Civl War Veteran Gar Army Band Bowler Hat

GAR Grand Army Band Felt Bowler Hat by Knox Harper and is roughly a size 7 and dates to the 1920's. To the front of the cap is a beautiful bullion device that reads GRAND ARMY BAND. Excellent. 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 advoca...