Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War - Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Records Program - WASHINGTON Corrections? Additions? Click here! 02/22/22
Post No. Alt. No. Post Name City County Repository Location Collection Name Description of Item(s) Medium/Condition Informant Date Dept. Source
000   (Department) N/A N/A Washington State Library Point Plaza East, 6880 Capitol Blvd SE, Tumwater, WA 98501 (PO Box 42460, Olympia, WA 98504-2460); phone 360-704-5200; website www.sos.wa.gov/library 1) Call No. RARE V 369.1509 GRAND A 1883; 2) Call No. RARE V 369.1509 GRAND 1884;3) Call No. RARE V 369.1509 GRAND 1885 1) Roster of the Dept. of Washington Territory, GAR, ca. 1883; 2) Roster of GAR, Dept. of Washington Territory, commanded by Henry A. Morrow, 1 June 1884;3)  Roster of the GAR, Dept. of Washington Territory, Commanded by Henry A. Morrow, 1885. Original pamphlets Loran & Tricia Bures (SUVCW / ASUVCW) Mar-2017 WA/AK N/A
001   (Isaac) Stevens Seattle King Seattle Public Library Seattle Public Library, Central Library, Seattle Room. 1000 Fourth Ave.; Seattle, WA 98104; Ph: (206) 386-4633; Email sea@spl.org; Website: www.spl.org; Digital collection (U. Washington): http://content.lib.washington.edu/garweb/ Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Portraits  Circa 1915, members of Isaac Stevens Post No. 1 put together an album of photographic portraits collected from members over the previous 25 years or so. The leather-bound book was donated to the Seattle Public Library in 1971. Only 106 portraits remain, and some are unidentified. Book, Photo Album Dean Enderlin, SUVCW Apr-2011 WA/AK WA1
002   Ellsworth Vancouver Clark Family History Library 35 North Temple West, Salt Lake City, UT  84150; phone 866-406-1830; website www.familysearch.org/ 979 M2 (microfilm US/CAN 1320814 Item 14) Post Roster, 1889. Photocopy of original, also available on microfilm. Dean Enderlin, SUVCW Nov-2016 WA/AK WA1
003   Alfred Sully Dayton Columbia               WA/AK WA1
004   Abraham Lincoln Walla Walla Walla Walla Whitman College and Northwest Archives 345 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, WA 99362; phone 509-527-5922; email archives@whiteman.edu; www.whitman.edu/archves HTM_WCMss43.  Grand Army of the Republic, Walla Walla, Records Minute books (1881-1900); minute book and membership records (1890-1919); GAR publications including 1893 and 1902 Blue Book and Journal of Department Encampment (1888-1923); correspondence, applications, financial records, orders (1881-1923).  Descriptive Book, scanned and available online (PDF format). Four boxes of bound and loose records, two linear feet of shelf space. Dean Enderlin, SUVCW Sep-2011 WA/AK WA1
005   George H. Thomas Olympia Thurston Washington State Library Special Collections, Point Plaza East, 6880 Capitol Blvd. SE, Tumwater (PO Box 42460, Olympia) WA 98504-2460; phone 360-704-5279; email pnw@sos.wa.gov; website www.sos.wa.gov/library/SpecialCollections.aspx George H. Thomas Post No. 5 minute book and records, 1881-1931.  Call no. MS 0116 Collection includes a photographic copy and a negative of the Roster(appears to have been a wall hanging); an alphabetical roster of 262 members who joined from 1881-1922 (gives the member's service record, age at joining the Post, date of transfer or death and place of birth), essentially an abstract of the Post Descriptive Book (a digital copy is on file with the SUVCW Dept. of the Columbia & the National GAR Records Officer); Minute Book 30 May 1881, 24 Feb. 1885; 19 Sept. 1925 - 7 Mar. 1931, and included separately are the Post minutes for 1923 (a digital copy is on file with the SUVCW Dept. of the Columbia & the National GAR Records Officer). There are programs for annual encampments at Everett, Olympia and Cincinnati. Original bound volume and manuscripts.  One box, 0.5 linear feet. Lee Corbin, Isaac Stevens Camp 1, WA, SUVCW; Loran Bures, Commander, Dept. of the Columbian, SUVCW Sep-2020 WA/AK WA1
005   George H. Thomas Olympia Thurston       Replacement Post charter, dated 4 March 1924. Original manuscript. Loran & Tricia Bures (SUVCW / ASUVCW)   WA/AK WA1
006   Custer New Tacoma / Tacoma Pierce Washington State History Research Center 315 N Stadium Way, Tacoma, WA  98403; phone 253-798-5916; website www.washingtonhistory.org/research/research-center Catalog Id: 1956.53.2; Call Number: EPH-B/369.15/G763t/1881 Original Post charter. Original manuscript. Loran & Tricia Bures (SUVCW / ASUVCW) May-2017 WA/AK WA1, WA2
006   Custer New Tacoma / Tacoma Pierce Unknown Whereabouts unknown. This book was sold to an undisclosed private party at an online auction (eBay item #130663975181 seller daflemdog, Los Angeles, CA; buyer bluegrey61, auction ended 22 March 2012. Private collection Descriptive Book.  Described ias follows: "574 entries.  First full entry is #20, Frank Bashford, mustered in 22 Sept. 1881.  The final entry is Chad Anderson, mustered in 26 June 1897.  Three newspaper clippings glued inside the pages: Frst article was written when the post reached 301 members and give a breakdown of where those members are from.  The second clipping is mostly missing, but looks like it also give a breakdown of where the post members are from.  The third clipping talks about the post members getting ready to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the GAR.  There is also a loose page with 16 names on it that is titled "Members of which no record on Roster."  The book measures approx. 13 1/4" by 8".  It's in pretty rough shape.  But, considering its age, it's pretty impressive that it's together at all.  The front cover and first couple pages and back cover and last couple pages have come loose from the binding.  Quite a bit of wear and some small tears here and there on the edges of the pages." Orginal bound volume, includes 3 newspaper clippings.  The front cover and first couple pages and back cover and last couple pages have come loose from the binding.  Quite a bit of wear and some small tears here and there on the edges of the pages. Yellowing and staining on most pages, back pages wrinkled.  First page of book missing, so first 19 entries are gone. Dean Enderlin, SUVCW May-2012 WA/AK WA1, WA2
007   Phil Kearney Toledo Lewis American Legion (uncertain)   The last two members of the Post surrendered the charter about 18 March 1929, and reportedly turned the remaining Post equipment over to the American Legion.   Dean Enderlin, SUVCW Jul-2017 WA/AK WA1
008   Sedgwick Spokane Spokane Eastern Washington State Historical Society Eastern Washington State Historical Society / Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture Joel E. Ferris Research Library and Archives, 2316 W. First Avenue, Spokane, WA 99201; Phone: 509-363-5313; email archives@northwestmuseum.org Collection No. MsSC 184 The collection consists of two volumes of minutes, 1897-1904, 1917-1921; membership dues register, 1910-1926; visitors register, undated; and two volumes of membership registers, undated. Six bound volumes James Barker, Camp 100, Dept. CO/WY, SUVCW Dec-2012 WA/AK WA1
009   Meade Yakima Yakima               WA/AK WA1
010   O. P. Morton Snohomish Snohomish               WA/AK WA1
011   James A. Parsons / David Ford Ellensburg Kittitas               WA/AK WA1, DE1
012   McPherson Kalama Cowlitz               WA/AK WA1
013   James A. Garfield Montesano Grays Harbor               WA/AK WA1, WA2
014   Philo Buckman Sprague Lincoln               WA/AK WA1
015   Farragut Port Townsend Jefferson               WA/AK WA1, WA2
016   John A. Logan Garfield Whitman               WA/AK JH1
016   John H. Henslee La Center Clark               WA/AK WA1
017   Luther C. Ladd Puyallup Pierce               WA/AK WA1
018   Larrabee La Conner Skagit               WA/AK WA1, DE1
019   Nathaniel Lyon Colfax Whitman               WA/AK WA1
020   Baker Goldendale Klickitat               WA/AK WA1
021   Thomas Drury Fort Spokane Spokane       Per Loran Bures (SUVCW):  There is a Fort Spokane in both Spokane County and Lincoln County.       WA/AK WA1
022   McDowell Pomeroy Garfield               WA/AK WA1
023   GEN George Wright Cheney Spokane               WA/AK WA1
024   J. B. Steadman Bellingham Whatcom               WA/AK WA1
025   Joe Hooker Chehalis Lewis               WA/AK WA1
026   U. S. Grant Seattle King               WA/AK WA1
027   Canby Ilwaco Pacific               WA/AK WA1
028   GEN Warren Walla Walla Walla Walla               WA/AK WA1
029   MAJ Anderson Palouse Whitman               WA/AK WA1
030   O. M. Mitchell Lacamas Clark               WA/AK WA1, WA2
031   John F. Miller Seattle King               WA/AK WA1
032   Reynolds Blaine Whatcom               WA/AK WA1
033   E. N. / E. M. Baker Walla Walla Walla Walla               WA/AK WA1
034   Lindsay Rosalia / Pine City Whitman               WA/AK WA1
035   D.A. Russell Mt. Vernon Skagit               WA/AK WA1
037   J. J. Lewis Asotin Asotin               WA/AK WA1, WA2
038   Frank P. Blair Spangle Spokane               WA/AK WA1
039   R. L. McCook Wilbur / Sherman Lincoln               WA/AK WA1
040   Burnside Waitsburg Walla Walla               WA/AK WA1
041   J. B. Wyman Rockford Spokane               WA/AK WA1
042   Lynch Lynden Whatcom               WA/AK WA1
043   W. S. Hancock Cosmopolis Grays Harbor               WA/AK WA1
044   Phil H. Sheridan Tacoma Pierce               WA/AK WA1
045   H. A. Miles Waterville Douglas               WA/AK WA1
046   William B. Hazen Ritzville Adams               WA/AK WA1
047   GEN J. L. Reno Spokane Spokane Jim and Loretta Dimond Kent, WA. Private collection Cash Book, 1 February 1920 - 31 December 1927.  Seventy numbered double-sided leaves [some pages missing] unbound from a formerly bound register; shows general fund cash receipts and disbursements; includes detail on dues payments by individual members, cash on hand by month, and annual summaries for 1920, 1921, and 1922.  The post maintained two accounts, a general fund and a cemetery fund.  Data varies among the years.  Acquired from Everitt Bowles (vendor) in 2021. Original volume, disbound.  Pages loose.  Presently mounted in individual acid-free protectors.  Well-thumbed, dusty; individual page tears, stains, and foxing consistent with age. Dean Enderlin, SUVCW (2015; Loran Bures (2021) May-2021 WA/AK WA1
047   GEN J. L. Reno Spokane Spokane Jim and Loretta Dimond Kent, WA. Private collection Post Minute Book.  Includes clipped newspaper obituaries of members, pasted to the ledger in chronological order.  Approximate dimensions approx 6" x 9" x 2".  Acquired from a dealer in Ballard about 2000. Original boud volume, described as in good condition. Loran Bures, SUVCW May-2021 WA/AK WA1
048   Pacific Port Angeles Clallam Clallam County Genealogical Society 931 West 9th Street, Port Angeles, WA  98363-5748; phone 360-417-5000; website www.olypen.com/ccgs/index.html Grand Army of the Republic records, 1920-1954 Original records microfilmed in 1994.  See description of Post 48 records for Family History Library (Salt Lake City), below, for details. Original manuscripts and bound volumes Dean Enderlin, SUVCW Oct-2011 WA/AK WA1
048   Pacific Port Angeles Clallam Family History Library 35 North Temple West, Salt Lake City, UT  84150; phone 866-406-1830; website www.familysearch.org/ US / Canadian Collections: US/CAN Film #1940454 Item 7 Microfilm of originals in the Clallam County Genealogical Society Library in Port Angeles, WA.  Grand Army of the Republic records, 1920-1954. Contains GAR cemetery committee records, reports of post surgeons, pensions. officers adjutant reports, and record book and membership financial records.  Also contains records for Vicksburg Circle, No. 58, Ladies of the GAR (Port Angeles). Microfilm, 1 reel (35 mm) Dean Enderlin, SUVCW Oct-2011 WA/AK WA1
049   Kit Carson Kelso Cowlitz               WA/AK WA1
050   Centralia / T. P. Price Centralia Lewis               WA/AK WA1, WA2
051   GEN Grover Slaughter (Auburn) King               WA/AK WA1, WA2
052   Washington Hoquiam Grays Harbor               WA/AK WA1
053   Whitman Pullman Whitman               WA/AK WA1
054   C. M. Reed Orting Pierce Washington State Archives State Archives, 1129 Washington Street SE (PO Box 40238), Olympia WA 98504-0238; phone 360-586-1492; email research@sos.wa.gov; website http://www.sos.wa.gov/archives/archives_state.aspx Department of Veterans' Affairs, Orting Soldiers' Home, Grand Army of the Republic Records. AR118-3-35 1889 - 1957.  Meeting minutes of GAR Post 54 (Orting). Includes lists of members, applications, books of ritual, and installations of officers.  The State Archives also hold a collection of minute books of Fort Lawton Corps, No. 28, WRC, which was based at Orting (1907 - 1938, ref. no. AR118-3-36). Original bound volumes.  Four volumes, 1.2 cubic feet. Lee Corbin, Isaac Stevens Camp 1, WA, SUVCW Feb-2014 WA/AK WA1
055   T. T. Minor Winlock Lewis               WA/AK WA1, JH1
056   LT Cushing Ballard King               WA/AK WA1
057   H. G. Sickles Vashon King               WA/AK WA1
058   C. M. Kellogg Ferndale Whatcom               WA/AK WA1
059   C. R. Apperson Fairhaven Whatcom               WA/AK WA1
060   C. W. H. Bentley Reardan Lincoln               WA/AK WA1, DE1
061   James J. Andrews Oakesdale Whitman               WA/AK WA1
062   GEN Milroy Latah / Tekoa Whitman       Per Loran Bures (SUVCW):  Latah is in Spokane County, Tekoa is in Whitman County.       WA/AK WA1
063   GEN George Crook Aberdeen Grays Harbor               WA/AK WA1
064   Wallace Springdale Stevens               WA/AK WA1
065   W. T. Sherman Medical Lake Spokane               WA/AK WA1
066   Admiral Porter Mossyrock Lewis               WA/AK WA1, WA2
067   B. F. Stevenson Sumas Whatcom             WA/AK WA1, WA2
068   GEN Emory Anacortes Skagit Anacortes Museum 1305 8th Street, Anacortes, WA 98221; phone 360-293-1915; website www.anacorteswa.gov/333/Museum Catalog No's D.III.028.B; D.III.039.A,B; D.III.127; D.I.126 Photograph collection (online).  Includes group image of named members posing with Post flag (D.III.028.B); oval portraits of named Post members, c.1891 (D.III.039.A,B); group photo of members of the 42nd Encampment of the Dept. of Washington & Alaska, at Everett, WA, June 1924 (D.III.127); group portrait of Post members, undated (D.I.126). Original photographs and photographic prints, digitized. Dean Enderlin, SUVCW Apr-2018 WA/AK WA1
069   J. C. Fremont South Bend Pacific               WA/AK WA1, DE1
070   Union Chewelah Stevens               WA/AK WA1
071   J. A. Reynolds Buckley Pierce               WA/AK WA1
072   A. J. Smith Yakima Yakima               WA/AK WA1
073   Everett Sumner Pierce               WA/AK WA1
074   Silas Casey Friday Harbor San Juan               WA/AK WA1
075   E. J. Houghton Kettle Falls Stevens               WA/AK WA1
076   COL Hiram Burnham Kent King               WA/AK WA1
077   G. R. Pyle Castle Rock Cowlitz               WA/AK WA1
078   CPT E. Nichols Quilcene Jefferson               WA/AK WA1, WA2
079   GEN Hovey Snoqualmie King               WA/AK WA1, WA2
080   H. R. Loomis Gig Harbor Pierce               WA/AK WA1
081   Worthington Elma Grays Harbor               WA/AK WA1
082   U.S. Grant / T. P. Price Centralia Lewis               WA/AK WA1, WA2
083   GEN Saunders Kelso Cowlitz               WA/AK WA1
084   Commodore Foote Port Orchard Kitsap               WA/AK WA1
085   GEN Kilpatrick Allyn Mason               WA/AK WA1
086   E. M. Stanton Haller City Snohomish               WA/AK WA1
087   J. A. Winslow Tacoma Pierce               WA/AK WA1
088   GEN Fred Lander Farmington Whitman               WA/AK WA1
089   John Buford Everett Snohomish               WA/AK WA1
090   COL E. E. Cross Shelton Mason               WA/AK WA1
091   U. S. Grant Orting Pierce               WA/AK WA1
092   D. Chaplain Coupeville Island               WA/AK WA1
093   GEN Rusk Davenport Lincoln               WA/AK WA1
094   N. B. Page Mission (Cashmere) Chelan               WA/AK WA1, DE1
095   L. P. Plummer New Whatcom Whatcom               WA/AK WA1
096   GEN Ewing North Bend King               WA/AK WA1
097   W. T. Sherman Sedro-Woolley Skagit               WA/AK WA1, DE1
098   GEN John M. Corse Colville Stevens Northeast Washington Genealogical Society 195 S. Oak, Colville, WA 99114;  email research@newgs.org GAR minutes Extracted minutes of the GAR meetings 1899-1917; also newspaper photos of last four surviving members of the Post in 1927 and a few other photos of local GAR members and encampments.  The original Post minute books are believed to be in the Stevens County Historical Society Museum in Colville. Transcriptions of original bound volumes, newsprint, and photographs. Susan Dechant, NE Washington Genealogical Soc.; Gordon Struve, SUVCW Sep-2016 WA/AK WA1
099   Henry W. Lawton Orting Pierce               WA/AK WA1
100   Speagle Mead Spokane               WA/AK WA1
101   J. A. Mower Bossburg Stevens               WA/AK WA1
102   GEN John M. Palmer Clarkston Asotin               WA/AK WA1, WA2
103   James A. Sexton Seattle King Grand Army of the Republic Museum 629 S 7th St, Springfield, IL 62703; phone 217-522-4373.  Bulit and operated by the National Woman's Relief Corps.   Original Post charter. Original manuscript, mounted and on display. Dean Enderlin, SUVCW Aug-2016 WA/AK WA1
104   Harrison Chelan Chelan               WA/AK WA1, WA2
105   Daniel McCook Wenatchee Chelan               WA/AK WA1, WA2
106   William McKinley Deer Park Spokane               WA/AK WA1
107   William Hall Granite Falls Snohomish               WA/AK WA1
108   John Bothell Bothell King               WA/AK WA1
109   CPT Belden Spencer Republic Ferry               WA/AK WA1
110   Navy Yard Bremerton Kitsap               WA/AK WA1
111   Burnside Waitsburg Walla Walla               WA/AK WA1
112   Green Lake Seattle King               WA/AK WA1
113   C. S. Hamilton Kelso Cowlitz               WA/AK WA1
114   MAJ Johnson Prosser Benton               WA/AK WA1
115   Lew Wallace Orchards Clark               WA/AK WA1
116   U. S. Grant Bremerton Kitsap               WA/AK WA1, WA2
117   J. R. Warren White Salmon Klickitat               WA/AK WA1
118   J. R. Hayden Orting Pierce               WA/AK WA1, DE1
118   Schofield-Hayden Port Orchard (Retsil) Kitsap National Civil War Museum One Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park, Harrisburg, PA  17103; phone 717-260-1861; website www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/   Original Post charter. Original manuscript Dean Enderlin, SUVCW Mar-2018 WA/AK DE1
119   W. F. Cloud Rice Stevens               WA/AK WA1
120   GEN Shafter Everson Whatcom               WA/AK WA1
122   Kilpatrick Woodland Cowlitz               WA/AK WA1
123   Lucius Day Monroe Snohomish               WA/AK WA1
124   Veteran Sequim Clallam               WA/AK WA1
125   S. G. Cosgrove Kennewick Benton               WA/AK WA1
126   Schofield Port Orchard (Retsil) Kitsap               WA/AK WA1
127   Nathan P. Gregg Hillyard Spokane               WA/AK WA1
128   E. W. Sager Grandview Yakima               WA/AK WA1
129   Webber Sunnyside Yakima       Per Loran Bures (SUVCW):  There is a Sunnyside in Yakima County, Clark County, and Whatcom County; most likely it is the one in Yakima County.       WA/AK WA1
Sources (for Post name, number, and location data only):
WA1 = Ken Richmond, SUVCW Gov Isaac Stevens Camp-at-Large #1, 2000
WA2 = Loran Bures, Gov. Isaac Stevens Camp #1, Dept. of the Columbia, SUVCW; Tricia Bures,  Gov. Isaac Stevens Aux. #1, ASUVCW, 2017, 2020
JH1 = Jeff Henningfield, SUVCW Gov Isaac Stevens Camp-at-Large #1; GAR Post Project Chair, 2000
DE1 = Dean A. Enderlin, SUVCW National GAR Records Officer, 2014-2020
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