Included here are records of one of the five Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) posts in Grand Rapids. Chartered on 15 November 1888 with 27 members, the Watson post was the fourth post organized in Grand Rapids. The records detail the social aspects of the post, memorial effort in behalf of deceased veterans, as well as some biographical data on post members. Of note is the Descriptive Book which contains such biographical data on post members as: age, occupation, military service and in some cases death data and places of burial. The post seems to have disbanded in the late 1930s when the last of the members became too old to continue.