Headstone Cleaning – November 8, 2023
Living descendants of Union Civil War veterans clean the headstones of those buried in the Grand Army of the Republic plot at Washington Cemetery in Houston, Texas.
The Harriet Lane for September, 2023
The September 2023 issue of The Harriet Lane has been published. Camp 2 received the Marshall Hope Award for best newsletter at the National Encampment in Nashua, NH this year. Congratulations and thanks to our newletter editor, Brother Michael Lance, DC, and all the contributors for giving us such an outstanding publication!
Click here to read the latest issue.
Wreaths Across America 2024
You can help us honor our fallen heroes by sponsoring remembrance wreaths, volunteering or by joining us in person at Houston National Cemetery on December 14, 2024. (Check out the video below!) Wreaths can be purchased anytime by anyone so please tell your friends and family. A portion of your donation will help support Houston Camp 2 of the SUVCW.
Click on the Serve & Succeed logo to buy wreaths & for more information!
Here is the link to send to friends and family!
https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/170990
The boys in blue thank you!
June 2023 Newsletter
It was a busy Spring for Camp 2 in Houston. Read all about it in the latest issue of our award-winning newsletter, The Harriet Lane.
Memorial Day 2023 at Washington Cemetery
Juneteenth National Independence Day
Today, we celebrate Juneteenth, a celebration of the Emancipation Declaration that started in Galveston Texas, June 19th, 1865, the historic day slavery was abolished in Texas.
Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops under the command of General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as “Juneteenth,” by the newly freed people in Texas.
Today, several uniformed members of the Houston-based LCDR Edward Lea Camp 2 of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will gather at historic Ashton Villa in Galveston and Brother Duncan will recreate the reading of the Proclamation.
Texas was the first state to recognize the date by enacted law, in 1980, and it became a federal holiday on June 17, 2021 when the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act was signed into law.
Happy Juneteenth to One and All !!
A Tribute to our Union Veteran Ancestors
March 2023 Newsletter
The Harriet Lane for March 2023 is published!
There is an amazing article about the Medal of Honor you should be sure to read, along with all the other terrific content our Newsletter Editor, Brother Michael Lance, PCC puts together each and every quarter.
Houston Civil War Roundtable – March 16, 2023
This month, the HCWRT will host Jeffrey Hunt, Director of the Texas Military Museum and Professor of History at Austin Community College, at Rudi Lechner’s Restaurant to speak on “Rappahannock Station”. Rudi Lechner’s Restaurant is located at 2503 S. Gessner Rd. Dinner is at 6:00 pm, program starts at 7:00.
Admission for non-members is $10. RSVP to Barry Brueggeman