MI SR0135

Recognizes the 100th Anniversary of the Department of Michigan's Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865, chartered on June 17, 1914.

The organization was originally incorporated as the National Alliance of the Daughters of Veterans of the United States of America on December 12, 1885, in Massillon, Ohio, with the name officially changed to its current form in 1944.

Membership consists of daughters, granddaughters, and great-granddaughters of Union Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Revenue Cutter Service soldiers and sailors who served honorably during the Civil War (April 12, 1861 - April 9, 1865).

Local groups called "tents" are named after Army nurses or loyal women from the Civil War era; by 1914 Michigan organized four tents, with two still existing: Eva Gray Tent No. 2 in Grand Rapids and Sarah M.W. Sterling Tent No. 3 in Detroit.

The organization received federal charter on December 9, 1985, and works to preserve Civil War heritage, honor ancestry, and promote patriotism for the United States.