Western North Carolina Civil War Round Table: Meetings & Events

Meetings are are always on the second Monday of each month, unless otherwise indicated. We have dinner with the speaker at Bogart's in Sylva at 5 p.m. followed by social time at 6:30 p.m. at the meeting facility. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Our new meeting place is the HF Robinson Auditorium at Western Carolina University.

Please check local newspapers and the newsletter for any changes.

MAY	Calendar of Regional Civil War Events
Date	Event	Presenters / Sponsors	Event Type	Locale	Contact
4-6^th	“Grant Invades Tennessee: Battles of Forts Henry & Donelson”	Timothy B. Smith / CWEA	Walking Tour $$	Paris Landing, TN	cwea.net
6^th	“The Fighting McCooks:First Family of the American Military”	Ranger Program / Chickamauga NMP	Lecture/Presentation	Chickamauga, GA	nps.gov/chch
6-7^th	“Union Garrison”	Fort Clinch State Park	Living History, etc. $	Fernandina Beach, FL	floridastateparks.org/park/Fort-Clinch
8^th	"North Carolina Atlas"	Michael Hill	Lecture/Presentation	Sylva, NC	wnccwrt.com
9^th	"The Four-Legged Soldiers in the Civil War"	James "Bud" Robertson / KCWRT	Lecture/Presentation	Knoxville, TN	kcwrtorg.wordpress.com
11-13^th	“Battle of Perryville 1862”	Darryl Smith / CWEA	Walking Tour $$	Danville, KY	cwea.net
12-15^th	WNCCWRT's Upper Shenandoah Valley Spring Tour	Richard Smith / WNCCWRT	Auto Tour $	Sylva, NC	wnccwrt.com
13^th	"Hike & Tour Pickett's Mill Battlefield"	Pickett’s Mill Battlefield Historic Site	Ranger Tour $	Dallas, GA	770-443-7850
13^th	“Class Conflict in the Army: Officers & Enlisted Men in Confederate Ranks,”	Ranger Program / Chickamauga NMP	Lecture/Presentation	Lynchburg, VA	historicsandusky.org
13^th	“The Arrest of Alexander Hamilton Stephens”	A.H. Stephens State Park	Living History, etc. $	Crawfordville, GA	706-456-2602, gastateparks.org/info/ahsteph/
15^th	“Dierctor's Tour of Battle of New Market”	Viginia Museum of Civil War History	Lecture/Presentation	New Market, VA	866-515-1864
19-21^st	"North-South Skirmish Assoc, Civil War Live-Fire Competition"	Ft. Shenandoah/N-S Skirmish Association.	Shooting Competition	Winchester, VA	n-ssa.org
20^th	“Atlanta Campaign”	Switzer Library	Lecture/Presentation	Marrietta, GA	770-528-2320
20^th	“Hallowed Ground”	Ranger Program / Stones River NBP	Lantern Tour	Murfreesboro, TN	615-893-9501
20^th	“The Aftermath of Battle”	Bentonville Battlefield State HS	Living History, etc.	Four Oaks, NC	nchistoricsites.org/bentonvi
20-21^st	“Battle of New Market”	New Market Battlefield SHP	Living History, etc. $	New Market, VA	vmi.edu/museums-and-archives/virginia-museum-of-the-civil-war
25^th	“Appomattox’s Peace Memorial”	Caroline Janney / ACWM	Lecture/Reception	Appomattox, VA	acwm.org
27^th	"Artillery & Camp Demonstrations"	Ranger Program / Chickamauga NMP	Living History, etc.	Chickamauga, GA	nps.gov/chch
27^th	"A Southern Boy in Blue: Marcus Woodcock and the 9th Kentucky”	Ranger Program / Chickamauga NMP	Living History, etc.	Chickamauga, GA	nps.gov/chch
27^th	"Civil War Period Music Concert & Living History"	Ranger Programs / Shiloh NMP	Concert & Living History	Shiloh, TN	nps.gov/shil
27-28^th	Memorial Day Programs	Ranger Programs / Stones River NBP	Memorial Programs	Murfreesboro, TN	nps.gov/stri
27-28^th	“Defend and Protect: Arming America’s Soldiers”	Ranger Programs / Harper's Ferry NHP	Living History, etc.	Harper's Ferry, WV	nps.gov/hafe
27-28^th	“Military Timeline”	Bennett Place State Historic Site	Living History, etc.	Durham, NC	nchistoricsites.org/Bennett
27-29^th	"Memorial Day Programs & Living History"	Ranger Programs / Shiloh NMP	Memorial Programs	Shiloh, TN	nps.gov/shil

WNCCWRT Visit to the

Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus

12 Round Table members recently spent a weekend in Georgia, visiting the Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus and then to the infamous civil war prison site at Andersonville...

Members were much impressed with the museum's content, which included the sunken remains of the Confederate ironclad CSS Jackson...In one huge room, there was a wall of Civil War battle flags that flew from Confederate and Union ships...Even a full scale mock up of a section of Admiral Farragut's flagship, USS Hartford which led the assault on Mobile Bay...Following the tour and dinner, we retired to our hotel to "splice the mainbrace"...that's cocktail hour in English.

After an early morning breakfast, we ventured to Andersonville for a Ranger led tour...The museum honors not only the prisoners held in Andersonville, but all American POWs, in all of this nation's wars...The display was very moving...We all came away with a deep appreciation of what those men and women suffered, and what they did to survive.As we moved to the actual prison site, having visited the museum first, the members had a much better understanding of just what went on inside this enclosure as well as other camps like Douglas in Chicago and Elmira in New York.

After a hardy lunch, right there in the tiny, tiny town of Andersonville, we headed home. And as they say, a good time was had by all and we look forward to our next outing together...