GAR Display

Display Hours: 10:00AM-5PM Saturday and 12:00PM-4:00PM Sunday The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was founded on April 6, 1866, in Decatur, Illinois, by Major Benjamin F. Stephenson, a Surgeon who served in the 14th Illinois Infantry. The society was composed of men who had fought for the Union during the Civil War and had been honorably discharged. Its purposes were to honor those who had died in the war, to provide for the widows and orphaned children, to promote comradeship among all veteran