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The Grand Army of the Republic

The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was founded in Decatur, Illinois on April 6, 1866 by Benjamin F. Stephenson, membership was limited to honorably discharged veterans of the Union Army, Navy, Marine Corps or the Revenue Cutter Service who had served between April 12, 1861 and April 9, 1865. The community level organization was called a Post and each was numbered consecutively within each department. Most Posts also had a name and the rules for naming Posts included the requirement that the honored person be deceased and that no two Posts within the same Department could have the same name. The Departments generally consisted of the Posts within a state.

The GAR founded the soldiers' homes, was active in relief work and in pension legislation. Five members were elected President of the United States and, for a time, it was impossible to be nominated on the Republican ticket without the endorsement of the GAR voting block.

In 1868, Commander-in-Chief John A. Logan issued General Order No. 11 calling for all Departments and Posts to set aside the 30th of May as a day for remembering the sacrifices of fallen comrades, thereby beginning the celebration of Memorial Day.

With membership limited strictly to veterans of the late unpleasantness, the GAR encouraged the formation of Allied Orders to aid them in its various works. Numerous male organizations jousted for the backing of the GAR and the political battles became quite severe until the GAR finally endorsed the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America (later to become the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War) as its heir. On August 20, 1954, by an act of the US Congress, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War was declared the legal heir to the GAR.


At one time New Hampshire had 95 GAR Posts. Some Post numbers were reused when an earlier organization surrendered its charter and a new one was formed. Almost every Post would also have a Woman's Relief Corps as an auxiliary.

Post names highlighted in color indicate an individual page with additional information about them.
Post Name, Number, Location
Storer - 1 - Portsmouth
E.E. Sturtevant - 2 - Concord
Louis Bell - 3 - Manchester
John Sedgwick - 4 - Keene
Col. Putnam - 5 - Hopkinton
Aaron F. Stevens - 6 - Peterborough
John G. Foster - 7 - Nashua
Joshua Littlefield - 8 - Great Falls (Somersworth)
W.S. Hancock - 9 - Alstead
Fred Smyth - 10 - Newport
Oliver W. Lull - 11 - Milford
Maj. Jarvis - 12 - Claremont
James B. Berry - 13 - Lebanon
Sheridan - 14 - Hinsdale
Harvey Holt - 15 - South Lyndeborough
Col. E.E. Cross - 16 - Lancaster
Charles W. Sawyer - 17 -  Dover
George A. Gay - 18 - Newmarket
E.N. Taft - 19 - Winchester
Hamilton - 20 - Washington
Samuel Hale - 21 - Salmon Falls (1883)
John A. Logan - 21 - Seabrook
John C. Sampson - 22 - Rochester
Col. Emery - 23 - Lisbon
Carlton - 24 - Farmington
Senator Grimes - 25 - Hillsborough Bridge
Moses N. Collins 26 Exeter
Herman Shedd - 27 - Greenville
Lincoln - 28 - Charlestown
Willard K. Cobb - 29 - Pittsfield
J.H. Worcester - 30 - Hollis
William I. Brown - 31 - Penacook
Prescott Jones - 32 - Potter Place, Wilmot Flat
Henry C. Little - 33 - Hampstead (1883)
Charles F Smith - 33 - Soldiers Home, Tilton
Gen. H.L. Patten - 34 - Kingston
O.W. Keyes - 35 - Ashland
Darius A. Drake - 36 - Lake Village
John L. Perley - 37 - Laconia
George F. Sweatt - 38 - Franklin Falls
George W Gordon - 39 - Suncook
Francis D. Green - 39 - Berlin Falls
Nelson - 40 - Bristol
Wesley D. Knight - 41 - Londonderry
Justus B. Penniman - 42 - Plymouth
Chas H. Phelps - 43 - Amherst
Davis - 44 - West Concord
Upton - 45 - Derry
Stark Fellows - 46 - Weare
Custer - 47 - Conway 
Marshall Saunders - 48 - Littleton
M.H. Savage - 49 - Alton
Natt Westgate - 50 - North Haverhill
Joe Hooker - 51 - Fremont/Raymond
Adm. Farragut - 52 - Enfield
Jonas Nutting - 53 - New Ipswich
George S. Cram - 54 - Meredith Village
Almon B. White - 55 - Whitefield
L.D. Gove - 56 - Hanover
Carlos Fletcher - 57 - Colebrook
Robert Campbell - 58 - Sutton
John E. Willis - 59 - Gorham
Gilman E. Sleeper - 60 - Salem
James R. Newell - 61 - Wolfeboro
Adams K. Tilton - 62 - Tilton
William H. Bryant - 63 - Cornish Flat (1887)
Garfield - 63 - West Windham (1882)
Cpt. Charles Stinson - 64 - Goffstown
Merrill - 65 - West Stewartstown
George H. Hoyt - 66 - Gossville
Austin Goodell - 67 - Monroe
Moulton S. Webster - 68 - Center Sandwich
Charles H. Hoitt - 69 - Northwood
Jere. E. Chadwick - 70 - Deerfield Center
Abiel A. Livermore - 71 - Wilton
Natt Head - 72 - Fitzwilliam
Thomas L. Ambrose - 73 - Center Ossipee
Bell - 74 - Chester
C.D. Hall - 75 - Rumney
Frederick M. Edgell - 76 - Orfordville
Robert R. Thompson - 77 - North Stratford
Joseph Bernard - 77 - Coaticook, Quebec
Perkins - 78 - Hampton
David B. Dudley - 79 - Candia Village
Albert M. Perkins - 80 - Epping
George Bowers - 81 - Warren
Lyman Locke - 82 - Strafford
James S. Thornton - 83 - Merrimack
Pingree - 84 - Salisbury
Anthony Colby - 85 - New London
Henry H. Stevens - 86 - Stoddard
Ephraim Weston - 87 - Antrim
George B. McClellan - 88 - Jaffrey
Eli Wentworth - 89 - Milton
Gen Walter Harriman - 90 - Danville
Grant - 91 - Center Bartlett
Thomas M Huse - 92 - Barnstead Center
J.H. Allen - 93 - Wakefield
Capt Joseph Freschl - 94 - Manchester
Clark Stevens - 95 - Groveton
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