Lot of two Civil War GAR Grand Army of the Republic Badge lot to include 1) June 23-25 1931 50th GAR Encampment Golden Jubilee Pinback Button Portland OR. 2) 1934 NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT 68th ANNUAL BADGE APPLETON WISCONSIN. Beautiful condition three place badge with fine enamels. 3) DELEGATE 31st National Encampment Buffalo N.Y. 1897 Badge. Missing the bottom drop. 4) ILLINOIS GAR DELEGATE BADGE. 5) 1883 WRC WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS PRESIDENT BADGE. Badge is gold filled and well marked to the reverse. 6) 13th NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT GAR BADGE BOTTOM DROP.  7) GAR MEMBERSHIP BADGE DROP.  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.