SUVCW: Announcements, Inquiries and Upcoming Events

The purpose of this page is to create a forum for announcements, inquires, and event listings relating to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS), the Grand Army of the Republic, Civil War soldiers, and patriotic, historical events. Announcements, inquiries, and listings of various upcoming Civil War living histories, reenactments, and ceremonies may be posted on this page along with the sender's email address for response. All announcements and inquiries will remain posted approximately one month and then removed. Event listings will remain posted until the date of the event has passed. All postings may be resubmitted.

Announcements, inquiries, and event listings may be emailed to webmaster@suvcw.org. The SUVCW and the MOLLUS reserves the right to reject any announcement, inquiry or event listing for up loading and all announcements, inquiries and event listings will be subject to edit.

This page is broken down into three parts: upcoming events, general announcements and research inquiries. Clicking either link will take you to the start of the respective listings.

Please join the Lincoln-Cushing Camp No.2, Washington DC, Department of Maryland for two major events on 30 May 2009. (1) the re-dedication of the Lincoln Memorial where the National Sons of Veterans Reserve will provide the official Color Guard and where the President of the United States is scheduled to preside. This will be followed by (2) the DC camp’s annual GAR Decoration Day/Memorial Day ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns of the Civil War in Arlington National Cemetery. The SUVCW ceremony will be held at 5:00pm, 30 May 2009 at the tomb and old amphitheater next to Mrs Robert E. Lee’s home. The ceremony will feature recreations of an original GAR ceremony, the USMC brass quintet, Cannon Salutes, SVR color guard, patriotic addresses, and laying of wreaths at the tomb of the unknowns. For more information contact Col (ret) Robert D. Pollock, r.d.pollock@att.net .

A Grand March of 250-500 Union Army Reenactors is being organized for 30 May 2009 in Washington DC. The reenactors will honor the memory of President Lincoln, then march from the Lincoln Memorial, across Memorial Bridge and up into Arlington National Cemetery. This Grand March is associated with the Ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. Col Larry Fisher and Lt Col David Childs are organizing this March and will approve all units and participants in advance in conformity with US National Park Service and other Security Agencies requirements. For more information please contact them at: lfischer_primers@verizon.net and David.Childs@DHS.GOV

The Sons Of Union Veterans Web Ring has been created to provide a direct sequential linking of Camp, Department, and National Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) web sites. The purpose is to gain greater on-line exposure and increased 'hits' for Camp, Department and National web sites thereby getting the local SUVCW message to larger numbers of people. The Sons Of Union Veterans Web Ring is managed by newly appointed Assistant National Webmaster Bill Cole.

All Camp and Department Webmasters are encouraged to join their sites to the Sons Of Union Veterans Web Ring. This can be done by accessing the following link:

An attempt to reactivate the West Virginia Commandery of MOLLUS is being undertaken. If you are a lineal or collateral descendant of a Union Commissioned Officer and reside in West Virginia, Southwestern Pennsylvania or South Eastern Ohio and wish to be a charter member of this Commandery, please contact Richard Orr, PCinC (suvcworr@aol.com) for further information. We are planning an organizational meeting for late March or early April somewhere in the West Virginia Panhandle.

For those Brothers who need the popular Gold Metal Kepi Hat Badge or the Gold Threaded Blazer Pocket Patch, these may now be ordered using a downloadable order sheet available at the Department of Michigan web page, i.e. http://www.suvcwmi.org/store/ . Visit our “Merchandise Page” and tell your brothers about this new feature.

Brothers - If you haven't already heard, our camp has produced an ornament and is selling them in order to raise money for a monument that we would like to erect in Luray, Va. to honor the men - blue and gray - who held a reunion there in July 1881 and later in Carlisle, Pa. in Sept. 1881. In many ways, we feel that the effort of soldiers in years after the war, in reunions such as these, fulfilled an important part of President Lincoln's vision for the country in years after the war - reunified in peace. If we can raise enough money, we would also like to place a state historic marker at Carlisle, Pa. for the reunions. For details about the ornament and the challenge we have made to the respective departments, please see: http://www.geocities.com/bluegrayvirginians/SUVCWFundraisingChallenge.html Thanks in advance for your orders!

In F., C., & L., Robert Moore

Cdr., Camp #1881

I am looking for photographs of 9th Battery Mass. Vols. graves. I do not have photographs of the soldiers listed at http://www.9thmassbattery.org/WhereBuried.html who do not have their name hyperlinked. I am also looking for other burials, obituaries, and anything else related to these soldiers. Credit will be given to all submissions used. I can be contacted at norris.ed@comcast.net.

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