Grand Army of the Republic in SW Nebraska

Friday, October 5, 2018

The G.A.R. emblems you see next to several cemetery plots signify the burial of a soldier that served in the Civil War. While estimates vary, the death toll from the Civil War certainly exceeds 600,000 soldiers and may well have gone beyond 800,000 people. Since the war was fought between 1861 and 1865 and youngsters barely in their teens fought along side men long in the tooth, there were still many of them alive into the 1900’s.

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