July, 2011 - Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

July 2011
Annual Meeting 2011
A change of command
This was a big year for our group as we made
several changes at our annual meeting. Joe Coleman
ended his term as Commander and was replaced
by long-time board member Adam Flint. Joe
thanked the board for its service through his term.
The treasurer’s job moved to Rob Krogstad from
long-timer Tee Adams. Tee moved up to Junior Vice
Commander, and will be your contact for address
changes as well as the source for invitations,
ROTC, and this newsletter.
Brian Maloney and Ellis Adams
to the board as a council members.
Following the meeting, Merion Golf
provided another round of drinks, and a buffet
dinner.
After the swearing in, Adam Flint (right) took over the meeting.
Bob Lynch moved to Registrar to handle the
new member applications. He takes over from
Major Drew Techner who is waiting for a new
Army assignment which will likely take him away
for a while. Mitchell Schmidt gets the Chancellor’s
job, I think for the second time. We also welcome
Former Commander Rob Van Gulick swears in the board for 2011-12. From left: Treasurer: Robert Bacon Krogstad, II, Junior Vice
Commander: F. Tee Adams, III, Commander: Adam P. Flint, Chancellor: H. Mitchell Schmidt, Registrar: Robert Duane Lynch, Councilor: Brian Wren Maloney, Councilor: Douglass William Hocker, Chaplain: Francis Thomas Adams, Jr., Councilor: Alden R. Ludlow,
IV, Councilor: Ellis Calmar Levan Adams.
Lincoln’s Birthday at Merion Golf Club
On February 5 we gathered at Merion Golf Club
to celebrate President Lincoln’s 202nd Birthday. We
had our largest group in
a while attend this event
and they enjoyed hors
d’oeuvres and dinner, and
plenty of conversation.
mid-winter event. Dr. Martin has written several
books and some of our members have seen him at
other events.
(above) Mr & Mrs Paul Lader
chat with our speaker.
(right) Master of ceremonies
Tom Kellogg, greets the guests.
(left) Speaker Dr David Martin
(below left) Bob Lynch and
Doug Hocker
Our speaker, Dr
David Martin of Peddie
School, talked to us
about “The wit and
humor of Abraham
Lincoln.” That was a
fun topic for our
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(above right) Adam Flint, Ed
Buchanan and Ellis Adams chat
before dinner.
Amanda Muckle (right) and
Dorothy Hocker were among
those representing the Dames,
shown here with Mercy Ramsey.
(below) The group listens to our
speaker at our birthday event.
Venue Ideas
As we plan future events, we need more help
identifying clubs or other venues where they could
be held. If you are a member anyplace or know
of good places to hold events, please contact Tee
Adams at the address on the back page.
We have used Merion Golf
Club a number of times for our
parties, and the summer BBQ.
Their attention to detail, the
service, quantity and quality
of the food have been A+++.
If you have a group that needs
a place to hold an event, I am
sure Merion Golf would do as
good a job for you too.
55th Lincoln Death Day
The 55th annual Lincoln Tomb Ceremony was
held on Saturday, April 16, 2011, in Oak Ridge
Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois. Despite the rain, 50
wreath bearers were in attendance to commemorate the 146th anniversary of the death of President
Abraham Lincoln.
This is a combined MOLLUS and Sons of Union
Veterans annual event and this year Adam Flint was
the master of ceremonies. National Commander
Keith Harrision is at right in this photo.
National organization flags from both MOLLUS
and the SUVCW headed the parade, which was
commanded by the 4th Military District, SVR. A
luncheon followed the ceremony at the President
Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Springfield.
Joe Coleman is presented his ex-Commander’s Star by another
former Commander, Rob Van Gulick.
Your Wife Could Be a Dame
The Dames of the Loyal Legion join with us in
looking for more members. To help them, we wish
to suggest that your wife, mother or other females
in your family may be eligible to become a Dame.
The Dames of the Loyal Legion by-laws:
Article VIII, Section 1
PA Website Goes Live
Welcome to the new MOLLUS-PA website
LoyalLegionPA.org. As shown above, initial content
has been added. Our current and recent newsletters,
membership info, information on upcoming and
past parties and outside events we plan to participate in will be listed.
A site is only as good as the content it provides.
If you have ideas for items to include, or something
you can provide to include, we would sure take an
interest. You can contact Jim Loudon at recorder@
loyallegionpa.org with anything you think our
members would like to see.
“The members of the Dames of the Loyal Legion
shall be (1) lineal and collateral female descendants
of the commissioned officers of the Regular and
Volunteer Forces of the United States during the
Civil War, eligible to membership in the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion and (2) mothers, wives,
and widows of Companions of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion.”
So if you are a member with us, your females
should be able to be a Dame. Here is your call to see
if we can add to their roster. Contact your editor to
have your interest passed to the Dames membership committee. Sorry, there is no Associate group.
Newsletter Submissions
If you would like to send us an article, pictures,
or information on a Civil War related event to
include in a future issue, please contact EDITOR,
Tee Adams at PO Box 328, Devon, PA 19333;
[email protected]; 610-688-1001
MOLLUS on Facebook
“Companions of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the US (MOLLUS)” is up on Facebook. Address below has
changed since last issue. Look for additional MOLLUS info and
reminders.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/49373629875
From the Quartermaster
Adam Flint wears many hats. He is also the National Quartermaster. That means
if you need a tie,
rosette, or other gear,
he is your man. For
the annual meeting
he brought a selection
of the items to show
off. See the back
page of the National
newsletter for an
order blank or E-mail
our Commander,
cmdr@loyallegionpa.
org
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Mt. Moriah Cemetery — A Multi-Track Report
From information gathered by Major Drew Techner
1) History & Research
This is a photo of PVT. Willie Sergeant. This, so far, is the
only known photo of any of our
soldiers buried in the MOLLUS
lot at Mt. Moriah. Drew Techner
obtained a clean digital scan from
the U.S. Army Military History
Institute at Carlisle, Pa. where the
original is located.
Drew has been compiling all
he can find out about the brave
boys buried in our two lots. A
report is being written and plan is
that it will appear in a future issue
of the National newsletter.
2) Mt. Moriah a Mess
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The Cemetery where MOLLUS holds plots is in
upheaval. The cemetery abruptly closed in March
as a result of a lawsuit by the Philadelphia City
Solicitor. The owner essentially denies ownership
of the cemetery, claiming the last owner was her
husband who died in 2004. It seems that we were
duped by this lady and her office manager for a
number of years, as we were asked for donations.
Fox 29 reports that the State IG office condemned the cemetery years ago. Again, we were not
informed of this and the State did not revoke the
cemetery’s license. In fact, it was renewed just this
past February.
This information
appeared on TV in
local news reports.
After the first report,
Drew Techner provided information
to updates of those
reports.
Warrior Watch members cleaning
up our lots.
After that, he was
contacted by Warrior
Watch, a patriotic
group off-shoot of
the Patriot Guard
Riders. They
offered to come
help clean up our
plots. The week
before Memorial
Day, they cleaned up the MOLLUS lots like never
before. They straightened headstones and their
clearing revealed the grave of LT. Jacob Douty who
risked his life to re-light a fuse so it would destroy
the Confederate “Crater” works at the siege of
Petersburg. What is even more astounding was that
someone had already cut our lot the week before.
This came from a new alliance that he forged with
the recently revitalized Friends of Mount Moriah
(FOMM) a non-profit organization. They put the
word out and a third group had gone out and cut
the lawn.
Mt. Moriah has had no staff, since the closing.
The office was found vandalized, with records strewn
about the place. Major Techner undertook to gather
as many as possible and turn them over to the police
to keep safe. He got others to collect more and to
allow the City to preserve those for future use.
3) Veteran’s Administration
Major Techner is pursuing a plan to have the
Veteran’s Administration take over control of the
plots, in part, as they have sections of the cemetery
right close to our lots. The only progress in that
area was that Drew met with VA representative
Darrin White, Superintendent of Washington
Crossing, at our lots last November 2nd. They
spent several hours reviewing the information
Drew had collected and viewing the lots.
He expressed an enthusiastic desire for the
VA to take over the lot. Drew sent a formal letter
requesting the VA to take ownership of the lot.
MOLLUS OFFICERS
2011 - 2012
Commander - Adam Polhemus Flint
Senior Vice Commander - Thomas R. Kellogg, Esq.
Jr Vice Commander & Editor - F. Tee Adams, III
Recorder - James W. W. Loudon
Treasurer: Robert Bacon Krogstad, II
Judge Advocate - Timothy M. Zearfoss, Esq.
Chancellor - H. Mitchell Schmidt
Chaplain - Francis Thomas Adams, Jr.
Registrar - Robert Duane Lynch
Surgeon - John Albert Koltes, M.D.
Council
Aldan R. Ludlow, IV
Brian Wren Maloney
J. Michael Coleman
Major Drew Alan Techner
Harold Durston Saylor, II
Douglass W. Hocker
Past Commander: Joseph Thomas Coleman Ed. D.
Fall Party at the Yacht Club Honoring Gettysburg Address
The nicely renovated
Corinthian Yacht Club was
our venue for the Fall 2010
Gettysburg Address party. We
gather every year to remember
the speech given by President
Lincoln, and hear a speaker, and
usually have the address read to us by our Commander. This year was no exception. In addition,
one of our Associate Members, Herb Kaufman was
the speaker. After dinner he talked about medical
practices of the time and how they impacted the
wounded of the war. It was a well thought out
and well received presentation and we thank our
member, Herb, for giving it.
We had an extra special guest when our National Commander, Keith Harrison also visited. He
took a couple of minutes at dinner to update us on
activities of the National group.
A gathering of Commanders — Win Seidlarz (PA), Joe Coleman
(PA), Adam Flint (now PA), Ben Frick (PA & National), and
Keith Harrison (National)
Below: (left) Keith Harrison. (right) Herb Kaufman
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Old Baldy Update
Old Baldy has been cleaned up and put on
display at the GAR Museum. This fixture of the
old Pine St. Museum looks pretty good in his new
enclosure, created by Phil Candando of Jamison, PA.
It is a worthy update to Baldy’s old glass box. (Jim
Loudon Photo)
(left) Joe Coleman reads the address. (right) Tom Adams recites
the prayer. Newer and long-time members meet over dinner.
Close but No Cigar !
Your Newsletter Editor came THIS CLOSE to winning this on E-bay this spring. A small flag, for tabletop
display. Seller did not know where it came from.
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A Home for Silent Sentry
Civil War Artist Rediscovered
In other business, at the annual meeting, we
continued the discussions we have been having
considering the disposition of the Silent Sentry statue.
The James Michener Museum in Doylestown,
is having an art show of works by William T Trego.
He is finally being rediscovered years after the war.
Andy Waskie has proposed letting the Friends
of Laurel Hill Cemetery place it at their facility.
They would cover all the costs of moving and
maintaining the statue, but
the “Sentry” would still belong
to MOLLUS-PA. We voted at
this meeting to continue those
discussions moving in that
direction, and the next step is
for the lawyers in the group to
come up with papers covering
the terms of that placement.
The statue will be placed in
a highly visible spot in the
Cemetery, just adjacent to
Ridge Avenue, and overlooking
the Meade Post #1 burial plot.
The monument will also be lit
to illuminate it from the road
at night, as well as to prevent
occurrences of vandalism.
“So Bravely and So Well, The Life and Art of
William T Trego” is at the Museum through October
2. He lived from 1858-1908 and in that time he created
a set of paintings in a style of “realistic portrayal.” He
made great efforts to communicate with people of the
war and get as many details as he could to make the
pictures as detailed as he could.
Laurel Hill will need to
raise money to cover moving
costs, a new base for the statue
to stand on, and other related
expenses. Once the paperwork is complete they can
begin that effort in earnest.
He was a painter who could barely hold a brush.
He had to move his entire body to mix his colors.
Yet William T. Trego was a prize-winning artist
with an international reputation, and his highly
detailed and powerful battle scenes from the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War were
widely exhibited and critically acclaimed during
the late nineteenth century. Partially paralyzed by
a childhood illness, Trego never experienced the
horrors of war, but his uncanny ability to portray
battle from the point of view of fighting men and
horses was much admired.
There will be a Curator’s Gallery Talk on Sept
13, from 1-2 pm. That will be presented by Professor
Joseph P. Eckhardt, the Helen Hartmann Gemmill
Research Fellow 2010-2011. Advance registration is
required. For more information look here:
http://www.michenermuseum.org/
James A. Michener Art Museum
138 S. Pine St. · Doylestown, PA 18901
215.340.9800
MOLLUS-PA Attends Museum Annual Meeting
Civil War Museum of Philadelphia held its
annual meeting on June 16, 2010. MOLLUS-PA
members, Joe Coleman, Tee Adams, and Alden
Ludlow took the train in, to join former commander and current Museum board member Rob
Van Gulick meeting at the Philadelphia Club. Our
board provided a
$1,000 contribution
to the ongoing efforts
to keep the Museum
operating. Commander Coleman (right)
presented the check to
board chairman Oliver
St. Clair Franklin. As a
participant, I thought
it was good for
members of
both entities to
meet and chat.
MOLLUS has
two members
on their board.
Since then
we have added
another of their
board members
to our group. Jon
C. Sirlin (left
on horse) was voted in at our annual meeting in June,
2011, as an Associate Member.
ROTC Awards Program Grows
By Tee Adams - Award Coordinator
The Pennsylvania Commandery has been making an effort to expand our ROTC awards program
as part of our outreach. Several years ago we were
appearing only at Drexel. That expanded to five
colleges. This year we have had a massive increase
in major part to contact information provided by
the Society of the War of 1812 group which also
has an awards program. We provided medals and
certificates to 12 colleges, and at several we awarded
to several services to bring
our award total to 15 for the
season just ending.
The program was coordinated by Tee Adams. Presenters included Bob Lynch,
Richard Smith, Mitchell
Schmidt, Joe Coleman, Andy
Waskie and Drew Techner.
They were backed up by
Adam Flint who provided
the medals and Jack Kane
who created the certificates. Those were signed by
our Commander, Joe Coleman, and Recorder, Jim
Loudon before being sent on to the colleges.
Our award is presented to Lehigh Cadet James G. Kratovil IV.
Here’s a place we could use a presenter in early April for 2012.
Bob Lynch (below) traveled to Carnegie Mellon University to
present to Navy Midshipman 3/c Matthew Burnett. Bob did
double duty also going to Rowan University’s event to present
to cadet Glenn McCallum (not pictured).
We grew so fast this year that we had to let
several college’s staff members present the awards.
They were OK with that, but there’s a job opportunity for next year. See the * on the list at left
for places needed a presenter. We are always looking
for more help to attend the events and present an
award at a PA college with an ROTC program.
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The ROTC awards program is very satisfying
to administer. The colleges and cadets are thrilled
to have our participation. Our members are well
received when they go out to present. The only
issue is the contact person at the colleges keeps
being rotated to other duties and that is where the
1812 information collected by their awards coordinator, Sam Hoff was invaluable.
ROTC Awards 2011
Carnegie Mellon – Midshipman 3/c Matthew Burnett
Drexel – Cadet, William E. Brenner & Cadet, Justin
A. Sochor
* IUP – Cadet, Robin Haake
* Lehigh – Cadet, James G. Kratovil IV
Pennsylvania State – Army, Travis O’Neill; Air Force
- Ian Merritt; Navy - Aaron DeWitt
St Joseph’s – Air Force - Dreddrick J. Brown, Jr.
* Scranton – Cadet, Margret Troxell
* Shippinsburg – Cadet, Sarah Antonelli
Temple – Cadet, Kendal S. King
Widener – Cadet, Mark LaPenta
Rowan – Cadet, Glenn McCallum
Valley Forge – Cadet, William Mlinarich
Commander Joe Coleman presented the award to Valley Forge
Cadet William Mlinarich at our last event of the season.
A MARTYR FOR THE NORTH
By Adam Flint
The first officer to die in the Civil War was a
dashing 24 year old colonel whose very name - Elmer
E. Ellsworth - was a synonym for patriotism to
millions of Northerners. In a time when every town
sponsored its own volunteer militia, the colonel was
America’s foremost soldier and, in the popular imagination, the Union’s most promising military talent.
Colonel Ellsworth had earned his reputation as
commander of the U.S. Zouave Cadets, whom he had
transformed from a lackadaisical group of Chicagoans
into the national-champion drill team. Ellsworth
modeled his unit after the exotic French Zouaves
of Crimean War fame, dressing the men in baggytrousered uniforms. He developed his own variations
of the Zouave drill, featuring hundreds of
swift and sometimes acrobatic maneuvers with musket and bayonet.
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In the summer of 1860, with war
clouds threatening to break, Ellsworth
toured 20 cities in the East, challenging
all comers to compete against his Zouaves. He became a celebrity overnight;
editorial writers lionized him, women
swooned over him, and politicians sought
his friendship. Abraham Lincoln called
him “the greatest little man I ever met.”
Ellsworth campaigned for Lincoln during
the Election of 1860. He accompanied the Presidentelect to Washington as his bodyguard and became
such a close family friend that he caught the measles
from the Lincoln’s sons Willie and Tad. When war
came, Ellsworth sounded the call to arms and raised
a regiment of tough soldiers from the New York City
Fire Department. “They are sleeping on a volcano in
Washington,” he warned New York Tribune editor
Horace Greeley on the 17th of April, 1861. “I want
men who can go into a fight now.” Twelve days later,
the colonel and his green regiment, called the New
York Fire Zouaves, left for Washington amid great
fanfare. There Ellsworth pulled political strings to
guarantee that his men would be the first outfit to
invade the South.
In the early-morning hours of May 24, 1861, the
day after Virginia officially seceded from the Union,
Federal troops were ordered to cross the Potomac
River and seize critical points on the Virginia side.
Colonel Ellsworth had chosen a choice objective for
his Fire Zouaves - the port city of Alexandria. He
dressed for the assault in a new uniform and pinned
on his chest a gold medal that was inscribed in
Latin, “Not for ourselves alone but for country.”
At daybreak, a steamer put Ellsworth and his
regiment ashore on an Alexandria wharf. The
Union men encountered no resistance; Alexandria’s
only Confederate troops, a sprinkling of Virginia
militia, were hurriedly leaving town. Ellsworth
dispatched one company of soldiers to take the
railroad station while he and a small detachment
set off to capture the telegraph office. A few blocks
up King Street the group came upon an inn, the
Marshall House, which was flying a large Confederate flag. Ellsworth wanted that flag taken down
immediately. Ellsworth stationed guards in the
inn and dashed upstairs with four comrades. After
cutting down the flag, he started back down the
stairs, preceded by Corporal Francis E. Brownell
and followed by reporter Edward H.
House of the New York Tribune. At
the third floor landing, innkeeper
James W. Jackson stood waiting with
a double barreled shotgun leveled at
them. Instinctively Corporal Brownell
batted the shotgun with the barrel of
his musket, but the innkeeper pulled
the trigger. Ellsworth was hit and, as
House remembered, “He dropped forward with a heavy, horrible headlong
weight which always comes with sudden death.” Jackson fired his second
barrel at Brownell and missed. The Corporal fired
simultaneously and hit the innkeeper flush in the
face. As Jackson fell dead, Brownell bayoneted the
body and sent it crashing down the stairs. Then
the Union men turned to Ellsworth. He lay in a
heap on the bloody Confederate flag, his gold medal
driven into his chest by the shotgun blast.
Ellsworth’s death plunged the North into mourning. Bells tolled. Flags flew at half-staff. President
Lincoln was grief stricken. At the sight of his young
friend’s body, he sobbed, “My boy! My boy! Was it
necessary that this sacrifice should be made?”
At the President’s orders an honor guard
brought the body to the White House, where it
lay in state on May 25, 1861. A funeral ceremony
followed, attended by Cabinet members and high
military officers. The casket was then moved to
City Hall in New York, where thousands filed
past to pay their last respects. Finally a train bore
Ellsworth’s remains to his hometown of Mechanicsville, New York, for burial in a grave overlooking
the Hudson River.
Opportunities to Participate
We have several needs for members to participate in the group’s activities.
ROTC: Some of the other Commanderies also
provide checks to cadets when awards are given in
the spring. If you would like to contribute toward
a cash award to those heading off to serve in the
armed forces of our country, here is your opportunity. Contributions will be pooled and split among
the cadets we provide awards to. With 15 awards in
2011, and plans to hopefully add more, the pool of
funds needs to get to $150 or so to give each person
$10. Your contribution can be of any size to bring
the pool of funds to that level and beyond. Mail to
our treasurer, whose address is at right, and label it
ROTC Fund, in the memo space or note.
MUSEUM: Board member Alden Ludlow has
taken an interest in how the Pine St Museum left
our control and how we got to the situation we
are in where the collection is loaned out across the
state and elsewhere and we don’t have a place in
Philly to display it.
If you were in any sort of position to know the
WHY of any of that, he would love to chat with
you. If you have articles or documents covering any
of that, even better. Please contact him directly:
Alden R. Ludlow, IV
1042 Haverhill Road
Chester Springs, PA 19425-3141
610-827-7910
(C) 610-585-1277
[email protected]
AWARDS: The National side of MOLLUS
has an Award of Merit they can give out at the
Congress. It can go to any member who does good
works for the group. If you know anyone you think
might qualify, please make that known to our
Recorder, Jim Loudon - [email protected].
CONGRESS: This year the meeting of the
National group will be in Philadelphia, in October.
(See pages 10-11 for the program and sign-up form)
As we get closer it would be nice to have a few
extra members on hand to help host the event,
guide people between segments, and help them get
back and forth to the Saturday lunch event on the
Battleship New Jersey. We may even need a van
driver or two, as that is the method discussed to
transport people there. And before dinner Saturday,
we will take a group picture of members. It would
be good to have PA represented well there.
Joe Coleman, proudly
holding the
MOLLUS flag
participated
in a parade in
Philadelphia
to celebrate
the 150th
r
anniversary of the start of the Civil War. There
were speeches and many re-enactors present. We
think we need to be more visible. Participating as
MOLLUS-PA in such events would help us.
Here is a video of the event: www.youtube.
com/watch?v=Sj6DQG8WX8Q
We have a new treasurer
Rob Krogstad has taken on
the Treasurer’s job. Actually
Rob is returning to the job.
He was our treasurer in the
late ’90s. All dues payments
will now go to:
Robert Krogstad
4312 Clear Way
Allentown, PA 08103-6102
[email protected]
If you haven’t paid your
dues, please reply to the 2nd
mailing.
NOTE: Congress forms
will still go to Tee Adams, as the change didn’t come
until after the forms were needed by National.
Dues & Contact Update
The response to the first dues mailing has
been impressive. Thanks to the many of you who
have replied. We are coming down to the final few
holdouts for dues. We need a reply each year to
keep you on the rolls. We did drop a handful of
members this year for lack of replies or payment
over a number of years. We will unfortunately drop
some more in 2012. For life and other non-dues
paying members, kindly update the Treasurer with
any changes to your contact information, including
phone numbers and E-mail addresses. A quick reply
indicating you are receiving the newsletter and
other mailings at least annually is appreciated by
mail, E-mail or phone. Having current information
will insure receipt of this newsletter and invitations
to our events.
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Military Order Of The Loyal Legion Of The
United States - Pa Commandery
PO Box 328
Devon PA 19333-0328
Address Service Requested
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CALENDAR
Board of Officers Meeting
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Merion Golf Club
MOLLUS Annual Congress
October 14-15, 2011
Union League
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
MOLLUS-PA Remembrance Day Commemoration
November 18 OR 19, 2011 Details to come
Gettysburg Remembrance Day Parade
Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Board of Officers Meeting
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Merion Golf Club
General George G. Meade Birthday
Celebration and Champagne Toast
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at noon
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For information on any event or MOLLUS-PA matter,
contact your Editor: Mr. F. T. Adams, III
PO Box 328, Devon, PA 19333-0328
[email protected] 610-688-1001
MOLLUS
The principal objectives of MOLLUS are to foster military
and naval science, promote allegiance to the United States government, perpetuate the memory of those who fought to preserve the
unity and indivisibility of the Republic and to honor the memory
and promote the ideals of President Abraham Lincoln.
Membership Options:
There are currently four categories of membership within the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States: Hereditary, Junior, Associate and Honorary.
Hereditary - Direct male descendants of the age of 18 years
or more of a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army, Navy or
Marines who served during the War of the Rebellion, or male
descendants of a brother or sister of any such officer.
Junior - Direct male descendants under age 18 years of an
eligible officer or of a brother or sister of any such eligible officer.
Junior Companions cannot vote or hold office.
Associate - Male persons of the age 18 years or more who
are not known to be eligible for Hereditary membership and who
subscribe to the Preamble, Principles and Objects of the order
and who have demonstrated a serious interest in the War of the
Rebellion, and whose membership will advance the objects of the
Order. Associates may vote and serve on committees, but may
not hold office. Not all Commanderies provide for this particular
membership category.
Honorary - Bestowed by the Commandery-in-Chief and Commanderies under the provisions of the Constitution and By-Laws.
For membership
information,
contact
ourour
Registrar,
Bob
Lynch,
For membership
information,
contact
Recorder,
James
W.
[email protected]
856-795-4226
W. Loudon 215-663-0240 [email protected]