The Illinois Division currently has 143 members spread to all corners of the state. Camp Douglas Memorial Camp is the largest at 59 members spread all around the Chicagoland area. The great distances involved in the state make getting members to meetings a problem, especially in these days of super-inflated gas prices.
There are six camps with one, Nichols Camp 2021 inactive and now disbanded. The other camps are
Lt. Col. Thorndike Brooks Camp 1606
Pvt. Spince Blakenship Camp 1802
Lt. George E. Dixon Camp 1962
Camp Douglas Memorial Camp 1507
John Kempshall Camp 1534
Lt. Col. Wm. H. Fulkerson Camp 1659
Camp Reports
CAMP DOUGLAS--
Had booths at three area re-enactments.
Cmdr. John Jeffers gave talk to geneaologists society meeting in Mundelein.
Five new members joined the camp at the Lee-Jackson Dinner.
Camp Douglas is the only camp in all of SCV with college scholarship to high school seniors.
Have a Shop and Share program going on with Jewel Food stores in the Chicagoland. Participants raise 5% of all purchases to the camp.
Also. there's a trinkets for federal dollars where items are sold to raise money.
JOHN KEMPSHALL CAMP--
Based in Monroe, Illinois.
Forty members
May 12 have thr Woodlawn Cemetery Ceremony and a picnic in July.
This camp is spread all over as well so there is no central meeting place. Meetings are held in different places in the area.
More to come...
Always Good to get-Together with Some Fellow Compatriots. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
