GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.







  The objects of this order are (1) to keep green the memory of the events
and
associations of the Civil War; (2) to aid unfortunate comrades, and (3) to
keep
alive and active the spirit of patriotism. The first post was organized April
6,
1866, at Decatur, Ill. The first National E'ncampment was held November 20,
1866, at Indianapolis.  The last annual encampment was held August 13-17,
1906, at Minneapolis; that for 1907 wil. be held at Saratoga, N. Y. National
Headquarters are now at Zanesville, Ohio. Present officers: Commander-in-chief,
Robert B. Brown, Zanesville, Ohio; Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief, Win. H.
Armstrong, Indianapolis, Ind.; Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief, E. B. Fenton,
Detroit, Mich. ; Adjutant General, Joseph W. O'Neall, Zanesvil'e, Ohio; Quar-
termaster General, Charles Burrows, Rutherford, N. J. ; Patriotic Instructor,
Warren Lee Goss, Rutherford, N. J. ; Member Council of Administration for
Wis-
consin, Philip Cheek, Baraboo, Wis.


  NUMBER OF POSTS AND MEMBERSHIP OF DEPARTMENTS JUNE 30. 19006.


     Departments.       t


Alabama ....
Auizuna .....
Arkansas...........:
California and Nevada.
Colorado and-Wyoming
Connecticut..........
Delaware...........
Florida...............
Georgia ..................
Idaho ...................
Illinois ..................
Indiana............
Indian Territory........
I o ,a ...................
Kansas.............
Kentucky...........
Louisiana and Missis-
  sippi.............
Maine..........
Maryland...........
Massachusetts.
Michigan....  .......
Minnesota...........
Missouri............
Montana   ............
Nebraska ...............
New Hamp shire ........
New Jersey .............
New Mexico .............
New Yrk----..........


Number
Af Posts.


12
  6
  16
  95
  51
  64
  21
  21
  14
  20
488
391
25
356
292
85
35
160
53
210
330
171
244
13
195
81
104
  7
612


Member-
  ship.


   122
   145
   312
 5,476
 2,709
 3,813
 601
 315
 42-
 456
 18.5334
14,309
  448
11,359
10,006
1,931
  897
  4'590
  1.992
15,588
11.2.,0
5,691
7,764
   382
 4,388
 2,772
 4,453
   208
27,061


    Departments.


North Dakota .........
Ohio ............ .......
Oklahoma .............
Oregon  ........ .......
Penns3 lvania ..........
Potomac ...........
Rhode Island..........
"iouth Dakota....
Tennessee..........
Texas.............
Utah..............
Vermont ...............
Virginia and North
  Carolina..........
Washington    and
  Alaska...........
West Virginia.
Wisconsin..............
   Totals..........
Membership June 30,
  1904.............
Loss in two and one
  half years ............
Number of deaths in
  two years.........


Tii, --der reached its greatest membership, 409,489, in 1890.


Number
of Posts.


      26
      490
      84
      53
      525
      17
      26
      78
      48
      19
      5
      92
      37
      53
      34
      234
   6,096

   6,179

     237


Member-
  ship.


     375
   21, 595
   1,854
   1.840
   23,598
   2,259
   1,415
   1,642
   1,265
     446
     276
     2,820
     706
     2,223
     1,008
     7,961
  229,268

  247, 412

  18,174


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