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41st Encampment of the GAR Badge

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41st Encampment of the GAR Badge
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Six inch long lapel pin with red, white and blue enamel and pictures of the Saratoga Monument and the Grant Cottage with a portrait of Grant captioned "Let Us Have Peace" The 41st Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was held at Saratoga Springs New York.

Six US Presidents, Andrew Johnson, US Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Chester A. Arthur, James Garfield, and William McKinley, were members. With this political might the GAR lobbied for pensions for veterans, created Memorial Day in 1868, and lobbied for the Pledge of Allegiance to be recited in schools, as well as flags to be placed in the classrooms. City: Saratoga Springs State: New York Date: 1907 HWAC# 51356