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Colgrove-Woodruff Camp No. 22
Battle Creek, Michigan
UNION EX-PRISONERS OF WAR ASSOCIATION
Soon after the close of the war a number of attempts were made to form societies,
composed exclusively of soldiers who had been confined in Confederate prisons,
but these attempts were not successful until April 9, 1874, when the
"National Union of Andersonville Survivors" was organized at Worcester, Massachusetts;
Warren Lee Goss, of Norwich, Connecticut, being chosen President.
At the end of the meeting held at Hartford, Connecticut, April 19, 1877,
the title was changed to "National Union of Survivors of Andersonville, and other
Southern Military Prisons."
This title was again changed to "National Association of Ex-Union Prisoners of War"
at a meeting held in Cleveland, Ohio, September 19, 1883.
The meeting for 1887 was held in Chicago, Illinois, September 22 and 23, when the
title was finally changed to "Union Ex-Prisoners of War Association," by which title
it is known now, and all State Associations were abolished.
The membership of the Order is over two thousand, and its objects are "to strengthen
the ties of fraternal fellowship and sympathy, formed by companionship in arms during
the Civil War among the survivors of Rebel military prisons; to perpetuate the name
and fame of those who have fallen in the prison pens of the South, and in the line of
duty; to bind together in the most friendly ties the survivors of the above prisons by
joint action of its members in any direction which will secure justice to the living
and honor to the dead, and to assist such of our fellow-prisoners as need help and
protection, and to extend needful aid to the widows and orphans of those who have fallen."
[Manual of the Civil War and Key to the Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies
by J. Worth Carnahan, 1899.
Published by the U.S. Army and Navy Historical Association, Washington, D.C.]
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