SCV and SUVCW, Wondering

[crowley_greene]

This post may get moved to the Whine Cellar, but I'll start it here. It doesn't seem like it's pointless or complaining, and I expect there may be many reenactors who are also members of either the SCV or SUVCW.

I'm a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). But I can also qualify to join the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), through a different line of my ancestry. I have sometimes contemplated a membership in both organizations. Just as I am equally okay with putting on either blue or butternut for an event, depending on where I'm needed, I also like the idea of respectfully remembering the soldiers of both sides (Lee and Grant are both "heroes" of mine).

The point? I'm wondering if any of the reenactors in this forum happen to hold memberships in both the SUVCW and SCV?

Murray Therrell

[DonSmithnotTMD]

No but I thought about it. My problem would be proof. I was told by a crazy aunt that we have an ancestor who was in the 1st MD (CS) but can't prove it. Her story seems very logical when compared to the historical record which she wouldn't have known.

[jda3rd]

I qualify for membership in SCV, but have never joined, so I can't speak to this question as a member of either organization. However, if you are lucky enough to qualify for membership in both groups, I'd say go for it! If either group would exclude you because you are a member of the other, then that should tell you which one you don't want to belong to.
Frank Brower

[DonSmithnotTMD]

Oh yea I should have mentioned that there is probably a significant networking possibility by doing this. I'm joining everything I can just for that

[Ross L. Lamoreaux]

I was a member of both, SCV through my mother's Virginia side and SUV through my father and mother's Indiana and Michigan side. Although I'm no longer active in either for various reasons, I was welcomed by both, since the commander of my SCV camp was also the commander of the SUV camp, due to his family having been on both sides as well. We thought it very unusual, but there were several members in both at the same time. We were all much more active with the Confederate Veterans, as we're in Florida and there was more to do and more to proactively work on. The Union camp was and is much less active.

[MickCole]

I am a member of both the SCV and the SUVCW. Two gg-grandfathers on the Union side and one on the Confederate. Also, more collaterals than I can keep track of on both sides. My mother's ancestors were in SW VA, which was a deeply divided area.
Mick Cole

[Joey12thga]

The War's over, I don't really see an issue.

[Radar]

I have belonged to both. Union on my father's side 12th WV Volunteer Infantry and CS on my mother's side 31st Virginia. Both families came from two adjoining countiesin today's West Virginia. I have not been active in either, since I am uneasy with some of the "politics".

[crowley_greene]

Yes I have even wished that the two national groups could even do some collaborative activities from time to time. Weren't there even some reunions of the old vets themselves, where men of both sides met after the war?

Murray Therrell

[jda3rd]

Yeah, sad to say, 'tis the political aspect that keeps me from joining the SCV, and there is even a camp named for my Great-great-grandfather. However, this is not the forum to discuss those issues.

My Grandmother enrolled me in the Society of the War of 1812, and the Children of the Confederacy. Is either group still in existence?

Frank Brower