About Us

The James A. Garfield Camp is a member camp of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Based in Baltimore/Central Maryland, The Garfield Camp serves the area as part of the Department of the Chesapeake, a region that includes
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC.

Garfield Camp Officers

Elected officers:
Tim Sedmak .................... Camp Commander
Brad Sharpless, PCC ...... Senior Vice-Commander
Steve Bonning ................. Junior Vice-Commander
John Aymold, PCC ......... Secretary – Treasurer

Clay Matthews, PCC Camp Council
Brian W. Horgan, PDC Camp Council
Tim McCoy,PDC Camp Council

Appointed officers:
Mark Brock-Cancellieri Patriotic Instructor
John Sinclair Chaplain
James E. Johnston, PCC Graves Registration officer
Nathaniel Horgan Signals Officer

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Membership

Membership is open to male descendants of those who honorably served the Union during the Civil War. Associate membership is available to men who do not have the ancestry to qualify for hereditary membership, but who demonstrate a genuine interest in the Civil War.

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Join us

If you have an interest in the Civil War...
If you wish to travel to see the historic battlefields...
If you wish to study the Civil War...
If you would like to share fellowship with other individuals who enjoy the aforementioned...
If you have an ancestor who served the Union... (not required)

... Then there is a place for you in the James A. Garfield Camp No. 1. We welcome your interest and involvement.

For more information about the James A. Garfield Camp No.1 or if you are interested in membership, please contact us at: [email protected].

For information about the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War: www.suvcw.org

Through a variety of educational programs, ceremonial observances, and fraternal events, the Garfield Camp serves to honor and remember the soldiers who preserved the Union and the causes they defended. Garfield Camp programs include:

Civil War era education and related travel opportunities
Battlefield and historic site preservation
Soldier life in the Civil War
Promotion of SUVCW scholarships http://www.suvcw.org/scholar.htm
Sponsoring annual Memorial Day programs
Celebration of the life of President Lincoln...

          Our signature program is the Lincoln Dinner, an educational and social forum for our organization featuring nationally recognized Civil War speakers and authors. Past presentations included:

Dr. Craig Symonds - Professor Emeritus, United States Naval Academy and winner of the 2009 Lincoln Prize for his book, Lincoln and his Admirals. Dr. Symonds superb presentation highlighted the link between Lincoln and naval commanders and operations during the Civil War. Dr. Symonds has appeared on C-SPAN programs and is the author of numerous highly recommended books including The Civil War at Sea, The Battle of Midway, and Decision at Sea: Five Naval battles that Shaped American History.

Mr. Daniel Carroll Toomey - a leading authority on the Civil War in Maryland and guest curator at the B & O Railroad Museum in Baltimore. Mr. Toomey rendered an outstanding program on Abraham Lincoln and his connection with the B & O Railroad and its importance to the Union effort during the Civil War. A guest lecturer at the Smithsonian and the Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Toomey is the author of several outstanding books including the recently released The War Came by Train: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad During the Civil War, Marylanders in Blue: The Artillery and the Cavalry, The Civil War in Maryland, and Union Civil War Veterans Organizations in Maryland.

Dr. Jean H. Baker – well-known professor of history at Goucher College. Dr. Baker spoke on the relationship in the Civil War Whitehouse between Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln and how that relationship influenced decision making during the war. Dr. Baker is the author of several exceptional works on 19th-century American history, including Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography, Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists, and The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family.

Dr. Christopher S. Stowe - associate professor of history, U.S. Army Command and Staff College, Fort Lee, Virginia.  Dr. Stowe’s presentation, "Getting Right With the Army of the Potomac" centered on the army’s historical reputation and the factors that have contributed to that stature, and how a focus on social/institutional/political/operational realities should be emphasized over the personalities of its high-level commanders. His first full-length work, George Gordon Meade: A Nineteenth-Century Life, is under advance contract with the Kent State University Press. In addition, he has a forthcoming chapter in the LSU Press anthology "Corps Commanders in Blue". Professor Stowe has taught previously at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and at the University of Toledo (Ohio).

The works of our previous and future speakers are available via the link below.

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