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Your Donations Keep History Alive! Entry is free, but your support helps our volunteer staff preserve and share history for future generations.
The G.A.R. Civil War Museum and Library is run by the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Association of Scranton. COME FOR A VISIT…
Civil War memorials in PA
American Civil War memorials are located across Pennsylvania.
As early as 1865, Civil War veterans began placing monuments to commemorate their wartime actions. Most battlefield monuments, markers, and tablets were erected by veterans specifically for future generations to learn who did what, where, and when. VIEW GALLERY…
Support the Museum
100% of your tax-deductible donations go towards the Museum’s mission
We work to collect, preserve, and present to future generations the contributions and sacrifices made by Union soldiers and their families throughout the American Civil War. Your donation ensures our preservation efforts continue moving forward. SUPPORT INFO…
Education
We offer educational programs for children and adults; search our library resources to identify individual soldiers and their service assignments, present background stories related to the exhibits, and interpret the events of the War to the current generation of citizens residing in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. WATCH VIDEOS…
SUV Member Interview
Electric City Televison did a wonderful podcast of Lackawanna Co. Commissioner Bill Gaughan interviewing SUV member Hal Myers.
Volumes of Civil War collection
Along with the Museum, our library includes leather-bound volumes kept behind glass containing source records, after-action reports, and regimental histories of the Civil war, from the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to the Confederate capitulation at Appomattox Court House.
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Our Mission
To preserve and pass along to future generations a knowledge of the contributions and sacrifices made by Union soldiers and their families throughout the American Civil War.