{"id":806,"date":"2011-02-24T08:01:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cumberlandcivilwar.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2011-02-24T08:01:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:01:15","slug":"grand-army-of-the-republic-posts-in-cumberland-county-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/grand-army-of-the-republic-posts-in-cumberland-county-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Army of the Republic \u2013 Posts in Cumberland County, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/upload\/GAR_parade_Washington1892.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66  \" title=\"GAR Parade\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/library\/files\/2010\/08\/GAR_parade_Washington1892detail-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">G. A. R. Parade - Washington DC, 1892<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jacob M. Goodyear, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/library\/Goodyear1951.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The GAR Posts of Cumberland County<\/a><\/em> (Carlisle, PA: Hamilton Library Association, 1951).<\/p>\n<p>After the Civil War, many Union veterans joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and established posts in their communities. Seven posts were set up in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania between 1880 and 1890 and Jacob M. Goodyear provides a short history for each one. Each post, as Goodyear explains, had \u201cits own life story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This essay has been posted online with permission from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicalsociety.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cumberland County Historical Society<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob M. Goodyear, The GAR Posts of Cumberland County (Carlisle, PA: Hamilton Library Association, 1951). After the Civil War, many Union veterans joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and established posts in their communities. Seven posts were set &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/grand-army-of-the-republic-posts-in-cumberland-county-pa\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grand Army of the Republic \u2013 Posts in Cumberland County, PA<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5039,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-history","category-reconstruction-1865-1880"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}