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." |
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Meeting date: October 26 |
SPEAKERS |
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Civil War Roundtable LinksAbraham Lincoln
Civl War Round Table of Michigan Brunswick Civil War Roundtable - Brunswick NC, a small ocean community between Wilmington NC and MyrtleBeach SC that has a wealth of Civil War history and sites worth visiting. www.brunswickcivilwarroundtable.com Civil War Roundtable of Chicago - the first and oldest Civil War roundtable in the country dating back to 1940 www.chicagocwrt.org, www.thecwrt.com , or www.thecwrt.net Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia Civil
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Pittsburgh Civil War Round Table Harrisburg Civil War Round Table Pipe Creek Civil War Round Table Western North Carolina Civil War Round Table Looking for InformationRequest information on Major (Bvt. Lt. Col.) Legrand B. Speece (Speese) Civil War Sites of InterestCivil War information page - http://www.usa-people-search.com/content-us-civil-war-information.aspx . This page provides a brief overview on the war, and provides a lot of links to additional resources Adams County Historical Society Association of Battlefield Guides, Gettysburg, PA Civil War Institute - Located at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA. Civil War Links - Contains
general info about the war with links to specific areas of interest. The
links page gives an even larger selection of topics to choose from. Civil War Traveler - For folks who are planning visits to Civil War sites and/or events while on trips – or those interested in discovering new places and activities in their local area. Civil War Week - Revised
each week to reflect the events that happened on any given day 135 or
more years ago. - Clara Barton: Historical Nurses. Information and links about Clara Barton. https://www.rosenfeldinjurylawyers.com/historical-nurses-all-about-clara-barton.html Cook Sisters Hear Lincoln's "Few Appropriate Words" Two Cook sisters "cousins" who traveled ten miles from their farm near Bendersville to Gettysburg on Nov. 19, 1863, where they met and later heard Pres. Lincoln give his few appropriate words. http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/news/recollect.htm Fourteenth Amendment - History and discussion of the 14th Amendment which states that every person born or naturalized in America is a citizen of the country. Gettysburg Discussion Group Gettysburg Monuments Project
- dedicated to ensuring that monuments, artifacts, buildings and grounds
are preserved for future generations Guns & Other Weaponry from the Civil War - Historic Gettysburg -Adams County Hunley - Information
on the restoration of the CS Hunley from the Friends of the Hunley History of Illinois - http://www.homeadvisor.com/r/illinois-civil-war-history/ IRONCLAD:
The Monitor & the Merrimack - A complete description of the book
by Arthur Mokin Legal Changes After the Civil War and the 14th Amendment
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Street Gettysburg Military History Online National Civil War Museum Guide To Pennsylvania Historical Resources Civil War Preservation Trust USA People Search - The Battle of Gettysburg Resource Collection www.usa-people-search.com/content-the-battle-of-gettysburg-resource-collection.aspx Virginia Civil War Campaign Guide mapped relevant Virginia Historical Markers to Virginia Civil War campaigns using the National Park Service campaign classification system www.markerhistory.com/virginia-civil-war-campaigns/ Western Maryland Public Libraries digitizes the history of Allegany, Garrett and Washington Counties in Western Maryland. www.whilbr.org • History of Antietam National Cemetery :including a descriptive list of all the loyal soldiers buried therein together with the ceremonies and address on the occasion of the dedication of the grounds, September 17th, 1867. This is a listing of Union soldiers buried in the Antietam National Cemetery, many of whom died on the battlefield at Antietam or in nearby homes, churches and barns that were pressed into service as hospitals. But the list includes also soldiers who died at Monocacy and South Mountain, and also those who died in the hospitals at Clarysville and Cumberland in Allegany County. The book, published in 1869, includes the history of the establishment of the cemetery and the speeches at its dedication. There are few copies of the text available, which is why it has been made available online to increase access. http://www.whilbr.org/antietamNationalCemetery/index.aspx • The website also includes the records of the Confederates who were buried in Washington and Frederick Counties A descriptive list of the burial places of the remains of Confederate Soldiers who fell in the Battles of Antietam, South Mountain, Monocacy and other points in Washington and Frederick Counties in the state of Maryland. It was also published in 1869. http://www.whilbr.org/confederateSoldiers/index.aspx •In addition, the site features the newspaper printed in Hagerstown, Maryland after the battle of Antietam, The Herald of Freedom and Torch Light of September 1862. It contains reporting of the battle, but also accounts of the impact of the fighting on the area around the battles in Washington County. http://www.whilbr.org/HeraldofFreedom/index.aspx
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