Department of Tennessee
CAMPS


  • Sultana Camp #1

    • Clyde Getman, PDC, Commander
    (901) 382-7777
    cjgetman@juno.com


    Located in the Memphis area of West Tennessee, the Sultana Camp was Chartered in 1995 as the first Camp of the Sons of Union Veterans in the State of Tennessee. Chartered as Memphis Camp #1 they changed the name of the Camp in 1998 to honor the dead of the Sultana disaster of 1865.

    Meets monthly on the 4th Monday, 7:30 PM, at the Germantown Library, Germantown, Tn.


  • Fort Donelson Camp #62

    • Samuel C. Gant, Camp Commander
    580 Jordan Road
    Franklin, TN 37067
    Tel: 615-794-3896
    E-mail: gant92ovi@yahoo.com

    David L. Eagan, Secretary/Treasurer
    2116 Hartland Road
    Franklin, TN 37069
    Tel: 615-790-0162
    E-mail: jede49@aol.com


    Located in North Middle Tennessee, Fort Donelson Camp #62 was Chartered in August 1995 as the 2nd Camp in the State of Tennessee. The Camp draws from the Nashville, Franklin, and Clarksville areas, but has members from all over Tennessee and around the United States. The Camp normally meets quarterly at various places around middle Tennessee. Dates and times are posted in the Camp newsletter. Camp and Auxiliary members support the Fort Donelson National Battlefield by volunteering to serve at the historic Dover Hotel as guides and performing living history demonstrations at various tour stops within the battlefield.

     

  • Farragut Camp #6

    • John Anderson, PDC, Commander
    353 Feddie Davis Road
    Selmer, TN 38375-5461
    (731) 645-4100
    johne_anderson@bellsouth.net

    Farragut Camp #6 and the Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke, Tent #02, Selmer, TN work together on patriotic activities.  The Camp and Tent are always participants in the Memorial Day program at the National Cemetery by special invitation by the American Legion, Post 6,  Corinth, MS.  Also, the Tent and Camp worked together to assist the last known Union widow until her death.

    The Tent and Camp combine their resources on numerous projects for the National Park Service at both Shiloh and Corinth. We are however, separate entities with the Tent being based in Selmer and the Camp headquartered in Savannah.

    The camp was chartered in 1995.

  • Missionary Ridge Camp #63

    • Mark Kemp, Commander
    mlkemp775@aol.com


    Chartered in 1997 and located in Chattanooga, Tn., the Missionary Ridge Camp is growing rapidly with members from a large surrounding area. The Camp has been very active in local Civil War related activities.

     

  • Major General James H. Wilson Camp #1

    Camp Commander
    Richard J. Kochendofer, PCC
    507 Briarwood Drive Apt 13D
    Enterprise, AL 36330-5016
    rich661@centurytel.net
    (334) 347-1353

    Secretary/Treasurer
    Thomas Lauria
    506 W. Tuskeena St.
    Wetumpka, AL 36092
    tplauria@gmail.com
    (334) 514-6794

    Activated in January 1998, and located in the Montgomery, Alabama area it is drawing many new members from the deep south. The Camp is named for the most successful General to operate in Alabama during the war and has been very active.

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  • Pvt. Richard Taylor Camp #53

    • Tod Jenness
    3105 Vicksburg PL SW
    Decatur, AL 35603
    jennesst@bellsouth.net
    256-350-4415

    Located in the Huntsville Area of Northern Alabama, the Pvt. Richard Taylor Camp was Chartered October 14, 2000. Private Richard Taylor was born in Madison County, near New Market, Alabama, in 1833. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for the capture of a Confederate Battle Flag on October 19,1864, in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Va. ( 18 miles south of Winchester Va.)

     

  • Colonel Robert Byrd Camp# 8

    • Jay Hacker, Commander
    1213 Apache
    Athens Tn 37303
    jjhacker@bellsouth.net

    The Colonel Robert Byrd Camp# 8 was Chartered in 2002 and is located in Athens Tennessee.


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