Ben Harrison Camp No. 356, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War - Department of Indiana | Indianapolis, Indiana

Morgan Co. Cannon Cleaning and Picnic
2018-08-04 | Martinsville, IN, Martinsville, IN, United States
Department of Indiana SUVCW/ASUVCW members invited!

Food and drinks supplied by the Brothers of Ben Harrison Camp No. 356, and the Sisters of Eliza E. George Auxiliary No. 356.
Please bring a camp or lawn chair and join us!
9:00 a.m. Morgan County Courthouse, Martinsville, IN

Newburgh Remembrance Day Event
2018-07-20 - 2018-07-22 | Newburgh, IN, Newburgh, IN, United States
Newburgh Remembrance Day Event, Newburgh, IN. SVR event.

Camp Meeting
2018-07-14 11:15 - 14:00 UTC | MCL Cafeteria – Speedway Shopping Center, 6002 Crawfordsville Rd, Speedway, IN, 46224, United States
Camp business meeting. Lunch is available for purchase. Brother Dave Wilson will give the Civil War presentation during the lunch break. Eliza E. George No. 356, Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War meets concurrently.

Putnam County Civil War Monument Re-dedication
2018-07-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Forest Hill Cemetery, 2181 Cemetery Rd, Greencastle, IN, United States
Rededication of Forest Hill Cemetery Civil War Monument
When: Sun, July 1, 2pm – 3pm
Where: Forest Hill Cemetery, 2181 South County Road 50 West, Greencastle, 46135

Please help celebrate the rehabilitation of the Civil War Monument at Forest Hill Cemetery, following the efforts by our Heritage Preservation Society and President Phil Gick. The Civil War Monument at Forest Hill was the third such statue erected in Indiana and was dedicated five years after the war ended. It was the first Civil War monument in Indiana to feature a human figure. Sculpted by Thomas David Jones, the monument was titled “Western Soldier on Guard.” It was formally dedicated on July 2, 1870. Of note, it was dedicated before an estimated 8,000 people, while fewer than half that many people lived in Greencastle. The project was completed by Blakley Corporation of Indianapolis.

(Note: The original dedication was July 2, 1870)

No Camp Meeting
2018-06-09 | IN
No Camp Meeting this month. Department of Indiana Encampment instead.

Department of Indiana Encampment
2018-06-02 09:00 - 15:00 | Kokomo-Howard County Public Library – South Branch, 1755 E. Center Rd., Kokomo, IN, 46902, United States
Department of Indiana Encampment (convention). Business meeting restricted to SUVCW members.

Huntington Memorial Park
2018-05-30 20:00 - 21:00 | Huntington Memorial Park, 1200 W Park Dr, Huntington, IN, United States
Huntington Memorial Park – Memorial Day Ceremony. SVR event.

Memorial Day Ceremony
2018-05-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Crown Hill Cemetery, 700 38th St, Indianapolis, IN, 46208, United States
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Decoration Day (Memorial Day) with a re-creation of the first decoration day ceremony at Crown Hill Cemetery, Section 16. FREE public event. Ceremonies by Ben Harrison Camp No. 356, SUVCW and Eliza E. George No. 356, ASUVCW. Presentation of the colors, volleys, and sounding of taps by Co. D, 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Sons of Veterans Reserve.

Cemetery Cleaning
2018-05-12 09:00 - 12:00 | City Cemetery, 114 W. Pennsylvania St, Shelbyville, IN, 46176, United States
Year 3 of a three-year project to clean and restore Civil War headstones in City Cemetery, Shelbyville, IN.

No Camp Meeting
2018-05-12 | IN
No Camp Meeting this month. Annual cemetery cleaning instead.

Loyalty Day
2018-05-01 | IN
Loyalty Day is observed on May 1 in the United States. It is a day set aside for the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States and for the recognition of the heritage of American freedom.
The holiday was first observed in 1921, during the First Red Scare. It was originally called “Americanization Day,“ and it was intended to replace the May 1 (“May Day”) celebration of the International Workers’ Day, which commemorates the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
During the Second Red Scare, it was recognized by the U.S. Congress on April 27, 1955, and made an official reoccurring holiday on July 18, 1958 (Public Law 85-529). President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1, 1955, the first observance of Loyalty Day. In 1958, Eisenhower urged Congress to move Child Health Day to the First Monday in October, to avoid conflicting with Loyalty Day. Loyalty Day has been recognized with an official proclamation every year by every president since its inception as a legal holiday in 1958.
Loyalty Day is defined as follows in 36 U.S.C. § 115:
(a) Designation.— May 1 is Loyalty Day.
(b) Purpose.— Loyalty Day is a special day for the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States and for the recognition of the heritage of American freedom.
(c) Proclamation.— The President is requested to issue a
proclamation—(1) calling on United States Government
officials to display the flag of the United States on all
Government buildings on Loyalty Day; and (2) inviting the
people of the United States to observe Loyalty Day with
appropriate ceremonies in schools and other suitable
places. (Source: Wikipedia)

Sultana Disaster Anniversary
2018-04-27 | IN
Sultana was a Mississippi River side-wheel steamboat. On April 27, 1865, the boat exploded in the worst maritime disaster in United States history. She was designed with a capacity of only 376 passengers, but she was carrying 2,155 when three of the boat’s four boilers exploded and she burned to the waterline and sank near Memphis, Tennessee, killing 1,192 passengers. This disaster was overshadowed in the press by other events, most particularly the killing on the previous day of President Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth.
The wooden steamboat was constructed in 1863 by the John Litherbury Boatyard in Cincinnati, intended for the lower Mississippi cotton trade. The steamer registered 1,719 tons and normally carried a crew of 85. For two years, she ran a regular route between St. Louis and New Orleans, frequently commissioned to carry troops.
Near 2:00 A.M. on April 27, 1865, when Sultana was just seven miles north of Memphis, her boilers suddenly exploded. First one boiler exploded, followed a split second later by two more. The cause of the explosion was too much pressure and low water in the boilers. There was reason to believe allowable working steam pressure was exceeded in an attempt to overcome the spring river current. The enormous explosion of steam came from the top, rear of the boilers and went upward at a 45-degree angle, tearing through the crowded decks above, and completely demolishing the pilothouse. Without a pilot to steer the boat, Sultana became a drifting, floating hulk. The terrific explosion flung some of the passengers on deck into the water and destroyed a large section of the boat. The twin smokestacks toppled over, one backwards into the blasted hole, and one forward onto the crowded forward section of the upper deck. The forward part of the upper decks collapsed into the exposed furnace boxes, shoving kindling into the open fire boxes which soon caught fire and turned the remaining superstructure into an inferno. Survivors of the explosion panicked and raced for the safety of the water but in their weakened condition soon ran out of strength and began to cling to each other. Whole groups went down together. (Source: Wikipedia)

Burial ceremony for John Chafin in Brown County at the Mt. Zion Cemetery.
2018-04-22 13:00 - 14:00 | Mt Zion Cemetery, 5070 IN-135, Nashville, IN, 47448, United States
Rod Lange, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army (retired) has extended this invitation:
We’re conducting a Civil War, period-correct burial ceremony for our ancestor, John Chafin, in Brown County at the Mt. Zion Cemetery.
You’re invited to attend the event on April 22 at 1 p.m.
A Civil War re-enactment group will conduct the burial ceremony, salutes with rifles and cannons, and a bugler to play Taps.
The Veterans Affairs Office is providing the period-correct Union Force headstone.
The United States Army detail will present the family with a U.S. flag.
A local pastor will open the ceremony with prayer and close it with prayer.
Descendant family members of the Civil War soldier will attend the ceremony, and we expect local people as well, weather-permitting of course.
Our extended family has served in the military since the inception of this country, honorably serving during the American Revolution, The War of 1812, Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, The Cold War and the Iraq War.

Camp Meeting
2018-04-14 11:15 - 14:00 | MCL Cafeteria – Speedway Shopping Center, 6002 Crawfordsville Rd, Speedway, IN, 46224, United States
Camp business meeting. Lunch is available for purchase. Wayne Sharp, a special guest speaker will give the Civil War presentation during the lunch break. Eliza E. George No. 356, Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War meets concurrently.

Lincoln Tomb Ceremony (IL)
2018-04-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Oak Ridge Cemetery, 1441 Monument Ave, Springfield, IL, United States
All are invited to participate in the 62nd Annual Lincoln Tomb Ceremony, sponsored by the SUVCW and MOLLUS, commemorating the 152nd Anniversary of President Lincoln’s death. It will be held at the Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, IL at 10 AM on Saturday, April 14, 2018.

SS General Lyon Dedication (IL)
2018-03-31 13:00 - 14:00 | Pope County Circuit Judge, 310 E Main St, Golconda, IL, 42938, United States
U.S. Army Transport SSGeneral Lyon (not to be confused with the USS General Lyon, a U.S Navy sidewheel steamer of the same era) was a screw steamer of 1026 tons built at East Haddam, Conn. in the spring of 1864 and chartered by the Federal government in March 1864. It was used as a troop transport on the eastern seaboard, taking part in the campaigns against Battery Wagner, the Bermuda Hundred and Fort Fisher.
Late in the war, General Lyon was extensively used by the US Army to carry Federal troops from Wilmington North Carolina to Fortress Monroe, Virginia and New York. On board when the vessel sailed from Wilmington on March 28, 1865 were a large number of discharged Union soldiers returning from the war, along with a number of paroled prisoners of war, approximately 120 refugees and other civilians.
On March 31, 1865, three days into the voyage, the ship hit rough weather off Cape Hatteras and a fire broke out in the engine room, quickly spreading through the ship. Of the passengers on board, approximately 500 lost their lives, including all but five members of a 205-man contingent of the US 56th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment. There were only 29 survivors of the disaster in total, 28 of them named in the New York Times. Isaac Wilhite of the 56th Illinois also survived.
Dedication of memorials to lost members of the 56th Illinois to be held at the Golconda, IL courthouse.

Chartering of the Arsinoe Martin Circle #78, National Society of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
2018-03-11 12:00 - 14:00 | Jefferson Township Fire Department Community Room, 58518 State Road 15, Goshen, IN, United States
Luncheon and Chartering Ceremony scheduled for Sunday March 11th. The luncheon begins at 12:00 Noon EDT followed by the Chartering Ceremony and then a quick trip to a cemetery to honor the Circle’s namesake Arsinoe E. Martin who was a Union Nurse with the Indiana Sanitary Commission and died, aged 25, in 1863 of typhoid she contracted in camp.

Camp Meeting
2018-03-10 11:15 - 14:00 | MCL Cafeteria – Speedway Shopping Center, 6002 Crawfordsville Rd, Speedway, IN, 46224, United States
Camp business meeting. Lunch is available for purchase. Brother Tim Beckman, PCC will give the Civil War presentation during the lunch break. Eliza E. George No. 356, Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War meets concurrently.

Lincoln Day
2018-02-11 14:00 - 15:30 | Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, 3027 E S St., Lincoln City, IN, 47552, United States
Ceremony honoring President Lincoln and his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, who is buried at the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial.

Camp Meeting - CANCELLED!
2018-02-10 23:15 | MCL Cafeteria – Speedway Shopping Center, 6002 Crawfordsville Rd, Speedway, IN, 46224, United States
MEETING CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER!
Camp business meeting. Lunch is available for purchase. Brother Jim Floyd will give the Civil War presentation during the lunch break. Eliza E. George No. 356, Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War meets concurrently.

Department of Indiana Midwinter Encampment
2018-01-27 09:00 - 15:00 | Eden United Methodist Church, 2122 E Eden Rd, Greenfield, IN, 46140, United States
Department of Indiana Midwinter Encampment (convention). Business meeting restricted to SUVCW members. Ben Harrison Camp No. 356, SUVCW is hosting, and Eliza E. George No. 356, ASUVCW is meeting concurrently.

No Camp Meeting
2018-01-13 | IN
No Camp Meeting this month. Department of Indiana Midwinter Encampment instead.
