Current and Past Speakers
2025
January 14:* Megan Kate Nelson
"The Three-Cornered War: The Union, The Confederacy, and
Native Peoples in the Fight for the West"
February 11:* Keven Walker
"Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation"
March 11: Steven Longenecker
"Pulpits of the Lost Cause: The Faith and Politics of Former
Confederate Chaplains During Reconstruction"
April 8: Phil Stone
"Lincoln's Virginia Family"
May 13: Joe Stahl and Matt Borders
"Faces of Union Soldiers at Antietam, Fredericksburg,
and Culp's Hill"
June 10: Clayton Butler
"True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South During
the Civil War and Reconstruction"
July 8: Barton Myers
"Lincoln's Commanders from the Old Dominion"
August 12: Peter Luebke
" Death Loves a Shining Mark: St. Joseph Tucker Randolph's
Civil War"
September 9: Dr. Lesley Gordon
"Cowardice and Combat in the Civil War"
October 14: Mike Gorman
"What's New In Civil War Richmond History"
November 11 (Annual Dinner Meeting):
Jonathan White
"Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks,
Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade"
December 9: Dr. Elizabeth Varon
Topic to be determined
*January and February Meetings via Zoom
Due to circumstances beyond our control, it is possible that
programs may change without notice
2024
January 9:* Megan Bever
"Drinking and Duty Among Civil War Soldiers"
February 13:* Dr. Jeffry Wert
"General, They Are Coming"
March 12: Carolyn B. Ivanoff
"Clara Barton: The Life and Legacy of an American Icon"
April 9: Dr. Christian B. Keller
"Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed"
May 14: Patrick Falci
"The Man in the Red Shirt:
The Life of A.P. Hill"
June 11: Wayne Motts
"Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg"
July 9: Frank O'Reilly
"Stuart & Sheridan - And the Road to Yellow Tavern"
August 13: Dr. Brad Gottfried
"The Antietam Paintings of James B. Hope"
September 10: Scott Mingus
"If We are Striking for Pennsylvania:
The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac
March to Gettysburg"
October 8: Bobby Krick
"Too Big a Man and too Small to be a Horse: A Biographical
Overview of Confederate General William H.F. 'Rooney' Lee"
November 12 (Annual Dinner Meeting):
Robert Hancock
"The Slaughters of Lynchburg: Where North Meets South"
December 10: Sarah Bierle
"John Pelham: Trained at West Point but Aiming Artillery
for the Confederacy"
*January and February Meetings via Zoom
Due to circumstances beyond our control, it is possible that
programs may change without notice
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: Dr. Clay Mountcastle
"Confederate Guerrillas and the Union Generals
Who Hated Them"
July 11: James Hessler
"The Fight at East Cavalry Field"
August 8: Emmanuel Dabney
"Recruitment and Training of USCT"
September 12: Dr. Jonathan Jones
"Civil War Veterans' Addictions"
October 10: Rob Havers
"Anticipations of War in the Antebellum United States"
November 14 (Annual Dinner Meeting): Garry Adelman
"Battlefield Preservation Extravaganza:
People, Politics, Parcels, and Progress"
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"