GLORIOUS CONTENTMENT: The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900
Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated by Stuart McConnell on a preliminary blank leaf. "The Grand Army of the Republic, the largest of all Union Army veterans' organizations, was the most powerful single-issue political lobby of the late nineteenth century, securing massive pensions for veterans and helping to elect five postwar presidents from its own membership. To its members, it was also a secret fraternal order, a source of local charity, a provider of entertainment in small municipalities, and a patriotic organization. Using GAR convention proceedings, newspapers, songs, rule books, and local post records, Stuart McConnell examines this influential veterans' association during the years of its greatest strength." Octavo: xvii, 312 p. with 17 illustrations. Original blue cloth binding, with silver titles. Ink stamp to the front flyleaf; else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Near fine / Near fine. Item #76250
ISBN: 0807820253
Price: $40.00