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SPEAKERS/MEETINGS

The Fort Sumter Civil War Round Table meets the second Monday of every month except for July and August. The round table gathers at Capers Hall auditorium on The Citadel campus. Please see the map of the campus. After hours visitor parking is available nearby in Kovats Field (which is paved) and in all areas labelled either visitor of decal parking. We open the doors at 6 PM for social gathering.  Proceedings with guest speakers commence at 6:30 PM. 

 

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Future Speakers and Meetings
 
Dec. 9, 2024 Rick Hatcher The Life of Major Robert Anderson
Jan. 13, 2005 Tom Elmore Potter's Raid
Feb. 10, 2025 Vic Vignola The Battle of Seven Pines
March 10, 2025 Hampton Newsome TBD
Apr. 14, 2025 Jim Anderson Andrew's Raiders
May 12, 2025 The Second Annual Roberts Foundation Book Prize and Coat & Tie Banquet Details TBA
June 9, 2025 Emily Lapisardi Rose Greenhow
July & August 2025 SUMMER BREAK NO MEETINGS
     

     
Previous Speakers and Meetings
     
  2024  
     
Jan. 8, 2024 Vic Vignola Contrasts in Command:  The Battle of  Seven Pines, May 31, 1862
Feb. 12, 2024 Richard M. McMurray, Ph.D. The Civil  Wars of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, CSA
March 11, 2024 Col. Wade Sokolosky Palmetto Boys in the Old North State during the 1865 Carolinas Campaign
Apr. 8, 2024 Dr. Kyle Sinisi Lincoln's Forgotten General, a Life of Samuel R. Curtis
May 10, 2024   Fort Sumter CWRT Presents 2023 Robert's Foundation Award!
June 10, 2024 Dr. Terry Breckenbaugh Pragamatic Abolitionists and Unruly Guerillas:  The White River Campaign in Arkansas, 1862
Sept. 9, 2024 Ted Savas Handshakes, Gambling, and Gunpowder:  How George W. Rains and Jefferson Davis Changed the Course of the Civil War
Oct. 14, 2024 W. Clifford Roberts, Jr., and Matthew A.M. Locke Holding Castle Pinckney at the Bridle:  The History of Castle Pinckney from 1811 through the Civil War to the Present Day.
Nov. 11, 2024 Brad Quinlan The Journal of Lothrop Baker, the Acting Master of the USS Powhatan during and after the Civil War
     
  2023  
     
Jan. 9, 2023    Vic Vignola The Battle of Richmond,  May 31-June 1, 1862
Feb. 13, 2023 Roger Cosbey  The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trials
March 13, 2023  Harry Smeltzer 69th NY
Apr. 10, 2023   Will Greene   Petersburg     
May 8, 2023    Ernest Dollar Hearts Torn Asunder:  Trauma in the Civil War's Final Campain in North Carolina
June 12, 2023 Mike Somerville Insightful or Indifferent?:  The Civil War and the British Army
Sept. 11, 2023    Dr. Russell Horres "An Affair of Honor at Fort Sumter"
Oct. 9, 2023 John Banks Castle Pinckney
Nov. 13, 2023 Col. Ron Meyer, USAF (Ret.) Battery Pringle
Dec. 11, 2023 Stephen M. "Sam" Hood Patriots Twice:  Former Confederates and the Building of America After the Civil War
     
  2022  
     
February 2022 Bert Dunkerly    The Peninsula and Seven Days: A Widening War 
March 2022   Herb Schiller  Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski 
April 2022  Steve Sodergren Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare
May 2022 Chuck Ross Blockade Running
June 2022 Gary Dyson Issac Smith
Sept. 12, 2022 Steven Woodworth Grant, Beauregard, and Albert Sidney Johnston: Styles of Command at Shiloh
Oct. 10, 2022    Kevin Dougherty The Port Royal Experiment
Nov. 14, 2022           James Scott      Special Event: Firebombing of Tokyo
Dec. 12, 2022    Rich Condon   “The Year of Jubilee Has Come” - Military Emancipation and the Birth of the 1st and 2nd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiments
     
  2021  
     
August  2021  Bill Piston      Marmaduke Raid   
September 2021   Rick Hatcher  Wilson's Creek  
October 2021  Mary Hatcher & Jean Hutchinson War and Wardrobe, A Southern Woman's Perspective

November 2021 

Kevin Pawlak       Lee's Defensive Strategy at Sharpsburg
December 2021   Gordon Rhea  Stephen Swails