The Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meetings

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The Civil War Round Table of Chicago present programming of interest to devotées of American Civil War history, support preservation of Civil War battle sites, and sponsor a very popular annual battlefield tour. Founded in 1940, The Civil War Round Table of Chicago was the very first of over 200 such Round Tables that now meet around the world. The Civil War Round Table of Chicago is dedicated to the study of all aspects of the American Civil War, bringing together those who wish to expand and share their knowledge, as we promote the interchange of ideas.

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CWRT May 2024 Meeting: Lynn and Julianne Herman on "The Allegheny Arsenal Explosion"

May 19 2024 54 mins  
Lynn and Julianne Herman on "The Allegheny Arsenal Explosion" For more inf: www.chicagocwrt.org The Allegheny Arsenal, near Pittsburgh, produced ammunition for the Union army. By 1862 the workers turned out some 128,000 cartridges daily by working six days a week, twelve hours a day. The arsenal employed one hundred fifty-six ladies and girls. In the summer of 1861, the a

CWRT Meeting April 2024:A. Wilson Greene on “Opening the Cracker Line and Keeping it Open: The Decisive Battles of the Chattanooga Campaign”

Apr 21 2024 57 mins  
Wilson Greene on “Opening the Cracker Line and Keeping it Open: The Decisive Battles of the Chattanooga Campaign” For More Info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.Org Following the battle of Chickamauga in September 1863, General William S. Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland retreated into Chattanooga. Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee surrounded the city on three sides and laid a qu

CWRT Feb 2024:Carolyn Ivanoff on “We Fought at Gettysburg” Live

Mar 10 2024 79 mins  
CWRT Feb 2024 For more info : WWW.ChicagoCWRT.Org Often small individual encounters in history, experienced by common people like us, caught in the maelstrom of events, hold larger truths. Sometimes these experiences have meaning—not only for those who experience them, but for us in today’s world. This program follows twelve members of the 17th Connecticut Regiment through the

March 2024 Meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table: Chris Bryan on "the Union XII Corps"

Mar 10 2024 72 mins  
For more Info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.Org The Union XII Corps was formed in June 1862. The corps, which joined the Army of the Potomac only a week before Antietam was small, numbering just over 7,600 men. Easily overlooked, Army of the Potomac leadership and historians since have largely glossed over this corps’ contribution at Antietam. Nevertheless, this small corps ended Confederat

Chicago Civil War Round Table january 2024 Meeting: Pat Brennan on "Gettysburg in Color."

Jan 14 2024 90 mins  
For more info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.Org Patrick Brennan, a long-time student of the Civil War and published author, has teamed up with his technology-astute daughter Dylan Brennan to bring the largest Civil War battle to life in the remarkable 2-volume study: Gettysburg in Color. Volume 1 covers Brandy Station to the Peach Orchard, and Volume 2 covers The Wheatfield to Falling Waters.

CWRT Meeting Dec 2023:Scott Mingus on “Texans at Chickamauga”

Dec 25 2023 108 mins  
Scott Mingus on “Texans at Chickamauga” For More Info visit WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG Although the Civil War’s second-largest battle in terms of casualties, Chickamauga has had far fewer books written about it than the thousands of books penned about the war’s bloodiest battle, Gettysburg. What has been remarkable has been the dearth of books about specific brigades, regimen

CWRT Meeting Nov 2023: Ernest Dollar on “Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War”

Nov 18 2023 69 mins  
Ernest Dollar on “Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War” For More Info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG In the popular memory of the Civil War, its end came with handshakes between Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia. But the war was not over. There was a larger, and arguably, more important surrender yet to take place in North Carolina. Yet this story occupies little spa

June 2023 meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table"Mark Zimmerman on “The Brutal Retreat from Nashville 1864”

Jun 10 2023 65 mins  
Mark Zimmerman on “The Brutal Retreat from Nashville 1864” For More Info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.org Mark Zimmerman, a member of the Nashville Civil War Round Table, will present an hour-long slideshow, The Brutal Retreat from Nashville 1864, based on his self-published book, Mud, Blood and Cold Steel. The presentation details the 10-day, 100-mile retreat by John Bell Hood's A

CWRT Meeting May 2023: Sean Michael Chick on “General P. G. T. Beauregard”

May 17 2023 59 mins  
Sean Michael Chick on “General P. G. T. Beauregard” For more information: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.Org In April, 1861, Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard shot into fame as the Confederate commander who commanded the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Often given high-level commands thereafter, a combination of ill-health, and disagreements with President Davis, limited his service thereafter, th

CWRT Meeting March 2023: Dwight Hughes on “Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The USS Monitor and the Battle of Hampton Roads”

Mar 12 2023 57 mins  
Dwight Hughes on “Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The USS Monitor and the Battle of Hampton Roads”  For more info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG   The USS Monitor was an ingenious but hurried response to both the imminent threat of the Confederate ironclad, CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack), and to the growing prospect of international intervention backed by powerful British o