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R         Grand Army of the Republic.  George G. Meade Post No. 48 (Lebanon, Mo.).

81                    Records, 1882-1937.

                                    Three volumes and one folder.

 

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These are ledgers, a minute book, and miscellaneous papers of a Grand Army of the Repub­lic post at Lebanon in Laclede County, Missouri.

 

The Grand Army of the Republic was a national association of Civil War veterans of the Fed­eral service.  The post at Lebanon was primarily a social organization, but its members did pro­vide some relief to local needy veterans, and some of its members made donations to the Con­fed­erate Home of Missouri at Higginsville.  The post commemorated Memorial Day with annual ceremo­nies, sometimes in cooperation with the local chapter of the United Con­federate Veterans.

 

The records of the George G. Meade post at Lebanon include ledgers and the min­utes of meet­ings from 1889 to 1914.  The ledgers contain individual membership accounts as well as the records of expenditures and revenues of the post.  The volume of minutes includes several eulo­gies to deceased members.  Miscellaneous documents have been filmed following the volumes.

 

 

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