2003-2004 Abraham Lincoln

Commander-in-Chief Award

Charles W. Canney Camp No. 5, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

was presented the Commander-in-Chief's Abraham Lincoln Award by

Department of New Hampshire Senior Vice Commander Dan Murray at a recent meeting.

The Abraham Lincoln Award is given to the Most Outstanding Camp in the Nation, by the Commander-in-Chief of the National Sons of Union Veterans organization. Department of New Hampshire Senior Vice Commander Dan Murray stated that "in July of 2001 he presided over a meeting held at the New Hampshire Veterans Association in which the Camp 5 was chartered and he would have never guessed that a little over three years later he would be at a National Encampment accepting the Abraham Lincoln Award on behalf of Charles W. Canney Camp No. 5."

The Abraham Lincoln Award is the highest award given by the National organization and was started in 1994. The award is given to the Camp that went above and beyond promoting and preserving the memory of the Union Veteran. This is the first time that a Camp from New Hampshire or New England has won this award.

Some of the projects the camp is working on is: stopping the sale of veteran grave markers on eBay, antique shops and flea markets, helping N.H. communities raise money needed to restore their Civil War monument, updating town's civil war veteran history, raising money in towns that do not have a Civil War monument so they may have a memorial for their veterans, Civil War grave registration, school and organizational talks and displays.

At the 122^nd Annual Department Encampment held last April the Camp received the New Hampshire Department Commanders Award for the second year in a row.

The Award Reads:

2003-2004

Abraham Lincoln

Commander-in-Chief Award

Presented to

Charles W. Canney Camp 5

Department of New Hampshire

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

Most Outstanding Camp in the Nation