Ladies of the GAR Button
Dubuque’s own Lillian Clark Cary was President of the Iowa Chapter of the National Order of the Ladies of the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) when she attended the 1915 annual state convention in Sioux City. An auxiliary group of the GAR, this all-female association was open to “the loyal mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, granddaughters and blood kin nieces of soldiers, sailors and marines, who served honorably in aiding and maintaining the integrity and supremacy of the National Government during the Rebellion, and ex-army [n]urses, and all lineal female descendants.”
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