In the early 20th Century, a Civil War Union veteran and a Civil War Confederate veteran each moved to Las Vegas where they met. Although enemies in combat, William Keith (Company K, 12th Iowa Infantry) and Joseph Moore Graham (Caldwell’s Battalion, Virginia Cavalry), became close friends. They requested that when they died, they be buried in side by side graves. Once they both passed, a memorial was designed to be placed in-between the two headstones. From the wording etched into the memorial and into other elements of the overall design, it appears that perhaps segments of the memorial and the two headstones were each produced and installed over time. In 1997 the Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, Tent 79, dedicated a plaque. At one time there were many dozens of such Tents located in the United States. Tent 79 may no longer exist, but vintage paper records of the organization are stored at the Harold Washington Chicago Public Library (Sarah Gallup Gregg, Tent 79 Minute Book, Box 10, Folder 5, 1927 October 25-1931 December 9). Provenance unknown, but those records and records of other Tents were likely acquired through the library’s relationship with the Grand Army of the Republic. Tents donated their records to Grand Army veterans, which in turn gave them to the Chicago library. Groups are organized locally into Tents which were named for Army nurses who served during the Civil War, or for other women whose deeds between 1861 and 1865 were deemed patriotic and loyal to the Union cause. (Hence, Sarah Gallup Gregg?) If a state has more than three tents, they are organized under a state-level department. The organization flourished in the first half of the twentieth century, but many tents began disbanding when those generations closest to the Civil War and its veterans aged and died. Tents that are still active support scholarships and projects that help preserve and maintain the history and legacy of the Union soldiers of the Civil War. These include maintenance of historic monuments, battlefields, sites, and cemeteries; participating in Memorial Day events and other ceremonies; maintaining a museum; and volunteering with veterans and veteran hospitals. The Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War is an organization whose membership can trace its lineage to soldiers who served on the Union side in America’s Civil War, 1861-1865. The group was founded in 1885 in Massillon, Ohio, and was originally called the National Alliance Daughters of Veterans. The Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans, endorsed the daughters’ group in 1900 at its annual meeting in Chicago. In 1925, the organization changed its name to the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War. In 1944, the name changed again to include the dates of the war: Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865. As of 2016, its national headquarters was in Springfield, Illinois. Joseph Graham died in 1917. William Keith in 1920.