Welcome to the Civil War Roundtable of Gettysburg. "The most important Roundtable, in the most important small town, at the most important battlefield, in the most important country in the world." —Joe Mieczkowski, past president
      
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Thursday, February 27, 2014
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Prelude to Gettysburg
Bill Hewitt
February 27, 2014
Gettysburg conjures up a mythology of events and personalities. We will look at events leading up to the battle through the prism of military thought at the time. Described as a chance happening, the commanders of this battle, given this mythology, seem to be absent from events – nothing could be further from the truth. The discussion will focus on the numerous opportunities each commander had to change history.
Lieutenant Colonel Hewitt served in the Army for 31 years, including 6 years in intelligence and 25 years in armor and cavalry. LTC Hewitt also served at the US Army’s Command and General Staff College for almost 4 years at the Center for Army Tactics, where he taught ofἀcers in grade of captain through brigadier general in the art and science of army op-erations. During his time at the College, he rewrote the primary tactics course for the College, supervised and reviewed all secondary tactics instruction at the College and conducted several tactics seminars with senior army officers. In that capacity he was required to study the journey of tactics from before the American Revolution through Desert Storm. Only then could the curriculum be updated so students could “see into the future” and implement vision-ary solutions to tactical requirements.
Over the course of his career, LTC Hewitt wrote 17 articles for journals and military publications, two tactics manuals and his most recent work, The Campaign of Gettysburg: Command Deci-sions for which he won the Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg, PA’s 2013 book award. Among other awards, this work received the Batchel-der-Coddington Award for Literary Achievement. He has served for the last seven years as a seasonal Park Ranger for Gettysburg National Mili-tary Park. Bill lives near Gettysburg with his wife, Kathy.
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Round Table Book Award Winner AnnouncedThe Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg, PA is proud to announce that the winner of its annual Book Award is US Army Lt. Col. (ret) William D. Hewitt for his book, The Campaign of Gettysburg: Command Decisions. For more information click here. Candid Pictures taken at the Christmas Banquet.It looks like everyone had a great time at the banquet. To see some pictures, click here. |
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First of all, I would like to say thank you to everyone who made our Christmas Banquet such a spectacular event. It was a wonderful evening and we couldn’t have done it without you! I would especially like to thank JoyceAnn Deal for coordinating the event, and Roger and Lynn Heller for coordinating the raffle. Thank you!
Now that we are officially in the New Year I want to remind everyone that if you haven’t renewed your membership dues for 2014, now is the time to do it. You can renew at the next meeting or you can mail in your dues, whichever is more con-venient for you. We de-pend on your membership to help with our preservation efforts, so we hope you will choose to renew.
I’d also like to take this time to remind everyone that we are now in snow/ice/sleet season. In the event that we need to cancel a Round Table meeting, the decision will be made by noon on the day of the meeting and the announcement will be made on two radio stations: WGET, 1320 AM and WGTY, 107.7 FM. Be sure to check with those stations before heading out to a meeting if the weather is bad.
I wish you all a healthy and happy 2014! Thank you for spending part of it with us!
- Kendra
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