Mitchell Post National Encampment Postcard

Mitchell Post National Encampment Postcard

St. Cloud's Mitchell Post at 44th National Encampment Postcard

St. Cloud (Fla.)

Atlantic City (N.J)

Grand Army of the Republic

A postcard depicting the St. Cloud Mitchell Post at the 44th National Encampment in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The front of the postcard shows men with drums and flags before or after participating in the encampment parade. The group is standing in front of a building called Lawrence's Pharmacy. The back of the postcard features handwritten notes explaining, "ST. CLOUD'S MITCHELL POST AT NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT ATLANTIC CITY 1910". At the top is also a notation number, "88.1.157".

The 44th National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic took place September 22-23, 1910 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The total attendence of the gathering was 213,901.
Mitchell Post was named after the first G.A.R. veteran soldier to die after the St. Cloud colony was established. Lucius L. Mitchell, a private of the G.A.R., moved with his wife and five of their eight children to St. Cloud, Florida in 1909. He would die later that same year, and be buried in the Rose Hill Cemetary in Kissimmee, Florida.

This postcard is part of a private collection kept by Roger Hipel of St. Cloud, Florida.

Original 5 x 3 inch black and white postcard: Private Collection of Roger Hipel.

1910

1910

St. Cloud Collection, Osceola County Collection, RICHES.

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Williams, Rachel

Private Collection of Roger Hipel

Fisk, Robert A., and Jim Robison. Images of America: St. Cloud. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2002, 127.
"The Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies: National Encampments: Bibliography," Library of Congress, Accessed January 14, 2020, https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/gar/national/natlist.html.