Lynchburg Civil War Roundtable
New Campaign
Begins!
2nd Wed. of the month!!
Ramada Inn @
Odd Fellows Rd & US 29
Exciting slate
of speakers!!!
Social
Hour @ 6:00 pm
Dinner
@ 7:00 pm
Program
@ 8:00 pm
Cost- $13.50
for dinner & program
RSVP
to Bob Grunwell @ 384-2294 or LCWRTRES@aol.com
RSVP's
need to be in by Friday preceding the Wed. meeting.
Dues: $35.00
family, $25.00 individual, $10.00 student
September
8, 2004 - Love,
War & Death: The true story of Lt. Col. Elbert Bland, 7 th South
Carolina Infantry, and Emmeline Rebecca Griffin presented
by John Mills Bigham
John Mills
Bigham, a native South Carolinian, is Curator of Education at the
South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Museum in Columbia
where he has been employed for
21 years. He is a contributing editor to Military Images
magazine , has been published in Blue &
Gray Magazine and Military Collector &
Historian , writes for the Palmetto Battalion Living
History Association's newsletter and museum publications. Since 1986,
the author has collected for the museum over 500 uniformed images
of SC Confederates from descendents of the soldiers. In 1992, he self-produced
an oral history video, “The Southern Army Album” and in 1999 published
an oral history of his hometown Columbia
titled “Old & New Columbia,
II.”
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October
13, 2004- A New Framework for Studying Civil War Military History
presented by
Richard McMurray
Richard McMurray
is a popular lecturer and well-known author on the Civil War. A native
of Atlanta ,
he is a graduate of VMI (1961) and received his Ph.D. in history at
Emory University
. After a teaching career at Valdosta
( Georgia
) State
College , he is now a freelance
writer and speaker on the Civil War. His history of the 1864 military
operations in North Georgia-Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy
was recognized by the Austin Civil War Round Table for its scholarship
and writing on military history. He now lives and writes in Roanoke
, Virginia
.
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November
10, 2004- Rebel
Voices: 1st person Confederate accounts of the Battle
of Spotsylvania
presented by
Robert Lee Hodge.
Growing
up in Ohio Robert Hodge became fascinated by the Civil War at the
age of five upon learning that he was named after Robert E. Lee. In
his 1 st grade school picture he wore a Civil War cap. In 1991 he
moved to Virginia
so he could
continue his studies, serving as an intern with the Civil War sites
Advisory Commission for the National Park Service.
In
1994 Hodge was featured on the front page of the Wall
Street Journal ,
which led to his being featured in the bestseller Confederates
in the Attic
where he hosts author Tony Horwitz on a whirlwind tour of battlefields
and museums. Hodge has served as a researcher, co-coordinator, and
actor in several Civil War films, videos, and book projects for clients
like Turner Pictures, The A&E channel, The History Channel, and
Time-Life books.
In
2000 he co-authored with Ed Bearss, Brian Pohanka, and Jim McPherson
in the book Writing and Fighting the Civil War .
He has written for the Washington Post a piece on Confederate Major
John Pelham titled “Confederate Stud”. He
recently co-founded Wide
Awake Films ,
and has begun writing and producing award winning Civil War history
and preservation videos. He is a writer for North &
South Magazine where he writes a monthly column.
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December
8, 2004 – Banjos and Bugles: Music of the Civil War presented
by Marty Liebschner
Martin
Liebschner , Jr. has been
playing 19th century instruments professionally for more than 12 years.
His talents are not just in the banjo, but the tin whistle, harmonica,
bugle, fife, violin, guitar, jews harp as well. He as brought back
a genre of traditional banjo music which has been slowly fading into
time. Today his music is listened to by thousands not only at Civil
War events, but on the movie screen, classrooms, public venues, and
on cds and cassettes.
He received
a degree in Early American history from Youngstown State University
and tjem started a career in museums working for numerous historic
sites including Lanterman's Mill, Colonial Williamsburg, Stratford
Hall, Old Fort Jackson. Liebschner has appeared in numerous historical
movies performing on the bamjo.
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Jan.
12, 2005 The James River: A River of Lost Opportunities presented
by Ed Bearss
Edwin
Cole Bearss was born
in Billings , Montana on June 26, 1923 . He grew up on his grandfather's
ranch near Hardin , Montana , in the shadow of the Rosebud Mountains
and within a bicycle ride of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National
Monument. On the ranch, the E Bar S (E-S), he named the cattle for
Civil War generals and battles; his favorite milk cow was called Antietam
.
He
attended a one-room school at Sarpy
, Montana
until he went to St.
Johns Military
Academy
in Delafield
, Wisconsin
in 1937. Immediately following
his graduation from Hardin High
School in 1941 he joined the United
States Marine Corps. During World War II he served with the 3 rd Marine
Raider Battalion and 1 st Marine Division in the invasion of Guadalcanal
and New
Britain . He was badly wounded
by machine-gun fire on January
2, 1944 and spent 26 months in
various hospitals.
He studied
at Georgetown University
and received a BS degree in Foreign
Service in 1949. He wrote his thesis on Pat Cleburne and in 1955 received
his MA from Indiana University
.
Mr. Bearss's
career in the National Park Service began in 1955 at Vicksburg
, Mississippi
where he was the park historian.
He located the Widow Blakely , a cannon used on the Vicksburg
River
defense and which had long been
displayed at West Point
as Whistling Dick . Other research led him and two friends
to the long lost resting place of the Union ironclad gunboat Cairo
. He located the two forgotten
forts at Grand Gulf ,
Mississippi
and contributed significantly to the establishment of Grand
Gulf
as a state military monument.
He is the author of The Vicksburg
Campaign trilogy, Steele's Retreat From Camden & The
Battle of Jenkins Ferry , Rebel Victory at Vicksburg ,
Decision in Mississippi , Sinking of an Ironclad ,
and numerous other books and publications including more than a hundred
historical articles in scholarly journals.
Mr. Bearss
retired on September 30, 1995
after 40 years with the National Park Service and almost 50 years
of federal service. He continues to lead Battlefield tours for the
Smithsonian Institution, National Geographic Society, National Trust
for Historic Preservation, Civil War Roundtables, and other military
history organizations.
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Feb.
9, 2005 The Battle of the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia presented
by John Quarstein (this program is the 2 nd half of his 2004
program)
John
Quarstein is an award
winning historian, preservationist and author. John has been director
of the Virginia War
Museum
since 1978. He also oversees
the management of several Newport
News ' historic properties, including
End View Plantation and Lee Hall
Mansion
-- and serves as the historical
advisor for the Mariners Museum USS Monitor project. John has
been an adjunct professor at UVA, WM and VCU and is the author of
seven books which include such titles as Fort
Monroe
: Key to the South and the Battle
of the Ironclads. In 1993,
John received the National Trust for Historic Preservation's President's
Award.
March
9, 2005 - A Meteor Shining Brightly: General Patrick Cleburne,
CSA presented
by Mauriel Joslyn
Mauriel
Phillips Joslyn received her B.A. in History in 1978 from Mary Washington
College in Fredericksburg, Virginia received her M.A. in History from
Georgia College and State University in 2001. She has worked in libraries
at Virginia Tech and University
of Georgia
and served as Assistant Editor
for the Georgia Historical Quarterly (2000-1).
Mauriel has
published five non-fiction books on Confederate History: Immortal
Captives: The Story of 600 Confederate Officers and the U.S. Policy
of Retaliation, Biographical Roster of the Immortal 600, Charlotte's
Boys: The Correspondence of the Branch Family of Savannah, Georgia
1861-1865, Valor and Lace: Roles of Confederate Women, A Meteor Shining
Brightly: Essays on Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne and
one young adult novel Shenandoah Autumn.
Joslyn has
published numerous articles in various History magazines, including:
Gettysburg , America 's Civil War Military Heritage ,
Georgia Journa , Georgia Historical Society Journal, Confederate Veteran,
The Irish Sword, North and South Magazine.
Mauriel is married to Rick Joslyn (VMI
1977) and they have two sons
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Apr.
13 The Battle for Petersburg presented
by Emmanuel Dabney
Emmanuel Dabney has been studying the
Civil War in ernest since 1995. He has been a Civil War living historian
since 1997 and is a member of one of the leading civilian organizations
on the East Coast, the Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society. Emmanuel
has published three articles in a popular reenacting magazine for
those who recreate the lives of Civil War era civilians, The
Citizens' Companion.
In 2001, he began employment at Petersburg National Battlefield, a
site he had been visiting since his interest was first piqued by the
war. Emmanuel began conducting ranger-guided tours there at the age
of 16.
His main interests in the antebellum and Civil War eras are social
issues such as slavery and politics, the lifestyle of Southerners
in the slaveowning classes, and the actions during the nine-and-a
half month Petersburg Campaign.
May 2005 (Saturday date to be
announced)
Field
Trip to Petersburg
National Battlefield,
Pamplin Park
, and spot where
A.P. Hill fell.
Lynchburg
Civil
War Roundtable
Contact (434)
832-0162
civilwar@historicsandusky.org
To
RSVP for dinner & program contact Bob Grunwell @ 384-2294
or LCWRTRES@aol.com
