Department of Minnesota
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
Philanthrophy
Ward in the Carver General Hospital, Washington, DC
Photograph, National Archives, 111-B-173.
Financial Support
The MNLGAR Contributes to the Following Organizations and Causes:
- Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic:
National President's Project; National Patriotic Instructor's Flag Purchase & Schools Distribution Program.
- Meeker County Historical Society, Litchfield.
- Armed Forces Service Center, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
- Minnesota Veterans Homes (created by the Grand Army of the Republic).
- Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis.
- Heartland Community Action Agency, Inc., Litchfield (a Community Action Agency that addresses causes and conditions of poverty at the local level).
- Camp Friendship, Friendship Ventures, Annandale (a non-profit creating educational, recreational, social opportunities for people of all ages with mental and physical developmental disabilities).
- The 2008 National Encampment, Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865, Auxiliary to the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865 annual conventions.
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Memorial Endeavors
The MNLGAR Preserves and Promotes the Memory of Our Civil War Union Veterans
- Decorating Civil War Union Veterans' graves, and wreath laying at the Civil War Memorial Monument in Ripley Cemetery, Litchfield, Meeker County, Minnesota. for Memorial Day.
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- Particpating in the Litchfield City Memorial Day Parade and Memorial Service at Ripley Cemetery.
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- Maintaining the Civil War Memorial Monument and surrounding landscape in Ripley Cemetery.
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- Supplying plantings for the LGAR urn in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota.
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2007–2008 Project
Renovation of the Ripley Cemetery Civil War Memorial Monument
The MNLGAR had the base of the statue stabilized and renovated to
further preservation. It is now in top form for the
rededication of the monument on Memorial Day in 2009.
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