SAS Calendar
Sep 19 and 20th 2026 The Soldiers Aid Society will be at the Clayville Fall Festival. https://clayville.org/
Sep 27, 2026 the Soldiers Aid Society will have a table for the concert is in Latham Park in Lincoln, IL. The 33rd Illinois Volunteer Regiment Band scheduled with a special guest Mr. Lincoln.
Lincoln Tomb Flag Lowering Ceremony every Tuesday evening June - August at 7PM sharp. The 114th regiment will perform the ceremony and a person in the audience will receive the flag and certificate after it's lowered. Free. Donations accepted.
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Introduction
The Springfield, IL Soldiers Aid Society is a support group for the 114th Illinois Regiment Reactivated. Typically the group was busy putting together boxes to send the soldiers in battle. Click for a link to a PDF that tells more about their origin. The Springfield, IL Soldiers Aid Society supports historic sites such as the Old State Capitol, Edwards Place, Illinois State Military Museum and the ILES House. We are present at the Tuesday evenings retreat ceremony at the Lincoln Tomb from June - August. This ceremony gives visitors a chance to be one of the lucky ones to receive the American Flag that has flown over Lincoln's Tomb the past week.Please contact us by email: SpringfieldSoldiersAid@gmail.com
Sangamon County Illinois Ladies' Soldiers Aid Society
http://www.ahgp.org/ill/sangamon-county-illinois-ladies-soldiers-aid-society.html
Original Photo
The photo above at the Old State Capitol is an actual picture the Springfield ladies in 1863 that organized a box project. https://digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/ahd/wps14.html
For more information, I recommend this book "History of the Great western sanitary fair" on Google Books which can be found online
https://books.google.com/books?id=cngfAQAAMAAJ&hl=en

