Department Orders #6

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Department of New York
Headquarters of The Department Commander

Dear New York Department Brothers:

It continues to be my great honor and privilege to serve my Brothers in New York State as
Department Commander, and to help honor our brave forefathers who preserved the Union.
With the end of my second term of office drawing near, I humbly offer the following
Department Orders #6 and ask your kind assistance with two very important projects that
will continue to advance the work of our Order.

Department Orders #6
March 15, 2002

1. In accordance with the actions and decisions of our 118^th Department Encampment, our Department will
give extra emphasis to a project that is part of our National Order’s Monuments Preservation program. While the National program includes the completion of a four-page assessment form for each of our N.Y.
monuments and memorials, the New York Department would first like to identify and locate all such objects within the State. Photographs of these monuments and memorials are now being placed in a special section of our Department website for everyone to see and study. And, at some time in the future, these photos
will also be the basis from which a new and updated New York Monuments book will be published.

To date, only a few dozen such items have been included on our New York website. The Department needs your help. It is a fairly safe assumption that there are hundreds of Civil War monuments and memorials located throughout the State. The Department needs you to go out and take a photograph of each of the monuments in your area, and any that you might pass in your travels. Just one good photo showing the entire monument is enough - visit the website to see the sorts of photos being used. Forward it, along with location information (street/park/cemetery, city/town, and county), and any important information about its origin such as the date erected, the unit or individual it was dedicated to or by, or even the whole inscription to:

Michael S. Bennett
PO Box 1824
White Plains, NY 10602

Your photo will soon find itself featured on our growing website inventory and will help the Department to, eventually, identify and locate all monuments in New York. Visit the Monuments section of our New York
Department website at:

www.suvcw.org/ny/monuments/monuments.htm

Our New York Department Graves Registrar, Brother Robert Pugsley of Lincoln Camp 6, has done
a remarkable and most commendable job of entering Civil War veteran graves information into our
new computer database - increasing the number of existing records from 1200 to more than 11,000!

Before we can begin to gather new information, we first need to complete entering the information that
has already been collected by our membership over the years and now exists in paper records. This
should be a fairly simple process for any Brother with a little time, a computer, and a recent version of
Microsoft Access. Volunteers will be sent a small box of paper records, a disk containing the report form
we are using, and complete instructions on what to do and how to do it. And help is always just an e-mail
(or phone call) away.

Volunteers should make themselves known to Brother Pugsley or Department Commander Bennett at
their earliest convenience so that we can complete all of this data-entry before our June Encampment.
This is what the SUVCW is all about. Your help is needed and will be much appreciated.

        Submitted in F, C, and L,

    Michael S. Bennett

       Commander, Department of New York
            Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

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