S.U.V.C.W. Benjamin Harrison Camp# 356 Indianapolis, Indiana

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1 S.U.V.C.W. Benjamin Harrison Camp# 356 Indianapolis, Indiana CAMP OFFICERS CAMP YAHOO GROUP (Yahoo! ID required) Benjamin Harrison Camp #356 & Co. C. 27 th Indiana Vol. Inf. SVR Dates Benjamin Harrison Camp #356 Meeting Dates May 14 09:00 - City Cemetery Shelbyville, IN. - Cemetery cleaning and restoration project. May 30-11:00 Crown Hill Cemetery - Indianapolis, IN July 9 11: Legion Post Speedway, IN Speaker PDC Mike Beck City Cemetery Project. **Sept : Legion Post Speedway, IN Speaker SVC James Floyd **October 15 11: Legion Post Speedway, IN Speaker - PDC Mike Beck GAR Dumont Post #18 Nov : Legion Post Speedway, IN - Speaker PDC Bruce Kolb Dec : Legion Post Speedway, IN - Speaker SVC James Floyd ** Change of meeting dates from 2 nd Saturday to the 3 rd Saturday of the month** SVR Co. C. 27 th Indiana Vol. Inf. Dates May 30, :00 - Ben Harrison Camp Memorial Day Ceremony Crown Hill Cemetery November 19, :00 - Annual Gettysburg Remembrance Day Parade 2016 SUVCW National Encampment Springfield, IL. - August 11-14, suvcw.org/?s=national National+Encampment

2 Benjamin Harrison Camp #356 Cemetery cleaning and restoration project for May 14 09:00 Old City Cemetery Shelbyville, IN Location North side of West Pennsylvania St and between North Tompkins St. and N. West St. GPS Coordinates: Latitude: , Longitude:

3 Memorial Day May 30, 2016 Memorial Day May 30, 2016 the Ben Harrison Camp #356, Eliza E. George Auxiliary and Co. D. 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry (SVR) will be honoring Dr. Collins Thomas Bedford, who served in Company E. of the Eighth Indiana Infantry. Dr. Collins became a doctor after his military service, a medical professor, and started a wholesale and retail drug business. He lies buried in an unmarked grave at Crown Hill Cemetery. Sister Thompson has researched this regiment and is currently writing a two-volume book on this regiment and its men. She will be sharing a brief biography she has written about this self-made man at our ceremony.

4 MIDWESTERN ROOTS FAMILY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY CONFERENCE IN INDIANAPOLIS July 15, July 16, 2016 Indianapolis Marriott East 7202 East 21st Street Indianapolis, Indiana Map Dates for Future Newsletters For this newsletter to be successful, I need each and every member of the Benjamin Harrison Camp #356 to take ownership of this newsletter. I would like to publish information on your civil war ancestors, trips to battlefields, research on various regiments you are interested in or any other civil war related articles you want to submit. Listed below are the dates that I need your article by to have time to put them in the proper format and publish them. Need articles by August 1, 2016 for September 2016 Newsletter Need articles by November 1, 2016 for December 2016 Newsletter PCD Michael W. Beck Pvt. Henry Beckman, Co. H, 12 th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Jim Floyd My father was born in Monticello (Wayne County) Kentucky and through his lineage I am a descendent of 5 Union veterans. My mother was born in Indianapolis, IN and I have discovered one (thus far) ancestor in her lineage who was a Union veteran. In 1862, Wayne County, KY would play an important role in the Civil War when the Battle of Mill Springs was fought along the banks of the beautiful Cumberland River on January 19, Company H, 12 th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry was organized in December 1861 in anticipation of hostilities, but had not yet mustered when the Battle of Mill Springs occurred.

5 Henry Beckman, born in Virginia in 1805, was a carpenter who plied his trade in Wayne Co. He answered the call to serve, enlisting in December 1861, and mustered in at Camp Olio, Kentucky on January 30, 1862 for a three-year commitment. Pvt. Beckman and his brothers-in-arms left Camp Clio on February 11, 1862 bound for Louisville to board The Louisville and Nashville Railroad train and proceed to Nashville, TN where they arrived on February 11, On March 8, 1862 Co. H began their march to Savannah, TN arriving on April 8, Company H was then ordered to advance on, and participate in the siege of Corinth, MS between April 29 and May 30. Henry Beckman never made it to Corinth. During the march to Savannah he became ill with Typhoidius Febrio (Typhoid Fever) and was hospitalized in Columbia, TN during March and April. According to the Civil War Trust 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. Two-thirds died from disease, not wounds. The Civil War Trust further states that Typhoid Fever was the second leading cause of disease death as it was commonly transmitted from person to person via body lice due to close contact in crowded and unsanitary conditions. Pvt. Henry Beckman lost his battle with Typhoid and died on April 17, Buried in Nashville, TN his remains were reinterred in the Nashville National Cemetery in Section A, Site years later, Pvt. Henry Beckman, my paternal GGGG-Grandfather, rests in sacred ground less than two hundred feet from the same Louisville and Nashville Railroad tracks that had brought him to town. Henry s widow, Lucinda, applied for and received a widow s half-claim pension of $8.00 per month for herself, and an extra $2.00 per month for their minor daughter, Juliann, who was born in The 12 th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry mustered out of service on July 11, The regiment lost a total of 239 men during service; 1 officer and 40 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 5 officers and 193 enlisted men died of disease.

6 $ per medal If interested in purchasing, contact PCD Michael W. Beck at Will ship for free.