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The above transcribed records were donated for publication by the Latha Jane Boyd, Tent
No. 1 of Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865. The D.U.V. was organized in
1885 in Springfield, IL. The Latha Jane Boyd Tent No. 1 was the first tent in the state of Texas
and was instituted in 1989. Any woman 8 years and old, with direct descent from a soldier, sailor,
or Marine who served for the Union during the Civil War may apply for membership. If anyone is
interested in joining, contact;
Mildred Harrison, Registrar (817) 860-6964
or Kathy Wells, President (817) 577-0645.
Since their charter in 1989, this tent has helped maintain the museum at National
Headquarters in Springfield, IL, jointly worked with Civil War Re-enactors, documented lineages
and genealogical information and they are currenty putting together a book on their first 100
members' family charts with pictures and military information. They have held Memorial Day and
Veterans Day ceremonies, and have begun steps for repairing one of only three statues in the State
of Texas of a Union soldier, located in Milam County.
Their long-term project is compiling a book listing Union veterans buried in Texas. The
book will be broken down by county, cemetery and veteran. The soldier may have served in the
Civil War from any state but must be buried in Texas. Hopefully, it will be a helpful tool for
researchers.
This tent has also adopted Greenwood Cemetery in Dallas as one of their major projects.
They dedicated a bronze plaque in memory of 79 Union soldiers buried in a G.A.R. lot in that
cemetery (Grand Army of the Republic was a Union Civil War veterans organization). They thank
the wonderful help of Mr. Raymond Bouska of the Greenwood Cemetery Association. They have
now identified 98 men buried throughout that cemetery as Union soldiers, and are continuing to
check out any male buried in the cemetery that wold have been the right age and lived within the
time period of the Civil War. They are researching the military information on several soldiers who
have little identification and are ordering Union Civil War headstones wth their military
information on them.
Because there were so many Union veterans in Texas by 1886, two G.A.R. posts had
formed in Dallas. According to, Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas, the George H.
Thomas Post #6 was organized in 1883 by J. C. Bigger, and the John A. Dix Post #11 was
organized in 1886 by John L. Boyd, J. C. Bigger and others. By 1885, the G.A.R. had enough posts
that they formed a department in the state of Texas. The listing (with selected columns) of the two
posts printed in the Biographical History of Dallas County is given below:
George H. Thomas Post #6
W. P. Anderson
J. W. Ashbury Farmer's Branch
Geo. Ash Dallas 34 N.Y. Vol. Co. B
B. D. Atwell Hutchins 86 Mich. Vo.
E. Aines
F. A. Austin Dallas 10 Vt. Inf. Co. B
J. C. Bigger Dallas 92 Ill Co. F
Dr. John Bell
Leopold Bohney Dallas 52 Pa. Inf. Co. F
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