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.
Map
of The Citadel
https://go.citadel.edu/publicsafety/helpful-area-maps-of-downtown-charleston-the-citadel/
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Future Speakers and Meetings |
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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 |
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Previous Speakers and Meetings |
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2024 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2023 |
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Jan. 9, 2023 |
Vic
Vignola |
The Battle of Richmond,
May
31-June 1, 1862 |
Feb.
13, 2023 |
Roger Cosbey |
The
Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trials
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March 13, 2023 |
Harry Smeltzer
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69th
NY
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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 |
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2022 |
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February 2022
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Bert Dunkerly
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The Peninsula and Seven Days: A
Widening War
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March 2022
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Herb Schiller
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Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski
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April 2022
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Steve Sodergren |
Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare
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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
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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 |
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2021 |
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August
2021
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Bill Piston
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Marmaduke Raid
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September 2021
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Rick Hatcher
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Wilson's Creek
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October 2021
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Mary
Hatcher & Jean Hutchinson |
War
and Wardrobe, A Southern Woman's Perspective
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November 2021
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Kevin Pawlak
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Lee's
Defensive Strategy at Sharpsburg |
December 2021
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Gordon Rhea
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Stephen Swails
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