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October 2009 CANISTER Newsletter Website Version of Our Monthly Newsletter |
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October 2009 CANISTER Newsletter Website Version of Our Monthly Newsletter |
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CANISTER From The Chattanooga Civil War Round Table www.chattanoogacwrt.org |
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| VOLUME XXV1 | OCTOBER 20, 2009 | NO. 10 |
VISITORS AND GUESTS WELCOME Note Special Meeting Place ! |
| DATE: | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009 | TIME: 7:00 PM |
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"Captain John Brown and the Campaign for Chattanooga" |
| SPEAKER: | Jim Ogden, Historian |
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HOSPITALITY ROOM, SPORTS & ACTIVITIES CENTER, THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL, HISTORIC MISSIONARY RIDGE, CHATTANOOGA |
| (Directions to the Hospitality Room in the Sports & Activities Center - Enter the McCallie School campus off of Dodds Avenue opposite the end of Bailey Avenue. Take the main drive into the campus. The Sports & Activities Center is the large building immediately ahead of you and then to your left as you proceed along the main drive. Park in either the lot to your left or the larger one to your right and come into the building's main entrance. There will be signs, but the Hospitality Room is on the right of the hall just beyond the entrance area.) |
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OCTOBER MEETING |
| "The Riot at Harper's Ferry"..........an "invasion".............an "insurrection"............ One hundred and fifty years ago this week newspapers across the country and across Tennessee carried telegraphic dispatches of the events that had unfolded in Virginia over the last few days. The news was shocking and its full meaning was only beginning to be recognized...... Harper's Ferry might be five hundred miles from the "Gateway to the Deep South" and John Brown's body might have been "a-mouldering" in the grave for three and a half years before the Campaign for Chattanooga began, but the distance between the "raid" and the campaign, in time and space, is greatly reduced when you look at the close connections some of those who fought here in 1863 had with the architect of the now clearly ominous days in October, 1859. From the first public awareness of him from his doings in Kansas, to the planning of his raid, to the immediate aftermath of his capture, and then even to the beginning of his body's "a-mouldering," contact some of those who fought at Chickamauga and Chattanooga had with "Captain" John Brown chronicle the height of his anti-slavery career. In his talk this evening, "Captain John Brown and the Campaign for Chattanooga, " Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Historian Jim Ogden will relate how some of those who were for or against John Brown were also for or against one another in the battles that helped decide the war that Brown's last words now seem to predict........"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood." It's a fitting reminder, that from the perspective of those who experienced those days, the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War is essentially already unfolding. |
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SPEAKER'S FUND SUPPORT OF THE MONTH There are three items this month for the Speaker’s Fund. There are three items this month for the Speaker’s Fund. The first this month, just in time for touring the battlefields at anniversary time, is a copy Matt Spruill's Storming the Heights: A Guide to the Battle of Chattanooga. The second item is a copy of the Chattanooga Area Civil War Sites Assessment report. The third item is a copy of the North & South magazine with articles on Five Forks, the night attack at Gettysburg, and a discussion of the affect of the rifled-musket. Two 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. |
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SCOUTS REPORTS! There were quite a few Civil War related programs in the area over the last month, some of them a little more wet, as it turned out, than others. Did anyone take in any of the re-enactment at Tunnel Hill on the 19th & 20th and visit the tunnel while there? Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park's 146th Battle of Chickamauga Anniversary programs were a little wet, but most went and I know a few Round Table folks braved the weather. Anyone go down to the town of Chickamauga's WBTS Day? If someone who was at the dedication of the Cleburne Monument at Ringgold on Oct. 3 is at the meeting, will they please make a report? If you were able to attend any of these events or another one of note since our last meeting and you’re at our October meeting, give us a report. Good intelligence is one of the keys to military success! |
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| OCTOBER MEETING |
| NOTE SPECIAL PLACE AS DISCUSSED ABOVE ! |
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DUES It is that time of the year again............the Round Table's October 1 to September 30 dues year has begun. Please pay your dues at this month's meeting or through the mail. For those of you who already have, thank you. |
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FUTURE ROUND TABLE MEETINGS November 17, 2009 -- To be announced December 15, 2009 - Jim Lewis, Park Ranger, Stones River National Battlefield, "Forrest, Milroy, & the Battle of the Cedars (December, 1864)" May 18, 2010 -- Zack Waters, Historian & Author, author of forthcoming book on Florida Confederate Soldiers |
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UP-COMING LOCAL CIVIL WAR EVENTS OF NOTE
NEW ENTRIES:
PREVIOUS ENTRIES: SEE COPY OF PROGRAM BELOW
December 5-6, 2009—23rd Annual Middle Tennessee Civil War Show & Sale, Tennessee State Fairgrounds,
Nashville, 9-5 CT Sat., 9-3 CT Sun.; the LARGEST Civil War show in the U. S., over 1,000 tables in four exhibition halls.
And you thought the Dalton show was large. Admission, but free parking. |
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The Riot at Harper's FerryNashville, Tennessee, Union and American 21 October 1859 We publish to-day full telegraphic particulars of the riot at Harper's Ferry, a briefer outline of which had heretofore appeared in our columns. The first report attributed the riot to the fact that a contractor on the Government works had absconded, leaving his employees unpaid, who had seized the arsenal with the purpose of securing Government funds and paying themselves. Later accounts seem conclusive that it was a concerted attempt at insurrection, aided by leading Northern Abolitionists. The papers of Brown, the leader, are said to have fallen into the hands of Gov. Wise, and to include among them letters from Gerrit Smith, Fred Douglass and others. We shall hear more in a few days, when, no doubt, the whole plot will be disclosed. In the mean time, the facts already before us show that Abolitionism is working out its legitimate results, in encouraging fanatics to riot and revolution. The "harmless republicanism" out of which there is serious talk even here of making a national party, to defeat the Democracy, fosters and sustains, and is formidable only from the zeal of, the class within its ranks who incited this insurrection. Of the capacity of the South to defend and protect herself, we have no doubt. But when called on to do this, as at Harper's Ferry, she must know who are her friends and who are her enemies. She can have no political association with men who are only watching a safe opportunity to cut the throats of her citizens. It will not do for Northern Republicans to attribute this outbreak to the fanaticism of a few zealots. The Republican party of the North is responsible for it. It is the legitimate result of Sewardism. It is the commencement of what Seward spoke of as the "irrepressible conflict." The South will hold the whole party of Republicans responsible for the blood-shed at Harper's Ferry. For the fanatics engaged there would never have dared the attempt at insurrection but for the inflammatory speeches and writings of Seward, Greeley, and the other Republican leaders. Waiting for the details before saying more, we refer the reader to the accounts of the insurrection published in another place in this paper. |
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17TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE 19TH CENTURY PRESS, THE CIVIL WAR, AND FREE EXPRESSION,
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA
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www.chattanoogacwrt.org |
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President -- Jim Ogden Vice President -- Ansley Moses |
Treasurer -- Harvey Scarborough Secretary -- Neil Greenwood |
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If you or a friend would like to join the Chattanooga Civil War Round Table, send
your check for dues, made out to Chattanooga Civil War Round Table, to Chattanooga
Civil War round Table, c/o Jim Ogden, 4 Gala Drive, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia 30742.
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Regular Membership $20.00 Senior Citizen (62+) $15.00 |
Family Membership $30.00 Student $15.00 |
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The Round Table dues year is October 1 to September 30. Membership fee for new
members joining after October is pro-rated, being reduced by $1.50 per month for
regular membership, by $2.50 per month for family membership, and $1.00 per month
for Senior Citizens and Students. Members up-dating their dues or rejoining are
expected to pay the full rate. [Note from the webmaster: a chart with the appropriate dues can be found at: Membership Dues. An application can be found at: application] |
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