Editing Grand Army of the Republic (section)

==Memorials, honors and commemorations==
[[File:Grand Army of the Republic issue 1948 3c.JPG|alt=Red colored postage stamp|thumb|The 1948 postal stamp commemorating the GAR's final national encampment.]]
[[File:Grand Army of the Republic Memorial - Washington, D.C..JPG|thumb|The [[Stephenson Grand Army of the Republic Memorial]] in Washington, D.C.]]
[[File:Sidney-ohio-downtown.jpg|thumb|Memorial Hall [[Sidney, Ohio]] which housed the GAR Post.]]
There are physical [[memorials to the Grand Army of the Republic]] in numerous communities throughout the United States.

[[U.S. Route 6]] is known as the Grand Army of the Republic Highway for its entire length.<ref name="fhwa">{{cite web |author=Richard F. Weingroff |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/us6.cfm |title=U.S. 6-The Grand Army of the Republic Highway |date=July 27, 2009 |access-date=2011-02-14 |publisher=[[Federal Highway Administration]]}}</ref>

The [[Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps]] began during the conflict by both sides. In 1948, the Grand Army of the Republic was commemorated on a stamp.<ref name="50years">A. {{cite web |title=Remembering the Grand Army of the Republic Fifty Years Later |publisher=Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War |url=http://suvcw.org/gar50.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000531205739/http://suvcw.org/gar50.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 31, 2000 |first=Gary |last=Gibson |year=1999 |access-date=2011-03-02 }}<br>B. {{cite web |title=G.A.R. Issue |url=http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&mode=1&tid=2028825 |publisher=[[National Postal Museum]] |access-date=Jan 11, 2014 }}</ref> In 1951, the [[U.S. Postal Service]] printed a virtually identical stamp for the final reunion of the [[United Confederate Veterans]].<ref name="ucv">{{cite web|url=http://www.stampscatalog.info/2008/10/us-stamps-1951.html |title=U.S. Stamps 1951 |publisher=stampscatalog.info |access-date=2011-03-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303230635/http://www.stampscatalog.info/2008/10/us-stamps-1951.html |archive-date=2011-03-03 }}</ref>