This photograph was found in the archives of Canney Camp #5, and was labeled "State Officers 1946 (approx), Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War". Half of the men were named, as follows:
Front row:
unk, unk, Homer Atkins Jr., Kenneth Wheeler, unk, Andrew Crown
Back row:
Warren Brown, Homer Atkins Sr., Jackson Carr, unk, unk, unk

The attached note also mentioned that Atkins Jr was Commander and Wheeler was Vice-Comm in the photo. On a list of Department Commanders, Homer Atkins Jr held that position in 1948. Kenneth Wheeler, in an article printed in the Hillsborough Messenger on 18 Nov, 1948 (pg 1), was SVC at this time. He would be elected Commander the following year.

Homer L. Atkins Sr. and his son, Homer L. Atkins, Jr. were both from Camp 4 in Troy. The father held the top Department seat in 1943 and in 1950, while his son led the New Hampshire Brothers only in 1948.

Kenneth T. Wheeler belonged to Camp 38 in Milford, and was DC in 1949 and 1976. His wife, Emma (Yeaton) Wheeler, was the Dep't President of the Auxiliary in '49.

Andrew Crown was perhaps the man from Troy, NH, a WWI veteran, though newspaper searches failed to find anything about him in relation to the SUVCW. Maybe the photo was mislabeled, and this is actually Andrew J Crooker of Hillsborough? He was a Son, and held many officer positions in the Thomas Carr Camp. He was elected DC in 1957, dying the following April.

Jackson Crooker Carr was a Hillsborough man, and belonged to Camp 15. He was Department Secretary-Treasurer in 1948. He served as DC in 1922.

Warren C. Brown of Troy was a long time member of the Sons. In 1902, when the Thomas M. Carr Camp, No. 15, was organized, he was serving as Department Secretary. In 1904, he was Commander.  

​Sadly, this still leaves six men in the above photo unnamed. Hopefully, a record of the 1948 proceedings of the annual encampment can be found, and the other officers can be identified.

​The following is an 1889 pamphlet, listing the officers of the Wesley B. Knight GAR Post No. 41, Londonderry and Derry Depot, N.H., as well as the Woman's Relief Corps No. 54.

** Officers and Committee of **
WESLEY B. KNIGHT POST No. 41
William P. Nevins, P.C.
John C. Towns, S.V.C.
W. Irving Colburn, J.V.C.
Miner G. Frye, Adjt.
William Clark, Q.M.
Stephen Williams, Chaplain
Samuel N. Paine, Sergt.
William D. Moore, O.D.
George W. McKenney, O.G.
Andrew J. Benson, Q.M.S.
William Dustin, S.W.

MEETINGS: First Saturday of each month at Odd
Fellows Hall, Derry Depot, N.H.

** Finance Committee **
George H. Adams, Stephen Williams, George Richards

** Relief Committee **
Geo. O. Colby, Monday;
John P. Thurston, Tuesday;
John C. Towns, Wednesday;
George Richards, Thursday;
Andrew J. Benson, Friday;
William P. Nevins, Saturday;
Stephen Williams, Sunday.
​
** Conference Committee **
William Clark, William S. Pillsbury, Miner G. Frye,
Granville F. Plummer, George H. Adams.

NOTE: Post No. 41 was organized in March of 1879, and was named for Wesley B. Knight of Londonderry, NH, who had served both in Co. C, 1st New Hampshire Infantry, and in Co. K, 4th NH Infantry. He was taken prisoner in May 1864, and died in Florence, S.C. that October. He is buried in Beaufort National Cemetery. 

- item from personal collection (S.Dow)

On Sunday, the 9th of June, 2019, the town of Richmond, New Hampshire held a dedication for its newly installed monument to honor their Civil War soldiers. The names of 79 men, and the regiments they belonged to, are inscribed on the plaque, with twenty-seven of them marked as having died during their service.

During the afternoon ceremony, the names of every man on the memorial was read, with the ringing of a bell following each one. The 6th NH Infantry, acting as honor guard for the event, closed the ceremony by firing several volleys.

The following are all of the names on the monument. Though the plaque has three columns for the inscriptions, spacing on this blog page wouldn't allow the same set-up. Here are the Richmond, NH soldiers of the War of the Rebellion:

Richmond Civil War Service
​1861-1865

2018 - Richmond Heritage Commission - Richmond Historical Society

The following is the program distributed for the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument in Charlestown, New Hampshire, which took place on Friday, October 6th, 1911.

​A Monument Association had been formed years prior, to raise funds for the monument. It was made of Barre granite, and stood 14.5 feet high. A white granite statue of a soldier at parade rest stands atop it, with bronze tablets on two sides, listing the names of the 144 men accredited to the town during the Civil War. The GAR badge adorns the front tablet. 

Three pages in the booklet contain the names of those men who enlisted for, or were credited to, Charlestown. As they were not listed in alphabetical order, they have been reorganized here as follows:

The Charlestown, NH Soldiers' Monument is located on the corner of Depot Street and Rt 12A, on the ground of the Charlestown Historical Society.

In this undated photograph, Civil War veterans (their spouses, widows and/or family members) of the 16th New Hampshire Infantry gather at their ​​regimental building located in the N.H. Veteran's Association complex at The Weirs in Laconia. Many of the men can be seen wearing GAR medals, as well as the NHVA Reunion (rectangle shaped) badges. Some of the women had Woman's Relief Corps (the auxiliary to the GAR) medals as well. On the back was written: "Mother Webber, Bernard, Andy Holt + wife, John Carkin", though there was no indication of where these people were standing in the above photo.

Mother Webber was probably Maria L. (Taggart), widow of Brooks K. Webber of Company I (16th NH). They had a son named Bernard born 1895, who may be the young man in the third row centered between flags. Brooks died in 1903, so this photo may in 1910's, based on Bernard's age in picture.

Andrew "Andy" Holt, a sergeant in Company G, was a Lyndeborough resident. His wife was Abby J, whose obituary mentioned she was a member of the Woman's Relief Corps, and she died in 1916. Andy passed away in 1924.

John C. Carkin was also a Lyndeborough native, and he had served in Company H. He died in 1923.

The New Hampshire Veteran's Association was originally made up of Civil War veterans, and was formed in 1875 (in Manchester, NH). Their second reunion was held at Weirs Beach (or The Weirs) in 1878, where they continued to hold their encampments in the decades to come. Land was donated the following year, and buildings were constructed to house the veterans of the individual NH regiments.

Read more about the location here:
http://weirsbeach.com/reasons-tovisit/history/veterans/nh-va-history/