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The Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meetings

by Marc Kunis

The Civil War Round Table of Chicago present programming of interest to devotées of American Civil War history, support preservation of Civil War battle sites, and sponsor a very popular annual battlefield tour. Founded in 1940, The Civil War Round Table of Chicago was the very first of over 200 such Round Tables that now meet around the world.The Civil War Round Table of Chicago is dedicated to the study of all aspects of the American Civil War, bringing together those who wish to expand and share their knowledge, as we promote the interchange of ideas.

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  1. June 2026 Meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table: Alex Rossino on “Before September: The Origin of the 1862 Maryland Campaign”

    Alex Rossino on "Before September: The Origin of the 1862 Maryland Campaign" For more info: www.chicagocwrt.org. History records the September 1862 Confederate operation in Maryland as a military campaign designed and initiated solely by General Robert E. Lee, but what if Lee's crossing of the...

  2. May 2026 meeting of the CWRT: Chris Mackowski on “A Tempest of Iron and Lead: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House”

    Chris Mackowski on “A Tempest of Iron and Lead: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House” for more info: www.chicagocwrt.org For twenty-two straight hours, in torrential downpours, up to their knees in mud and blood, Federals and Confederates slugged it out in the most intense sustained…

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  3. Feb 1995 - David Donald on The Reticence of Abraham Lincoln - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

    Date: February 2, 1995 Speaker: David Donald Topic: The Reticence of Abraham Lincoln - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

  4. April 2026 of the Chicago Civil War Round Table: Wayne Motts on "Illinois Civil War Artifacts in the Collection of the National Civil War Museum"

    The Nevins-Freeman Address Wayne Motts on "Illinois Civil War Artifacts in the Collection of the National Civil War Museum" For more information, visit www.ChicagoCWRT.org Join historian, author, and National Civil War Museum CEO Wayne E. Motts for a dynamic PowerPoint presentation showcasing...

  5. Feb 2026 Meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table:Keith Bohannon talked to the group about Wheeler’s Cavalry in the Atlanta Campaign

    Keith Bohannon on Wheeler’s Cavalry in the Atlanta Campaign For more info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG Keith Bohannon will examine General Joe Wheeler's background and the operations of his command from May-September 1864. During much of this time, Wheeler's command guarded the flanks of the army and...

  6. Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting - Jan 2026:Guy Fraker on Lincoln the Lawyer

    January 2026 Meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table Guy Fraker on Lincoln the Lawyer For More info: WWW. ChicagoCWRT.ORG Consulting with Lincoln scholars, Guy Frakerrealized that Lincoln's formative years on the Eighth Judicial Circuit hadnever been deeply explored. This led him to the...

  7. Feb 1995 - David Donald on The Reticence of Abraham Lincoln - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

    Date: February 2, 1995 Speaker: David Donald Topic: The Reticence of Abraham Lincoln - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

  8. CWRT Dec 2025 meeting:Brian Jordan on Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

    For More info: www.chicagocwrt.org The Civil War visited unprecedented violence on the United States. That violence was also inscribed on the bodies and minds of the nearly two million men who donned Union blue between 1861 and 1865. How did Union veterans make sense of their physical,...

  9. CWRT Nov 2025 Meeting:Chris Kolakowski on Civil War to World War: Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. and Jr.

    Chris Kolakowski on Civil War to World War: Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. and Jr. For More Info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.org Not many Civil War generals can claim to have had a son who was a general during World War 2. But Confederate Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner's son, of the same name, had a…

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  10. Chicago CWRT Meeting June 2025: David Power on "The Atlanta Campaign: Missed Opportunities

    Chicago CWRT Meeting June 2025 David Power on "The Atlanta Campaign: Missed Opportunities For more info: www.chicagocwrt.org I've got Joe Johnston Dead!" Or so Sherman is said to have exclaimed upon hearing that James B. McPherson had seized Resaca. Famously, that turned out not to be true, one…

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  11. Jan 2025 Meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table:Bjorn Skaptason spoke to the group about The Battle of Shiloh

    Bjorn Skaptason on The Battle of Shiloh For more info : WWW.ChiagoCWRT.ORG At the outset of the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, the Confederates had high hopes for an important strategic victory. They aimed to block the Union advance into Mississippi, and early in the battle, it seemed that they...

  12. Chicago Civil War Round Talbe Meeting Dec 2024:Jonathan Sebastian on Loyal to a Man: The Civil War in our Backyards

    Jonathan Sebastian on Loyal to a Man: The Civil War in our Backyards For More Info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG In the minds of many, including those who study history, there exists a divide. That is, while history happens everywhere, the real history happens somewhere else. The Civil War is thought of…

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  13. Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting Nov 2024:Allen Ottens on "The Grant-Rawlins Relationship"

    Allen Ottens on "The Grant-Rawlins Relationship" For More Info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG Galena lawyer and Ulysses S. Grant neighbor John a. Rawlins rose to assistant adjutant general on Grant’s staff and ultimately Grant's secretary of war. From the earliest days of the Civil War to Grant's years in...

  14. CWRT Meeting Oct 2024:Larry Hewitt on "Port Hudson and the Birth of Combat Photography"

    October 2024 Meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table: Larry Hewitt on "Port Hudson and the Birth of Combat Photography" For more info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG Larry Hewitt will present the who, what, where, when, why, and how the firm of McPherson & Oliver made photographic history. Between June...

  15. Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting Sept 2024:John Horn on "The Wilson-Kautz Raid, June-July 1864"

    On September 13th John Horn talked to the Round TAlbe about "The Wilson-Kautz Raid, June-July 1864" For for Info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG Grant wasted no time after his Petersburg assaults of June 15-18, 1864, failed to capture the city. He launched his second offensive against Petersburg hours…

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  16. Chicago Civil War Round Talbe Meeting June 2024:The Nevins-Freeman Award Address Tim Smith on "Grierson’s Raid"

    Benjamin Grierson's Union cavalry thrust through Mississippi is one of the most well-known operations of the Civil War. There were other simultaneous operations to distract Confederate attention from the real threat to Vicksburg posed by U. S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee, but Grierson's...

  17. CWRT May 2024 Meeting: Lynn and Julianne Herman on "The Allegheny Arsenal Explosion"

    Lynn and Julianne Herman on "The Allegheny Arsenal Explosion" For more inf: www.chicagocwrt.org The Allegheny Arsenal, near Pittsburgh, produced ammunition for the Union army. By 1862 the workers turned out some 128,000 cartridges daily by working six days a week, twelve hours a day. The arsenal...

  18. CWRT Meeting April 2024:A. Wilson Greene on “Opening the Cracker Line and Keeping it Open: The Decisive Battles of the Chattanooga Campaign”

    Wilson Greene on “Opening the Cracker Line and Keeping it Open: The Decisive Battles of the Chattanooga Campaign” For More Info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.Org Following the battle of Chickamauga in September 1863, General William S. Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland retreated into Chattanooga. Braxton...

  19. CWRT Feb 2024:Carolyn Ivanoff on “We Fought at Gettysburg” Live

    CWRT Feb 2024 For more info : WWW.ChicagoCWRT.Org Often small individual encounters in history, experienced by common people like us, caught in the maelstrom of events, hold larger truths. Sometimes these experiences have meaning—not only for those who experience them, but for us in today’s…

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  20. March 2024 Meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table: Chris Bryan on "the Union XII Corps"

    For more Info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.Org The Union XII Corps was formed in June 1862. The corps, which joined the Army of the Potomac only a week before Antietam was small, numbering just over 7,600 men. Easily overlooked, Army of the Potomac leadership and historians since have largely glossed over…

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  21. Chicago Civil War Round Table january 2024 Meeting: Pat Brennan on "Gettysburg in Color."

    For more info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.Org Patrick Brennan, a long-time student of the Civil War and published author, has teamed up with his technology-astute daughter Dylan Brennan to bring the largest Civil War battle to life in the remarkable 2-volume study: Gettysburg in Color. Volume 1 covers…

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  22. CWRT Meeting Dec 2023:Scott Mingus on “Texans at Chickamauga”

    Scott Mingus on “Texans at Chickamauga” For More Info visit WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG Although the Civil War’s second-largest battle in terms of casualties, Chickamauga has had far fewer books written about it than the thousands of books penned about the war’s bloodiest battle, Gettysburg. What has…

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  23. CWRT Meeting Nov 2023: Ernest Dollar on “Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War”

    Ernest Dollar on “Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War” For More Info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG In the popular memory of the Civil War, its end came with handshakes between Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia. But the war was not over. There was a larger, and arguably, more…

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  24. June 2023 meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table"Mark Zimmerman on “The Brutal Retreat from Nashville 1864”

    Mark Zimmerman on “The Brutal Retreat from Nashville 1864” For More Info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.org Mark Zimmerman, a member of the Nashville Civil War Round Table, will present an hour-long slideshow, The Brutal Retreat from Nashville 1864, based on his self-published book, Mud, Blood and Cold Steel....

  25. CWRT Meeting May 2023: Sean Michael Chick on “General P. G. T. Beauregard”

    Sean Michael Chick on “General P. G. T. Beauregard” For more information: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.Org In April, 1861, Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard shot into fame as the Confederate commander who commanded the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Often given high-level commands thereafter, a combination of...

  26. CWRT Meeting March 2023: Dwight Hughes on “Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The USS Monitor and the Battle of Hampton Roads”

    Dwight Hughes on “Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The USS Monitor and the Battle of Hampton Roads” For more info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG The USS Monitor was an ingenious but hurried response to both the imminent threat of the Confederate ironclad, CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack), and to the…

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  27. Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting Feb 2023:Charles Knight on “Robert E. Lee Day by Day 1861-1865”

    Charles Knight on “Robert E. Lee” For More info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG Douglas S. Freeman's Pulitzer Prize-winning three-volume biography of Robert E. Lee is a masterful reconstruction of the man's life. So exhaustive was Freeman's research that he often boasted he could account for every hour of...

  28. Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting January 2023:Robert Girardi on “Union Prisoners of War at Camp Douglas”

    Robert Girardi on “Union Prisoners of War at Camp Douglas” For More info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG Douglas, located on the south side of Chicago, was Illinois' largest Civil War training camp. More than 40,000 volunteers mustered here. In February 1862, the camp was converted to accommodate…

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  29. Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting for December 2022: Garry Adelman on “Midwest Civil War Photo Extravaganza”

    Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting for December 2022: Garry Adelman on “Midwest Civil War Photo Extravaganza” For more info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG Join American Battlefield Trust Chief Historian Garry Adelman for a lively photography presentation covering all manner of Midwestern events, people,...

  30. Civil War Round table of Chicago November 2022 Meeting. The Nevins-Freeman Address: Mary Abroe on “Historic Preservation and Civil War Battlefields: An American Story”

    Civil War Round table of Chicago November 2022 Meeting. The Nevins-Freeman Address: Mary Abroe on “Historic Preservation and Civil War Battlefields: An American Story” For More info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG Founded by Congress in August 1890, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is our...

  31. CWRT Meeting Oct 2022:Bruce Allardice on "Myths and Mysteries of the CSS Hunley"

    Bruce Allardice on "Myths and Mysteries of the CSS Hunley" For more info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG The Confederate submarine Hunley, the first submarine to ever sink an enemy warship, has fascinated us ever since its mysterious disappearance in 1864. Movies have been made dramatizing its almost…

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  32. CWRT June 2022 Meeting: Lauren Szady on "Politicians in Petticoats: The Women of the Abolitionist Movement"

    CWRT June 2022 Meeting: Lauren Szady on "Politicians in Petticoats: The Women of the Abolitionist Movement" For More Info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG While not originally admitted to the earliest abolitionist societies, women were always an important part of the movement. Some names, such as Harriet...

  33. CWRT Meeting May 2022: James Pula on "The Eleventh Corps at Gettysburg: a Reappraisal"

    James Pula on "The Eleventh Corps at Gettysburg: a Reappraisal" For More Info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.Org The twin disasters that befell the XI Corps at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg have cast a long shadow over the memory of the brave men who served and suffered in that unit. James Pula focuses on...

  34. CWRT April 2022 Meeting: Jeffrey Hunt on Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station and Mine Run"

    CWRT April 2022 Meeting: Jeffrey Hunt on Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station and Mine Run" For more info visit: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.ORG The Civil War in the Eastern Theater during the late summer and fall of 1863 was anything but inconsequential. Generals Meade and Lee continued where they had left...

  35. Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting - March 2022: Mark Laubacher on "The U.S.S. Red Rover: Hospital of Firsts"

    Mark Laubacher on "The U.S.S. Red Rover: Hospital of Firsts" For More information visit WWW.ChicagoCWRT.org To adequately treat illness and trauma afflicted upon military personnel during the US Civil War, a true military hospital ship for use on internal waterways was built. Originally, USS Red...

  36. CWRT Feb 2022 Meeting: Ann Durkin Keating on Juliette Kinzie, the Civil War, & the Making of Chicago

    Ann Durkin Keating talked to the Chicago Civil War Round Table on February 11th on Juliette Kinzie, the Civil War, and the Making of Chicago For more information: WWW. ChicagoCWRT.Org After spending the 1832 Black Hawk War at Portage, Wisconsin, Juliette settled with her husband, John H. Kinzie…

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  37. CWRT Meeting Jan 2022: Rob Girardi on "General John E. Smith, Galena’s Forgotten General"

    CWRT Meeting Jan 2022: Rob Girardi on "General John E. Smith, Galena’s Forgotten General" For more info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.org Galena Illinois boasts that it sent nine generals to the Civil War, the most famous of whom is Ulysses S. Grant. Many cannot name the other eight generals, but in addition…

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  38. CWRT Meeting Dec 2021: Dennis Doyle on "Illinois Regiments at Gettysburg"

    Dennis Doyle on "Illinois Regiments at Gettysburg" December 12th, 2021 During the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), there were three Illinois Regiments that served in the Army of Potomac. Those regiments were the 8th and 12th Illinois Cavalry and the 82nd Infantry Regiment, and a total of...

  39. CWRT Meeting Nov 2021 Nevins-Freeman Address: Tom Clemens on General Joseph K. F. Mansfield

    Nevins-Freeman Address: Tom Clemens on General Joseph K. F. Mansfield For More Info: www.ChicagoCWRT.org The Chicago Civil War Round Table's Nevins-Freeman Award is intended to honor those who advance Civil War scholarship and the Round Table movement. Past winners have included Bruce Catton…

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  40. CWRT Meeting October 2021 - David Dixon on "The American Civil War: A Radical, International Revolution"

    David Dixon on "The American Civil War: A Radical, International Revolution" For more info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.org On October 8th historian David Dixon will talk about an aspect of the Civil War not often discussed--”the role of foreign, German transplants”--based on the life of one of those...

  41. CWRT Meeting - Sept 2021 - Eric Wittenberg on "Seceding from Secession: The Creation of West Virginia"

    Eric Wittenberg on "Seceding from Secession: The Creation of West Virginia" for more info: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.org “West Virginia was the child of the storm," concluded early Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran, Maj. Theodore F. Lang. The northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia...

  42. June 2021 - A Wilson Green on"We Have Done all that is Possible and Must be Resigned: The First Petersburg Offensive"

    A Wilson Green on"We Have Done all that is Possible and Must be Resigned: The First Petersburg Offensive" For more information: WWW.ChicagoCWRT.org The epic contest between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee wound its way from the Rapidan River to Cold Harbor in May and early June 1864. Stymied…

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  43. Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting May 2021 -Michael Hardy on "General Lee's Immortals: The Lane-Branch Brigade"

    Michael Hardy on "General Lee's Immortals: The Lane-Branch Brigade" For more information: WWW.CWRTChicago.com Over the course of four years of exemplary service, the North Carolina brigade commanded first by Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, and then by James H. Lane, fought on the most storied fields of...

  44. April 2021 CWRT Meeting - Ron Kirkwood on "Too Much for Human Endurance:" The Spangler Farm Hospitals at Gettysburg

    Date: April 9, 2021 Speaker: Ron Kirkwood Topic: Too Much for Human Endurance:" The Spangler Farm Hospitals at Gettysburg - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting For More Info: WWW.CWRTChicago.com The bloodstains are gone, but the worn floorboards remain. The doctors, nurses, and patients...

  45. March 2021 CWRT Meeting: Greg Biggs talked about The Logistics of William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign

    Date: March 12, 2021 Speaker: Greg Biggs Topic: The Logistics of William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting The Nevins Freeman Address Greg Biggs on The Question Was One of Supplies: The Logistics of William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. For More Info:...

  46. Feb 2021 CWRT Meeting - Leslie Goddard Portrays Clara Barton

    Date: February 12, 2021 Speaker: Leslie Goddard Topic: Leslie Goddard Portrays Clara Barton - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting History will come alive in the talented hands of historian Leslie Goddard, who will introduce Barton, the first woman to serve as a nurse on the front lines…

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  47. April 2005 - Terry Winschel on Union Victory at Vicksburg: Crucial to the outcome of the war - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

    Date: April 12, 2005 Speaker: Terry Winschel Topic: Union Victory at Vicksburg: Crucial to the outcome of the war - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

  48. Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting Jan 2021-Jennifer Murray on General George Meade

    Dr. Jennifer M. Murray is a military historian, with a specialization in the American Civil War, in the Department of History at Oklahoma State University. Murray's most recent book publication is "On A Great Battlefield: The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park,...

  49. CWRT December 2020 Meeting - David Powell on Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah Valley

    David Powell on Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah Valley David Powell's latest book, Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah, provides a fresh perspective on the May 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaign. By shifting attention away from the VMI cadets to the Union military's strategic goals and...

  50. October 2020 Meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table: Stuart Sanders on Perryville Under Fire

    Stuart Sanders on Perryville Under Fire. For more info go to WWW.CWRTChicago.org The 1862 Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, laid waste to more than just soldiers and their supplies. The commonwealth's largest combat engagement also took an immense toll on the community of Perryville, and citizens…

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The Civil War Round Table of Chicago present programming of interest to devotées of American Civil War history, support preservation of Civil War battle sites, and sponsor a very popular annual battlefield tour. Founded in 1940, The Civil War Round Table of Chicago was the very first of over 200 such Round Tables that now meet around the world.The Civil War Round Table of Chicago is dedicated to the study of all aspects of the American Civil War, bringing together those who wish to expand and share their knowledge, as we promote the interchange of ideas.

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