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Title: Civil War Memorial Tombstone Project
Dates: 2007-2010
Collection Number: RG 1000 DO 09-034
Creator/Collector:
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Extent: 1 slim box
Repository:
Yolo County Archives
Woodland, California 95695
Abstract: A collection of the results of the Civil War Memorial Tombstone Project carrier out by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil
War. Location A6.3
Language of Material: English
Collection is available for research
Copyright has been assigned to the Yolo County Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Yolo County Archives as
the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also
be obtained by the researcher.
Civil War Memorial Tombstone Project. Yolo County Archives
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection is the result of the efforts of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and contains 3 separate folders.
One folder contains various in-depth case files on several Civil War veterans who were interred in Yolo County. These case
files contain general biographical information on the veteran, the record of their military service, information on where
they were interred and what marker or tombstone marks their location, whether that marker needed to be replaced or reset,
or if they did not in fact have a marker and were in need of one, along with photocopies of outside sources, newspaper articles,
and photos of the markers. The second folder contains the directives, guidelines and templates used by the Sons of Union Veterans
of the Civil War to carry out their project. The third folder contains a 2007 lists of every union veteran recorded as interred
in Yolo County cemeteries, along with a 2010 list of known Confederate soldiers buried in Yolo County, and one 2010 list of
all Union soldiers interred in Woodland, CA.