(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.)

In his talk this evening, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Historian (and Round Table President) Jim Ogden will talk about the later August and early September, 1863 aspects of the Campaign for Chattanooga that unfold upstream of the Gateway to the Deep South city. He'll talk about the well conducted Federal deception activities; the reactive massing of Confederate troops, some of the little fights, like the Battle of Mattox's Barn, and other related events. It is a part of what turns out to be the Chickamauga phase of the campaign that is usually overshadowed in the telling when the river crossings at Shellmound, Bridgeport, and Stevenson, and the climbs over the Sand and Lookout mountain ranges begin to be told. It might not be as dramatic, but it is a part of the history that shaped our nation in the area.

There are four items again this month for the Speaker's Fund. The first is a copy of The Army's Navy Series: Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868 compiled by Charles Dana Gibson and E. Kay Gibson. It consists of brief histories of the hundreds of vessels used by the Union Army, mostly on the Western waters, in the prosecution of the war. The Paint Rock, Dunbar, Chickamauga, Resaca, and other vessels used on the Tennessee in the Chattanooga region are included. The second item is a copy of Thomas G. Dyer's Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta. The third item is a paperback copy of John McElroy's Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, McElroy's memoir of his time in Confederate hands. The fourth item is a copy of the National Park Service handbook for Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial - fifty pages and full of color pictures. All four of the 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.

This year's Dalton Civil War Show was February 4-5. Did many folks make it down? See anything interesting? From the couple of people I've talked to, it sounds like it was a pretty good show. That's good to hear given the uncertainty that seemed to have existed about it happening. Let's hope that the new management gives it a long life. We'll look forward to it next year!

There are not a great number of WBTS programs on the tube in the coming week or so from what I can learn, but there are a couple:

HISTORY CHANNEL
Feb. 25, 8 AM - Unknown Civil War: Confederate Officers at Gettysburg

Feb. 27, 8 AM & 2 PM - Time Machine: A Thirst for Blood and Iron - this program actually about the development of sea power over the course of two centuries but apparently includes a notable section on the Civil War ironclads.

Mar. 1, 6 PM - Conspiracy? Lincoln Assassination

C-SPAN'S BOOK TV
Feb. 19, 1:30 AM - Joshua Wolf Shenk's Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

Feb. 20, 11 AM - Thomas Fleming and his Washington's Secret War: The Hidden Victory of Valley FOrge - this is not Civil War, but it is certainly American Military History and many people North and South harkened back to the Revolution and Valley Forge and certainly Washington was the father of the American military traditioin; it might still be an interesting program.

Feb. 20, Noon - Joshua Wolf Shenk's Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

Feb. 20, 1:30 PM - David Hackett Fischer's Washington's Crossing - again, not a Civil War one, but I've seen this program and it is good (I've also read the book); it addresses Washington's Trenton and Princeton's campaign.

Feb. 20, 2:30 PM - Neil Dahlstrom's Lincoln's Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President's Mission to Destroy the Press

Feb. 20, 3:30 PM - Thomas Reed Turner's Beware a People Weeping and Thomas Goodrich's The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy; both presentations from the 2005 Lincoln Forum.

Feb. 20, 10 PM - Neil Dahlstrom's Lincoln's Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President's Mission to Destroy the Press

March 21, 2006 - Dr. Anthony Hodges
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"
September 19, 2006 - Since it will be the 143rd anniversary of the fighting on September 19 at Chickamauga, we'll have an evening walking tour meeting on the Chickamauga Battlefield; bring a flashlight.
October 17, 2006 - Russell K. Brown, author of To The Manner Born: The Life of William H. T. Walker, Augusta's "Pet Company:" The Washington Light Artillery of August, Georgia, and "Our Connection With Savannah:" History of the FIrst Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, 1862-1865, presenting a subject from the latter book, "Sharpshooters in the Valley of the River of Death: A Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion at Chickamauga."
November 21, 2006 - Sam Davis Elliott, "The Southern End of the Battle of Missionary Ridge"

November 9-11, 2006--14th 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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