Lot of two Civil War National Officers badges of the GAR Grand Army of the Republic for the years 1) 1930 NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT CINCINNATI OHIO BADGE. The item is brass cut. The top bar has a clasp with an eagle grasping two cross cannons over the word “REPRESENTATIVE”.  Suspended from the top bar is a star shaped medallion with clovers on the five points. In the center is an image of Ulysses Grant framed in the words ‘CINCINNATI, OHIO’ on the top and very faint, under an image of a log cabin, reads ‘BIRTHPLACE/ AT POINT/ PLEASANT.’ A coin hangs from the star and has a portrait of Edwin J Foster, and along the bottom reads ‘COMMANDER IN CHIEF.’ A faded yellow ribbon is also suspended from the top bar.  The ribbon is extremely fragile and exhibits signs of fading and fraying. The ribbon from top bar to bottom of the ribbon measures 5 ¾”. Edwin J. Foster enlisted in June 1864 with Company E, 40th Wisconsin Infantry, and mustered out in September 1864.  He was GAR Commander-In-Chief in 1929. 2) 1937 NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT BADGE MADISON WISCONSIN. The item is brass cut. The top bar has a clasp with an eagle grasping two cross cannons Second bar "GAR" “REPRESENTATIVE”. Third Bar is the Capitol Building of Madison Wisconsin with the date 1937 with the Famed War Eagle Old Abe of the 8th Wisconsin. Bottom drop is the image of William Ruhe the Commander in Chief of the GAR. The reverse of the drop says 71st National Encampment G.A.R. Sept. 5-10 1937 Madison Wisconsin. Both badges are in excellent condition. 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), and the Marines who served in the American Civil War. It was founded in 1866 in Decatur, 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.