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The Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meetings — 452 episodes · page 1 of 5
June 2026 Meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table: Alex Rossino on “Before September: The Origin of the 1862 Maryland Campaign”
May 2026 meeting of the CWRT: Chris Mackowski on “A Tempest of Iron and Lead: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House”
Feb 1995 - David Donald on The Reticence of Abraham Lincoln - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
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"
Feb 2026 Meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table:Keith Bohannon talked to the group about Wheeler’s Cavalry in the Atlanta Campaign
Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting - Jan 2026:Guy Fraker on Lincoln the Lawyer
Feb 1995 - David Donald on The Reticence of Abraham Lincoln - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
CWRT Dec 2025 meeting:Brian Jordan on Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
CWRT Nov 2025 Meeting:Chris Kolakowski on Civil War to World War: Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. and Jr.
Chicago CWRT Meeting June 2025: David Power on "The Atlanta Campaign: Missed Opportunities
Jan 2025 Meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table:Bjorn Skaptason spoke to the group about The Battle of Shiloh
Chicago Civil War Round Talbe Meeting Dec 2024:Jonathan Sebastian on Loyal to a Man: The Civil War in our Backyards
Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting Nov 2024:Allen Ottens on "The Grant-Rawlins Relationship"
CWRT Meeting Oct 2024:Larry Hewitt on "Port Hudson and the Birth of Combat Photography"
Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting Sept 2024:John Horn on "The Wilson-Kautz Raid, June-July 1864"
Chicago Civil War Round Talbe Meeting June 2024:The Nevins-Freeman Award Address Tim Smith on "Grierson’s Raid"
CWRT May 2024 Meeting: Lynn and Julianne Herman on "The Allegheny Arsenal Explosion"
CWRT Meeting April 2024:A. Wilson Greene on “Opening the Cracker Line and Keeping it Open: The Decisive Battles of the Chattanooga Campaign”
CWRT Feb 2024:Carolyn Ivanoff on “We Fought at Gettysburg” Live
March 2024 Meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table: Chris Bryan on "the Union XII Corps"
Chicago Civil War Round Table january 2024 Meeting: Pat Brennan on "Gettysburg in Color."
CWRT Meeting Dec 2023:Scott Mingus on “Texans at Chickamauga”
CWRT Meeting Nov 2023: Ernest Dollar on “Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War”
June 2023 meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table"Mark Zimmerman on “The Brutal Retreat from Nashville 1864”
CWRT Meeting May 2023: Sean Michael Chick on “General P. G. T. Beauregard”
CWRT Meeting March 2023: Dwight Hughes on “Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The USS Monitor and the Battle of Hampton Roads”
Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting Feb 2023:Charles Knight on “Robert E. Lee Day by Day 1861-1865”
Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting January 2023:Robert Girardi on “Union Prisoners of War at Camp Douglas”
Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting for December 2022: Garry Adelman on “Midwest Civil War Photo Extravaganza”
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”
CWRT Meeting Oct 2022:Bruce Allardice on "Myths and Mysteries of the CSS Hunley"
CWRT June 2022 Meeting: Lauren Szady on "Politicians in Petticoats: The Women of the Abolitionist Movement"
CWRT Meeting May 2022: James Pula on "The Eleventh Corps at Gettysburg: a Reappraisal"
CWRT April 2022 Meeting: Jeffrey Hunt on Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station and Mine Run"
Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting - March 2022: Mark Laubacher on "The U.S.S. Red Rover: Hospital of Firsts"
CWRT Feb 2022 Meeting: Ann Durkin Keating on Juliette Kinzie, the Civil War, & the Making of Chicago
CWRT Meeting Jan 2022: Rob Girardi on "General John E. Smith, Galena’s Forgotten General"
CWRT Meeting Dec 2021: Dennis Doyle on "Illinois Regiments at Gettysburg"
CWRT Meeting Nov 2021 Nevins-Freeman Address: Tom Clemens on General Joseph K. F. Mansfield
CWRT Meeting October 2021 - David Dixon on "The American Civil War: A Radical, International Revolution"
CWRT Meeting - Sept 2021 - Eric Wittenberg on "Seceding from Secession: The Creation of West Virginia"
June 2021 - A Wilson Green on"We Have Done all that is Possible and Must be Resigned: The First Petersburg Offensive"
Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting May 2021 -Michael Hardy on "General Lee's Immortals: The Lane-Branch Brigade"
April 2021 CWRT Meeting - Ron Kirkwood on "Too Much for Human Endurance:" The Spangler Farm Hospitals at Gettysburg
March 2021 CWRT Meeting: Greg Biggs talked about The Logistics of William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
Feb 2021 CWRT Meeting - Leslie Goddard Portrays Clara Barton
April 2005 - Terry Winschel on Union Victory at Vicksburg: Crucial to the outcome of the war - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Chicago Civil War Round Table Meeting Jan 2021-Jennifer Murray on General George Meade
CWRT December 2020 Meeting - David Powell on Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah Valley
October 2020 Meeting of the Chicago Civil War Round Table: Stuart Sanders on Perryville Under Fire
Sept 2020 CWRT Meeting: Fergus Bordewich on Congress at War
CWRT March 2020 Meeting: David Sutherland:VMI's Civil War Legacy
CWRT Meeting Feb 2020: Connie Langum:The Battle of and for Wilson's Creek
CWRT Meeting Jan 2020: Pam Toler: Heroines of Mercy Street: Nurses in the Civil War
CWRT Meeting Dec 2019 Daniel Weinberg: Musings of a Collecting Voyeur
Nov 2019 CWRT: Ethan Rafuse: Back to the Chivalric Days of Yore: The Valley Campaign of 1862
October 2019 CWRT Meeting: James Lighthizer on Battlefield Preservation
Chicago Civil War Roundtable Sept 2019 Janet Croon: The War Outside My Window
CWRT June 2019 Meeting: Doug Dammann: Elmer Ellsworth and His Zouaves
April 2019 CWRT: Brad Gottfried on the Maps of the Fredericksburg Campaign
John David Smith and Michael J. Larson: The Civil War Letters of Captain Henry F. Young,
CWRT FEB 2019:Robert I. Girardi: Gouverner K. Warren's Last Battle
Bjorn Skaptason: Shiloh in the Footsteps of Henry Morton Stanley.
CWRT Nov 2018:Paul Kahan: The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant: Preserving the Civil War's Legacy
CWRT Oct 2018 Meeting:Ted Karamanski: The Civil War as an Indian War
September 2018 Meeting of the CWRT:Tim Smith: U. S. Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign
May CWRT Meeting May 2018: Joseph Rose: Grant Under Fire
April 2018 CWRT Meeting: John F. Marszalek: The History of the Memoir
March 2018 Chicago Civil War Round Table: Robert D. Jenkins: The Battle of Peach Tree Creek
CWRT Feb 2018 Lawrence Lee Hewitt: “Confederate General Richard Heron Anderson
Chicago Civil War Roundtable Meeting Jan 2018 - Bruce Allardice: The Battle of Ezra Church
Dec 2017 - David Dixon on The Lost Gettysburg Address - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Nov 2017 - Tom Clemens on Special Order 191 and the Maryland Campaign - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Oct 2017 - David Powell on Chickamauga: Barren Victory - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Sept 2017 - Ed Bonekemper on False Remembrance of the Civil War: The Myth of the Lost Cause - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
June 2017 - Don Sender on The Custer Debacle - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
April 2017 - Diane Monroe Smith on Command Conflict in the Overland Campaign - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
March 2017 - Paul Kahan on Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s First Secretary of War - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Feb 2017 - Bob O’Neill on Cavalry During the Peninsula Campaign - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Jan 2017 - Richard Summers on Richmond Redeemed: Enduring Lessons in Leadership from the Siege of Petersburg - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Dec 2016 - Bjorn Skaptasan on What I saw of Shiloh: Ambrose Bierce Goes to War - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Nov 2016 - Dave Connon on Iowa Copperheads - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Oct 2016 - Lance Herdegen on The Music of the Iron Brigade - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
June 2016 - Dale Phillips on Ben Butler and the Federal Occupation of New Orleans - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
May 2016 - Glenna Schroeder-Lein on The Soldier’s Home in the Civil War - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
April 2016 - Greg Biggs on Nashville: The Siren’s Song of the Western Confederacy - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Feb 2016 - Don Doyle on The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Jan 2016 - David Moore on Gen William S Rosecrans - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Nov 2015 - Philip Leigh on Trading with the Enemy - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Oct 2015 - Dennis Frye on John Brown: The Spark That Ignited the War - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Dec 2015 - David Keller on Camp Douglas - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Sept 2015 - Dale Phillips on The Capture of New Orleans - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
June 2015 - Gary Adelman on 4D Civil War Photography Extravaganza - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
May 2015 - Eric Leonard on Cartel, Code, and Consequences at Andersonville - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
April 2015 - Michael Burlingame on The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
March 2015 - Tom Huntington on My Search for George Gordon Meade - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Feb 2015 - Leslie Goddard on Gone with the Wind and Civil War Memory - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Dec 2014 - Jim Ogden on The Engagement at Reed’s Bridge - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Nov 2014 - Steve Towne on Detecting Deserters and Disloyalty: U.S. Army Intelligence Operations in the Midwest during the Civil War - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting
Oct 2014 - Mark Bradley on When East Meets West: Joe Hooker, O. O. Howard, and the Atlanta Campaign - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting