2012 Marshall Hope Award For Most Outstanding Department Newsletter Department of Ohio - Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Volume 7, Issue 5 November 2012 THE BUCKEYE BUGLE Non-stop marketing, selling "secret weapons" for camp recruiting By Br. Tim Graham, Department Junior Vice Commander Non-stop personal market- Civil War history. Sign them up Civil War veterans, main- ing and selling are key to now. Maybe even pay their dues tains monuments in their attracting and retaining Sons for now and into the immediate honor, and remembers their of Union Veterans of the future. If they are not interested at history.” Once you have a Civil War members. All the first, when it happens, they will prospect's attention, tell them technology you can dream of already be Camp Brothers. how to join. Go into detail will not bring in new Brothers Selling means talking to people. about what your Camp does or hold on to existing ones. Show enthusiasm for the SUVCW locally, and at the Depart- Active recruiting will. and your Camp whenever and ment and National levels. Marketing of the SUVCW wherever the opportunity arises. Explain how their active INSIDE THIS ISSUE: requires the physical effort of Promote our organization at any participation in the camp will Leadership-Followership 2 people in individual Camps. event remotely Civil War related. help with future projects. __________________________________________________________ Xenia Orphan's Home 2 It takes all the Brothers in a Is there a Brother in your camp Camp, not just the Junior who is in sales and marketing? If Tell prospects what Hear The Silent Speak II 3 Vice Commander, to recruit. so, put him in charge of your your camp does locally __________________________________________________________ Pike Co. Graves Restored 3 Potential candidates for marketing or get him to train other Invite them to your next Lawnfield Reenactment 4 membership include members Brothers that have the "gift of gab" meeting. Give them a copy of of other fraternal, history, and on how to sell our group. Fayette Co. Last Vet 4 The Buckeye Bugle to read service organizations. They A good place to do selling is at a and point out articles in it Belmont Co. Last Vet 4 have a sense of community table with a promotional display. concerning your camp and ASUVCW Testimonial 5 and ritual and very likely may National is developing a standard projects by other camps. be descendents of Civil War table display package on a compact Buffington Island 5 Fundraising is also good to veterans. Such people are an disk that can be used by camps and do at events. After all, there Memorial Cannon Project 5 easy sell because they are adapted with your own local is an expense to selling. Allatoona Pass Monument 6 "joiners." Simply approach information. General SUVCW Keeping Brothers once and ask them about their Civil information is provided. You copy Political Correctness 6 they join is also part of War ancestors. When they tell the words and pictures you like, marketing. When a brother Graves Registration 7 you about one or more CW supplement them with your own, joins, find out what their CW Books to Read 7 relatives, "set the hook." and paste all on display boards. interests and skills are. Give Another great place to reach Does your Camp have a canvas CW150 Themes 7 them a job. This creates a potential members are local canopy and a Camp banner? Set vested interest in your camp Battle of Perryville 8 Civil War Round Tables. them up at Civil War reenactments and our organization. Cultiv- Many SUVCW Brothers are and community events. Invite ate personal relationships Battle of Perryville X members of such groups. people to come in out of the sun or among all members. Make Have them talk about your rain. When they are "captured," new members welcome. Talk Ohio SUVCW Camp and sell it to other make your SUVCW pitch. up The Order among COMING EVENTS Round Table members. Also, A SUVCW "pitch" gets their Jan. 12 - Dept. everyone with interests Mid - Winter don't overlook family. Most attention and interest. It also gets similar to yours. Do projects. Meeting, Brothers in the Sons have them thinking about what they can Have fun. Committed Columbus brothers, sons, grandsons, do if they join. Keep your pitch Brothers who are an active June 8 - Dept. nephews and other relatives simple. For example, “The SUV part of your camp will Encampment, who might share interest in marks and documents graves of Columbus remain on camp rolls. Preserving the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic and our ancestors who fought to save the Union 1861-65. page 2 The Buckeye Bugle Both leaders and followers determine SUVCW Camp's success By Fred Lynch, Department Commander Leadership is influencing others. ing's basement: although unseen, it supports. commander and the Camp successful. Followership is seeking or accepting Hold SUVCW Camp, Department, and Respected followers speak their views at that influence. Followership is the National leaders accountable. Leaders meetings, but disagree in private. They mirror image of leadership. come and go but followers usually stay also refrain from telling leaders what they long term. think the boss wants to hear. Camp leaders cannot lead unless they Understand that both respect and dis- Followership includes doing what needs to have followers who follow. Both functions respect are earned. Respect is needed in be done when it needs to be done. Take require training and practice to succeed. order to effect change. Disrespect among initiative and don't let problems go Organizational success results more often Brothers can condemn a great idea or a unsolved. Good leaders spot problems, from good followership than good good project to oblivion. good followers fix them. leadership. Actions of followers determine Strive to be a role model. Role models are Followers should recognize they have the success of a leader. people who influence other people. biases. Biases impact every decision made Qualities of Followership Recognize that what works once may not and can turn good ideas into bad ones. Tell the truth. Followers who tell the work in another time and place. Followership means being open to new truth and leaders who listen, are an Characteristics of Followership ideas. Support ideas of others. Provide unbeatable combination. Followership supports positive constructive criticism not obstructions. Encourage and accept new ideas. interaction with leaders. Negative Keep leaders informed. Followers need to People who speak or act demonstrate interactions among leaders and provide facts and relevant information to both leadership and followership. followers usually cause problems decision-makers. Knowing needed Use power wisely. Followers have and yield little good. information is a key to making decisions power. Leaders only think they have Good followers are good supporters. that are in the organization's best interests. power. Followership is like a build- Share knowledge and help make the Never stop trying to accomplish good. Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home lives long, prospers, is reborn The Grand Army of the Republic were divided into groups of thirty-five, and established the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' lodged in cottages under the care of a Orphans' Home in Xenia to provide a place to "mother." The home conducted church live for children who had lost their father in services, established an accredited school, the American Civil War. For more than a provided education in several trades, century, the home provided a home and a included a library, and supplied on-site lifestyle for orphans of veterans. medical services. The list of trades taught During his second inaugural address in included tin and blacksmithing; wood 1864, President Abraham Lincoln challenged carving; knitting; dress making; tailoring; Americans to bind up the wounds of conflict. farm, florist, and garden work; butchering Ohio Orphans' Home's main street. Among ways to do so, he urged, was to meet and slaughtering; and telegraphy. The the post-war needs of veterans, and their Chaplain George W. Collier, former children also enjoyed extra-curricular widows and orphans. Plans soon began for chaplain of Logan County's 34th Ohio activities such as choir, orchestra, concert construction of "asylums" as long-term Volunteer Infantry (Zouave) Regiment band, military band, drum corps, and sanctuaries for disabled soldiers and the and in1870 Chaplain in Chief of the Grand athletics. The home's students even put out survivors of men killed in combat. Army of the Republic, was first to suggest to their own newspaper, the Home Weekly. Although Ohio's first federally-funded and fellow veterans the idea of the GAR Children were discharged from the home operated post-war home for disabled veterans establishing an asylum for orphans in Ohio. upon reaching the age of 16. opened in Dayton in 1867, money set aside Prominent veterans and community leaders In 1978, the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' by the U.S. Government to build orphanages involved with establishing the school Orphans' Home was renamed the Ohio was spent elsewhere. The veterans them- included Lewis B. Gunckel of Dayton - - a Veterans' Children's Home. Support of its selves took charge of establishing sanctuaries man who had earlier helped establish the students was a special project of Sherman for orphans of soldiers who died from disease "National Asylum for Disabled Veteran Camp 93 and other groups such as the or wounds during the War and afterward. Soldiers-Central Branch" there - - John C. Officers' Wives Club at Wright-Patterson In 1869, members of the Grand Army of Lee, Ohio's lieutenant governor, and Mrs. AFB. In 1997, the Home ceased operation. the Republic throughout Ohio generously Lucy Hayes, wife of Ohio Governor More than 13,500 children had been cared shouldered the challenge and established the Rutheford B.