The Alden Skinner Camp of the Sons of Union Veterans will place flags at the grave of Civil War veterans at Grove Hill Cemetery beginning at 6 p.m., then at 7 p.m. conduct a brief memorial service at the grave of Col. Thomas Burpee, a Vernon man and commander of the 21st Connecticut Volunteers who was fatally wounded by a rebel sharpshooter at the Battle of Cold Harbor and died on June 9, 1864. The ceremony will include Civil War reenactors firing a salute, a wreath laying at Burpee’s grave, and a reading of the names of Vernon and Rockville’s Civil War veterans. (For more information about the museum, follow this link: www.newenglandcivilwarmuseum.com)