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The Civil War Round Table of Atlanta, Georgia

Past Meetings

Past Speakers for the 2008 – 2009 Campaign Year

September 9, 2008
 
Elizabeth Brown Pryor - Richard Barksdale Harwell Book Award. Reading the Man - A Portrait of
Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters.
October 14, 2008
 
  Ed Bearrs - Atlanta Campaign
November 11, 2008
 
  Bud Robertson - "Robert E. Lee: Virginia Soldier, American Citizen"
December 9, 2008 Bobby Horton - Christmas 1880
January 13, 2009 Caroline Janney - Burying the Dead, but Not the Past - The Ladies Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause.
February 10, 2009   Tom Cartwright - Battle of Spring Hill - What Happened to Hood?
March 10, 2009   Catherine Deichmann - Running for the Confederacy - Bermuda's Role as Blockade Runners During the War.
April 14, 2009   A. Wilson Greene - Petersburg.
May 12, 2009   Frank O’Reilly - The Death of Stonewall
June 9, 2009   John Coski - The Museum of the Confederacy -
Taking the Collections into the 21st Century.
 

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.