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Charles William Holeton

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Charles William Holeton

Birth
Woodbine, Harrison County, Iowa, USA
Death
5 Jul 1947 (aged 66)
Woodbine, Harrison County, Iowa, USA
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Woodbine, Harrison County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Addition 3, Block 1, Row 13, Space 28.1
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Source: Woodbine Cemetery, Harrison County, Iowa; kind assistance of FindaGrave volunteer Rose Marie Brown 46636833 Note: The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of Union Army (United States Army), Union Navy (U.S. Navy), Marines and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service who served in the American Civil War. It was founded in 1866 in Springfield, Illinois, and grew to include hundreds of "posts" (local community units) across the nation (predominantly in the North, but also a few in the South and West).

Linking men through their experience of the Civil war, the G.A.R. became among the first organized advocacy groups in American politics, supporting voting rights for black veterans, promoting patriotic education, helping to make Memorial Day a national holiday, lobbying the United States Congress to establish regular veterans' pensions, and supporting Republican political candidates. Its peak membership, at 410,000, was in 1890, a high point of various Civil War commemorative and monument dedication ceremonies. It was succeeded by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), composed of male descendants of Union Army and Union Navy veterans. But when the Republican Party's commitment to reform in the South gradually decreased, the GAR's mission became ill-defined and ... In 1956, after the death of the last member, Albert Woolson, the GAR was formally dissolved. --Wikipedia
Source: Woodbine Cemetery, Harrison County, Iowa; kind assistance of FindaGrave volunteer Rose Marie Brown 46636833 Note: The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of Union Army (United States Army), Union Navy (U.S. Navy), Marines and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service who served in the American Civil War. It was founded in 1866 in Springfield, Illinois, and grew to include hundreds of "posts" (local community units) across the nation (predominantly in the North, but also a few in the South and West).

Linking men through their experience of the Civil war, the G.A.R. became among the first organized advocacy groups in American politics, supporting voting rights for black veterans, promoting patriotic education, helping to make Memorial Day a national holiday, lobbying the United States Congress to establish regular veterans' pensions, and supporting Republican political candidates. Its peak membership, at 410,000, was in 1890, a high point of various Civil War commemorative and monument dedication ceremonies. It was succeeded by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), composed of male descendants of Union Army and Union Navy veterans. But when the Republican Party's commitment to reform in the South gradually decreased, the GAR's mission became ill-defined and ... In 1956, after the death of the last member, Albert Woolson, the GAR was formally dissolved. --Wikipedia

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