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Meetings: Last Thursday at 7:00 PM of every month from Sept. to June, except for Nov. (when we meet on the third Thursday because of Thanksgiving). Location: United Church of Christ in Keene, NH on the second floor in the rear annex.

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Union veterans of the Civil War organized into the GAR and became a social and political force that would control the destiny of the nation for more than six decades. Membership was restricted to men who had actually served in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps or Revenue Cutter Service during the Civil War, thereby limiting the life span of the GAR.

In 1881 the GAR formed the Sons of Veterans (SUV) to carry on their traditions and their memory long after the GAR had ceased to exist. Membership was open to any man who could prove ancestry to a member of the GAR or to a veteran eligible for membership in the GAR.

Many GAR Posts sponsored camps of SUV. In 1925 the name was changed to Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), under which its federal charter was issued in 1954. The SUVCW is legally recognized as the heir to the GAR.

Today, the National Organization, headed by the Commander-in-Chief, oversees the operation of 25 departments, each consisting of one or more states, and about 171 community level camps. More than 5,000 men enjoy the benefits of membership in the only organization dedicated to the principles of the GAR -- Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty --exemplified in The American's Creed. It publishes the BANNER quarterly for its members.

The SUVCW is one of five " Allied Orders" of the GAR. The other four Orders are: Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War.

S . G. Griffin Camp 10 web site maintained by:

Hal G. Brown

General S. G. Griffin

General GS Griffin Simon Goodell Griffin rose from being a private, to the rank of Major General, the highest rank obtained by a New Hampshire soldier during the war. He was never wounded during the war, even though seven of his horses were shot out from under him.

After the war, he returned to Keene and lived in a house on West St., which later became the site of the Post Office and now houses the offices of the N. H. School Administrative Unit 29. Gen. Griffin was active in Keene for many years and wrote the first definitive history of the Elm City. Camp 10 was chartered in 1903.