1. Brothers, it is with deepest sympathy and a heavy heart that I report the deaths of two Real Sons.
   
2. On 24 December 2005, Brother Julius Cogswell Ward, age 84 answered his final muster. He was the son of Rev. Julius Augustus Ward of the 46 th Wisconsin .
   
3. On 26 January, 2006 , Brother Claremont Deem, age 95, answered his final muster. He was an active member of the General Benjamin Fearing Camp 2, Department of Ohio.
   
4. All charters, the National Web site, and membership badges will be draped in black for thirty (30) days from the date of this General Order

 

Ordered this 3rd Day of February 2006

Donald E. Darby
Commander-in-Chief
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
 

Attest:

Michael Bennett, Secretary,
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War