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The Civil War Round Table of Atlanta, Georgia

Past Meetings

Past Speakers for the 2007 – 2008 Campaign Year

Sept 11, 2007 Kent Masterson Brown - Retreat from Gettysburg.   http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-1553.html
Oct 9, 2007 Colonel (Chaplain) John Brinsfield - Religion and the Civil War.  http://www.booktrail.com/Military_History/FaithintheFight.asp
Nov 13, 2007 Russell S. Bonds (Harwell Recipient) - Stealing the General. 
http://www.westholmepublishing.com/stealinggeneral.html
Dec 11, 2007 John Simon - U.S. Grant.
http://twister.lib.siu.edu/projects/usgrant/
Jan 8, 2008 Jim Getty - A Visit with Mr. Lincoln.  http://www.jimgetty.com/generalcontent.html
Feb 12, 2008 Craig Symonds - U.S. Navy/Monitor Recovery.  http://www.historyamerica.com/tours/07-1812.html
http://www.monitorcenter.org/
Mar 11, 2008 Joseph T. Glatthaar - Army of Northern Virginia.
http://connect2.owu.edu/newsandviews/105.php
http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=410265

 
Apr 8, 2008 Gordon C. Rhea - Overland Campaign and Ultimate Union victory.
http://s50780.sites40.storefront-hosting.com/detail.aspx?ID=501
May 13, 2008 Terry Winschel - Vicksburg Campaign.  http://www.savasbeatie.com/books/TRIUMPH2_book.htm
Jun 10, 2008 William C. “Jack” Davis - Jefferson Davis.  http://www.civilwar.vt.edu/staff.html
 

Past Speakers for the 2006 – 2007 Campaign Year

Sept 12, 2006   Jim Ogden - McLemore’s Cove: Bragg’s First Shot at a Battle of Chickamauga.
Oct 9, 2006   Dr. R. Fred Ruhlman - Captain Henry Wirtz and Andersonville Prison: A Reappraisal.
Nov 14, 2006   Tom Carhart - Lost Triumph: Lee’s Real Plan at Gettysburg and Why It Failed. Winner of the 2005 Richard Barksdale Harwell Book award.
Dec 12, 2006   8th Georgia Regimental Band and a Period Sheet Music Display.
Jan 9, 2007   Bob Zeller - The Best Photos of the Civil War in 3-D. A Stereoscopic Slide Presentation viewed with 3-D glasses.
Feb 13, 2007   Grant Romer - Mathew Brady & 19-C Photographic American Portraiture
Also Bob Szabo, period collodion photographer will be set up during the day taking tintypes and ambrotypes of our members in period attire.
Mar 13, 2008   Jamie Downs, MD - Medical Examiner and Forensic Pathologist who studied the crew of the C.S.S. Hunley.
Apr 10, 2007   Dr. Thomas Lowry - The Story the Soldier Wouldn’t Tell: Sex in the Civil War.
May 8, 2007   Ed Bearss - John B. Gordon vs. Joshua Chamberlain: Who was the better officer and statesman?
Jun 12, 2007   Sam Thomas - T.R.R. Cobb, Cobb's Legion, and the Cobb House.