VOLUME XXI JANUARY 20, 2004 NO. 1
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J A N U A R Y R O U N D T A B L E M E E T I N G
VISITORS & GUESTS WELCOME
DATE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2004 TIME: 7:00 PM
TOPIC: "Dear Old Roswell: The Civil War
Letters of the King Family of
Roswell, Georgia"
SPEAKER: TAMMY HARDEN GALLOWAY, AUTHOR
PLACE: MILLIS-EVANS ROOM
CALDWELL HALL, ACADEMIC QUADRANGLE
THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL, HISTORIC MISSIONARY RIDGE
(Directions to Caldwell Hall-Enter the McCallie School campus off of
Dodds Avenue opposite the end of Bailey Avenue. Take the main drive into the
campus and follow the signs for the Academic Quadrangle. There is a parking
area there beside the Chapel and you will have passed Caldwell Hall on the
right as you approach the parking area. Find a place and park. Caldwell Hall
will be behind you as you park. Come in either the first or second floor
doors and follow the signs to the Millis-Evans Room (on the second floor).
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JANUARY MEETING
The Roswell Manufacturiing Company was one of the South's and
Confederacy's most important textile manufacturing complexes. We frequently
see account of its capture and destruction in accounts of the Atlanta
Campaign. The deportation of the mostly women operatives is often discussed.
But there is a broder story. The King family that created the industrial
center at Roswell experienced the Civil War in more ways than as manufacturers
and as recipients of Sherman's wrath. One son, Captain Thomas King lost a
foot at the First Battle of Manassas in July, 1861, and was then killed as a
volunteer member of Preston Smith's staff at Chickamauga on the evening of
September 19, 1863. Another son, Barrington S. King was an officer in
Georgia's Cobb's Legion Cavalry and experienced the mounted war in the East as
one of Jeb Stuart's troopers. In Dear Old Roswell: The Civil War Letters of
the King Family of Roswell, Georgia, our speaker this evening, Tammy Harden
Galloway, brings us Colonel King's war-time letters from the mounted arm of
Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Published last fall by Mercer University
Press, the letters mostly cover the latter half of the war, a period not
usually well represented in collections of soldier's letters. A few letters
are from various family members to Colonel King. In her talk, Ms. Galloway
will relate the story of this portion of the King family and her work in
preparing the letters for publication.
Tammy Harden Galloway is a graduate of Georgia State University in
Atlanta. She is the author of the Inman Family: An Atlanta Family from
Reconstruction to World War I (Mercer University Press, 2002). She resides
in Smyrna.
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SPEAKER'S FUND SUPPORT OF THE MONTH
There are three awards again this month in support of the Speaker's
Fund. The first award is a copy of our speaker's book Dear Old Roswell: The
Civil War Letters of the King Family of Roswell, Georgia. The second award is
a copy of "Damage Them All You Can:" Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
by George Walsh published in 2002. The third is three of the six year
2000 issues of Blue and Gray Magazine that include such subjects as John
S. Mosby in the Shenandoah Valley, article on and a tour of some of the sites
of the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, a tour of Mosby's Confederacy.
The second and third awards were donated to the Speaker's Fund by Round
Table members and to them go our thanks. Proceeds from the Speaker's
Fund go to help pay the travel expenses of our out-of-town speakers. Your
generous support of the Speaker's Fund helps us bring in good folks from
greater distances.
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C-SPAN'S BOOKNOTES
The schedule for even this coming weekend's Book TV on C-SPAN 2 isn't
fully posted yet so I don't know if any Civil War titles will be addressed
in this or the next couple of weeks. However, related, particularly for those
interested in Tennessee History as well as Civil War History, this weekend's
Booknotes on C-SPAN 1 at 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, January 18, 2004, will be an
interview of author John Seigenthaler about his recently published biography
of James K. Polk. It's not Civil War but it might be interesting anyway. I
haven't seen the book yet. [Website: www.booktv.org.]
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TRANSPORTATION PLAN AT CHICKAMAUGA BATTLEFIELD
The next Transportation Plan meeting is Monday, February 2, 2004. It
will be held at 1:30 PM at Constitution Hall, Forrest Road, Fort Oglethorpe.
For more information, visit the Study's website:
http://www.dot.state.ga.us/dot/plan-prog/planning/studies/index.shtml
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FUTURE ROUND TABLE MEETINGS
February 17, 2004-Mel Young, "Dr. Block: Union Surgeon to Chattanooga
Businessman"
March 16, 2004--
July 20, 2004-"The Battle of LaFayette," Field Trip and Off-site Meeting,
Walker County Historical Society's Marsh-Warthen House, LaFayette, Georgia;
we'll arrange a car-pool convoy for this special trip to learn about one of
the smaller local battles from 140 years ago; more details later.
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UP-COMING LOCAL CIVIL WAR EVENTS OF NOTE
February 7-8, 2004 - 9th Annual Great Chickamauga Southern
National Civil War Show and Sale, Northwest Georgia Trade &
Convention Center, I-75 Exit 333/Walnut Avenue, Dalton, Georgia, 9-5 Sat.,
9-3 Sun.; more details later. [See ad at end of this issue.]
March 6, 2004 - Chattanooga Regional History Museum's 23rd Annual
David H. Gray History Fair, Clarion Hotel, 400 block of Chestnut Street,
opposite the Regional History Museum; more details next month.
March 6, 2004 - The 1864 Atlanta Campaign: An Historical Symposium,
sponsored by the Friends of Civil War Paulding County, Georgia, Inc.,
Chattahoochee Technical College Auditorium, Dallas, Georgia, speakers include
Dr. Keith Bohannon, Dr. J. D. Fowler, Jim Miles, and John Cissell; for more
information, 770-443-1459.
May 8, 2004 - "With Bragg from Chattanooga to the River of Death:
A Tour of Confederate Movements Leading to Chickamauga," sponsored by the
Friends of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, tour led by
Jim Ogden, more details next month.
November 11-13, 2004--12th Annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press,
the Civil War, and Free Expression, sponsored by the University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga's Department of Communications, more details later.
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