by cvanornum | Jan 15, 2018 | Meeting Topics
September 17, 2024 Dr. Mary Walker, Medal of Honor Winner – Theresa Kaminski September 17, 2024 Mary Edwards Walker was an unusual nineteenth-century woman, brimming with self confidence and determined to make a significant contribution to her country. She...
by cvanornum | Jan 14, 2018 | Meeting Topics
October 15, 2024 “Andersonville Raiders” – Ms. Gary Morgan October 15, 2024 On a sultry evening in July, 1864, six men were marched into the stockade at Andersonville Prison. There, in front of 24,000 witnesses, they were forced to mount a hastily...
by cvanornum | Jan 13, 2018 | Meeting Topics
November 19, 2024 “President Lincoln’s Response to the Sioux Uprising” – as portrayed by Randy Duncan November 19, 2024 It’s 1862. Frustrated, desperate Dakota Indians, taken advantage of by a corrupt government system that promised to provide...
by cvanornum | Nov 26, 2017 | Meeting Topics
December 17, 2024 “Elmer Ellsworth and the U.S. Zouave Cadets” – Doug Dammann December 17, 2024 In the summer of 1860, Elmer Ellsworth and a civilian militia company of 50 men from Chicago, known as the United States Zouave Cadets, set out on a...
by cvanornum | Nov 26, 2017 | Meeting Topics
January 21, 2025 “Copperheads vs. President Lincoln 1864″ – Stefan Lund, Ph.D. January 21, 2025 After a year and a half of fighting some Northerners began to express increasing concern about the direction the Civil War was taking. In the lower...
