by cvanornum | Jan 15, 2018 | Meeting Topics
September 15, 2020 “Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save the Union” – Douglas Waller September 15, 2020 Lincoln’s Spies is a story about dangerous espionage and covert operations during the Civil War. It is told through the lives of four Union...
by cvanornum | Jan 14, 2018 | Meeting Topics
October 20, 2020 “Union General August Willich” – David Dixon October 20, 2020 The life of Union General August Willich begins as a Prussian army officer who renounces his nobility and joins in the failed European revolutions of 1848. He emigrates...
by cvanornum | Jan 13, 2018 | Meeting Topics
November 17, 2020 “General U.S. Grant and the Battle of Belmont” – Thomas Arliskas November 17, 2020 The Battle of Belmont was General Grant’s first battle when he was in direct command of troops on the ground, and which, in fact, haunted US Grant to his...
by cvanornum | Nov 26, 2017 | Meeting Topics
December 15, 2020 “The Rock Fails to Roll: General George Henry Thomas at Kennesaw Mountain” – Brian Steele Wills December 15, 2020 The American Civil War opened avenues for many individuals to emerge as leaders in the conflict. In 1861,...
by cvanornum | Nov 26, 2017 | Meeting Topics
January 19, 2021 “The Infamous Dakota War Trials of 1862: Revenge, Military Law, and the Judgment of History” – John Haymond January 19, 2021 The military commission trials that took place in the immediate aftermath of the US-Dakota War of 1862 remain an...
by cvanornum | Nov 26, 2017 | Meeting Topics
February 16, 2021 “Decapitating the Union: Jefferson Davis, Judah Benjamin and the Plot to Assassinate Lincoln” – John Fazio February 16, 2021 More than a hundred books have been written about Lincoln’s assassination, yet one of the few certainties...
