Gilman E. Sleeper Post, No. 60, GAR

The Gilman E. Sleeper Post, No. 60, Grand Army of the Republic, was granted its charter on the 1st of July 1881. The following Civil War veteran soldiers were listed as the original members in the History of Salem, NH (pg 337), followed by the officer positions in their first election:

Benjamin E Chase, Junior Vice Com.
James A Troy, Senior Vice Com.
Moses D Rowell
Joseph D Bradford
William L Bradford
Thomas D Parish, Quartermaster
Benjamin R Wheeler, Commander
Charles W Grant, Adjutant
J C S. Twitchell, Officer of Day
George C Howard, Surgeon
James J Walch
Isaiah N Webster
David Sloan
Charles C Foster, Officer of Guard
Charles T Maxwell
Issachar O Foster
[Charles O Kelly], Chaplain

They first met in the Union Hall, Troy's Block, in Salem Depot (first and third Sat). They would later meet at the town hall and, at the time of the printing of the History of Salem, NH (1907), they were meeting in the Masonic Hall on the second Saturday of each month. That year, there were 20 members on the books. Since its organization, there had been sixty enrolled members.

The Sleeper Post, No. 60, disbanded prior to the April 1917 (50th) Encampment of the New Hampshire Department of the GAR. 

Post 60 GAR flag marker (Pine Grove Cem, Salem)

​Gilbert, Edgar. History of Salem, N.H. Concord, NH: Rumford Printing Co. 1907, pg 337