129th National Encampment

129^th National Encampment

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

August 12-15, 2010

Marriott Hotel

Overland Park, Kansas

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“If I went west, I think I would go to Kansas…”

- Abraham Lincoln, March 17, 1860

The Department of Kansas is proud to have been selected to host the 2010 National Encampment for the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, the Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic.

This is the first time in the history of the SUVCW or GAR that a National Encampment has been held within the borders of Kansas.

From the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, through the years of “Bleeding Kansas” and its border wars from 1855 to 1861, through the Civil War, and in the post-war Western expansion when Kansas would become known as the “Soldier State,” Kansas has been synonymous with the Civil War.

Kansas was the home of one Grand Army of the Republic Commander-in-Chief and two Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Commanders-in-Chief.

The following area attractions are located within 60 miles of Overland Park:

Mahaffie House, Olathe KS	12 miles
Liberty Memorial/World War I Museum, KC MO	19 miles
1856 Arabia Steamboat Museum, KC MO	20 miles
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, Independence MO	24 miles
Blackjack Battlefield (1856), Baldwin KS	33 miles
Site of Quantrill’s 1863 raid, Lawrence KS	35 miles
John Brown Museum, Osawatomie KS	41 miles
Frontier Army Museum, Fort Leavenworth KS	49 miles
Mine Creek Battlefield, Pleasanton KS	56 miles
Confederate Cemetery/Battlefield, Lexington MO	56 miles
Constitution Hall, Territorial Capital/Lane Museum, Lecompton KS	58 miles

Visit this website for additional information, as it becomes available.

Come to Kansas – where the Civil War began.

Craig A. Sundell, PCC

Department Commander

Revised 04/26/2008