Objects of the Society
Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865 is a non profit organization founded for the purpose of perpetuating the memory of our fathers, their loyalty to the Union, their sacrifices to perpetuate it and to keep alive the history of their heroic struggle for the maintenance of our free government.
How We Fulfill These Objects
1. By the study of American History,especially the history
of the Civil War.
2. By preservation of monuments, historic sites, documents,
relics, and individual service records of Union soldiers.
3. By the observance of all Patriotic Anniversaries.
Amanda Stokes Tent Officers
2011-2012
President......................................................Helen Baxter
SV President.... .....................................Beverly Van Lund JVPresident ... ....,,,,,,,..............................BeverlyDoonan
Chaplain...............................................Peggy Comstock
Treasurer............................... ..................Carole Belcher
Patriotic Instructor .......................................Chris Gentry
Council Member #1..............................Jean Bartholomew
Council Member #2...........................................Pat Hugar
Appointed officers
Secretary ......................................................Phyllis Sain
Parliamentarian...........................................Carole Belcher
Historian ........................................................Cindy Allen
Guide....................................................Jean Bartholomew
Seaated: Peggy Comstock, Beverly Doonan, Beverly Van Lund. Standing: Phyllis Sain, Chris Gentry, Pat Hugar, Jean Bartholomew, Carole Belcher, Helen Baxter, Carole Morton.
Our Namesake
Our tent’s namesake, Amanda Stokes, was a Civil War Nurse. She was a farm girl from Warren County, Ohio but when the Civil War broke out she entered the service of her country by working as a nurse in a hospital. As nurses became more needed at the war front, she obtained a commission and orders to report to the South. Her fields of duty included hospitals at Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain and she was involved in the battles of Stones River, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Nashville and Atlanta.
When she was unable to obtain supplies from the government, she used all of the $1000 she had saved before the war to buy what was needed for the comfort of the soldiers. An accident in an overturned wagon while crossing the Chattahoochee River caused a head injury which plagued her for the rest of her life.
After the war, her head injury and financial state brought about many hardships, but when the soldiers she had treated heard about her problems, they rallied around her and managed to get her appointed Matron of the Ohio soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home. She was loved and respected by all who knew her.
After many attempts to get a pension, she finally, with help from some influential people, was granted an eight dollar a month pension. The DUVCW California&Nevada Department Tent #87 was named for this fine nurse.
Source: Warren County Ohio GenWeb Project
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohwarren/Bogan/bogan