Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Civil War Memorial Tombstone Project
- Dates:
- 2007-2010
- Creators:
- Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 1 slim box
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Civil War Memorial Tombstone Project. Yolo County Archives
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 2007-2010
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is available for research
- Terms of access:
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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.
- Preferred citation:
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Civil War Memorial Tombstone Project. Yolo County Archives
- Location of this collection:
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226 Buckeye StreetWoodland, CA 95695, US
- Contact:
- (530) 666-8010