Attention One and All
The Hagerstown Civil War Round Table is a group of men and women who are interested in the study of the American Civil War. All persons interested in good company, good food, field trips, learning about the American Civil War, and sharing your knowledge with others, enlist now in the Hagerstown Civil War Round Table. Yanks and Rebs welcomed with equal pleasure. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
No prior knowledge of the Civil War is necessary. Come and learn!
The Hagerstown Civil War Round Table will feature a talk by Harold Knudsen on James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The Confederate General Who Fought the Next War
The event is at 7:30 pm on Thursday, September 26 at Homewood Suites, 1650 Pullman Lane, Hagerstown, MD. Dinner at 6:30 pm, open to non-members as well as members, is $31 (reservations required by May 16) and the talk at 7:30 pm is $5 for non-members, both payable at the meeting.
Lt. Col. (Retired) Knudsen’s career spans twenty-five years of active-duty Army service and includes seven resident artillery, command and staff Army schools and colleges. He spent nine years in Germany training offensive armored warfare tactics as well as peacekeeping and counter-insurgency training. A combat veteran of Desert Storm, he performed extensive artillery fire planning and execution in support of the U.S. breakthrough of the Iraqi line and penetration into Iraq. Later, he also served in the Iraq Campaign. His years of staff work at the Corps, Army and Pentagon levels give him a strong understanding of army operations from the lowest to highest levels. His book James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The Confederate General Who fought the Next War draws heavily from 20th Century Army doctrine, field training, staff planning, command and combat experience.
For further information, contact
Hagerstown Civil War Round Table, Inc.
P. O. Box 637
Funkstown, MD 21734-0637
Our Email Address is: hagerstowncwrt1956@gmail.com
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Who We Are
The Hagerstown Civil War Round Table was founded in 1956 and has held eight meetings a year ever since. Currently the Round Table has close to 100 members from several states. We study battles, leaders, issues, personalities, politics, logistics, strategy, tactics, blunders and all of the facets that made up the Civil War.
We demonstrate an interest in public service through support of battlefield preservation, the presentation of needed books to the Washington County Free Library's Western Maryland Room, and donations to funds for historic preservation. Each May we present The E. Russell Hicks/Louis Tuckerman Merit Scholarship to an outstanding student of American History from among the high school seniors in Washington County.
Periodically, the Round Table sponsors a field trip to a Civil War battlefield or site. The field trips are led by a person, usually from the National Park Service, who is an expert in the area of the trip.
Meeting Times and Place
The Hagerstown Civil War Round Table meets from September through May at the Homewood Suites located at 1650 Pullman Lane (near Wesel Blvd), in Hagerstown, MD. The meetings start at 6:30 pm with optional dinner (cost $30) followed by a presentation at 7:30 pm by a nationally or regionally recognized authority in a field of Civil War history, and may be from the National Park Service, a college or university, or from another round table. Dues are currently $30 per year which entitles you to a name tag and a year's subscription to The Bugle Call.
A membership application can be found on the tab above.
Meeting dates are :
26 September 2024: Harold Knudsen, “James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The Confederate General Who Fought the Next War”
24 October 2024: Paul Callahan, “When Democracy Fell: The Subjugation of Maryland during the U.S. Civil War”
19 December 2024: Chris Bryan, “Cedar Mountain to Antietam: A Civil War Campaign History of the Union XII Corps July-September 1862 - Part 1 Cedar Mountain through 2nd Manassas Campaign”
23 January 2025: Ron Coddington, “Civil War Portrait Photography: Reflections of a Generation”
27 February 2025: Joe Stahl and Matt Borders, “What you can learn from a CDV”
27 March 2025: Drew Gruber, “Yorktown 1862”
24 April 2025: Ken Rutherford, “America’s Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War”
22 May 2025: Tom Clemens, “The Carman Papers The Maryland Campaign of 1862”
Our cancellation policy is that of the Washington County Public Schools. If the schools are closed, we will not meet. If the schools open late, we will meet.