Historian hopes to get support for local Sons of Union Veterans chapter

Shreveport Times ^ | January 26, 2004 | John Andrew Prime

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It may not be Grant at Appomattox or even Ben Butler raiding spoons from the mansions of New Orleans, but a local historian hopes to drum up interest in forming a local chapter of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War here in Shreveport.

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"The SUV has been very vocal in its support of the SCV's efforts to preserve and protect Confederate monuments, cemeteries, and landmarks and, like the SCV has been opposed to historical revisionism about the war and its causes."