G.A.R. DELEGATE “LOGAN” MEDAL FROM MISSOURI

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This is a Grand Army of the Republic medal souvenir of the 21st National Encampment of 1887. Heavy, white metal, at about 1.5” in diameter with a loop for mounting. The medal is struck with the large, central likeness of John A. Logan on front with “JOHN A. LOGAN PATRIOT, STATESMAN, MODEL VOLUNTEER.” The back side of the medal is stamped "DELEGATE 21ST NAT’L ENCAMPMENT / GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC" with Missouri state seal.

Logan was both an Illinois politician and a capable Civil War general who ran unsuccessfully for Vice President in 1884. He was very prominent in veterans’ affairs, being a member of MOLLUS and serving as commander of the G.A.R. from 1868 to 1871. He also led the call for Memorial Day to be a national holiday.

Logan had some military experience before the Civil War, serving as a 1st lieutenant in an Illinois regiment in the Mexican War. At First Bull Run in 1861 he served as an unattached volunteer. Gaining a commission as colonel of the 31st Illinois, he then fought under Grant at Belmont and Fort Donelson, where he was wounded. He resigned from congress in April 1862 to take a commission as brigadier general and, although plainly a “political general,” showed ability on the battlefield, commanding a brigade and then a division in the Army of the Tennessee, gaining promotion to major general in late 1862. At Vicksburg he commanded a division under McPherson, and later took over the 15th Corps from Sherman. At Atlanta he commanded the Army of the Tennessee for a brief period after McPherson’s death, took a break for some electioneering in Illinois, and returned to command of the 15th Corps in the Campaign of the Carolinas. Grant thought enough of him to send him to replace Thomas at Nashville, though Thomas attacked and defeated Hood first.

After his death, Logan lay in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda and was memorialized with a number of locations named after him and statues in Washington, D.C. and Chicago. As the presentation on the medal testifies, his family perpetuated his memory as a political and military hero. His son changed his name to John A. Logan, Jr., and his daughter, one of the presenters of this medal, went on to a career as a political gadfly in Washington, opposing women’s suffrage, pacificism, and anything she deemed unpatriotic or insufficiently respectful of American heroes.

This is a fine medal with a great background in military and political history that would add to a military or political collection.  [jet] [ph:L]

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