It was to be staffed by Union veterans who were blind.
White militia organizations even set about disarming returning black Union veterans in some areas.
Service plans included pensions for any Union veteran, given that he served some minimal term in the armed forces.
One was a Union veteran who had lost his legs at Shiloh.
Membership in the society dwindled as Union veterans aged and died, but it remained active at least until 1915.
The markers and scenic roads laid out in the decades after the war were put there mostly by Union veterans.
The commemoration of Union veterans, black and white, immediately became entwined with partisan politics.
The graves of five other Union Veterans lay near.
The Society was founded in 1864 by Union veterans from Vermont.
He was also a Union veteran of the American Civil War.