Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Monday, August 29, 2016
A Change of Plans - WNCCWRT heads to Chickamauga in October
Change is in the wind. The Round Table is heading to Chickamauga for a two-day, one-night tour of the Chickamauga-Chattanooga NMP. A busy fall schedule has limited the availability of guides to the originally planned tour of the Dalton-Resaca (GA) sites and battlefields and has led to this change for the Round Table.
Program Director Richard Smith has come up with a very viable alternative, a tour of Chickamauga, every bit as worthy of your participation as the previously planned excursion. Smith, in quick order, has developed the substitute tour hosted in part by Round Table favorite Park Historian Jim Ogden, and the dates are set for October 28 & 29. Further details are available in September newsletter or by contacting Richard Smith, 828-293-5924.
Friday, April 1, 2016
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Mackowski Returns with Ewell to Gettysburg
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Members, guests and the public-at-large are invited to attend. Tickets/reservations for the dinner are $25 a person, and are due on or in advance of December 7. The party will include a scrumptious variety for dinner, again catered by John Faulk. There will be a limited cash bar. Also, for the attendees’ amusement, there will be a silent auction as well as a door prize-styled raffle. The Round Tables request those attending to do so in jackets or “Sunday best” or period costume.
In a style of what can be called practiced, yet frenetic, Mackowski will evaluate critically the actions and/or inactions of the II Corps under its new commander, Richard Ewell, who had replaced the now-fallen iconic Stonewall Jackson. In doing so, he will look at the orders, the decision, and the execution of those strategies on the July first and their performance throughout the battle.
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Those wishing for more information may contact Richard Smith (828-293-5924) or Bill Baltz (828-712-9314). Otherwise, to request tickets send your checks to WNCCWRT; Attn: Christmas Party; PO Box 3709; Cullowhee, NC 28723.
The Round Table looks forward to seeing all of its old friends on what promises to be a delightful evening of fun, scholarship and camaraderie.
Sunday, November 1, 2015
WNCCWRT November 2015 Newsletter
Sokolosky to Examine Importance of Wyse Forks
The Western North Carolina Civil War Round Table will present Col. Wade Sokolosky (Ret.) to address the organization and its guests at the HFR Auditorium on the campus of Western Carolina University, Monday, November 9 at 7 pm. Admission is free. The traditional meet n’ greet with the speaker at Bogarts in Sylva will be at 5 pm and the casual social, 6:30 at the WCU location. Members, their guests and the interested public are encouraged to come.
The Battle of Wyse Fork fought on March 8-10 in 1865 is sometimes known as the Second Battle of Kinston involved Union troops (three divisions) of Maj. Gen. Jacob Cox under Maj. Gen. John Schofield faced off against a division of North Carolina Reserves commanded by Maj. Gen. Robert Hoke along with elements (approximately 29 regiments) of a shattered Army of Tennessee, Maj. Gen. D.H. Hill commanding, with overall command under Gen. Braxton Bragg. Fighting aside the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad and in front of the Neuse River the Confederates would have to withdraw across the Neuse after three days of hard fighting and seeing any initiatives slip away with poor communications and against superior numbers.
Col. Sokolosky’s most recent book, co-authored with Smith, "To Prepare for Sherman's Coming": The Battle of Wise's Forks, March 1865 is from where the research and thesis of the presentation is created. He will attempt to erase the misconception that the battle was little more than an insignificant skirmish and elevates this combat action and its related operations to the historical status it deserves.
Sokolosky, a 25-year U.S. Army veteran and native North Carolinian (Beaufort), has co-authored two books regarding the Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign with Mark A. Smith, the aforementioned To Prepare … and Such Army Since the Days of Julius Caesar: Sherman's Carolinas Campaign from Fayetteville to Averasboro being the other. He is the sole author of Final Roll Call: Confederate Losses during the Carolinas Campaign. With these book credits and current the Vice-President of Friend of Bentonville Battlefield, Skolosky has become regarded as one of the leading authorities of Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign.He is a graduate of East Carolina University. During his time in the service, Wade served in a variety of leadership and staff positions, both in the United States and overseas, most notably in Afghanistan. Upon relinquishing command of the 23rd Quartermaster Brigade in 2011, Wade returned home to Beaufort. He has lectured throughout the Carolinas, speaking to roundtables, various societies and organizations, and at historical sites.
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