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...
by cvanornum | Nov 26, 2017 | Meeting Topics
February 18, 2025 “The Battle of Chickamauga” – David A. Powell February 18, 2025 On September 18, 1863, two armies clashed along the banks of West Chickamauga Creek in northern Georgia. Major General William S. Rosecrans, commanding the Federal Army of...