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Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War July 21, 2014
Contact: Tim McCoy, Event Organizer For Immediate Release
202-550-2369
Email: [email protected]
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War to honor Maj. General
James B.
McPherson on the 150thAnniversary of his death at the Battle of
Atlanta
Tuesday, July 22, McPherson Square
Washington, DC: On Tuesday, July 22, the Sons of Union Veterans
of the Civil War
(SUVCW), partnering with the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
(MOLLUS), will
honor Maj. General James B. McPherson on the 150th
anniversary of his death
during the Battle of Atlanta. The ceremony will take place at
12:30 pm at the
base of General McPhersons monument at McPherson Square in
Washington,
DC.
Organizer Tim McCoy, a member of the James A. Garfield Camp,
SUVCW, who
came up with idea a few months ago, explains his motivation for
planning the
ceremony: I walk past McPhersons statue nearly every day on my
way to and
from work. When I learned earlier this year that no
commemoration was planned,
I knew I wanted to do something so that the 150th
anniversary of his battlefield
death would not pass by unnoticed. McPherson is an American hero
who made
the ultimate sacrifice for his country. It is only right to
honor him, and hopefullyin doing so others who walk past that
statue daily will know a little more about
the kind of man he was. McPherson, who was killed in the Battle
of Atlanta on
July 22, 1864, was the second highest ranking United States Army
officer killed
during the Civil War. He was a protg of General U.S. Grant and
was highly
thought of by officers in both the north and south (additional
biographical
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information about McPherson can be found at:
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/americancivilwar/p/American-Civil-War-
Major-General-James-Mcpherson.htm).
The ceremony will include remarks by Richard Griffin, Commander
of Lincoln-
Cushing Camp #2, SUVCW; Robert Pollock, Commander of the
Department of the
Chesapeake, SUVCW and Commander, DC Commandery, MOLLUS; and W.
Faron
Taylor, Commander of James A. Garfield Camp #1, SUVCW. Remarks
will also be
offered by Kym Elder, Program Manager, National Park Service
Civil War Defenses
of Washington, followed by the keynote address made by Douglas
Ullman, Project
Director for the Atlanta Campaign App Guides, the Civil War
Trust. A wreath
laying will then take place accompanied by Taps.
The ceremony is open to the public.The Sons of Union Veterans of
the Civil War (suvcw.org) is a fraternal organization
dedicated to preserving the history and legacy of heroes who
fought and worked
to save the Union. Organized in 1881 and chartered by Congress
in 1954, we are
the legal successor to the Grand Army of the Republic. The
Lincoln-Cushing Camp
#2 (lincolncushing.org), serving the Washington, DC metro area,
and the James A.
Garfield Camp #1, serving the Baltimore, MD area, are both part
of the
Department of the Chesapeake, SUVCW
(departmentofthechesapeakesuvcw.com).
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