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Grand Army of The Republic - Unidentified; Acting Secretary of War [Robert Shaw] Oliver; Acting Chief of Staff Matherspoon [sic]; Col. Edwin St. John Greble; Col. Henry T. Allen Reviewing G.A.R. Group, 1910. [Politicians and veterans on the steps of the Capitol Building, Washington, DC. General William Wallace Wotherspoon served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 1914. Major General Henry Tureman Allen explored the Copper River in Alaska. The GAR was a fraternal organisation composed of veterans of the Union Army (US Army), Union Navy (US Navy), and the Marines who served in the American Civil War].