Commander: Eric Peterson   Senior Vice-Commander:    Junior Vice-Commander: Jack Stuhrman   Treasurer: Ted Hackney   Secretary: Terry Manning   Patriotic Instructor: Ernie Blevins

Meetings: 1:30pm 3rd. Saturday of the Month Senior Information Center 186 Pike Street Lawrenceville, GA Annual Camp dues are as follows: $40.00 for Hereditary and Associate Members $12.00 for Lifetime Herditary and Associate Members $40.00 for Dual Hereditary and Associate Members $5.00 for Junior Members New members are assessed a one time $20.00 initiation fee.

Membership Eligibility: Hereditary SUVCW membership is open to any male descendant not less than 14 years of age (6 to 14 years for Juniors), who: (1) is a blood relative (direct descendant or nephew) of a Soldier, Sailor, Marine or member of the Revenue Cutter Service, who was regularly mustered and served honorably in, was honorably discharged from or died in the service of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps or Revenue Cutter Service of the United States of America or in such state regiments called to active service and was subject to orders of United States general officers, between April 12, 1861 and April 9, 1865; (2) has never been convicted of any infamous or heinous crime and (3) has, or whose ancestor through whom membership is claimed has, never voluntarily borne arms against the government of the United States. Associate SUVCW memberships are available for those supporters who are not of lineal descent.

Who was Elias Moon?

Elias Moon was born in Clinton County, Ohio in 1837. On September 30, 1861, answering President Lincoln's call for volunteers, he left his home in Maysville, Iowa and enlisted in Company E of the 12th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He was 24 years old, unmarried, 5 feet 4 inches tall, with blond hair and blue eyes. As part of Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee, he fought in the Battle of Fort Donnelson on February 11-16, 1862, and at the battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862. At Shiloh, the 12th Iowa formed part of the defense of the famed "Hornet's Nest." As the rest of Grant's army fled, these ten regiments at the center of the Union line held the  Confederate Army at bay for six hours, saving the larger force from being driven into the Tennessee River. Refusing to retreat, the 12th Iowa was eventually surrounded, forced to surrender, and Elias Moon became a Prisoner of War.

The survivors of the 12th Iowa were transported to Memphis, TN, then to Montgomery, AL, where they were interned in a tobacco warehouse for two months. From Montgomery, they were packed in boxcars and moved by rail to a prison in Macon, GA. On the way to Macon, the train stopped in Atlanta for three days. While in a boxcar in Atlanta, on June 13, 1862, Elias Moon died of wounds received at Shiloh.  He was 25 years old.

Along with Bobby Jones, Margaret Mitchell, Confederate General John B. Gordon, and 3,000 Confederate soldiers, Elias Moon lies buried in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery, the city's oldest and most prestigious. Thousands of captured Union soldiers suffered and died in Georgia prisons during the Civil War, and we felt it fitting to name our Georgia SUVCW Camp in honor of one of them, a young soldier who died for his country, far from home. http://oaklandcemetery.com

Favorite Links     Prints of Brother Jack Stuhrman's painting of Elias Moon are now available for purchase.  Click on the image for details on this and other fine paintings available from Jack Stuhrman.	Thomas at                                                             Chickamauga
Civil war poetry and music:	John H. Stibbs on                      Unraveling the Mystery Andersonville and the                        of Billy Bishop   trial of Henry Wirz                         by Harry Benedict
Photo Album	Micah J. Jenkins                                                                      Camp SSAWV
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