_Click here: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War : Grave Registration_ (http://www.suvcwdb.org/home/search.php?action=search) Civil War Soldiers' Graves Online Database The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was the largest fraternal organization for Union veterans. It was a very active organization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Only Union veterans were permitted to join the GAR. As the members aged and then died, the organization eventually disappea red. However, it was replaced by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, with membership restricted to descendants of Union Civil War veterans. The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War inherited most of the records of the national GAR organization, as well as many of the records of local chapters (called "encampments"). _Continue reading "Civil War Soldiers' Graves Online Database" »_ (http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/08/civil_war_soldi.html#more) Posted by Dick Eastman on August 09, 2005 | Judy Foreman Lee _UdyDee43@aol.com_ (mailto:UdyDee43@aol.com) My families: Benard, Brown, Crawford, Davidson, Doctorman, Echols, Foreman, Glass, Hanna, Holmes, Hurford, Jackson, Jennings, Lewis, Maddox, Reams, Rumsey, Scott, Shadowen, Sipe, Slankard, Soward, Trovillion, Tomlinson/Linson, Vinyard, Whitley, Williams, etc.