GAR Ransom Post 131 Members
Many men in St. Louis served in the Civil War. While some served in the Confederacy, most were part of the Union Army. After the war, Union veterans formed a fraternal organization called the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). By 1890, the GAR had about 400,000 members and the veterans can be traced in the GAR annual reports and death rolls. St. Louis had about 14 GAR posts, with approximately four hundred posts elsewhere in Missouri.
Original Civil War pension records are available at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. You can order the pension files online at the National Archives Military website.
This roster of the Ransom Post 193. The post was named after BG Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom (1834-1864), U.S. Volunteers, died of disease at Rome, GA, on 29 Oct. 1864. The Post organized in 1883 and closed in 1925.
The PDF file was provided by the Missouri Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. They also data for many other Posts at Missouri G. A. R. – Post Records
Data Prep
1. The charter image downloaded from MoHist.
2. For the name with death date records Google AI Studio was used with the prompt
transcribe pages 1 to 4 of this PDF and save as a CSV file with packet as "131_ransom_members" as column 1, File Page Number as Scan in column 2, Surname from NAME, Given Name from NAME with no ".", DEATH year as "Death Date"
3. For the name with unit and state Google AI Studio was used with the prompt
transcribe pages 8 to 11 of this PDF and save as a CSV file with packet as "131_ransom_members" as column 1, "File Page Number" as Scan in column 2, Surname from NAME, Given Name from NAME with no ".", "Company,Regiment" as Unit which quotes in column 5, Sentence case State in column 6
4. The two CSVs were merged and alphabetically sorted to create the final CSV.
5. The output CSV processed for ingest into the Society’s database.
Last modified: 02/12/26 07:08:58