General Orlando M. Poe Camp 444 is chartered under the Department of Michigan, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW).
The boundaries of our Camp, include; Clare, Missaukee, Osceola, Roscommon and Wexford Counties in Michigan.
The SUVCW organized in 1881 and chartered by Congress in 1954, is the legal heir and successor to the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) – the first major Veteran organization in the United States, founded in 1866. The GAR's purpose was to aid fellow Union Veterans, their widows, and their orphans through their ideals of: Fraternity, Charity, and Loyalty. The GAR dissolved in 1956 when its last member died. The primary mission of the SUVCW consists of: honoring Union Veterans, preserving & perpetuating the GAR, and patriotic instruction. This includes but is not limited to: the observance of Memorial Day, graves registration of Civil War Veterans, the preservation of Civil War Memorials, dedication ceremonies, and American patriotic and historical education.
For more information on General Orlando M. Poe Camp 444, please contact:
Commander David Smith, LM, PDC ,
[email protected]

Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.

General Orlando M. Poe Camp 444 is chartered under the Department of Michigan, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW).
The boundaries of our Camp, include; Clare, Missaukee, Osceola, Roscommon and Wexford Counties in Michigan.
The SUVCW organized in 1881 and chartered by Congress in 1954, is the legal heir and successor to the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) – the first major Veteran organization in the United States, founded in 1866. The GAR's purpose was to aid fellow Union Veterans, their widows, and their orphans through their ideals of: Fraternity, Charity, and Loyalty. The GAR dissolved in 1956 when its last member died. The primary mission of the SUVCW consists of: honoring Union Veterans, preserving & perpetuating the GAR, and patriotic instruction. This includes but is not limited to: the observance of Memorial Day, graves registration of Civil War Veterans, the preservation of Civil War Memorials, dedication ceremonies, and American patriotic and historical education.
For more information on General Orlando M. Poe Camp 444, please contact:
Commander David Smith, LM, PDC ,
[email protected]

Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.