Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. This is a very good condition Model 1895 Kepi Style Officer Cap or Hat. This is a Navy Blue felt Kepi Style hat with hat badge for GAR or the Grand Army of the Republic.
Inside the hat still has the original polished lining but unfortunately is missing the leather sweatband. The fine inner lining is embossed with the outline of a sliver maker emblem that appears to read as Glenville of Paris, France. Offered in very good condition this is a unique kepi from the turn of the 20th century.
Comes ready for further research and display.
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army (United States Army), Union Navy (U.S. Navy), Marines and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service who served in the American Civil War. It was founded in 1866 in Springfield, Illinois, and grew to include hundreds of "posts" (local community units) across the nation (predominantly in the North, but also a few in the South and West). It was dissolved in 1956 at the death of its last member, Albert Woolson (1850–1956) of Duluth, Minnesota.
Linking men through their experience of the war, the G.A.R. became among the first organized advocacy groups in American politics, supporting voting rights for black veterans, promoting patriotic education, helping to make Memorial Day a national holiday, lobbying the United States Congress to establish regular veterans' pensions, and supporting Republican political candidates. Its peak membership, at 410,000, was in 1890, a high point of various Civil War commemorative and monument dedication ceremonies. It was succeeded by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), composed of male descendants of Union Army and Union Navy veterans.
The Confederate equivalent of the GAR were the United Confederate Veterans.
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