George Hartsuff Camp #50 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Rockland, Massachusetts

South Shore Civil War Roll of Honor

Links:

Massachusetts Civil War Monuments

National Organization

Rockland Civil War Monument

Department of Massachusetts

LA Tift Camp 15

AA Sherman Camp 18

Willie Grout Camp 25

Past Commander-in-Chief from Camp 50

General George Lucas Hartsuff was a career US Army officer. He was born in Tyre, New York in 1842 and graduated from West Point in 1852. Genearl Hartsuff served in the XXIII Army Corps in Kentucky and Tennessee. Just prior to the war he took part in a secret expedition to reinforce Ft. Pickens in Confederate held Florida. Hartsuff led his troops at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run and South Mountain. He was seriously wounded at Antietam. Hartsuff died of phemonia from a lung scar he sustained from an injury he received in the Seminole War.

On Saturday September 20,2003, Camp 50 (Department JVC Dean Sargent) was joined by a member of Camp 25 (Rey Rodriguez) and Camp 15 (Department Commander Bob Knight) in particpating with of Company A 54th Mass. Infantry Regiment in a remembrance of Abolitionists who met on Island Grove in Abington, MA.

Meetings are held at 7:30pm on the 2nd Wednesday of every month, Septembeor to June.

My Info:

Name:

A.Dean Sargent

Email:

drsarg@rcn.com