2011 & 2012 Programs

2011 Programs

TVCWRT Programs and Field Trip for 2011 (click on any color titles for more information on the topic and the speaker)

We have a great lineup for the coming year in which we plan to include a field trip to Atlanta! The speakers are an exciting mix from near and far and all are notable authors/historians in their own right. Please join us in our quest to learn more about the war that shaped our great nation in this sesquicentennial anniversary of its beginning.

January 27th, Nancy Rohr, "Heroes of Huntsville during the Civil War - Heroines All"

February 10^th, Athens State Professor, Al Elmore, "Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: Echoes of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer"

March 10^th, Dr. James B. Swan, "Chicago’s Irish Legion, the 90^th Illinois Volunteers"

April, 14^th, Dr. James H. Sasser, "Fort Fisher: The Gibraltar of America; the Construction, Defense and Impact of the Fort and Wilmington, NC on the Southern War Effort"

May 12^th, Wallace State Professor Robert S. Davis "To Go Out in Small Boats: Confederate Brown and Green Water Warfare"

June 9^th, T.J. (Teej) Smith, "The Life of Flora Cooke Stuart"

July 14th Morris Penny, "Gettysburg, Day 2 - Did Hood Disobey an Order"

August 11th Richard Jozefiak, "The Money of Civil War Madison County"

September 8^th, Dr. James F. Gauthier, MD, "A House Provided: A Brief History of the Federal and State Civil War Military Pension Systems"

October 13^th, Greg Biggs, "The Atlanta Campaign: Part 1, Ringold, GA to Kennesaw Mountain" *

November 10^th, Luke Slaton, Newsletter Editor and Publicist for the Friends of the General Joe Wheeler Home Foundation will speak on the restoration and progress of opening the Joe Wheeler Home and its artifacts to the public.

* This is the first of a two-part series. Due to the enormity of the Atlanta Campaign, we will cover it in two parts, each followed by a two-night field trip. This will provide our best "school house" coverage of the campaign while preparing us for the follow-up field trips to the many battle sites in the Northwest Georgia/Atlanta area. The first field trip corresponding to Part 1, Ringold to Kennesaw Mountain, is planned for October 21^st through 23^rd, 2011 as soon after the Part 1 lecture as possible. In Part 2 (next year) the lecture and trip will cover the crossing of the Chattahoochee, Cyclorama, Atlanta History Center, Jonesboro, and more. Our friends and neighbors all throughout the heartlands are welcome to participate. Details and logistics of the field trips are still being worked out, so watch this website for further developments.

2012 Programs

TENNESSEE VALLEY CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE

2012 PROGRAMS AND FIELD TRIP

January 12, 2012, A. Wilson (Will) Greene, noted author and Executive Director, Pamplin Historical Park, Petersburg, VA; "Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion: The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign"

February 9, 2012, Thomas Flagel, Columbia State College, Franklin, TN, "Messengers of Death: How the Press Reported the Civil War"

March 8^th, 2012, Peggy Towns, North Alabama historian and author; "Duty Driven: North Alabama African Americans during the Civil War"

April 12^th, 2012, Richard Adams, West Point Graduate/Adjunct Assistant Professor and author, “The Parting; the Story of West Point on the Eve of the Civil War”

May 10^th, 2012, Kenneth Noe, Alumni Professor and Draughon Professor of Southern History Auburn University, "Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army After 1861"

June 14^th, 2012, Daniel E. Hughes, historical re-enactor, a.k.a. General George H. Thomas; "George H. Thomas and Nashville; Was Thomas Really Slow at Nashville?"

July 12^th, 2012, Myers Brown, Curator of History and Extension Services Tennessee State Museum, “Loyal Cavaliers: Tennessee's Union Cavalrymen”

August 9^th, 2012, Jeffrey Ewing, TVCWRT member, historian, and documentary filmmaker; “Where Freedom Began – The Second American Revolution" - A film documentary providing an overview of the Underground Railroad, the unintended impact of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and the slave rescues and trials at Christiana and Wellington."

September 13th Ed Bearss, NPS Chief Historian Emeritus, “The First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas; A New Face on the War”

*October 11^th, 2012, Greg Biggs, historian and noted CWRT speaker, founder and author, Atlanta Campaign, Part 2, Battle of Atlanta, Ezra Church, Peachtree, Roswell’s Mill, Jonesboro

November 8^th, 2012, Dr. Jim Sasser, President, Charlotte - Metrolina Civil War Round Table and History Professor, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC; Jim’s topic: “Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville”

*the October program will be complemented with a field trip to the second phase of the Atlanta Campaign—the Battle of Atlanta and through Jonesboro. Tour stops at Civil War museums including the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum