Because of the stay at home health requirements, members are making films to share. They might have an item from the Civil War Period or perhaps a book recently read that they would like to share. All production is handled by staff for the members and appearing on camera i not a requirement.

If you might have something you would like to add, just email CCWRTVideos@nullgmail.com to work out arrangements.

Links to current movies 

1. Movie #1  https://youtu.be/tDiR4rZrZBQ Feature presentation of a sword from the 47th New York Veteran Volunteers
2. Movie #2  https://youtu.be/M9fhHE_a2JU A Burnside cavalry carbine
3. Movie #3  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr5f1XOP9tU Book Review  of Russell Bonds “War Like a Thunderbolt“
4. Movie #4  https://youtu.be/9CvbXUKoP7U Feature presentation of an 1818 Harper’s Ferry Rifled Musket

Civil & Indian Warrior

If you are interested in General Custer and his life, you are going to want to attend the “From Gettysburg to Little Bighorn: General Armstrong Custer, Civil War and Indian War 2020 Symposium” March 28, 2020, in Harrisburg, PA. 

Our friends at the National Civil War Museum have a wonderful day in store for you.  Click the buttons below to find out more or to register. 

Tuesday Brown Bag Lecture Series at Miami U at VOALC this April

Each week the Tuesday Brown Bag Lecture Series presents a speaker who will discuss a topic of interest and importance. Plan to bring your lunch and enjoy this ILR tradition.April 9 – The Hunley Submersible – A Harbinger of WWI Unrestricted Submarine Warfare – Gary Q. Johnson, a former submarine qualified naval officer, draws on his diesel and nuclear submarine experience.
Tuesday: April 9; 12:30–1:45 pm
Location: Voice of America Learning Center, Room 100 

My final Civil War talk in the series I am doing for Franklin Township’s bicentennial will be on Tuesday June 12 at 7 p.m. in the 130-year-old Felicity United Methodist Church (address on flyer attached). I will wear period style attire and there are Power Points. There will be live music before I present. I think that afterward they will serve Mary Lincoln’s special cake recipe that was Abe’s favorite, a white almond cake.

This may be my most compelling talk. It is Broken Country, Broken Families, Broken Hearts: Divided Families of the Civil War. I have no idea when I might be presenting it again (certainly not this year). Be sure to read the descriptions attached. Bring along friends if you are able to come! If you think it is appropriate, please share this with your group.

Thank you,

Millie Henley

For over 35 years, the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College has hosted an annual summer conference bringing leading historians and public audiences together for battlefield tours, small group discussions, lectures, and roundtable conversations about the Civil War era. Sessions, lodging, and meals are held on the 200-acre college campus.  You can explore further details about our conference on our website<https://www.gettysburg.edu/cwi/conference/>, as well as check out our schedule for this year’s event.<https://www.gettysburg.edu/cwi/conference/schedule.dot>

The 2019 CWI Conference will feature a wide range of additional topics, including the 1864 Atlanta campaign, the political crisis of the 1850s, Civil War artifacts, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, the demobilization of Lee’s army, and more.  2019 promises to be a blockbuster year of CWI speakers.  We are thrilled to feature eminent Civil War scholars, Gary W. Gallagher, Ed Ayers, and Carol Reardon within our line-up of over 35 distinguished speakers and tour guides.

In addition to touring the Gettysburg battlefield, participants will have the opportunity to visit a variety of other nearby battlefields and historic sites on tours that will explore Antietam northern Virginia’s Mosby country, Stonewall Jackson’s leadership at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and more. This conference will continue the Saturday evening tours (just added to this summer’s conference) of the Gettysburg battlefield and town, as well as both “lunch-in” and “dine-in” discussions with CWI faculty. The 2019 conference will offer something for everyone, from longtime students of the Civil War to those who are new to Civil War history.

Sustaining and growing CWRTs is the focus of the CWRT Congress.  Last year, we held a very successful symposium hosted by the Bull Run CWRT in Centreville, VA.  (To read what attendees had to say, click this link: http://www.pscwrt.org/activities/CWRT-congress/2017-congress.html
 
This year, the congress will be held in Harrisburg, PA hosted by the National Civil War Museum with assistance from the Harrisburg CWRT.  The agenda this year is much expanded to include a reception on Friday, August 17 including a behind the scenes tour of the museum and a presentation by Chris Mackowski on That Furious Struggle: Chancellorsville and the High Tide of the Confederacy.

On Saturday, the congress begins with “takeaways” including enhanced fundraising and speaker recruitment, no cost marketing, preservation and CWRT assistance and social media as the lynchpin to 21st century marketing.  Following the congress, there will be a book signing with eleven Civil War historians and authors, a networking opportunity and dinner at the museum.

On Sunday, Wayne Motts, CEO of the museum and licensed battlefield guide, will be conducting a tour of the Gettysburg battlefield.

To learn more about the 2018 CWRT Congress, to register for the event and to get a discounted rate at a local hotel, click the button below or use the following link: http://www.pscwrt.org/activities/CWRT-congress.html

We hope to see you in August!

Attached please find the flyer for a Saturday, May 5^th concert and lecture to support the preservation of the historic Union Baptist Cemetery. As many of you know, the cemetery was founded in 1864 by the Union Baptist Church, and is the burial site of many African-Americans prominent in Cincinnati history. For example, Powhatan Beatty is buried there, awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery in the 5^th U.S. Colored Infantry’s action at Chapin Farm VA in September 1864. See https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8562387/powhatan-beaty .

Paul Larue will speak on the work being done to identify veterans of World War I who are buried there. Many of you will remember Paul’s presentation to CCWRT with several of his high school students on their research on African-American Civil War veterans from Ohio that has resulted in the placement of grave markers on many of the previously-unmarked graves of those USCT veterans. An example of Paul’s work in his “retirement” as a teacher is on the US World War I Centennial Commission’s website at http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/ohio-in-ww1-articles/4101-educational-resources-for-teaching-the-service-and-sacrifice-of-african-american-world-war-i-soldiers.html .

The Round Table will be working with the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Walnut Hills to support the Civil War Trust’s Park Day event.  Come out and help a local site for a few hours, then engage in more conversation over a meal and libations at a local restaurant.

The object of Park Day is to give some help to the venues that we all enjoy going too so often, but seldom think how much work is needed to keep these sites viable. To this end, we will do our part to spruce up the grounds around the Home to make it more appealing to visitors. As many residents can attest, this has been a rough winter and it has taken its toll on the grounds around the Stowe House and any help will be appreciated.