GAR Ransom Post 131 Members
Many men in St. Louis served in the Civil War. While some served in the Confederacy, most were part of the Union Army. After the war, Union veterans formed a fraternal organization called the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). By 1890, the GAR had about 400,000 members and the veterans can be traced in the GAR annual reports and death rolls. St. Louis had about 14 GAR posts, with approximately four hundred posts elsewhere in Missouri.
Original Civil War pension records are available at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. You can order the pension files online at the National Archives Military website.
This roster is of the Ransom Post 193, organized in 1883 and closed in 1925. The post was named after BG Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom (1834–1864), U.S. Volunteers, who died of disease at Rome, Georgia, on 29 October 1864. (Note: The link to Gen. Ransom’s biography will take you to the Find a Grave website. No representations or warranties, express or implied, are made as to the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the data on that site.)
The PDF file of the roster was provided by the Missouri Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. They also have data for many other posts, which you can find at Missouri G. A. R. – Post Records.
For information on how the data was prepared and transcribed using Google AI Studio, see Data Prep.
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