by cvanornum | Jan 15, 2018 | Meeting Topics
September 21, 2021 “Milliken’s Bend: Fighting for Freedom on the Mississippi” – Linda Barnickel September 21, 2021 Early on the morning of June 7, 1863 a brigade of Texans under Gen. Henry McCulloch assaulted a Union outpost at Milliken’s Bend, Louisiana,...
by cvanornum | Jan 14, 2018 | Meeting Topics
October 19, 2021 “Bleeding Kansas” – Nicole Etcheson October 19, 2021 Americans began killing each other in Kansas Territory five years before the Civil War began. “Bleeding Kansas” explores the origins of the violence in the sectional dispute over...
by cvanornum | Jan 13, 2018 | Meeting Topics
November 16, 2021 “James Longstreet in Chattanooga and Knoxville” COL (ret) Ed Lowe November 16, 2021 Following the Battle of Gettysburg, James Longstreet’s First Corps of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was sent to support Braxton Bragg’s Army of...
by cvanornum | Nov 26, 2017 | Meeting Topics
December 21, 2021 “How Christmas Won the War” – George Romano December 21, 2021 The Civil War had a profound effect on American culture and one of those effects was how the Civil War changed the Christmas holiday in America. Christmas was part of...
by cvanornum | Nov 26, 2017 | Meeting Topics
May 17, 2022 “Trust in God and Fear in Nothing: Confederate General Lewis Armistead” – Wayne Motts May 17, 2022 Join author, historian, and guide, Wayne Motts as he explores the life of Confederate General Lewis A. Armistead of Pickett’s Charge...
by cvanornum | Nov 26, 2017 | Meeting Topics
February 15, 2022 “U.S. Grant in Missouri: The Re-education of a Civil War Legend” – Dave Page February 15, 2022 Ulysses Grant began his military career in 1843 at Jefferson Barracks just south of St. Louis, Missouri. After service in the Mexican-American...
