Department of Minnesota
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic

Purpose and Objects

Primary Purpose

• To perpetuate the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic and of
  the men who saved the Union in 1861 to 1865;

• To assist in every practicable way the preserving of documents and records
  pertaining to the Grand Army of the Republic and its members, and
  making them available for research;

• To cooperate in doing honor to all those who have
  patriotically served our country in any way;

• To teach patriotism, the duties of citizenship, the true history of
  our country, and the love and honor of our flag;

• To oppose every tendency or movement that would weaken loyalty to,
  or make for the destruction or impairment of, our constitutional Union; and

• To inculcate and broadly sustain the American principles of
  representative government, equal rights and impartial justice for all.

Objects

• To unite with loyalty, love for each other;

• To practice the precepts of true fraternity of feeling towards all
  sisters of our Order; thus emulating the spirit which
  united our fathers, husbands and brothers;

• To honor the memory of those fallen;

• To perpetuate and keep forever sacred "Memorial Day".

• To assist the descendants of the Grand Army of the Republic in
  its high and holy mission;

• To encourage the members and sympathize with them
  in their nobel work of charity;

• To extend needful aid to members in sickness and distress;

• To aid sick soldiers, sailors and marines

• To look after Soldiers' Homes and Soldiers' Descendants Homes and

• To watch the schools and see that the children obtain proper education in
  the history of our country and in patriotism.