tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90185179185422993552024-03-12T19:01:27.126-04:00Louisville Civil War Round TableLouisville Civil War Round Tablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10838076935823880089noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-10777905762178036252020-04-15T09:06:00.002-04:002020-04-15T09:06:12.147-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">If Ellwood Manor, the home of the Jones/Lacy family, were simply a late 18th Century structure in Orange (formerly Spotsylvania) County, VA, it would deserve attention. Add to that its use as a field hospital after the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, as a staging site for Union troops during the Battle of the Wilderness, and the headquarters of Army Corps Commanders Generals Gouverneur Warren and Ambrose Burnside, and it becomes even more deserving. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But I suspect it's lasting fame is that its cemetery contains the burial location of Stonewall Jacksons amputated left arm. From NPS.gov:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"On May 2, 1863, Jackson was wounded by the mistaken fire of his own troops at Chancellorsville. Surgeons removed the injured limb at nearby Wilderness tavern. The following day, Jackson's chaplain Beverley Tucker Lacy, carried the amputated arm across the fields and buried it in his brother's graveyard. It remains here to this day, the only marked grave in the cemetery."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">During and after these battles, Ellwood did not fare well and stood empty until 1872, when the Lacys returned from their primary home, Chatham Manor. The cemetery and grounds were used for soldiers' burials, both CSA and USA. Those remains were transferred after the war. </span></div>
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<br />Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-28769659792657778482020-02-09T11:12:00.001-05:002020-02-09T11:12:25.840-05:00<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Announcing Our 549th Meeting</span></b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu9S5dc8bB3X1MOTm1RiPjSQsAI52M6JgDQQ2eIarmIGXa9kY6XsVhF2bDc_6af4s9UCpeXBvota03oHB0RGKtAB_bAvtgfV9xvE2HBBil-4WZG8sDYr7M_WFiPe7BfV5Vx_Q64WXPAf8/s1600/kolakowski.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="521" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu9S5dc8bB3X1MOTm1RiPjSQsAI52M6JgDQQ2eIarmIGXa9kY6XsVhF2bDc_6af4s9UCpeXBvota03oHB0RGKtAB_bAvtgfV9xvE2HBBil-4WZG8sDYr7M_WFiPe7BfV5Vx_Q64WXPAf8/s400/kolakowski.jpg" width="285" /></a><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Christopher L. Kolakowski was born and raised in Fredericksburg, Va. He received his BA in History and Mass Communications from Emory & Henry College, and his MA in Public History from the State University of New York at Albany.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chris has spent his career interpreting and preserving American military history with the National Park Service, New York State government, the Rensselaer County (NY) Historical Society, the Civil War Preservation Trust, Kentucky State Parks, and the U.S. Army. He has written and spoken on various aspects of military history from 1775 to the present. He has published two books with the History Press: <b>The Civil War at Perryville: Battling For the Bluegrass</b> and <b>The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaign: This Army Does Not Retreat.</b> In September 2016 the U.S. Army published his volume on the 1862 Virginia Campaigns as part of its sesquicentennial series on the Civil War. He is a contributor to the <i>Emerging Civil War Blog</i>, and his study of the 1941-42 Philippine Campaign titled <b>Last Stand on Bataan </b>was released in late February 2016. He is currently working on a book about the 1944 India-Burma battles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On January 6, 2020, Chris became Director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, after serving as MacArthur Memorial Director from September 16, 2013, to December 6, 2019. Chris is a past member of our Round Table and a Past President. He has also led 3 field trips for our group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chris will have copies of his books <b>The Civil War at Perryville: Battling For the Bluegrass </b>and <b>The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaign: This Army Does Not Retreat </b>and <b>Last Stand on Bataan</b> at the meeting.</span><br />
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Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-24176460199518408852020-01-08T21:49:00.002-05:002020-01-08T21:49:47.775-05:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Announcing Our 548th Meeting</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Saturday, January 18,2020</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Civil War: Kentucky’s Mercurial Path</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We welcome back Kent Masterson Brown who will deliver the 25th Annual Frank Rankin Lecture. Kent was born in Lexington, Kentucky on February 5, 1949. He is a 1971 graduate – and in 2014 named a distinguished graduate - of Centre College and received his juris doctor degree in 1974 from Washington and Lee University School of Law. Kent has practiced law for forty-four years with offices in Lexington and Washington, DC. Kent has published six books, all on the Civil War, including <b>Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander</b>, <b>Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics and the Pennsylvania Campaign</b>, and<b> One of Morgan’s Men: The Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry</b>; they have been selections of the History Book Club and Military Book Club. All of them have received rave reviews and numerous national awards. He is currently writing <b>George Gordon Meade and the Gettysburg Campaign</b>, which will go to press in the summer of 2020.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kent has also written, hosted, and produced eight award-winning documentary films for public and cable television, including: <i>Bourbon and Kentucky: A History Distilled, Henry Clay and the Struggle for the Union, Unsung Hero: The Horse in the Civil War, Daniel Boone and the Opening of the American West</i>, and <i>“I Remember The Old Home Very Well:” The Lincolns in Kentucky. </i>All Kent’s films have been widely broadcast throughout the United States, Canada, and overseas. Two of his films, Daniel Boone and The Lincolns in Kentucky, won the regional television ratings when they were premiered on Kentucky Educational Television. All have won Telly Awards; Unsung Hero was nominated for an Emmy Award.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A nationally known speaker and Civil War battlefield guide, Kent was the first chairman of the Gettysburg National Military Park Advisory Commission and the first chairman of the Perryville (Kentucky) Battlefield Commission, a seat he held for eleven years overseeing the expansion of the Perryville Battlefield. He served on the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and is now a member of the Kentucky Film Commission. He has also been a director of the Gettysburg Foundation. Kent is now the President and Content Developer for the Witnessing History Education Foundation, Inc. Kent lives in Lexington with his wife, Genevieve, and their three children, Annie Louise, Philip and Thomas.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Civil War: Kentucky’s Mercurial Course</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the time of the secession crisis in the winter and spring of 1861, Kentucky had all the indicators of joining her sister slave States in seceding from the Union but did not. Instead, Kentucky became, for all practical purposes, a Union State, even though 35,000 Kentuckians joined the Confederate armies. By War’s end, Kentucky, as a State, believed it had embraced the wrong side, and, in the years after the War, became as ardently “Confederate” as its sister southern States. It remains so all the way through the mid-twentieth century. This is that story.</span><br />
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Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-28734064777946847492019-11-12T13:16:00.001-05:002019-11-12T13:16:41.053-05:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Announcing our 546th Meeting</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sunday, November 17, 2019</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Presented by David Dixon</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">David spoke at the 2016 Sacred Trust Talks in Gettysburg and has delivered nearly 100 talks to audiences across the country. He appeared on Civil War Talk Radio and other podcasts. He hosts B-List History, a website that features obscure characters and their compelling stories. You may download free pdf versions of his published articles on that website at<a href="http://www.davidtdixon.com/"> www.davidtdixon.com</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">David’s latest book is the biography of German revolutionary and Union General August Willich and will be published by the University of Tennessee Press in September 2020. It highlights the contributions of more than 180,000 German-American immigrants to the Union effort in the Civil War. Transatlantic radicals like Willich viewed the war as part of a much larger, global revolution for social justice and republican government. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">David is currently writing a biography of U.S. and Confederate Congressman Augustus Wright of Georgia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Few remember Edward Everett's oration that preceded Lincoln's famous address, but hardly anyone is aware of Kentucky native Charles Anderson's oration, which concluded the day's events. The speech was never published, and the lost manuscript only recently uncovered at a ranch in Wyoming. Dixon argues that the three featured speeches of November 19, 1863 need to be viewed as a rhetorical ensemble to better understand the political context of the Gettysburg dedication. The back story to this is the saga of Anderson himself, a slaveholder who sacrificed nearly everything to help Lincoln save the Union. An escapee from a Confederate prison in Texas, he became Lincoln's emissary to Great Britain. He then nearly died commanding a Union regiment at Stones River. He eventually became governor of Ohio. These are just some of his amazing adventures during the war.</span><br />
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Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-10288978558997105892019-11-12T13:06:00.004-05:002019-11-12T13:06:34.720-05:00<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In Memoriam</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> We regret to inform you that James I. “Bud” Robertson Jr., passed away on Saturday, November 2, after a long battle with cancer. He had spoken at our round table over 40 times beginning in the 1960’s and always looked forward to coming to Kentucky. He will be greatly missed by all the Civil War community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> William C. “Jack” Davis said, “For fully six decades Bud Robertson was a dominant figure in his field, and a great encouragement to all who would study our turbulent past during the middle of the 19th century,. Moreover, amid a conversation that can still become bitter and confrontational, his was a voice for reason, patience, and understanding. In the offing, he has become virtually ‘Mr. Virginia,’ a spokesperson for the commonwealth past, present, and future. His voice is now sorely missed — and irreplaceable.”</span><br />
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Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-9233216389202647192019-10-11T09:51:00.000-04:002019-10-11T09:51:05.920-04:00<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Announcing Our 545th Meeting</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Friday, October 11, 2019 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Robert has been a historical researcher, primarily at The National Archives and Library of Congress, working with nationally-recognized experts. He also was principle researcher on Time-Life Books 18-volume series <b>Voices of the Civil War</b> and <b>The Illustrated History of the Civil War.</b> Hodge’s interest became preserving historic green space when he interned with the National Park Service’s Civil War Sites Advisory Commission in 1992. He has organized battlefield preservation fund-raisers that have garnered over $160,000. He also serves on the board of directors of the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust (the CVBT); an organization that has protected over 1,300 acres at Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, The Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, since 1996. Hodge was featured on the National Geographic Channel and Time magazine in 2011, wrote for The Washington Post during the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and was a researcher for the U.S. Army in 2013.
In 2016 he wrote the script for the film at Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage. In 2017 he appeared in The Wall Street Journal and on National Public Radio’s Kojo Nnamdi Show and Chinese Central Television about Confederate monuments and Civil War memory. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In 2019 Hodge started blogging for the Emerging Civil War. ECW is currently running his “Yellowhammers and Environmentalism” series about Evander Law’s Alabama Brigade’s route of march to Gettysburg. He’s also writing about the loss of historic green space.
</span>Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-86084860792507286602019-09-28T20:09:00.001-04:002019-09-28T20:09:42.963-04:00<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>American Civil War Monuments</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This granite shaft with marble plaques was erected in 1870 between Mt Ephraim and Goodall Streets in coastal Searsport. then moved in 1896 in front of the then new Masonic and Odd Fellows Hall on Main Street near Elm. On two marble plaques the monument lists the names of 18 Searsport men who fought and died from these Maine units: the 4th, the 1st Mounted Artillery, the 1st Cavalry, the 2nd Cavalry, Heavy Artillery, and 2 who enlisted in other states: the 13th NY Artillery and the 113th ILL Regiment. It is flanked by a pair of iron cannons.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> From </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">https://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=46641 : </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Local legend claimed that one of the tablets had been engraved with the name of a living man who had paid a volunteer to enlist in his place. The enlistee was killed but the name engraved was the surviving individual. Subsequent research in 1982 by Charlene Knox Farris revealed legend to be fact."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Re-dedicated July 4, 1990.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A Tribute To Our Citizens Who fought in defense of the Union 1861-5 </i></span></div>
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Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-14628149663427994292019-09-09T16:18:00.000-04:002019-09-09T16:18:26.558-04:00<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Announcing our 544th Meeting</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We are pleased to welcome back to our Round Table Brian
Steel Wills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the director of the
Center for the Study of the Civil War Era and Professor of History at Kennesaw
State University in Kennesaw, Georgia, after a long tenure at the University of
Virginia’s College at Wise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfF7wzYgLo3gV8JljwBUGN7OFmV8qIwC2qhojFO8wNjhXodGt1ax6H-3jItvpDERHbrmBbWe9qnlFEVs9qF-oCgtUPh_a_9JZdsl1N-fEHuJQZf4lfFSpTwa2hp-uXk51SIIq6_4WV50/s1600/wills.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="300" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfF7wzYgLo3gV8JljwBUGN7OFmV8qIwC2qhojFO8wNjhXodGt1ax6H-3jItvpDERHbrmBbWe9qnlFEVs9qF-oCgtUPh_a_9JZdsl1N-fEHuJQZf4lfFSpTwa2hp-uXk51SIIq6_4WV50/s320/wills.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He is the author of numerous works relating to the American
Civil War, including a new volume – <b>The River Was Dyed with Blood: Nathan
Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">His other titles include:<b> A Battle From the Start: The Life
of Nathan Bedford Forrest </b>Reprinted as: <b>The Confederacy’s Greatest Cavalryman:
Nathan Bedford Forrest.</b> This work was chosen as both a History Book Club
selection and a Book of the Month Club selection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He also authored <b>The War in Southeastern Virginia, </b>released
in October 2001, and <b>No Ordinary College: A History of The University of
Virginia’s College at Wise</b>, (2004), both by the University Press of Virginia.<b>
Gone with the Glory: The Civil War in Cinema</b> appeared in 2006. An updated
edition of the James I. “Bud” Robertson, Jr.,<b> Civil War Sites in Virginia</b>
(Virginia, 2011) arrived just in time for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil
War, and in 2012 and 2013, Brian authored <b>George Henry Thomas: As True as Steel
</b>and <b>Confederate General William Dorsey Pender: The Hope of Glory.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from the state of Virginia, one of eleven recipients from all faculty members
at public and private institutions across the state. He was named Kenneth
Asbury Professor of History and won both the Teaching award and the Research
and Publication award from UVA-Wise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>"Inglorious Passages</b> received the Harwell Award at the
Atlanta Civil War Round Table for the best book of 2017, and it was a finalist
for the 2017 Emerging Civil War Book Award.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In my talk, I will try to shine a light on those stories of individuals
that went to war and didn’t come home and try to understand the full element of
what those stories involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think
back on a Georgia recruit who’s spelling was challenged, but he would talk
about the “vakants” in the ranks, and he said that those folks would not be
able to rejoin the circle of friends—and he couldn’t spell “circle” either—or
be around the fireside. Those places would never be filled. That made me think
that those individuals need not be forgotten."</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-56905451435980257372019-07-23T14:32:00.000-04:002019-07-23T14:32:06.735-04:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>American Civil War Monuments</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Soldiers Monument</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Belfast Memorial Hall, Church St. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This very simple granite shaft is situated in front of Belfast's Memorial Hall. Sited with field pieces, it was dedicated on May 30, 1924. The cost of $1750 was paid for by Grand Army of the Republic groups and private citizens.</span><br />
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Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-71730307291153357372019-05-02T22:33:00.003-04:002019-05-02T22:33:52.506-04:00<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Announcing Our 538Th Meeting</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Saturday, May 11 </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The son of a World War Two U.S. Army Air Corps/U.S. Air Force officer, Greg Biggs is a Chicago area native. He attended college at the University of Tampa in Florida and Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. He has been a student of military history for 55 years with interests starting with the ancient Greeks and going through military affairs of today. Within this he specializes in the Revolutionary War, Frederick the Great, the Napoleonic era and the Civil War. He is also a student of tanks and armor doctrine as well as World War Two in all theaters. Greg lectures on the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and World War Two across the country to roundtables, museums, historical societies and conferences. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Greg was also lead historian on the Civil War Fort Defiance Interpretive Center project in Clarksville, Tennessee. Greg's Civil War articles have been published in <i>Blue & Gray Magazine, Citizen's Companion, Civil War News, Civil War Regiments journal, Civil War Trust's Hallowed Ground, Battle of Franklin Trust's Battlefield Dispatch</i> and several Sons of Confederate Veterans publications as well as a chapter in a recent book on the Tullahoma Campaign and has a forthcoming article in<i> Civil War Times</i>. He has also done research for several noted Civil War authors and their book projects. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Greg is also a recognized authority of Civil War flags. He has been published on the topic numerous times and has consulted with museums, auction houses and private collectors over the years. He is a text editor and essayist for the authoritative Flags of the Confederacy web site (www.confederate-flags.org). An experienced tour guide, Greg has led many Civil War battlefield tours for civilians and staff rides for the U.S. Army and the Israeli Air Force including the Fort Donelson Campaign, Civil War Clarksville and Guerrilla War, the Tullahoma Campaign, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, the Atlanta Campaign and Where The River Campaigns Began - Cairo, IL to Columbus, KY. Greg lives in Clarksville, Tennessee with his school teacher wife Karel and their four cats (named for Civil War cavalry officers). He is president of the Clarksville CWRT and program chair of the Nashville CWRT and has been involved in the CWRT movement since 1987 while living in California. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An examination of the Confederacy’s military supply system, surveying the food, manufacturing and raw materials areas of the South. Covering the military departments that handled various aspects of supply, this also looks at the great Confederate supply successes as well as the failures, in addition to their effects on military campaigns. A number of myths will be debunked such as “the agrarian South” which was actually quite industrialized. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Battle of Wildcat Mountain, also known as Camp Wildcat, was located outside London, Ky. The Laurel Home Guard Reservation was the site of CSA Gen. Felix Zollicoffer's camp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fought on October 21, 1861, this small battle was the first Union victory in Ky, effectively ending the Confederate incursion under Brig Gen. Felix Zollicoffer. Zollicoffer and his force of approximately 5400 men had entered the state and occupied the Cumberland Gap. The camp at Wildcat Mountain was established by Col. Theophilus T. Garrard and his small force of 975 men under orders by USA Brig. Gen. George H. Thomas in order to block the Wilderness Road and secure the river ford on the Rockcastle. After Garrard's request for reinforcements, Thomas ordered Brig. Gen. Albin Schoepf to reinforce the heavily outnumbered Garrard, the Union forces numbered approx. 7000. Schoepf and his troops arrived at Camp Wildcat on Oct 20. The nest day, the Union troops were able to repel the Confederate attacks. Zollicoffer and his troops retreated to Cumberland Ford by the 26th. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If Zollicoffer had been successful, the Confederates would have been able to occupy the important central area of Kentucky, along with its forage, horses and potential troops with a force of 5400 and few losses. With the loss at Wildcat Mountain, they would have to make a much costlier and ultimately unsuccessful attempt a year later in October of 1862. </span></div>
Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-71163587069715386782019-04-11T11:50:00.003-04:002019-04-11T11:50:37.250-04:00<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>American Civil War Monuments</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Memorial Arch </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">6th and Washington St., Heritage Park</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Junction City, KS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This impressive, 35 foot high Civil War Memorial Arch stands in Heritage Park in Junction City, Kansas. Not bad for a town with a population of 2684 in 1880. Planned and built by the veterans of the Union Army, as a tribute to the those who died during the American Civil War, the arch was dedicated on September 8, 1898. The arch is 23 feet wide with a white bronze soldier atop as well as two 8-inch mortars.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The following inscriptions are both on the arch itself and on replica plaques on a pedestal behind the arch, recently dedicated on April 9, 2019.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In God We Trust </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Freely Offered Their Lives;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For The Maintenance Of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An United Country</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1861-1865</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Total Enlistment </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2,778,304 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">67,050 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Died of Wound Received in Action </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">43,012 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">240,458
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<br />Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-21219812389358295542019-04-07T14:04:00.000-04:002019-04-07T14:04:27.499-04:00<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Announcing Our 537th Meeting</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Saturday, April 13</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Battle Never Fought: The Mine Run Campaign </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Presented by Chris Mackowski </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chris Mackowski, Ph.D., is the editor-in-chief of Emerging Civil War and managing editor of the Emerging Civil War Series. He is a professor of journalism and mass communication at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, NY, and historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge, a historic property on the Spotsylvania battlefield in central Virginia. He has also worked as a historian for the National Park Service at Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, where he gives tours at four major Civil War battlefields (Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania), as well as at the building where Stonewall Jackson died. Chris has authored or co-authored a dozen books on the Civil War, and his articles have appeared in all the major Civil War magazines. Among the books Chris has authored or co-authored are <b>The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson: The Mortal Wounding of the Confederacy’s Greatest Icon-and the Birth of Its Greatest Legend</b>,<b> Fight Like the Devil: The First Day at Gettysburg July 1, 1863</b>, and <b>That Furious Struggle: Chancellorsville and the High Tide of the Confederacy, May 1-5, 1863</b>. He was a 2014 finalist for the Army Historical Foundations' Distinguished Book Award for <b>Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church</b>. Chris has had six of his plays produced and he serves on the national advisory board for the Civil War Chaplains Museum in Lynchburg, Virginia. His latest book is <b>The Battle Never Fought: The Mine Run Campaign</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>The Battle Never Fought: The Mine Run Campaign</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The stakes for George Gordon Meade could not have been higher. After his stunning victory at Gettysburg in July of 1863, the Union commander spent the following months trying to bring the Army of Northern Virginia to battle once more and finish the job. The Confederate army, robbed of much of its offensive strength, nevertheless parried Meade’s moves time after time. Although the armies remained in constant contact during those long months of cavalry clashes, quick maneuvers, and sudden skirmishes, Lee continued to frustrate Meade’s efforts. Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., Meade’s political enemies launched an all-out assault against his reputation and generalship. Even the very credibility of his victory at Gettysburg came under assault. Pressure mounted for the army commander to score a decisive victory and prove himself once more.
Smaller victories, like those at Bristoe Station and Rappahannock Station, did little to quell the growing clamor—particularly because out west, in Chattanooga, another Union general, Ulysses S. Grant, was once again reversing Federal misfortunes. Meade needed a comparable victory in the east. And so, on Thanksgiving Day, 1863, the Army of the Potomac rumbled into motion once more, intent on trying again to bring about the great battle that would end the war.
</span>Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-4359920456774139352019-02-26T13:03:00.001-05:002019-02-26T13:03:56.073-05:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Announcing Our 536th Meeting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Saturday, March 9 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Earning His Spurs: General John B. Hood in 1864</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Presented by Stephen Davis </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Stephen Davis of Atlanta has been a Civil War buff since the 4th grade. He grew up in Atlanta, attending Margaret Mitchell Elementary and Northside High. At Emory University, he studied under the renowned Civil War historian Bell Wiley. After a Master’s degree in American history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he taught high school for a few years, then earned his Ph.D. at Emory, where he concentrated on the theme of the Civil War in Southern literature. He’s also taught at Oglethorpe University. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Steve is the author of a new history of the Atlanta Campaign, published by Savas Beatie as two paperbacks: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> <b>A Long and Bloody Task: The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw to the Chattahoochee, May 5-July 18, 1864 </b>and <b>All the Fighting They Want: The Atlanta Campaign from Peachtree Creek to the City’s Surrender, July 18-September 2, 1864</b>.
His book, <b>What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman’s Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta</b>,<b> </b>was published by Mercer University Press in 2012. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In a review in Civil War News, Ted Savas calls Steve’s work “by far the most well-researched, thorough, and detailed account ever written about the ‘wrecking’ of Atlanta.”
He is also author of <b>Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston and the Heavy Yankee Battalions</b> (2001). He served as Book Review Editor for <i>Blue & Gray Magazine</i> from 1984 to 2005, and is the author of more than a hundred articles in such scholarly and popular publications as <i>Civil War Times Illustrated</i> and the <i>Georgia Historical Quarterly. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now retired, Steve serves as Book Review Editor for<i> Civil War News</i>, the monthly national newspaper for buffs, for which he contributes a regular column, “Critic’s Corner.”
Steve is also a popular speaker at Civil War Round Tables and historical societies around the country. He has spoken on “What the Yankees Did to Us” to the Round Tables of Buffalo, New York and Providence, Rhode Island (and got away with it!). He has given talks at the annual meeting of the American Civil War Round Table (UK) in London. His favorite event was a few years ago when he addressed President and Mrs. Carter and family on the role of Copenhill (the Carter Center) in the battle of Atlanta. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next year Mercer University Press will publish Steve’s next book, tentatively titled <b>Flawed Image: A Study of John B. Hood’s Generalship in 1864.</b></span>Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-50107712037862912282019-02-22T14:03:00.003-05:002019-02-22T14:03:52.534-05:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>American Civil War Battlefields </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fort Sumter National Monument </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Charleston Harbor, South Carolina </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">100-pounder Parrott rifles on their original carriages at Fort Sumter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> text courtesy of LCWRT Member Holly Jenkins-Evans</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Post Civil War, the U.S. Army Engineers leveled the damaged higher walls of the heavily battered Fort Sumter. When the gun casements were rebuilt, they housed 100 pound Parrott rifles. The Parrott guns were invented by Capt. Robert Parker Parrot who, after his military service, was the superintendent of the West Point Foundry. He patented the cast iron Parrot rifle with a wrought iron reinforcing breech band in 1861. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before the Civil War was over, and despite a reputation for shattering, both Union and Confederate forces were using the Parrott guns in a variety of sizes. These guns were made in sizes from 10 -pounders up to a 300-pounder.
These 100-poumd Parrots were naval guns 138" in length and weighing 9727 pounds. Manned by a crew of 17, they fired either an 80 or 100-pound shell to a range of up to 6,900 yards for the 80-pound shell or 7810 yards with the 100-pound shell.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fort Donelson, Tennessee</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a view of Fort Donelson’s lower water battery facing the Cumberland River as it flows northward to its junction with the Ohio River. This lower battery and the upper battery which lies a few hundred yards to the south were armed with heavy seacoast guns. Fort Donelson and Fort Henry, which lies 12 miles to the west on the Tennessee River, were built to defend the water approaches to Confederate supply bases in Clarksville and Nashville, Tennessee. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fort Henry had already fallen to the Union forces of Brig. General Grant and Naval Flag Officer Andrew Foote on February 6th ,1862. Because of its poor location and the flooding Tennessee River, Foote was able to literally float his ships right up to the fort and force it into submission. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fort Donelson was a different story. On February 14th, untested Confederate gunners were able to defeat Foote’s Federal ironclads and timber-clad gunboats. Using the same tactics he successfully used at Fort Henry, Foote brought his gunboats very close to the Confederate artillery hoping to shell them in to surrendering. His flotilla became an excellent target for the Confederate guns however, due to flooding, the Confederate guns’ higher elevation and the slow movement of his heavy gunboats. After he was defeated, it was up to General Grant and his army to take the fort by storm which they did on February 16. Foote, a veteran naval officer who was wounded in the exchange later commented that he had been in numerous fights before with ships and forts ‘but never was under so severe fire before.’
</span>Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-3777109497055640852019-02-05T14:16:00.001-05:002019-02-05T14:16:20.704-05:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>American Civil War Monuments </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Battle of Nashville Peace Monument</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Giuseppe Moretti was commissioned to create the Battle of Nashville monument, dedicated in 1927 on Armistice Day. The monument honors both Union and Confederate troops as well as World War I soldiers with a young man representing WW1 soldiers holding two horses symbolizing Union and Confederate forces, these joined by a banner "Unity".
Due to interstate highway construction in 1980s, the monument was left isolated in a small plot after also being damaged during a 1974 tornado. The monument was restored and in 1999 was moved and rededicated at the Nashville Battlefield Park just north of the Confederate line on the first day of the battle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Battle of Nashville Dec. 15-16, 1864</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Army of Tennessee under John Bell Hood </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After actions at Spring Hill where he failed to destroy John Schofield's Union forces, and then the disaster for the CSA that was the Battle of Franklin, Hood proceeded on to Nashville. There he faced the George Thomas's combined forces of some 55,000 men including John Schofield's XXIII Corps and Thomas J. Wood's IV Corps and was soundly defeated. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>West Face</i>: Erected A.D. 1926 By The Ladies Battlefield Memorial Association Aided By Contributions From Patriotic Citizens The State Of Tennessee And The County Of Davidson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>South Face</i>: The Spirit Of Youth Holds In Check Contending Forces That Struggled Here At The Fierce Battle Of Nashville, Dec. 16th, 1864, Sealing Forever The Bond Of Union By The Blood Of Our Heroic Dead Of The World War 1917 - 1918. A Monument Like This, Standing On Such Memories, Having No Reference To Utilities, Becomes A Sentiment, A Poet, A Prophet, An Orator To Every Passerby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>North Face:</i> "Oh, Valorous Gray, In The Grave Of Your Fate, Oh, Glorious Blue, In The Long Dead Years, You Were Sown In Sorrow And Harrowed In Hate, But Your Harvest Today Is A Nations Tears. For The Message You Left Through The Land Has Sped From The Lips Of God To The Heart Of Man: Let The Past Be Past : Let The Dead Be Dead. Now And Forever American!"
</span>Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-68572373964420265372019-01-30T12:46:00.001-05:002019-01-30T12:46:35.100-05:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Announcing Our 535th Meeting</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Saturday, February 9,2019</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Michael B. Murphy is an American historian based in Indianapolis, Indiana. He served in the Indiana General Assembly for 16 years. His book, <b>The Kimberlins Go to War: A Union Family in Copperhead Country, </b>was published by the Indiana Historical Society. Murphy earned his B.A. in American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and his M.A. in American History from Indiana University. He participated in the Commandant’s National Security Program at the Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA. Murphy is currently researching a biography of William English, a 19th century Congressman who was the Democratic nominee for Vice-President in 1880. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Kimberlins Go to War tells the story of the Kimberlin family from Scott County, Indiana, that sent 33 fathers and sons, brothers and cousins, to fight for the Union during the Civil War. Ten family members were killed, wounded or died of battlefield disease, a 30-percent casualty rate that is unmatched in recorded Scott County history. Their feelings about the war come from 40 letters to and from the battlefield that have survived.
We will have copies of Michael B. Murphy’s book “The Kimberlins Go to War: A Union Family in Copperhead Country” available at the meeting for sale.
</span>Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-76028554710923662202019-01-12T10:38:00.000-05:002019-01-12T10:38:04.569-05:00<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>American Civil War Battlefields</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Gettysburg, Pennsylvania </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Edward McPherson’s farm was located a half mile west of Gettysburg on the ridge that now bears his name. On the first day of the battle, July 1, 1863, it was the scene of intense fighting as Brigadier General Henry Heth’s division of Confederate soldiers attacked along the Chambersburg Pike. This position was first held by Brigadier General John Buford’s Union cavalry division who were able to hold until Major John Reynolds arrived with troops from his First Corps to relieve Buford’s men. The day ended later in a complete Confederate victory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The barn and farmhouse were used during and after the fighting as a field hospital for troops of both sides.
After the war McPherson applied to the Federal Government for compensation for his ruined crops, damaged buildings, and supplies taken during the battle. He received nothing. He sold the farm in 1868. The farm house burned in 1895 but in 1904 the property was bought by the Federal Government. An extensive renovation of the barn was completed in 1978. The barn is currently used by a local farmer who leases the McPherson fields.
</span>Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-7516937154383958832019-01-09T09:12:00.002-05:002019-01-09T09:12:29.015-05:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Announcing Our 534th Meeting</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Saturday, January 19, 2019</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Presented by Brian Steel Wills </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzJaQYQ0jK4faRk9RORMs2R5qozv53Dvhyphenhyphen-h5FCdZ-1WUoBpoBnS6bCaMHiyFR5bkiFWfr0KEJObBB2oMvxRmWgLuc_KH95tvpyQDd9xiz1GLqGwGibKzVpy-LVQrKZ8uCshtsrJg-9Wc/s1600/wills.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="300" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzJaQYQ0jK4faRk9RORMs2R5qozv53Dvhyphenhyphen-h5FCdZ-1WUoBpoBnS6bCaMHiyFR5bkiFWfr0KEJObBB2oMvxRmWgLuc_KH95tvpyQDd9xiz1GLqGwGibKzVpy-LVQrKZ8uCshtsrJg-9Wc/s400/wills.png" width="400" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are pleased to welcome back to our Round Table Brian Steel Wills. He is the director of the Center for the Study of the Civil War Era and Professor of History at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. He is the author of numerous works relating to the American Civil War, including a new volume – <b>The River Was Dyed with Blood: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow.</b>
His other titles include: <b>A Battle From the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest </b>(reprinted as: <b>The Confederacy’s Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forrest</b>). This work was chosen as both a History Book Club selection and a Book of the Month Club selection.
He also authored <b>The War in Southeastern Virginia</b> and <b>No Ordinary College: A History of The University of Virginia’s College at Wise,</b> both by the University Press of Virginia. <b>Gone with the Glory: The Civil War in Cinema </b>appeared in 2006. And in 2012 and 2013, Brian authored <b>George Henry Thomas: As True as Steel </b>and<b> Confederate General William Dorsey Pender: The Hope of Glory</b>.
In 2000, Dr. Wills received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the state of Virginia, one of eleven recipients from all faculty members at public and private institutions across the state. He was named Kenneth Asbury Professor of History and won both the Teaching award and the Research and Publication award from UVA-Wise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>"Inglorious Passages</b> received the Harwell Award at the Atlanta Civil War Roundtable for the best book of 2017, and it was a finalist for the 2017 Emerging Civil War Book Award. In my talk, I will try to shine a light on those stories of individuals that went to war and didn’t come home and try to understand the full element of what those stories involved. I think back on a Georgia recruit who’s spelling was challenged, but he would talk about the “vakants” in the ranks, and he said that those folks would not be able to rejoin the circle of friends—and he couldn’t spell “circle” either—or be around the fireside. Those places would never be filled. That made me think that those individuals need not be forgotten."</span>Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-82873186525436622572019-01-07T19:36:00.002-05:002019-01-07T19:36:36.533-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This photo neatly encapsulates two historic battlefields: Lookout Mountain, and Brown's Ferry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brown's Ferry was a small action, but crucial to ending the siege of Chattanooga. On Oct 27, 1863, portions of the Union Army of the Cumberland made the move. While Brig. Gen. John B. Turchin's brigade marched to and occupied the east bank of the Tennessee river at Brown's Ferry, Union troops under the command of Brig. Gen. William B. Hazen ferried down the river, passing beneath the Confederate guns on Lookout Mountain before landing on the west side, pushing the CSA pickets back and, after engaging Col. William Oats' men , establishing a bridgehead for the Union supply line. Despite Longstreet's attack on the Union troops two days later at Wauhatchie, the supply line was established, effectively ending the siege of Chattanooga. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One month later, resupplied and reinforced, Gen. Ulysses Grant starts the process of breaking out of Chattanooga. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">After the taking of Orchard Knob on November 23, 1863 by the Army of the Cumberland under Gen. George H. Thomas, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg took troops from the base of Lookout Mountain to shore up his center line on Missionary Ridge, thus weakening his line at the base of the Lookout. Under Grant's command, Gen. Joseph Hooker made a demonstration against the Confederate left on the 24th. On the morning of Nov. 24, with the Twelfth Corps in the lead, Hooker’s men crossed the creek and formed a line of battle up the slope of Lookout Mountain. Hidden by a heavy fog, Union troops swept in, captured a Confederate picket post, pushed past the Confederates at the Cravens House and resisted a Confederate counterattack around 1:00PM. By 2:00 PM, the Union flag was flying over Lookout Mountain.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">View from Point Park at Lookout Mountain, courtesy LCWRT Member John Davis</span></i></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lloyd Tilghman was born on Jan. 18, 1816, in Rich Neck
Manor, Maryland. He enrolled at West Point at the age of 15 and graduated in 1836 at the age of 20. He resigned from
the army that same year. From that time until the start of the Civil War, he worked as a railroad construction engineer
in the south except for a period in which he served in the Mexican War. In 1852, he took up residence in Paducah, Ky., from where he entered Confederate service in May, 1861
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In February, 1862, he was put in command of Ft. Henry,
located on the Tennessee River to prevent Union Naval forces from moving deeper into Confederate territory. He was later forced to surrender Fort Henry to the
naval forces of Flag Officer Henry Foote and Army Brigadier General Ulysses Grant. Before the fort fell, he had wisely sent the largest portion of his forces to Fort Donelson located 12
miles to the east on the Cumberland River.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tilghman was captured and not exchanged until the fall of
that same year. After his release, he took command of a brigade in the division of Major General William Loring.He was killed at the battle of Champion’s
Hill during the Vicksburg Campaign when hit by a piece of artillery shell.He was originally buried in Vicksburg but was
moved by his sons in 1902 to Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City where he wasreinterred next to his wife Augusta. </span>Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-58665723168719797812018-12-05T19:55:00.000-05:002018-12-05T19:55:16.762-05:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>American Civil War Monuments </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">116th Pennsylvania Monument </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sickles Avenue at the Loop </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Gettysburg National Military Park </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> To many visitors, the monument of the 116th Pennsylvania Infantry is the most poignant on the battlefield. The idea for the monument came from Major St. Clair Mulholland from a scene he witnessed during the fighting of July 2n of a young soldier, shot through the head, lying with a faint smile on his upturned face. Major Mulholland never forgot this scene which later was used as the inspiration for the 116th’s monument. Most of the monuments on the battlefield show themes of bravery, courage and loyalty. This one, however, shows the real cost of war. The 116th was one of five regiments which made up the highly acclaimed Irish Brigade, part of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock’s II Corps. By July 1,1863, the regiment had been consolidated into only 4 companies with a battle strength of 66. It suffered 37 casualties in the fighting of July 2, a casualty rate of 56%.
</span>Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-1292334697432344522018-11-28T10:31:00.001-05:002018-11-28T10:31:34.834-05:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Announcing Our 533rd Meeting </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Saturday, December 8, 2018</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Trials and Tribulations of the Corpse of Abraham Lincoln</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Presented by Clay Stucky<b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The long and descriptive title of my talk is </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Trials and Tribulations of the Corpse of Abraham Lincoln: How Nefarious Tomb Robbers and Incompetent Tomb Builders did not Allow him to Rest in Peace.</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> In the talk I describe the bizarre history of Lincoln's body and the attempt to kidnap it, the about fifteen times it has been moved since its burial in Springfield, and the five times the coffin has been opened since the open casket funeral at Springfield. I explain the complete dismantling and rebuilding of the tomb at Springfield that has occurred TWICE! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We are pleased to have Round Table member Clay Stuckey present our program at the December meeting. Clay is a graduate of Indiana University where he did his undergraduate work in history. He graduated from Indiana University School of Dentistry in 1975. He is now retired and lives in Bedford, Indiana. Clay has a life-long avocation of reading and writing about history. His articles have appeared in the</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Lincoln Herald, the Indiana Magazine of History, Indiana Folklore and Oral History</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, and t</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">he Hoosier Line</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> as well as other publications. The Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis has over fifteen of Clay’s manuscripts he has written on regional history. </span><br />
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Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018517918542299355.post-25100216621416072272018-11-23T09:57:00.000-05:002018-11-23T09:57:08.239-05:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>American Civil War Battlefields</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Wilder Tower </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This 85-foot tower near site of Widow Glenn's house marks the site where Colonel John Wilder's Lightning Brigade of mounted infantry with their repeating Spencer rifles and support from the 18th LiN Light Battery, made a strong defense against Longstreet's attack on Sept 20, 1863.After repelling CSA forces under Arthur Manigault, Wilder prepared to join Union forces under George Thomas on Snodgrass Hill. Instead, he was ordered by Charles Dana, Assistant Secretary of War to guard the withdrawal to Chattanooga. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wilder's Brigade was comprised of: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">17th Indiana, Maj. William T. Jones </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">72d Indiana, Col. Abram O. Miller </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">92d Illinois, Smith D. Atkins </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">98th Illinois, Col. John J. Funkhouser & Lieut. Col. Edward Kitchell </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">123d Illinois, Col. James Monroe </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Started in 1892, and financed for by private funds, including monies from Wilder's men, the monument was up to 60 feet high when construction was halted by bank failures due to the Panic of 1893. Construction recommenced in 1897 and went on until 1904, when the interior staircase was finished. The finished height is 85 feet. Via the interior spiral staircase, the viewing platform at the top provides a panoramic view of the battlefield. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> On June 8, 1963, the Wilder Monument was the first monument on Chickamauga battlefield to be rededicated. It has been completely renovated.</span>Past Perfect Vintage Clothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16068402647308931616noreply@blogger.com0