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VOLUME XXVII JANUARY 19, 2010 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 AND GUESTS WELCOME

DATE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2010 TIME: 7:00 PM
TOPIC:
 		 "TENNESSEE'S CIVIL WAR ERA
            CURRENCY NOTES & SCRIPT"
SPEAKER: TOM CARSON & DENNIS SCHAFLUETZEL
(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.)
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JANUARY MEETING
This one might be worth this much here; this one you might be able to spend here but not there; this one might be a $1.00 bill but in this town it might be worth only ninety cents. Most people in the mid-nineteenth century didn't have a lot of cold hard cash, but if you did, there could be quite a variety to that which you did have. You might have a few coins, but what paper money you might have had could have come from any number of banks, railroads, or individual companies and firms. There was little uniform or universal, or at least national, relative to the country's monetary system. But while what system there was was often frustrating, confusing, and even speculative, the fact that there was such a system reflected just how fast the country's economy was growing; most people were far better off then they had been a decade ago and certainly so than their parents had been.

Our two speakers this evening, Tom Carson and Dennis Schafluetzel will give us a view into the later antebellum and Civil War-era monetary "system" of Tennessee by relating their years of study in this field and showing some of the scores of notes, bills, and scrip they have cataloged that were in use in the Volunteer State. Their work has resulted in the publishing of an electronic CD book, Chattanooga Money, and they maintain an extensive website where you can see some of their work at:

http://www.schafluetzel.org/
A portion of their Chattanooga Money may be previewed at the website.

Today, the "standards" of our monetary system have become so in-grained that the introduction of the two dollar bill and dollar coin have been far less than successful, but someone in 1860 Tennessee would have thought nothing of having a couple dozen different types of notes in their pocket, if they had any at all.

Come out and learn about this fascinating and reflective aspect of the Volunteer State in the mid-nineteenth century.

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JANUARY MEETING II
NOTE--There is a college recruiting activity occurring in the Dining Hall on the McCallie campus the evening of our meeting. There will be a lot of traffic coming and going. As you enter the campus and start up the Ridge, you'll probably encounter staff directing traffic relative to the recruiting activity. Tell the staff you're going to the Civil War Round Table meeting in Caldwell Hall so you can go ahead and park in the Chapel parking lot. Those attending the recruiting activity will be parking in the lots by the Sports & Activities Center, the Middle School, and the Dining Hall, the lots you pass as you go up the Ridge.
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SPEAKER'S FUND SUPPORT OF THE MONTH
There are four items this month for the Speaker’s Fund. The first is a copy of our speakers' electronic CD book, Chattanooga Money. The second item is a copy of Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates by Glenn W. LaFantasie. The third item is a copy of North & South magazine from April 2001 with articles on the May, 1864, Virginia cavalry battle at Haw's Shop, "In the Shadow of Washington: Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy," and cavalry actions at Hartsville and Shelbyville, Tennessee. The fourth item is a copy of the Summer, 1997, issue of Blue & Gray Magazine which focuses on the action on North Carolina's Cape Fear River. Three 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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FEBRUARY MEETING
We are fortunate that one of our members and neighbors is Civil War Historian, Author, and attorney Sam Elliott. Sam's latest book, Isham G. Harris of Tennessee: Confederate Governor and United States Senator, is hot off the presses; you should be seeing it in bookstores now. We have been fortunate over the years to have speak to us and with the publication of Isham G. Harris of Tennessee there is yet another opportunity. Sam's professional responsibilities, however, as an attorney makes it very difficult for his to speak to us on our normal third Tuesday of the month meeting night. Therefore, for our February meeting, we are meeting one week early, on the SECOND TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2010. Look for the Canister early and remember to mark your calendars for this special date ! ! ! !
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A CHANCE TO HIKE ANOTHER PART OF STRINGER'S RIDGE
See the February 13, 2010 entry in UP-COMING LOCAL CIVIL WAR EVENTS OF NOTE below.
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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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MONEY, MONEY, MONEY ..........

...from the Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco, American Currency Exhibit on-line at:
http://frbsf.org/currency/expansion/history/index.html

Private Bank Note, Mechanics Bank, Tennessee, $10, 1854



Private Bank Note, Bank of East Tennessee, $5, 1860

...from Allen's Coins, Currencies, and Supplies on-line at:
http://allensinc.com/coins/index.htm

$1.00 1861 Bank of Chattanooga


$2.00 1862 County of Blount, Maryville

...from The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865: Currency--Civil War Currency Specimens on-line at:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/currency/specimens.html

Tennessee One-Dollar Note
Dated "28 August 1861."


The confusing mix of currencies issued in the Confederacy helped to undermine monetary stability in the South. Throughout the war, many private banks and other businesses continued to circulate their own notes. This practice only added to the glut of paper money being produced by the South's national government, by every southern state government, and by numerous local authorities. The Bank of Chattanooga was one such private bank. This 1861 note was produced for the bank by a well-known printer outside Tennessee, Jules Manouvrier of New Orleans.
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FUTURE ROUND TABLE MEETINGS

* * * FEBRUARY 9, 2010 * * * *--Sam Davis Elliott, Historian & Author, "Isham G. Harris of Tennessee: Confederate Governor and United States Senator;" Sam's biography of Harris, with the same title, has just been released by Louisiana State University Press. * * * * * NOTE SPECIAL DATE--THE SECOND TUESDAY OF THE MONTH AND NOT THE THIRD * * * * *
March 16, 2010--Chris Young, Park Guide, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, "Confederate General Sterling Alexander Martin Wood"
April 20, 2010 -- To be announced
May 18, 2010--Zack Waters, Historian & Author, co-author of forthcoming book on Florida Confederate Soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia, A Small But Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia (University of Alabama Press, 2010), with James C. Edmonds
June 2010 -- To be announced
July 2010 -- To be announced
August 2010 -- To be announced
September 21, 2010--IN THE FIELD--"Forrest vs. Old Rosy: The First Days After Chickamauga"
October 2010 -- To be announced
November 2010 -- To be announced
December 2010 -- To be announced
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UP-COMING LOCAL CIVIL WAR EVENTS OF NOTE

NEW ENTRIES:

February 13, 2010--Stringer's Ridge Hike--The Trust for Public Land and Outdoor Chattanooga will sponsor and lead a free, guided hike of the wooded 92 acre parcel TPL is working to save on Stringer's Ridge. The view of Chattanooga from those hilltops is impressive and it was from hill tops like those that James Negley in June, 1862, and John Wilder in August, 1863, shelled Confederate-held Chattanooga. All hikers are welcome. The hike will last about two hours and will go at a 2 to 3 mile an hour pace. Meet at Outdoor Chattanooga at 200 River Street (by Coolidge Park) at 1 PM. The group will then car caravan to the trail head. Call 423-643-6888 for more information. This will be a fine opportunity to get an early look at what could become one of Chattanooga's best parks.
March 20, 2010--"The Legacy of Stones River Symposium 2010: Why They Fought"--8 AM to 4 PM Central Time, held in the Historic Rutherford County Courthouse on the Public Square in Murfreesboro; the speaker are:
     Sam Davis Elliott--"The Battle of Stones River's Effect on the Leadership of the Army of Tennessee"
     Dr. Keith Bohannon, University of West Georgia--"Virginian in Blue: George H. Thomas and the Civil War in Tennessee"
     Dr. Kenneth Noe, Auburn University--"Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army After 1861," author of a book by the same title to be published this spring
$10.00 registration fee. For more information, call 615-893-9501 or visit www.nps.gov/stri or www.tncivilwar.org. Registration brochure can be downloaded from those sites. There will also be copies available at the January and February Round Table meetings.

PREVIOUS ENTRIES:
February 6 & 7, 2010—Great Chickamauga Southern Civil War Show & Sale, Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center, Exit 333, Dalton, Georgia; for more information, www.mikekentshows.net, mlkshows@yahoo.com, 770-267-0989.
March 11-14, 2010--Georgia Battlefield Association 2010 Bearss Tour, this year Hood's October, 1864, North Georgia Campaign; retired National Park Service Chief Historian Ed Bearss will take the group important points of the campaign including Palmetto, Lost Mountain, Allatoona Pass, Resaca, Tilton, Dalton, and Ship's Gap. $395 per person; based out of Fairfield Inn, Cartersville. Georgia Battlefield Association, 7 Camden Road NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, www.georgiabattlefields.org, info@georgiabattlefields.org, for more information
March 12-13, 2010--Chickamauga "Seminar in the Woods," this year following, on Friday, Confederate Commander Braxton Bragg in the days leading up to and including the battle--Lee & Gordon Mills, LaFayette, Leet's Tanyard, Thedford's Ford, etc.; and on Saturday Cleburne's Sunday assault and the fight on the Union left; for more information, dpowell334@aol.com
September 25, 2010--2010 Forrest Seminar, hosted by N. B. Forrest Camp No. 3, Sons of Confederate Veterans, focusing on Forrest in the Chickamauga Campaign, talks and tour, to be held at the Colonade Civic Center on Old Mill Road off Battlefield Parkway (Ga. Hwy. 2) between Ringgold and Fort Oglethorpe; more details later.
November 11-13, 2010—18th 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; for more information, see http://www.utc.edu/Academic/SymposiumOnThe19thCenturyPress/ or http://www.utc.edu/commdept/conference, or call 423-425-4219
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CHATTANOOGA CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE
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President -- Jim Ogden
Vice President -- Ansley Moses		 Treasurer -- Harvey Scarborough
Secretary -- Neil Greenwood

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Senior Citizen (62+) $15.00		 Family Membership $30.00
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