whatever tends to weaken loyalty, incites to insurrection, treason or rebel...
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