(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.)

Our speaker tonight is Harvey Scarborough, current Round Table webmaster and past president, secretary and treasurer. For the past 15 years, he has worked for EPB Employees Credit Union at the corner of McCallie Avenue and South Highland Park Avenue, which is within sight of the Orchard Knob Reservation of Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park. With renewed interest in his “Civil War hobby,” his curiosity about what took place in the general vicinity of his workplace has led him to our talk tonight.

Please come and hear about the corps, divisions, brigades and regiments that maneuvered, and the personalities that fought, 142 years ago this month in the Bush Town, Highland Park and Fort Wood areas of Chattanooga.

There are four items again this month for the Speaker's Fund. The first is a copy of A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.) edited by Dr. Kenneth W. Noe. Marcus Woodcock and the men of the 9th Kentucky were amongst those who experienced the fight in the area of Orchard Knob and Citico Creek. The second item is a copy of Call Forth the Mighty Men by Bob Womack, a history of the war, mostly in Tennessee, that quotes a lot from the letters of soldiers. The third item is the Wide Awake DVD "The Battle of Franklin: Five Hours in the Valley of Death (2005, 65 mins.)." The fourth item is three issues of America's Civil War from 1994 with articles with such titles as "Regulars to the Rescue at Gaines' Mill," Lee's Early Trial by Fire," and "Civil War D-Day: Grant's Assault On Port Gibson." The last three of the four 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.

My thanks go to Steve Bartlett for standing in for me at the relative last minute. I hated missing what I am sure was a wonderful presentation by Dr. Rushing but my father appreciated my being there for his surgery and while everything went well, my being there was beneficial. I appreciate your understanding.

As you know from last month's newsletter and meeting, Dr. Rushing's edited edition of Fanny Andrews' A Family Secret was not available in time for the meeting. Dr. Rushing offered the option of a voucher as I understand, but if you are interested in the book and don't want to go the voucher route, I will have a few copies available at the November meeting. The press got copies of A Family Secret to Dr. Rushing last week and he's sending a few copies to the meeting with me. A Family Secret is $40.00 and his earlier Journal of a Georgia Woman, 1870-1872 is $25.00.

While I hope to get this out so that you all will get it before Friday, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of Communication's 13th Annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression is this Thursday evening the 10th, all day Friday the 11th, and Saturday the 12th. A schedule of the talks was in last month's CANISTER and everyone should have gotten another copy in the mail directly from the Department of Communication. Several talks look interesting so you might consider attending. At the meeting on the 15th, we'll let those who did attend make a report. I attend the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association each year (it was in Atlanta the end of last week this year) and it is interesting to note the increasing number of college and university professors who attend the Southern who also know of the Department of Communication's Symposium. Supporting the Symposium with your attendance for part or all of the program will help keep it alive and bring a little different attention to Civil War history in the Chattanooga area.

It looks like slim pickings again, yet again, for WBTS programs on television. Even "Civil War Journal" appears to be airing only one morning on the History Channel in the week or so about our meeting and that is at 7 AM. "West Point Classmates" is the episode on Tuesday, November 15, our meeting day. On Wednesday, November 23, at 6 PM, the History Channel's "Frontier: The Decisive Battles" will do it's program on Blackhawk's War, the war in which Abraham Lincoln saw brief service in the Illinois Militia.

The presently posted schedule for C-SPAN's Book TV for this weekend and next doesn't include any Civil War or even mid-nineteenth century book programs but youmight want to check it again closer to the weekends because what is posted now is very limited; they don't have the full schedule up yet.

December 20, 2005 - To be announced
April 18, 2006 - Morris Penny, "Grant's Deceptions To Vicksburg"
May 16, 2006 - Rebecca Karcher, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, "New Jersey in the Atlanta Campaign"

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 above.
November 19-20, 2005--142nd Anniversary Commenmoration of the Battles for Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge Battlefields of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, more details enclosed and at http://www.nps.gov/chch/pphtml/activities.html.

About 4:30 o’clock the enemy formed two lines of battle with a skirmish line in front, and began to move forward. About five o’clock, their skirmishers came within range of ours, and the fight commenced. Our advanced troops were soon driven in by their line of battle, who moved steadily to the attack. Their first line was checked by our fire, but the second line coming to their assistance, together they moved forward in spite of our fie, which was not heavy enough to deter them, and came in contact with the reserve line of skirmishers. Both regiments behaved well, particularly the 28th, which resisted obstinately, and with great gallantry, many of them fighting hand to hand; but the odds against them were irresistible, and Lieut. Col. Butler, 28th Ala., Commanding, in order to save his Regiment, was forced to give the order to retire. The other regiment, 24th Alabama, had already given way. Had they contended much longer, they would have been or captured to a man, as the lines to their right and left had broken, and the enemy were getting to their rear. The 28th lost a good many, the 24th fewer – in all about 175 men."