(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.)

April and May of 1865, after four years of brutal combat, brought an end to the South's bid for independence. Men and boys who had become soldiers now faced becoming civilians. For most, that long day had finally come and it was embraced happily. All faced circumstances that required transition from the regimented life of the military to a pace with different challenges. That "going home," that "When Johnny Come Marching Home," is an aspect of the war little noted. The typical narrative is the surrenders at Appomattox and Bennett Place followed by the resumption of the westward march of U. S. History. But, what was it like to be one of those soldiers who relatively suddenly stacked arms and found himself back in the comfort of home. Our speaker this evening, University of Virginia History student Evan Jones will explore that very experience. A California native, Evan is captivated by War Between the States history and as a motivated student at Mr. Jefferson's university, he is challenging himself by taking upper class courses even in his first year and by auditinig graduate level American history seminars. "Going Home" will be his under-graduate thesis. While he is in summer school this summer, in previous summers he has worked at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park (and attended our Round Table meetings), Vicksburg National Military Park, and Appomattox National Historical Park.

Come out for the meeting and "go home" with some of the soldiers of the war....

There are four items again this month for the Speaker's Fund. The first is a copy of William B. Holberton's Homeward Bound: The Demobilization of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1865-1866. The second item is a copy of Nat Hughes's Theodore O'Hara: Poet-Soldier of the Old South. The third item is an episode of the History Channel's Civil War Combat series entitled "The Tragedy at Cold Harbor" on video. The fourth item is four issues of Confederate Veteran magazine from 2004 and 2003, with two articles on the C. S. S. Hunley, an article a soldier who rode with Forrest, and an officer of the 18th Virginia. The last three items this month were donated to the Round Table to support the Speaker's Fund. To those donors go our thanks. Proceeds from the Speaker's Fund go toward bringing speakers in from outside the area. Your support of the Speaker's Fund is appreciated.

July 19, 2005 - Tentative: Field Trip to Chief John Ross House
August 16, 2005 - Timothy B. Smith, Shiloh National Military Park, "Champion Hill"
September 20, 2005 - To be announced
October 18, 2005 - Dr. Kit Rushing, "Civil War Memoirist Fanny Andrews' A Family Secret"
November 15, 2005 - Harvey Scarborough, "Thomas' Demonstration Takes Orchard Knob"
December 20, 2005 - To be announced

September 19, 2005--Friends of Chickamauga and Chickamauga National Military Park Leonard Fant "Play for the Park Golf Tournament," Battlefield Golf Club, Fort Oglethorpe, for more information, www.chickchatt.org, 423-624-6914
November 10-12, 2005--13th 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