Government Records
The records include correspondence and miscellany (1884-1954), especially files created during the 1930s and 1940s by departmental secretary Marion Jewell; circulars, orders, and rosters (1882-1946); Minnesota encampment proceedings (1900-1947); an incomplete set of financial records; records and reports of various patriotic and commemorative activities or offices; information (primarily death lists and reports) on GAR members and other Minnesota Civil War veterans; miscellaneous data on GAR posts; and an assortment of printed and near-print issuances and memorabilia.
There are also records of the Woman's Veteran Relief Union (1900-1910) and the Woman's Relief Corps (1884-1948); and smaller files regarding the Military Order of the Loyal Legion (1913-1920), the Past National Aide Club (1935-1944), the Memorial Day Association (1917-1953), and other affiliates.
Accession numbers: 241; 2053 (mss); 992-173; 993-113; 2011-47
Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project
grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Catalog ID number: 001737058
Includes some member transfer cards.
List of rejected applicants for membership, 1881-1883 (pages 6-7); record of decisions made by national and state headquarters regarding disputes and questions, 1882-1887 (pages 50-67).
Constitution, 1866; Ritual Book, 1883; Bylaws, 1884; Rosters, 1890, 1892; and Roll of the Dead, 1900.
Includes financial accounts, 1917 (pages 2-5) and list of attendees and settlements (pages 168-198).
Includes Annual Encampment minutes, 1866-1884; Council of Administration minutes, 1886-1893; and special orders, 1866.
By post, Nos. 1-21 only.
Includes list of departmental staff, 1884.
Indexed.
Part of an account book of the Assistant Adjutant General.
The remainder of the volume is listed as part of "Post adjutant and quartermaster reports and summaries" (cataloged separately).
1893-1894 (pages 1-53) and 1895 (pages 117-123).
The remainder of the volume is listed as part of "Post adjutant and quartermaster reports and summaries" (cataloged separately).
Includes accounts with Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 1910.
With Commander Albert Woolson, and regarding an ongoing feud with "Madame X."
In alphabetical order by surname.
Unorganized.
Possibly official diary kept by Marion Jewell.
Includes correspondence regarding 1941 and 1942 encampments.
Incomplete.
Incomplete.
Mainly published materials relating to Minneapolis Camp No. 8.
Reflecting Marion Jewell's involvement.
Adjunct of the GAR.
Adjunct of the GAR.
Incomplete.
Incomplete.
Programs and speeches.
Incomplete.
Includes related correspondence and miscellany.
Apparently state headquarters.
Forms submitted by each post.
With later death entries.
Log of correspondence regarding charters and reports.
Includes muster and honorable discharge papers from his Civil War service with the 68th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry Volunteers, as well as later commendations and mementoes.
To his sons in St. Paul; Speigel was stationed with the U.S. Army in Chickamauga, Georgia, during the Civil War.
Recorded on paper slips.
Chronological; include biographical data and post membership; cards for most years include deaths at the Minnesota Soldiers Home as a separate unit. Cover 1889-1890, 1896-1898, 1900, 1902, 1905-1906, 1908, 1911-1914, 1915-1917, 1919, 1934-1936.
By post; include biographical data.
Includes death reports by year, 1915-1936.
Loose, unorganized.
Central GAR office receipts/disbursements.
Unidentified post; possibly Post No. 8.
Authorization for the encampment to form a department.