The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is the direct heir of the United Confederate Veterans, and the oldest hereditary organization for male descendants of Confederate soldiers. Organized at Richmond, Virginia in 1896, the SCV continues to serve as a historical, patriotic, and non-political organization dedicated to insuring that a true history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans will accept transfers of veterans graves and is honored to serve as guardian of their memorials. Request for transfers from the SCV will be handled in accordance to Find a Grave policy.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans also maintains the Confederate Grave Registry at http://cgr.scv.org.

Membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans is open to all male descendants of any veteran who served honorably in the Confederate armed forces. Membership can be obtained through either direct or collateral family lines and kinship to a veteran must be documented genealogically. The minimum age for full membership is 12, but there is no minimum for Cadet membership. Membership inquiries can be made thru the SCV web site at https://scv.org/.

Members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans who wish to become part of the SCV / FindaGrave Project Team should contact the Project Coordinator Larry Hammack at [email protected].

"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish."

Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General,

United Confederate Veterans,

New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906

Authorized on 9 March 2022 by Commander-in-Chief Larry McClure.