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Beers Named New Head of the G A R in East
Alfred B. Beers of Bridgeport Conn is elected unanimously as commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the national encampment in Los Angeles. He served in the Sixth Connecticut volunteers from 1861, later a Bridgeport lawyer and judge advocate general of the G A R.
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Judge Beers
Daniel E. Sickles
New York
Sickles
New England
Alfred B. Beers
New Rochelle
N. Y
Daniel Beers
Alfred Bishop
Danbury
Conn
Ridgefield
Charles McDonald
Rye
Fort Ticonderoga
White Plains
Connecticut Volunteers
Tenth Army Corps
Hilton Head
S. C
Pocataligo
Fort Pulaski
James Island
Richmond
Petersburg
Deep Bottom
Deep Run
Chapins Farm
Laurel Hill
James River
Fort Fisher
N C
Wilmington
Goldsboro
N. C
Beers
New Haven
Fairfield County
Bridgeport
City of
Elias Howe
Department of
Connecticut
C. of A. Department of
Department of Connecticut
Fitch
Noroton
New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company