The Civil War Seattle 
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In 1878, the nation's leading organization of Union veterans of the Civil War, the Grand Army of the Republic, was established for the...

By August 1942, Seattle’s Grand Army of the Republic membership was down to just 2 men. Daniel Reams and Hiram Gale were all that...

December 8, 2021 marked the 80th anniversary of the United States' formal entry into World War II. Remarkably, in 1941, there were...

This is the Seattle gravesite of Catherine M. Henry at Evergreen cemetery. Miss Henry was the great-granddaughter of Seattle Civil War...

January 4th, 1941, Seattle Civil War veteran Rustan O. Reed celebrated his 94th birthday. On the occasion, he offered some thoughts on...

The Confederate battle flag, to put it bluntly, was generally not welcomed by Union veterans of the Civil War. While great strides had...

On February 12, 1895 Washington State became the second state, following Illinois, to recognize Abraham Lincoln’s birthday as a legal...

101 years ago, on this very same evening, the Union Civil War veterans of the John F Miller post Grand Army of the Republic and the women...

—March 7, 1893 in Seattle— On the evening of March 7, 1893, the men of Seattle’s John F Miller post of the Grand Army of the Republic met...

​"Gleeful As A Band Of Children" - Civil War veterans’ Christmas at the Orting Soldiers’ Home - In the early 1900’s, Washington State...