Projects/Programs | Silas Gore Camp #141

Our Projects and Programs

While the Silas Gore Camp is constantly on the lookout for projects which fall within the realm of our camps duties, we also are actively engaged in public programs and activities throughout our area. We are eager to teach America’s Civil War history and especially anxious to spread local knowledge of our Civil War. In an effort to accomplish this, we have presented topics to local schools, senior citizens’ centers, service clubs and organizations.

Should your group wish us to visit, kindly contact us, as we can always fit your occasion into our schedule. Please understand a stipend will help us continue our endeavors.

Riverside Tablet Restoration

The Private Silas Gore Camp #141 undertook an estimated $8,000 restoration to provide a protective pavilion over a Civil War era GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) stone tablet in Riverside Cemetery, Towanda.)
On May 26, 2018, membership of the Gore Camp have duplicated, as near possible, the original dedication ceremony held 150 years ago. Just as before, there was a parade from the Court House, and speakers and music at the cemetery as well as flowers being placed to adorn the graves of all the Civil War soldiers therein laid to rest. read full story

John B Depew headstone dedication

In 1900, John B. Depew, a Bradford County PA Civil War veteran, was buried in an unmarked grave at Tioga Point Cemetery, Athens PA. 112 years after his death, the fact that he had never had a headstone was discovered by the Private Silas Gore Camp #141 of the Sons of Union Veterans. We spearheaded a campaign to secure a proper stone and, with proper pomp and ceremony, publically unveilled and dedicated this unsung hero's resting place. bit.ly/JohnDepew)
August 27, 2016

150th Anniversary of GAR

On April 9, 2016, a ceremony at the Bradford County Courthouse to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the GAR. At its zenith, this veterans organization's membership numbered in the hundreds of thousands nationwide. Eventually, as all the members were passing over to the eternal campground, the United States Congress appointed the Sons of Union Veterans to carry on the traditions of the GAR in perpetuity.

"Descendants of Bradford County Civil War Soldiers"

Unlike many other SUV camps (and reenacting groups), an unusually high percentage of our members are direct descendants of the original "Boys from Bradford County" who answered the call of duty. This is a source of pride for our group, and speaks well for the county. Some of these descendants were introduced at a library program at the Spalding Libary, Tioga Point Museum.
November 8, 2014

Cleaning Monuments

In July of 2014, members and family of SUV Silas Gore Camp #141 cleaned Major General Henry Madill's monument at Wysox Cemetery (pictured). Henry J. Madill was originally a Major in the 6th PA Reserves and went on to be Colonel of the 141st PA Volunteers. Late in the war he received a promotion to Brigadier General and was, at the end of the war, raised to the rank of Major General
A month earlier, they assembled at the Ulster Cemetery and cleaned the Civil War monument which was erected there in 1898.

"Bradford County men at the Battle of the Wilderness"

presented at the Bradford County Library
April 26, 2014

"Civil War Medicine"

presented by Dr. Gayle Burkett at Page Manor, Athens PA
September 24, 2013
(photos)

"Rifled Musketry"

presented by Russ Burkett, of Private Silas Gore Camp #141,with reenactors from 141PVI assisting, at Bradford County Historical Society's "Friday Night at the Museum"
June 21, 2013

Veterans Day 2012

Ceremonies at Rome and LeRaysville Cemeteries dedicate seven new headstones for Civil War Soldiers, including two previously unmarked graves. Members of local reenacting groups serve as honor guard and fire volley salutes.
(photos are available here )

Restoring Honor

September 29, 2012, Dedication of the new headstone for Pvt Horace Sackett, Company L, 12th PA Cavalry

Eagle Scout Honors Civil War Soldiers

July, 2005: Silas Gore Camp was officially established and organized on the same date this ceremony was held to dedicate headstones of seven Union soldiers in a previously neglected cemetery. Attended by representatives of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, including the SVR from Scranton, this was the culmination of David Huber's Eagle Scout Project. (see newspaper article here )