NEWSLETTER VOLUME #1 ISSUE #3 Editor – PDC Mike Beck December 2015 [email protected] S.U.V.C.W. Camp# 356 Benjamin Harrison

Indianapolis, Camp No. 356

CAMP OFFICERS http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inbhsuv/campcontacts.htm , Indiana CAMP YAHOO GROUP http://groups.yahoo.com/group/benharrisoncamp/join (Yahoo! ID required)

Benjamin Harrison Camp #356 & Co. C. 27th Indiana Vol. Inf. SVR Dates

Benjamin Harrison Camp #356 –Meeting Dates 2015-16 SVR Co. C. 27 th Indiana Vol. Inf. Dates Dec. 12 - 11:15 – 500 Legion Post – Speedway, IN Jan. 30. Dept. of IN Winter Meeting – Max & 2016 Erma’s - 8817 U.S. Highway 31, Indianapolis, IN January - No meeting in January. 46227 Jan. 30. Dept. of IN Winter Meeting – Max & Erma’s - Feb. 7. 13:00-16:00 Nancy Hanks Lincoln – 8817 U.S. Highway 31, Indianapolis, IN 46227 Lincoln’s Boyhood Home Color Guard Detail. Feb. 13. - 11:15 – 500 Legion Post – Speedway, IN May 30, 2016 - 11:00 - Ben Harrison Camp Mar. 12 - 11:15 - 500 Legion Post – Speedway, IN Memorial Day Ceremony – Crown Hill April 9 – 11:15 - 500 Legion Post – Speedway, IN November 19, 2016 – 13:00 - Annual Gettysburg May 14 – 09:00 - City Cemetery – Shelbyville, IN Remembrance Day Parade Cemetery cleaning and restoration project. 2016 SUVCW National Encampment May 30 - 11:00 – Crown Hill Cemetery – Indianapolis, IN Springfield, IL. - August 11-14, 2016 www.suvcw.org/?s= National+Encampment

Speakers and Topics at Camp Meetings 2015-2016

December 12, 2015 – Brother Glynn Thomas – Corporal W. Thomas – Co. E. 52nd Kentucky Mounted Inf. January 2016 – No meeting scheduled February 13, 2016 – Brother Jim Floyd – Private Henry Beckman - Co. H. 12th Kentucky Inf. March 12, 2016 – Brother Tim Beckman – Private William Schwartz - Co. H, 42nd Indiana Vol. Inf. April 9, 2016 – Brother Mike Beck – G.A.R. Dumont Post # 18 & Old City Cemetery – Shelbyville, IN

NEWSLETTER VOLUME #1 ISSUE #3 Editor – PDC Mike Beck December 2015 [email protected]

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Department of Indiana Encampment 2016 Mid-Winter Encampment

Registration Form Benjamin Harrison

Deadline - No Later Than January 15, 2016! Camp No. 356 Date: January 30, 2016 Time: 9:00 am Indianapolis, Indiana Location: Max & Erma’s Restaurant (just north of the Greenwood Park Mall) 8817 U.S. Highway 31, Indianapolis, IN 46227

Map - http://www.maxandermas.com/locations/search.php?searchbyaddress=46227

Lunch will be ordered off the Max & Erma’s menu: (See menu at) http://www.maxandermas.com/menu/

Pre-Registration _____ X $10.00 Total = $______

Day of Registration _____X $20.00 Total= $______

Total= $______

Please look at the menu posted above so you have some idea on what you want to order for lunch. Wives & guest are welcome at the luncheon.

Name: ______Camp # ______

Guest: ______

Make checks payable to - SUVCW Ben Harrison Camp # 356 Send checks to: PDC Mike Beck 322 Yorktown Rd. Greenwood, IN 46142

NEWSLETTER VOLUME #1 ISSUE #3 Editor – PDC Mike Beck December 2015 [email protected] Tribute to Blackford County Civil War Soldiers - Hartford City, IN Members attending – Brothers from the Benjamin Harrison Camp #356 & John B. Anderson Camp # 223 October 10, 2015 Time 8:00 A.M. Benjamin Harrison

Camp No. 356 Indianapolis, Indiana

NEWSLETTER VOLUME #1 ISSUE #3 Editor – PDC Mike Beck December 2015 [email protected] November 11, 2015 Pvt. Barton Mitchell – Co. F. 27th Indiana Vol. Inf. Grave Rededication John B. Anderson Camp #223 and Benjamin Harrison Camp #356 Members of Co. D. 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry - SVR Benjamin Harrison Camp No. 356 Indianapolis, Indiana

NEWSLETTER VOLUME #1 ISSUE #3 Editor – PDC Mike Beck December 2015 [email protected]

Benjamin Harrison Camp No. 356 Indianapolis, Indiana

Indiana Monument – Gettysburg Battlefield

Beginning of the 2015 Gettysburg Remembrance Day Parade

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News Release Office of Public Affairs Washington, DC 20420 Media Relations (202) 461-7600 www.va.gov Benjamin Harrison FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2015 Camp No. 356 VA Purchases Land in Indianapolis for a New Columbarium-Only National Cemetery WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced that it purchased 14.75 acres of land located in the Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, to establish a columbarium-only national Indianapolis, Indiana cemetery. VA purchased the land from Crown Hill Cemetery, Inc., an Indiana non-profit corporation, for a total of $810,000. “We are proud to begin this important first step to bring a new national cemetery presence to Indianapolis to serve the community’s Veterans, their spouses and families,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald. “Our are national treasures and sacred shrines that honor the brave men and women who sacrificed for our country.” The new facility, located on the north side of Crown Hill Cemetery, will provide enhanced service to approximately 256,000 Veterans located within a 75-mile radius of Indianapolis. For the initial construction project, VA plans to construct columbarium walls providing approximately 2,500 niches, as well as necessary support facilities and roadways for cemetery operations and visitation. A columbarium is an above-ground structure in which cremated remains are inurned. The new columbarium cemetery in Indianapolis will accommodate future development of at least 25,000 niches for Veterans, their spouses and eligible family members. VA will construct a main entrance wall and gate feature on 42nd Street, which will lead into the cemetery. The cemetery will feature natural and ornamental plantings, U.S. and POW/MIA flagpoles, a funeral cortege parking area, a committal service shelter building, a public restroom building, a plaza for memorial monument donations, a memorial wall, and an electronic gravesite locator. VA will develop the new cemetery as part of its “Urban Initiative,” to improve access to burial benefits in certain densely populated areas to better serve Veterans, their spouses and families. Besides the Indianapolis facility, VA is planning four more Urban Initiative cemeteries in New York; Los Angeles; Chicago; and Alameda, California. The Crown Hill columbarium will become the third open VA national cemetery in Indiana. Marion National Cemetery is the closest open national cemetery to Crown Hill, serving the Veterans and families of central and northern Indiana. New Albany National Cemetery, in southern Indiana, has space for cremated remains and can accommodate casketed remains in the same gravesite of previously interred family members. Indiana has one VA- funded state Veterans cemetery, the Indiana Veterans Memorial Cemetery, located in Madison. VA operates 132 national cemeteries, including a rural national cemetery and 33 soldiers’ lots and monument sites in 40 states and Puerto Rico. More than 4 million Americans, including Veterans of every war and conflict, are buried in VA’s national cemeteries. VA provides grant funding to establish, expand, improve, and maintain 95 Veterans cemeteries in 47 states and territories including tribal trust lands, Guam, and Saipan. VA also provides headstones, markers or medallions for placement in private cemeteries. In 2014, VA honored more than 356,000 Veterans and their loved ones with memorial benefits in national, state, tribal and private cemeteries. Information on VA burial benefits can be obtained from local national cemetery offices and from the Internet at www.cem.va.gov.

NEWSLETTER VOLUME #1 ISSUE #3 Editor – PDC Mike Beck December 2015 [email protected] MIDWESTERN ROOTS FAMILY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY CONFERENCE IN INDIANAPOLIS July 15, 2016 - July 16, 2016 Indianapolis Marriott East 7202 East 21st Street Indianapolis, Indiana 46219 Benjamin Harrison Map Camp No. 356 Indianapolis, Indiana Dates for Future Newsletters For this newsletter to be successful, I need each and every member of the Benjamin Harrison Camp #356 to take ownership of this newsletter. I would like to publish information on your civil war ancestors, trips to battlefields, research on various regiments you are interested in or any other civil war related articles you want to submit. Listed below are the dates that I need your article by to have time to put them in the proper format and publish them. Need articles by May 1, 2015 for the June 2015 Newsletter Need articles by August 1, 2015 for September 2015 Newsletter Need articles by November 1, 2015 for December 2015 Newsletter PCD Michael W. Beck

$100.00 per medal – If interested in purchasing, contact PCD Michael W. Beck at [email protected]

Will ship for free.