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Woman's Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS956

Scope and Content

These records consist of minutes and membership lists, 1912-1917, some correspondence and financial records, history of the organization, and ephemera, 1912-1945.

Dates

  • 1912-1945, undated

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. All requests to publish, quote, or reproduce must be submitted through the Kenan Research Center.

Administrative/Biographical History

The Woman's Relief Corps was organized in 1889 as an auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, O.M. Mitchell Post, Number 21, which had itself been founded in 1884. The Auxiliary was founded with the object of helping Union veterans of the Civil War and their families stranded in the South, to decorate their graves in the National Cemetery at Marietta, Georgia, and other cemeteries in the Atlanta, Georgia, area, on every National Decoration Day, and to help the Post in various other ways. The Woman's Relief Corps also helped the Red Cross in relief work. The Woman's Relief Corps joined the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs in 1905. The Woman's Relief Corps was still in existence in 1945 although the O.M. Mitchell Post No. 21 and held its last meeting in March 1920. Additional historical information has not been determined.

Extent

0.25 linear ft. (one half document case)

Language

English

System of Arrangement

This collection is arranged alphabetically according to titles supplied by staff.

Description Control

This collection was processed in 1999.

Title
Woman's Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic records
Author
Laura Starratt
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository

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