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Richmond
Civil War
Round Table

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Founded at Fort Harrison on February 8, 1951

Founded at Fort Harrison on February 8, 1951 Founded at Fort Harrison on February 8, 1951 Founded at Fort Harrison on February 8, 1951

Current and Past Speakers

2023


January 10:*  Kent Masterson Brown

"Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the

Gettysburg Campaign"


February 14:*  Joan Waugh

"The Election of 1868"


March 14:  Kristopher White

"The Ides of May:  The Wounding of James Longstreet"


April 11:  John Hennessy

"Return to Bull Run"


May 9:  Robin Snyder

"The Job of a Battlefield Park Superintendent"


June 13:  Clay Mountcastle

"Confederate Guerrillas and Union Generals Who Hated Them"


July 11:  James Hessler

"The Fight at East Cavalry Field"


August 8:  Emmanuel Dabney

"Broader Recruitment Training of USCT"


September 12:  Jonathan Jones

"Veteran Addictions"


October 10:  Rob Havers

"Anticipation of War in U.S. Military Society in the 

Antebellum Period"


November 14 (Annual Dinner Meeting):  Garry Adelman

"Preservation Accomplishments in the Richmond Area

and Future Plans"


December 12:  Jake Wynn

"Civil War Medicine"


*January and February Meetings via Zoom 


Due to circumstances beyond our control, it is possible that 

programs may change without notice

2022

January 11 - Dr. Caroline Janney
"Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox"

February 8 - Kevin Pawlak
"Water to His Front, Water to His Rear: Robert E. Lee Defends the 

      Confederate High Water Mark at Sharpsburg"

March 8 - Gregg Clemmer
"Why the Civil War Still Lives"

April 12 - Gordon Rhea, Esq
"The Life and Battles of JEB Stuart"

May 10 - Brendan Synnamon
"The Union Drummer Boy: A Love of History and Historical Preservation as Experienced by One of America's Foremost Civil War Militaria Shops"

June 14 - Col. Keith Gibson   

"VMI and the Legacy of Stonewall"

July 12 - Dr. Jennifer M. Murray
"The Victor of Gettysburg: George Gordon Meade and the Civil War"

August 9 -  Michael C. Hardy
"Hard Crackers and Crackers Hard:  Feeding the Army of Northern Virginia"

September 13 - Dr. Gary Gallagher
"Lee Versus Grant in the Overland Campaign:  Expectations and Outcomes"

October 11 - Dr. Charles Fennell
"Men in Green:  The First and Second U.S. Sharpshooters in the Battle of Gettysburg"

November 15 (Dinner Meeting) - William C. "Jack" Davis and Sue Heth Bell
"The Wharton's War:  The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel Wharton & Anne Radford Wharton, 1863-1865"  

December 13 - Frank O'Reilly
"Fredericksburg and the Winter War on the Rappahannock"


Due to circumstances beyond our control, it is possible that this may change without notice.

2021

January 12 - Jimmy Price
"The Battle of New Market Heights"

February 19 - Gene Schmiel
"Lincoln, Antietam and a Northern Lost Cause"

March 9 - Dr. Peter Carmichael
"The War For The Common Soldier"

April 13 - Hampton Newsome
"The Fight for the Old North State"

May 11 - Jim Hessler
"Gettysburg's Peach Orchard: Longstreet, Sickles, and the
Bloody Fight for the `Commanding Ground' Along the Emmitsburg Road"

June 8 - Nathan Hall   

"The Richmond Resistance"

July 13 - Jim Gindlesperger
"Fire on the Water: The USS Kearsarge and the CSS Alabama"

August 10 -  Dr. Charles Fennell
"Culp's Hill:  The Final Frontier"

September 14 - Douglas Waller
"Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation"

October 12 - Victor Vignola
"The Battle of Fair Oaks"

November 9 Dinner Meeting - Janet Croon
"The War Outside my Window:
The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham 1860-1865"

December 14 - Scott Mingus
"The Battle of Second Winchester:
The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg"


Due to circumstances beyond our control, it is possible that this may change without notice.

2020

January 14 - Richard Lewis
"Shrouded in Mystery" (Confederate Uniforms)"

February 11 - Doug Crenshaw
"The Battle of Glendale"

March 10 - Dr. Gary Gallagher
"Lincoln, Davis, and Their Principal Subordinates"


Only January to March meetings were held.  The remaining meetings were 

canceled due to COVID-19.  Speakers were rescheduled where possible.


April 14 - Jim Hessler
"Gettysburg's Peach Orchard:
Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the
'Commanding Ground' Along the Emmitsburg Road"

May 12 - Jim Gindlesperger
"Fire on the Water: The USS Kearsarge and the CSS Alabama"

June 9 - Dr. Jennifer Murray
"The Victor of Gettysburg:
George Gordon Meade and the Civil War"

July 14 - Scott Mingus
"The Battle of Second Winchester:
The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg"

August 11 -  Dr. Charles Fennell
"The Battle of Culp's Hill"

September 8 - Douglas Waller
"Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation"

October 13 - Jake Wynn
(Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Museum and National Museum of CW Medicine)
"True Horror Stories of the Civil War"

November 10 Dinner Meeting - Janet Croon
"The War Outside my Window:
The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham 1860-1865"

December 8 - Bobby Krick (tentative)
(Topic to be determined)

2019

January 8 - Art Wingo
"Battle of Franklin"

February 12 - Edward Alexander
"Crossing the James"

March 12 - Mike Gorman
"New Photo Program"

April 9 - Chris Kolakowski
"1864 Campaign"

May 14 - Chris Mackowski
"Last Days of Stonewall Jackson"

June 11 - Drew Gruber
"Battle of Williamsburg"

July 9 - Steve Phan
"Battle of Fort Stevens"

August 13 - Bert Dunkerly
"Brown's Island Explosion"

September 10 - Emmanuel Dabney
"USCTs at Petersburg"

October 8 - Nathan Hall
"Legal issues of Secession"

November 14, THURSDAY - Frank O'Reilly - (dinner meeting WOCC)
"Stonewall at Malvern Hill"

December 10 - John Coski
"Cdr. Hunter Davidson, CSN"

2018

January 9 - Al Neale
"Minstrel Music and the Civil War Soldier" (rescheduled from Jan 2017)

February 13 - Alyson Taylor-White
"Confederate Connections at Shockoe Cemetery"

March 13 - Phillip Seyfrit, Dir of Battle of Richmond (KY) Visitors Ctr
"Battle of Richmond, KY"

April 10 - Chandra Manning, Georgetown U.
"Refugees During the Civil War"

May 8 - Ann Miller, Va. Transportation Research Council
"Western Division Markers (Beyond the Freeman Markers)"

June 12 - Jonathan Noyalas. Shenandoah U.
"Cavalry Charge at Third Winchester"

July 10 - Wayne Motts
"National Civil War Museum"

August 14 - Brian McKnight, UVa-Wise
"Champ Ferguson"

September 11 - Greg Mertz, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania NMP, A.S.
"Johnston at Shiloh"

October 9 - Kyle Rothemich, Cedar Creek & Belle Grove NHP
"History of Cedar Creek Battlefield and How it Became Part of the NPS"

November ?? - Bud Robertson, Va Tech - (dinner meeting WOCC)
(Topic TBA)

December 11 - Doug Crenshaw
"Battle of Glendale"

2017

 January 10 - Al Neale
"Minstrel Music & the Civil War Soldier"

February 14 - Walter Griggs
"General John Pegram C.S.A."

March 14 - Bud Robertson
"The Civil War's Most Valuable Diarist"

April 11 - Terry Winschel
"Shut Up as in a Trap: Citizens Under Siege"

May 9 - Ashley Luskey
"Richmond Ladies and 'Not-So-Ladies' in the Confederate Capital"

June 13 - Gregg Kimball
"The Richmond Grays" (TBA)

July 11 - Dwight Hughes
"A Confederate Biography: The Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah"

August 8 - Stran Trout
"Last of the White House: The Evacuation of White House
Landing on the Pamunkey River by the Union Army, June 25-29, 1862"

September 12 - Bert Dunkerly
"To the Bitter End: Appomattox, Bennett Place,
and the Surrenders of the Confederacy"

October 10 - Hampton Newsome
"Richmond Must Fall"

November 8 - Matt Atkinson - (dinner meeting WOCC)
"Open Mic Night: Stories of the American Civil War"

December 12 - RCWRT Members
Member Relic Share

2016

January 12 - Frank O'Reilly -
The Liberty Hall Volunteers, Stonewall's College Boys

February 9 - Bruce Venter -
Custer's Side Show: The 1864 Charlottesville Raid

March 8 - Eric Campbell -
Early's 1864 Summer Campaign (June-early August)

April 12 - Sam Craghead -
CSS Shenandoah during the War

May 10 - Rick Williams -
Stonewall's Prussian Mapmaker

June 14 - Clay Mountcastle -
The Media and Its Relationship with Warriors

July 12 - Jonathan Noyalas -
"Like a Wind from the Mountains"
Reflections on Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign

August 9 - William Connery -
Mosby's Raids in Civil War Northern Virginia

September 13 - Rob Orrison -
The Potomac Blockade of August 1861-March 1862

October 11 - Jonathan Berkey -
Refugee Experiences of Shenandoah Valley Residents

November 10 - Ed Ayers - (dinner meeting WOCC)
For our Roundtable, is there a future in our history or
is there to be any history in our future

December 13 - Steve Anders -
Logistics, Sometimes More Important than Battle Plans

2015

January 13 - Douglas Crenshaw -
Fort Harrison and The Battles for Chaffin's Farm

February 10 - Elizabeth R. Varon -
Legacies of Appomattox - Lee's Surrender in History and Memory

March 10 - John J. Fox -
Stuart's Finest Hour: The Ride Around McClellan

April 14 - Scott Mingus -
General William "Extra Billy" Smith

May 12 - Mathew W. Lively, MD -
The Wounding and Death of Stonewall Jackson

June 9 - William R. Chemerka -
General Joseph Warren Revere

July 14 - John Jorgenson -
Confederate Yankees

August 11 - Russell S. Bonds -
Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase

September 8 -  Stephen M. "Sam" Hood -
Found! The Lost Papers of General John Bell Hood

October 13 - Tom Huntington -
Searching for George Gordon Meade

November 10 - Michael W. Kauffman - (dinner meeting)
Guilt by Insinuation: The Lincoln Murder Conspiracy Trial

December 8 - Richard Bellamy -
Lee's May 1863 Reorganization of the Army of Northern Virginia

2014

January 14
Mike Kelly (Park Ranger, National Mall, NPS)
"A pretty team!-Rascality and Stupidity: Refighting the Battle of Gettysburg."
Mike's talk will analyze how Generals and Congressmen waged a war of words
months after the battle.

February 11
Ernie Price (Chief of Interpretation, Appomattox Court House NHP)
"Going home from Appomattox."
Ernie has done a lot of research on the journey of soldiers home from the
surrender, including challenges they faced and how they got home.

March 11
Jim Godburn (Museum of Confederacy-Appomattox)
"Sick Call and Surgery: Medical Practice in the American Civil War."
Jim has also worked at Petersburg National Battlefield and Appomattox
Court House.  He currently is at the MOC-Appomattox.  He has spent years
researching and presenting programs on 19th Century medicine, both
civilian and military.

April 8
Dr. Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr.  (Professor of History, UNC-Wilmington)
"Louis Froelich- Arms Maker to the Confederacy."
Chris published a book by this title in 2011, his most recent.
He has researched and spoken extensively on the Wilmington campaign.  

May 13
Greg Starbuck (Executive Director, Historic Sandusky)
"Hunter's Raid: When the Valley Wept."
Greg is the driving force behind the preservation of Civil War resources
in Lynchburg and is currently overseeing the restoration of the Sandusky
House.  In 2011 the site produced an award winning film on the battle of
Lynchburg.

June 10
Greg Biggs (Flag researcher & author, Clarksville, TN)
"Nashville: Siren's Song of the Confederacy"
Greg is a well respected historian who has spoken to roundtables and
historical organizations across the country.  Much of his research has
focused on flags, and the western theater.

July 8
Greg Sager (Director, Hanover County Parks)
"The New Paradigm: Public Relations in a Post Recession World"
In 2012 North Anna Battlefield Park acquired the area where Union troops
attacked.  For the first time visitors will be able to see the Union and
Confederate perspectives of this battle.  The Park is in the process of
planning new trails and markers to interpret the action.

August 12
Andrew Duppstat (Assistant Curator of Education, NC Division of State Historic Sites)
"The Military and Modern Careers of the CSS Neuse Confederate Ironclad to State Historic Site."
Andrew oversees many programs at North Carolina's state historic sites,
and has done a great deal of research on the CSS Neuse.

September 9
Jimmy Price (Education Assistant, George Washington Foundation)
"Battle of New Market Heights."
This will coincide with the 150th anniversary of this battle.
Jimmy was scheduled to speak to us in 2012 but was unable.

October 14
Troy Marshall (Supervisor of Historical Interpretation, New Market Battlefield State Historic Site)
"Confederate Engineers."
Troy has researched the little known accomplishments of the Confederate
Engineers with the Army of Northern Virginia.

November 13
Thursday (dinner meeting) - Dr. James "Bud" Robertson- Retired professor, VA Tech.
"The Sesquicentennial vs. the Centennial: What Happened?"
Dr.  Robertson, who served on the Presidential Commission for the 1960s
Civil War Centennial, will provide a comparison of the Centennial with
the current Sesquicentennial.

December 9
John Guss (Manager, Bennett Place State Historic Site, Durham, NC)
"A Dawn of Peace: Surrender at Bennett Place"
John has worked at Fort Jackson in Savannah and Pamplin Park.  He will
discuss the little-understood surrender negotiations and the ending of
the war in North Carolina.

2013

January 8
Bill Welsch
General Samuel Cooper

February 12
John Quarstein
Damn the Torpedoes!: The Battle of Mobile Bay

March 12
Thomas Cartwright
Nathan Bedford Forrest at Brice's Crossroads:
A Lesson in Tactical Leadership


April 9
Tom Clemens
Ezra Carmen and the Battle of Antietam

May 14
Brian Steel Wills
Rock Steady: George H. Thomas in 1863

June 11
Robert F. O'Neill
Chasing Jeb Stuart and John Mosby:
The Union Cavalry in Northern Virginia from
Second Manassas to Gettysburg


July 9
Jay Jorgenson
Gettysburg's Bloody Wheatfield

August 13
Horace Mewborn
Lee's Comanches: Elijah White and the 35th Virginia Cavalry Battalion

September 10
Glenn Trimmer
The Stafford Civil War Park:
The 11th Corps' 1863 Winter Encampment Preserved


October 8
Jeff Wert
A Glorious Army:
Robert E. Lee's Triumph in 1862-1863


November 12
George Kirsch
Baseball in Blue and Gray

December 10
Mike Miller
The Battle of Bristoe Station

2012

January 10
Michael Strauss
Confederate Pirates in Maine:
The Destruction of the Revenue Cutter Caleb Cushing


February 14
James S. Price (became ill)
Mike Gorman (filled in)
3D Richmond

March 13
John Coski
The Meaning of Appomattox and
The Museum of the Confederacy's new Appomattox Museum Site


April 10
Eric W. Buckland
Mosby's Rangers - The 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry

May 8
Michael Aubrecht
The Civil War in Spotsylvania

June 12
Brad Gottfried
The Battles of South Mountain

July 10
Timothy Sedore
Virginia's Confederate Monuments

August 14
Timothy Orr
Enlistment in the North and South During the Civil War

September 11
Greg Mertz
Topic TBA

October 9
J. Roderick Heller
Democracy's Lawyer - Felix Grundy - his impact on the Civil War

November 13
W. C. Davis
Topic TBA

December 11
Andrew Talkov
"You will come up against your old neighbors": Recreating Second Kernstown

2011

January 11
J. Britt McCarley
"The Great Question of the Campaign Was One of Supplies": A
Reinterpretation of Sherman's Generalship during the 1864 March to
Atlanta in Light of the Logistic Strategy.


February 8
Chris Calkins
Thirty-six hours before Appomattox: April 6 and 7, 1865

March 8
Clay Mountcastle
Punitive War: Confederate Guerillas and Union Reprisals

April 12
Scott Harris
Battle of New Market and Beyond

May 10
Anna Holloway
USS Monitor and its Crew

June 14
Anne S. Rubin
Through the Heart of Dixie:  Myth, Memory, and Sherman's March.

July 12
Earl Hess
Trench Warfare Under Grant and Lee

August 9
Timothy Mauch
Protecting Richmond's Battlefields

September 13
J. Tracy Power
The Bond between Robert E. Lee and His Soldiers

October 11
John Hennessy
Lee, Jackson, and Longstreet at Second Manassas

Tuesday, November 8
Dinner Meeting - Willow Oaks Country Club
Elizabeth B. Pryor
Lee Letters or Clara Barton

December 13
S. Waite Rawls, III
Burying the Dead, But Not the Past

2010

January 12
John Coski
The Debate over Black Confederates

February 9
Bruce Venter
The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid

March 9
Frank O'Reilly
Chancellorsville

April 13
Marc Leepson
The little known battle that saved Washington, D.C.

May 11
Dennis Frye
John Brown's War

June 8
Craig Symonds
From both points of view

July 13
Cathy Wright
Lee's Last Casualty

August 10
Dick Sommers
Fury at Fort Harrison

September 14
Gary Gallagher
Jube Early

October 12
Henry Simpson
"1,800 Union Troops Captured by 450 Confederates Troops
in an Attempt to Cut the Western & Atlantic Railroad"


Thursday, November 11
Dinner Meeting - Jepson Center at U of R
John Quarstein
Fort Monroe: The Key to the South

December 14
Bob Kenzer
"Virginia's Civil War Widows"

2009

January 13
Seven Days Battles-Part 2
Dr. Ethan S.  Rafuse, U.S.  Army Command and General  Staff
College,  Ft.   Leavenworth,  KS;  Seven  Days of Battle and
their Long Shadow: The Union Perspective on the  1862  Fight
for Richmond.                                               

February 10
Seven Days Battles-Part 3
Mike Gorman, Richmond National Battlefield Park; Seven Pines
and  Drewry's  Bluff  Battles  in 1862, Prelude to The Seven
Days Battles.                                               

March 10
Balloon Use in the Civil War
Mike Boehme, Director of the Virginia Aviation Museum, Richmond

April 14
And Keep Moving On, The Virginia Campaign -- May-June 1864.
Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University Department  of  History
and Speaker at U.S.  Army War College                       

May 12
Did Lincoln Own Slaves?
Gerald J.  Prokopowicz, East Carolina University,  Associate
Professor of History                                        

June 9
Shock  Troops  of  the Confederacy:
The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia

Fred L. Ray, Author and Publisher, Asheville, NC

July 14
How the South Could Have Won the Civil War
Bevin  Alexander,  Military  History  Author   and   Adjunct
Professor, Longwood University. Recent book:                
How the South Could Have Won the Civil War

August 11
The Legacy of Civil War Medicine
Betsy Estilow, President of the Board of  Directors  of  the
National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, MD

September 8
Grant  and  Lee  in  the Overland Campaign:
Views  from  the  Battle,  Home,  and  Historical Fronts

Dr.  Gary W.  Gallagher, Professor in  the  History  of  the
American Civil War, University of Virginia                  

October 13
Behind the Scenes into Winter Storms at Sea
Aboard the Last American Square-Rigger
David Poyer, Author of  Naval  Fiction,  Eastern  Shore

Thursday, November 19 (dinner meeting)
(Subject to be determined)
Dr.  James I.  "Bud"  Robertson  Jr.,  Alumni  Distinguished
Professor in History, Virginia Tech                         

December 8
Joe Johnston - The Man
Dr. Richard M. McMurry, Author, Dalton, GA

2008

January 8
Nelson Lankford
"Cry Havoc: The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861"


February 12
Robert K. Krick
"The Myths of the Won Causes"


March 11
Scott Patchan
"Jubal's July"


April 8
Patrick Schroeder
"The Battles of Appomattox"


May 13
George Rable
"God as General; Was There a Religious History of the Civil War?"


June 10
Craig Symonds
"Lincoln and the Union Navy"


July 8
Frank O'Reilly
"The Generalship of Stonewall Jackson."


August 12
John Quarstein
"Ben Butler and the Contrabands"


September 9
Ed Bearss
"The Battle of Shiloh"


October 14
Jeff Wert
"He Stood Out from the Great War Canvas--Jeb Stuart"


November 13 (dinner meeting)
Ed Ayers
"Aftermath"


December 9
R.E.L. Krick
A topic related to The Seven Days Battles 

2007

 January 9
Mark K. Greenough
"A State House Divided: Virginia's Capitol and the Civil War"


February 13
John Hennessey
The Evolution and State of Battlefield Interpretation
(featuring case studies of Manassas and Fredericksburg)


March 13
Rick Hatcher
Either: "Fort Sumter and the Defense of Charleston"
or "The Battle of Wilson's Creek"


April 10
Bill Marvel
"The Road to Appomattox and Other Adventures in Iconoclasm"


May 8
William W. Freehling
"The Road to Disunion"


June 12
David Coles
Florida in the Civil War


July 10
Kevin Levin
General William Mahone and the Battle of the Crater


August 14
Art Bergeron
The life and career of a Louisiana Unionist, Capt. Dennis Haynes


September 11
Joseph T. Glatthaar
A collective biography of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia


October 9
James Morgan
The Battle of Ball's Bluff


November ?? (dinner meeting)
Thomas P. Lowry
"Confederate Heroines"


December 11
John F. Burgwyn
Col. Henry K. Burgwyn and "Kinchen." 

2006

 January 10
Roger Mudd
A Lifelong Love of History


February 14
A Wilson Greene, Pamplin Park
Petersburg, Va: Confederate City in the Crucible of War


March 14
Stephen Cushman, UVA English
Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle


April 11
Peter Carmichael, UNCG History
Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion


May 9
Charles Lee Cooke, M.D
"The Ambulance Corps"


June 13
Gary Gallagher, UVA History
"The Seven Days Battles - A Major Turning Point in the Civil War"


July 11
John J Fox, III
The Brutal Realities of War


August 8
Noah Andre Trudeau
Black Soldiers' Experience: History of the 4th Division, 9th Corps


September 12
Chris Kolakowski, Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association
Perryville: The Battle for Kentucky


October 10
James M Perry, Wall Street Journal (retired)
Touched with Fire: Five Presidents and the Civil War Battles That Made Them


November 14
Mike Gorman, NPS Richmond (dinner meeting)
"Civil War Richmond Revisited"


December 12
Mr. Stephen Recker
"IX Corps Final Attack: The Pickett's Charge of Antietam" 

2005

 January 11
Mike Gorman
"Richmond Again Taken: Photographing Richmond, 1858-1865"


February 8
Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr.
"Why the Civil War Still Lives"


March 8
Stephen W. Sears


April 12
Hunter Lesser
"Robert E. Lee's Forlorn Hope: Western Virginia, 1861"


May 10
Frank O'Reilly, NPS
Battle of Fredericksburg


June 14
William Bergen, UVA
Grant's Overland Campaign


July 12
Richard McMurry
Western Theatre


August 9
Josiah Bunting
US Grant


September 13
R E L Krick (Bobby)
TBA


October 11
Gordon Rhea
TBA


November 8
Jeff Johnson, NOAA
Monitor Recovery and Museum


December 13
TBA 

2004

 January 13 

John Chodes
"Abraham Lincoln's Two Invasions of New York City"


February 10 

Dr. Charles Cook
"Chimborazo Hospital"


March 9 

Dr. Gary W. Gallagher
"Has Enough Been Written About Gettysburg?"


April 13 

Mark Malvasi
"Question of Slavery"


May 11 

Dr. Elizabeth S. Muhlenfeld
"The Diarist - Mary Chesnut"


June 8 

Gary Ecelbarger
"Bridge Blunder Before the Battle -
Jackson, Shields, Carroll & Port Republic"


July 13 

Robert J. Trout
"Stuart and His Horse Artillery"


August 10 

Bill Young
"Lt. Finnley - P.O.W."


September 14 

Kent Masterson Brown
"Lee's Retreat from Gettysburg"


October 12 

Gail Stephens
"Early's Invasion of Maryland"


November 11 

Taylor Saunders
"R.E. Lee - President of Washington College"


December 14 

Craig Symonds
"Patrick Cleburne" 

2003

 January 14 

Dr. Nelson D. Lankford
"Richmond Burning"


February 11 

Mark A. Snell
"Major General William B. Franklin"


March 11 

Barton Campbell
"The Museum of the Confederacy"


April 8 

DeAnne Blanton
They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers of the Civil War"


May 13 

Ervin L. Jordan, Jr.
"History's Heretics:
Afro-Confederates and the American Civil War"


June 10 

Chris Calkins
"Saving Petersburg's Battlefields"


July 8 

Dave Smith
"They Didn't Like Each Other Much:
Joseph E. Johnston and John C. Pemberton at Vicksburg"


August 12 

Clint Johnson
"Bulls' Eyes and Misfires:
Fifty People Whose Obscure Efforts Shaped the American Civil War"


September 9

Steve Davis
"Why John Bell Hood Has Gotten a Bum Rap for the Fall of Atlanta"


October 14 

Larry Hewitt
"The Confederacy's Best Chance for Victory:
Robert E. Lee and the Battle of Annihilation"


November 11 

Robert K. Krick
"The Confederate Pattons"


December 9 

Dana B. Shoaf
"The Odyssey of a Field Officer" 

2002

January 

John C. Waugh
The Class of 1846: The Civil War's Band of Brothers


February 

John Quarstein
C. S. S. Virginia: Sink Before You Surrender


March 

William J. Cooper, Jr.
Jefferson Davis and His Generals


April 

Edward Smith
The Civil War Through the Eyes of Lincoln, Lee, and Douglas


May 

Frank O'Reilly
Stonewall Jackson and Chancellorsville


June 

William A. Young
Rev. Finley and the 52nd Virginia at Gettysburg


July 

Cramer Gallimore
The Hunley Photography


August 

Scott Bowden
The Battle of Gettysburg


September 

Gordon Rhea
Cold Harbor


October 

Gabor Boritt
Lincoln's Odd Personality


November 

Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo
Lincoln (The Real Lincoln)
Dr. Dilorenzo has a real distaste for Lincoln and should be a great speaker!


December 

Gary Gallagher 

2001

 January 9, 2001  

Dr. Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
"The Robert Knox Sneden Memoir and Sketches"

February 13, 2001

Robert E. L. Krick
"J. Ambler Johnston and the Round Table's 50th Anniversary"

March 13, 2001

Joseph L. Harsh
"Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign"

April 10, 2001

Ernest B. Furgurson
"Not War But Murder, Cold Harbor 1864"

May 8, 2001

Gary W. Gallagher
"Coming to Terms with Defeat: Confederates in the Early Postwar Period"

June 12, 2001

Robert A. Jones
"Confederate Corsair: The Life of Lt. Charles W. 'Savez' Read"

July 10, 2001

Alex Wise
"The Tredegar National Civil War Museum"

August 14, 2001

Christopher L. Kolakowski
"Stars and Stripes on Marye's Heights"

September 11, 2001

Dr. Richard McMurray
"Thoughts on the Atlanta Campaign"

October 16, 2001

Dr. Art Bergeron
"Henry Heth in the Petersburg Campaign"

November 13, 2001

Mrs. Virginia B. Morton
"Marching Through Culpeper"

December 11, 2001

Bob Krick

2000

January

Robert J. Schneller

John W. Grattan, USN, and the Experience of Naval Combat in the War


February

Mark K. Ragan

Union and Confederate Submarine Warfare in the Civil War


March

Steven H. Newton

Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmond

April

Don Allison

Diary of a POW at Belle Isle


May

Thomas Cartwright

The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee

June

David Johnson

Douglas Southall Freeman


July

Thomas G. Clemens

"Will the Real Iron Brigade Please Stand Up!"


August

James L. Conrad

The Confederate States Naval Academy


September

William J. Miller

Union leadership in the 1862 Valley


October

Richard R. Duncan

Lee's Endangered Left in 1864


November

Craig Symonds

Admiral Franklin Buchanan


December

Edwin C. Bearss

The Raising of the Cairo 

1999

January

Howard E. Bartholf

The Story of Libby Prison


February

A. Wilson Greene

The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier: A Preview


March

Charles E. Walton

Elmira Prison Camp


April

James P. Gannon

6th Louisiana Infantry "Irish Rebels"


May

Jerry W. Holsworth

The Battle of New Market


June

J. Tracy Power

Cold Harbor as Seen by the Army of Northern Virginia


July

Charles D. Ross

Acoustics in the Civil War


August

William Glenn Robertson

Longstreet at Chickamauga


September

John L. Heatwole

Sheridan's Burning of the Shenandoah Valley


October

Scott Mauger

The Cabinet of Jefferson Davis


November

Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr.

Lt. Commander William B. Cushing, USN


December

William C. Davis

Lincoln and the Union Soldier

1998

January 

David R. Ruth

Hanover County Civilians during the Civil War

February 

James Tice Moore

Virginia's Civil War Governors

March 

Robin Reed

The Lighter Side of Soldier Life


April 

Edward L. Ayers

The "Valley of the Shadow" Project


May 

Donald C. Pfanz

General Richard S. Ewell


June

Jeff Driscoll

The Life of Billy Yank


July

Gary Ecelbarger

The Jackson-Garnett Court Martial


August


September

Brian Steel Wills

The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest


October 

Eric Campbell

Gettysburg Through the Words of the Soldiers


November 

Wayne Motts

Gen. Lewis A. Armistead


December 

Keith and Pat Gibson

Civil War Music

1997

January

John M. Coski

"The Four Most Valuable Men in the Confederate Navy"

February

David F. Bastian

Grant's Vicksburg Canal

March

Gary W. Gallagher

Guerrilla War


April

Michael F. Holt

"Did Slavery Cause the Civil War? Another Look"

May

Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr.

The Wilmington Campaign


June

Daniel W. Barefoot

General Robert F. Hoke


July  

Robert O'Neill

The Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville


August

Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.

The Red River Campaign 


September

Gregg S. Clemmer

Confederate Medal of Honor Recipients


October

Ernest B.  Furgurson

Richmond at War


November

Scott Mauger

The Life of John Pelham


December

James I. Robertson, Jr.

The Writing of Stonewall Jackson.

1996

January

Noah A. Trudeau

Fighting Along the New Market, Darbytown, and Williamsburg Roads, October 1864

February

Dennis E. Frye

Why Antietam Should Never Have Occurred


March

Mark L. Bradley

The Battle of Bentonville


April

Edward L. Ayers

"Worrying About the Civil War"


May

Edward G. Longacre

General George E. Pickett


July

William J. Miller

Jed Hotchkiss


August

Robert E. L. Krick

Stonewall Jackson and the Seven Days


September

Mac Wyckoff

Kershaw's Brigade in the Seven Days


October

John Hennessy

Abraham Lincoln and the Virginia Front in 1862


November

Gordon Rhea

Lee's Generalship in the Wilderness and Spotsylvania


December

Robert K. Krick

"Stonewall Jackson's Books"

1995

January

A. Wilson Greene

Stoneman's Raid


February

Robert P. Johnson

Civil War generals in the Mexican War


March

Robert K. Krick

William E. "Grumble" Jones


April

Peter S. Carmichael

Willie Pegram - Lee's Young Artillerist


May

Gary W. Gallagher

The Army of Northern Virginia in May 1864: A Crisis in Command

June

Danny Shackelford

The War in Missouri and Kansas


July

James M. McPherson

The Chancellorsville Syndrome


August

Robert J. Trout

The Stuart Horse Artillery


September

Christopher M. Calkins

Lee's Retreat to Appomattox


October

Gregory A. Mertz

J.E.B. Stuart at Chancellorsville


November

Chris J. Hartley

General James B. Gordon


December 

1994

January                               

W. Roland Galvin  

George Wythe Randolph


February                              

Frank O'Reilly             

Evolution of Cavalry in 1864 and the Battle of Trevilian's Station


March                                  

John Hennessy  

Union Subordinate Command in the Peninsula Campaign


April                                     

Theodore P. Savas  

CSS Arkansas in the Defense of Vicksburg


May                                       

Robert E. L. Krick  

Sheridan's Raid and the Battle of Yellow Tavern


June                                      

Gary W. Gallagher  

Shenandoah Valley, 1862/ 1864


July                                       

John M. Coski  

The 32nd Wisconsin Infantry


August                                  

Mark Malvasi  

The African-American Struggle for Freedom


September                           

Jeffry D. Wert  

The Generalship of James Longstreet


October                                

Richard McMurry  

The Atlanta Campaign


November                            

John M. Priest  

The Opening Day of the Wilderness


December                           

Henny Schuster  

Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Howell Davis

1993

January                       

Edward Longacre                                     

Army of the James in the Virginia Campaign


February                        

Henny Schuster                                     

Flora Cooke Stuart


March                             

Robert J. Trout                            

"The Men Who Followed Stuart's Plume"


April                               

Ernest B. Ferguson, Jr.                            

Chancellorsville


May                                

J. Anderson Thomson                            

"Putting the General [Lee] on the Couch"


June                              

James C. Kelly and Giles Cromwell    

How the South Armed Itself


September                    

Craig L. Symonds                                    

Joseph E. Johnston in the Atlanta Campaign


October                         

Mark Malvasi                                    

Masters and Slaves in the Antebellum South


November                     

Peggy Vogtsberger                                    

Welbourne: Diaries and Letters of the Dulany Family, 1861-1865


December                     

H. Alexander Wise, Jr.                            

John S. Wise of Virginia

1992

January                          

L. C. Angle, Jr.                

The War in Southwest Virginia


February                        

Charles F. Bryan, Jr.         

Virginia's Yankee Generals


March                             

John Hennessy         

Subordinate Commanders in the Army of the Potomac


April                               

Theodore P. Savas                

The Battle of Payne's Farm


May                                 

Michael Litterst                 

Lincoln's Visit to Richmond


June                               

C. Hobson Goddin                 

The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid


September                     

Joseph L. Harsh         

McClellan and the Maryland Campaign Reconsidered


October                          

David Ruth                 

Siege of Charleston


November                      

William A. Young, Jr.         

Rev. George W. Finley, 56th Virginia Infantry


December                      

Robert K. Krick         

The Virginia Homefront

1991

January                        

Frank A. O'Reilly                  

Archer's Brigade at Fredericksburg


February                      

J.E.B. Stuart, IV                 

The military legacies of J.E.B. Stuart

 
March                           

Christopher M. Calkins          

The Battle of Five Forks


April                             

Dennis E. Frye                   

Mosby vs. Sheridan in the Valley


May                              

Steven J. Schmit                   

Strategy and Tactics in the Western Theater


June                             

Richard McMurry           

The Gettysburg Decision


September             

William A. Tidwell                   

The Confederate Secret Service


October                       

Ted Tunnell                   

The Carpetbagger's Tale


November                    

A. Wilson Greene                    

Gettysburg - Culp's Hill


December                    

Tom Lewis                    

"Putting Historical Preservation into Politics"

1990

January                       

Steven A. Cormier                    

The Siege of Suffolk


February                     

James H. Blankenship, Jr.     

A History of City Point


March                          

Christopher M. Calkins            

The Petersburg Campaign 


April                             

William C. Davis                   

"Myths and Realities of the Civil War"


May                              

John B. Carter                     

General Wade Hampton


June                            

John E. Divine                     

Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign


September                  

William F.  Mallory                     

The Battle of Chaffin's Farm


October                       

Paul N. Meier                     

The Amphibious Assaults on Fort Fisher
November                   

Douglas O. Tice             

The "Lost Cause" movement


December                   

Harriet A. Engler                     

"Attire During the Civil War"

1989

January                      

Dennis P. Mroczkowski              

Fort Monroe and the Monitor and the Virginia


February                     

Merlin E. Sumner                      

"Some Observations on Grant and His Army"


March                          

Howard O. Hendricks               

Artifacts of the Overland Campaign in The Museum of the Confederacy


April                            

Thomas A. Wheat, M.D.               

The Confederate Medical Service


May                              

Gary W. Gallagher                       

The Antietam Campaign


June                             

Richard M. McMurry               

Confederate Newspapers


September             

William D. Matter                       

The Struggle for the Salient


October                       

Quiz meeting                       

The Petersburg Campaign


November             

Michael J. Andrus                       

General Edward "Allegheny" Johnson


December             

James I. Robertson, Jr.              

"Stonewall Jackson: Cromwell of the Confederacy"

1988

January                        

Douglas O. Tice

The Confederate Constitution


February                      

William D. Henderson

The Road to Bristoe Station


March                           

Jeffrey D. Wert         

Early vs. Sheridan: Generalship in the 1864 Valley Campaign


May                               

Gregory A. Mertz         

The Lee-Jackson Connection


June                              

Richard M. Lee  

Wartime Washington and Richmond

 
September                    

Robert H. Prosperi         

The Development of Gettysburg National Military Park


October                         

Quiz meeting         

Gettysburg Campaign


November                     

Benjamin F. Cooling  

Forts Henry and Donelson Revisited


December                     

Patricia Sumner        

"The Fighting Lady - The Woman in Uniform"

1987

January                         

A. Wilson Greene          

Stonewall Jackson and the Seven Days


February                       

James I. Robertson, Jr.  

General A. P. Hill


March                            

Joseph A. Gutterrez, Jr.  

USS Monitor and CSS Virginia


April                              

K. Jeremy Williams          

The Confederate Navy and Its British Connection


May                               

Gary W. Gallagher          

The Unpublished Porter Alexander


June                             

Ralph W. Donnelly          

The Confederate Marine Corps


September                   

Dennis E. Frye          

Leadership in the Maryland Campaign


October                       

John E. Divine          

The Second Ride Around McClellan


November                    

A. Wilson Greene          

Meade vs. Jackson at Fredericksburg


December                    

Mary P. Coulling          

The Lee Girls

1986

January                      

Herbert M. Schiller           

Bermuda Hundred Campaign


February                       

Oscar C. Wev           

Civil War Naval Operations on the Western Rivers


March                           

Christopher M. Calkins   

The Battle of Five Forks


April                             

James T. Moore   

Disloyalty in the Confederacy


May                               

Richard McMurry   

General John Bell Hood in the Atlanta and Tennessee Campaigns


June                             

Elizabeth Scott McKemie and the Curators of the Museum

Behind-the-Scenes at The Museum of the Confederacy


September                   

Robert R. Smith   

The Battle of Ox Hill


October                       

James C. Ruehrmund   

Money in Wartime Richmond


November                   

Robert K. Krick           

Reflections on Longstreet's Attitudes


December                   

Daniel P. Jordan          

"Richmond, First City of the Confederacy"

1985

January 1985

William C. Davis

The Siege of Charleston


February 1985

Edwin C. Bearss

The Battle of Brice's Crossroad


March 1985

Ludwell H. Johnson

Red River Campaign


April 1985

B. David Mann

General George E. Pickett


May 1985

Kim B. Holien

The Battle of Ball's Bluff


June 1985

Millard L. Spivey

Longstreet and His Virginians at Chickamauga


September 1985

Mary Tyler Freeman

Cheek Douglas Southall Freeman and the Writings of R. E. Lee


October 1985

Virginius Dabney

Richmond Before, During and After the War


November 1985

John W. Lynn

Andersonville: Now and Then


December 1985

Jon Kukla

Hollywood Cemetery

1984

January 1984

John E. Divine

Cavalry Actions Prior to Gettysburg


February 1984

William F. Mallory

Lee and Longstreet at Gettysburg


March 1984

Richard McMurry

The Army of Tennessee vs. The Army of Northern Virginia


April 1984

James O. Hall

The Dahlgren Papers


May 1984

Dennis E. Frye

The Siege and Capture of Harpers Ferry


June 1984

Charles W. Royster

The Character of General William T. Sherman


September 1984

Douglas O. Tice (affirmative) and William F. Mallory (negative)
"Was Stuart Right in Taking the Route He Did from Virginia to Gettysburg?"


October 1984

Quiz meeting

Confederate and Federal Cavalry


November 1984

David A. Bovenizer

"From Appomattox to Aquarius: The Continuing Cause"


December 1984

Harold E. Howard

The Returning Confederate Soldier

1983

January 1983

Dan Balfour

George H. Thomas


February 1983

Robert K. Krick

Cedar Mountain


March 1983

Richard McMurry

General John Bell Hood


April 1983

C. Hobson Goddin

General Jubal A. Early


May 1983

J.E.B. Stuart, IV

J.E.B. Stuart's Early Years


June 1983

James L. Morrison, Jr.

General Henry Heth


September 1983

Robert G. Tanner

"Stonewall in the Valley"


October 1983

Quiz meeting  

"General in Gray - General in Blue"


November 1983

Andrew N. Lytle

"On Being a Southerner"


Dece mber 1983

J. Bryan, III

"The Sword Over the Mantel"

1982

Febuary 1982

H. Douglas Pitts

Letters of a Gaston Ranger


March 1982

Douglas O. Tice

Eppa Hunton


April 1982

James T. Moore

The Confederate Cabinet


May 1982

Louis H. Manarin

Henrico County in the Civil War


June 1982

Michael Chesson

Richmond During the War


September 1982

Richard J. Sommers

Lee and Grant at Richmond and Petersburg


October 1982

Quiz meeting

Richmond During the War


November 1982

John W. Schildt

Hunter Holmes McGuire


December 1982

Les Jensen

"The Common Soldier, the Lighter Side"

1981

January 1981

Christopher M.  Calkins

Sayler's Creek


February 1981

Francis F. Wilshin

First Manassas and the David Bullock Harris Maps


March 1981

John P. Ackerly, III

Jackson's McDowell Campaign


April 1981

Oscar C. V. Wev

Cruise of the CSS Alabama


May 1981

John Broadwater

Civil War shipwrecks


June 1981

James L. Morrison, Jr.

West Point and the Confederacy


September 1981

E. B. Potter

"Yorktown - the Campaign that won Our Independence"


October 1981

William F. Mallory

Longstreet after the War


November 1981

Richard D. Mudd

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination


December 1981

Emory M. Thomas

"The Confederate State of Richmond Revisited"

1980

January 1980

Henry M. Holland, M.D.

"The Stonewall Personality"


February 1980

C. Hobson Goddin

The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid


March 1980

John B. Breeden

The "Other" Civil War Prisons in Richmond


April 1980

John Davis

Appomattox Manor


May 1980

Michael Thomas

Roberdeau Wheat and the Louisiana Tigers


June 1980

Betty Ownsby

Lewis Paine


September 1980

Edwin C. Bearss

Jackson at Cross Keys and Port Republic


October 1980

Quiz meeting

Jackson's Valley Campaign


November 1980

James H. Dement, Jr.

Phil Sheridan


December 1980

James I. Robertson, Jr.

"Ambler Johnston and One of Historical Dreams"

1980

January 1980

Henry M. Holland, M.D.

"The Stonewall Personality"


February 1980

C. Hobson Goddin

The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid


March 1980

John B. Breeden

The "Other" Civil War Prisons in Richmond


April 1980

John Davis

Appomattox Manor


May 1980

Michael Thomas

Roberdeau Wheat and the Louisiana Tigers


June 1980

Betty Ownsby

Lewis Paine


September 1980

Edwin C. Bearss

Jackson at Cross Keys and Port Republic


October 1980

Quiz meeting

Jackson's Valley Campaign


November 1980

James H. Dement, Jr.

Phil Sheridan


December 1980

James I. Robertson, Jr.

"Ambler Johnston and One of Historical Dreams"









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