Union League

The largest and best known of these clubs formed in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, were composed of prosperous men who raised money for war-related service organizations such as the United States Sanitary Commission, which provided medical care to treat Federal soldiers wounded in battle at a time when the military was ill-prepared for the scale of need.

[1]The Ku Klux Klan; a secret society of white supremacists which opposed civil rights and terrorized black voters, sometimes assassinated leaders of the Union Leagues.

The pro-Trump and anti-Trump Republicans in the NYC Union League ultimately compromised by putting up a picture of Trump that was hidden behind a couch.

For instance, they helped to found the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[7] and funded construction of the Statue of Liberty's pedestal[8] and Grant's Tomb.

[9] The former Union League building in New Haven, Connecticut, built on the site of founding father, Roger Sherman's home is now a restaurant.