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January 2012 CANISTER Newsletter Website Version of Our Monthly Newsletter |
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January 2012 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 XXIX | January 17, 2012 | NO. 1 |
VISITORS AND GUESTS WELCOME |
| DATE: | TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 | TIME: 7:00 PM |
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TOPIC: |
“Bloodied Across the Cumberland: East Tennessee's 19th Tennessee Infantry, C. S. A., & the Mill Springs Campaign” |
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SPEAKER: |
DR. JOHN FOWLER, Director, Bandy Heritage Center, Dalton State College |
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PLACE: |
MILLIS-EVANS ROOM, CALDWELL HALL, ACADEMIC QUADANGLE, THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL, HISTORIC MISSIONARY RIDGE |
| (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 to park. Caldwell Hall will be behind you as you park. Come in either the first or second floor doors and follow the signs up to the second floor and the Millis-Evans Room.) |
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JANUARY MEETING |
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Today, the Battle of Mill Springs...........or Logan's Crossroads or Fishing Creek or
Beech Grove.............it is one of the Civil War battles with the greatest number of
names........is not given a great deal of attention. But, in January, 1862, as the
"second" year of the war began and advocates of both sides began to look for
the "opening" of the Spring campaign, the clash that occurred on the 19th not far
north of the upper portion of the Cumberland River in Southeastern Kentucky was
big news. That was particularly the case for Volunteer State residents. Not only
were a significant number of the participants on the Confederate side, and potentially
on the Union side, Tennesseans, but, for Nashvillians, the Cumberland was one of
the potential approach routes to the city and it was the route by which much of the
city's coal for its heat was carried. And, one of the Confederate commanders had
been prominent in the State's political life. And, for East Tennesseans, and Hamilton
Countians, the battle in the cold rain drew attention because one of the Confederate
units engaged, bloodied for the first time, was the 19th Tennessee in which were the
Hamilton Greys and the Marsh Blues. In recognition of the 150th Anniversary of the
Battle of Mill Springs, Dr. John D. Fowler will present "Bloodied Across the Cumberland:
East Tennessee's 19th Tennessee Infantry, C. S. A., & the Mill Springs Campaign."
Dr. Fowler is the author of Mountaineers in Gray: The Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer
Infantry Regiment, C. S. A. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004) and has
spoken to the Round Table in the past on his work with the 19th. Tonight, though, he
will focus most specifically on the 19th and Mill Springs. Come out and learn about the
January 19, 1861, battle that was the talk of the town in the days following 150 years
ago. John D. Fowler holds a doctorate in History from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville where he also served as a lecturer and as an editor on the Papers of Andrew Johnson project. Subsequently, he was Professor of History and Director of the Civil War Center at Kennesaw State University. Presently, Dr. Fowler is B. J. & Dicksie Bandy Chair of American History, and Director of the Bandy Heritage Center for Northwest Georgia at Dalton State College |
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ADDITIONAL BATTLE OF MILL SPRINGS INFORMATION
http://www.millsprings.net/ http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/mill-springs.html
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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 speaker's book on the 19th Tennessee, Mountaineers in Gray: The Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C. S. A.. The second item is a copy of Volume 2 of the great Images of War: 1861-1865 series, separately titled The Guns of '62, presenting images taken associated with events in the first two-thirds of 1862, as well as a section on railroads. The third item is a copy of Michigan Soldiers in the Civil War by Frederick D. Williams. The fourth item is several issues of North & South magazine with articles on the Battle of Monocacy, the Battle of Fayetteville, Grant and the Overland Campaign, and a discussion of the importance of the Atlanta Campaign. 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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SCOUTS REPORTS! The holiday season reduced the number of Civil War related programs, but there were a few. Did anyone go to the Marsh House Victorian Candlelight Christmas in LaFayette or up to Knoxville to the East Tennessee History Center to see the "Why Lincoln Matters: Lincoln, The Constitution, and the Civil War" Special Exhibit or for the discussion and special showing of the movie The Conspirator about the Lincoln assassination co-conspirator Mary Surratt that was led by Lincoln Memorial University adjunct professor William E. Hardy at the East Tennessee History Center? If you did make it to one of those programs or if you attended another event of interest and you are able to be at our November meeting, give us a report. Remember, good intelligence is one of the keys to military success! |
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DUES It is dues time. For those who have paid for the Oct. 1, 2011 to Sept. 30, 2012 Round Table dues year, thank you. If you have not yet paid for the new year, please do so this month or next. |
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EXPANDING ON-LINE 19TH LOUISIANA LETTER COLLECTION EXHIBIT OPENS The Texas Collection of Baylor University has initiated an on-line exhibit build around the letters of Dr. Alex Morgan of the 19th Louisiana. Transcribed and annotated letters from Morgan will be added serially over the next couple of months. The first letter is the first of Morgan's describing his and the 19th Louisiana's experience at Shiloh. You can find the exhibit at www.baylor.edu/lib/believemeyourown. New items will be added each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. |
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eNEWSLETTER With yet another postage increase coming or likely, we do need to give some more thought to the mailing of a printed newsletter vs. one that is more exclusively distributed by email. I see almost no printed and mailed Round Table newsletters any more. Our email list is growing too. If you are still getting a printed copy and have email and would be willing to receive it just electronically, please let us know. |
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FUTURE ROUND TABLE MEETINGS January 17, 2012-- January 17, 2012-- |
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UP-COMING LOCAL CIVIL WAR EVENTS OF NOTE NOTE THE SEVERAL NEW LISTINGS ENTERED BELOW.........
NEW--January 14-16, 2012--Free entrance to Point Park on the Lookout
Mountain Battlefield for Martin Luther King Birthday Weekend. If it is a good weekend
weather-wise and/or you've got visitors in from out of town, you could make a visit to
Point Park and take in the view without having to pay the fee. This fee waiver or
reduction is applicable to all 395 units of the National Park System for the weekend. |
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1:30pm--Dr. Richard McMurry, historian and author of Two Great Rebel Armies:
An Essay in Confederate Military History, will present a lecture comparing the experiences
of Georgia soldiers in the Army of Tennessee and the Army of Northern Virginia. 2:30pm--Dr. Mark Wetherington, Director of the Filson Historical Society, will discuss aspects of his book, Plain Folk’s Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia. 3:30pm--Dr. Keith Bohannon, Associate Professor of History at the University of West Georgia, will summarize the events and effects of the Civil War on Georgia for 1861-1862. The lectures are free; for more information, call or see (706) 272-4452 or www.bandyheritagecenter.org |
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NEW--February 4-6, 12-16, 2012--150th Anniversary Commemoration of the
Battles of Fort Henry and Donelson, Fort Donelson National Military Park; Living History
presentations, Ranger led tours, talks by such historians as Ed Bearss, Kendall Gott,
Jack Hurst, and Myron Smith. For a full schedule of the events, see www.nps.gov/fodo March 9-10, 2012--Chickamauga Study Group "Seminar In The Woods;" more info later; email Dave Powell at dpowell334@aol.com for additional information [see Agenda] March 9-12, 2012--Georgia Battlefields Association 2012 150th Anniversary Tour: Savannah--Fort Pulaski, Fort Jackson, Fort McAllister, Savannah History Museum, and more, but without Ed Bearss (who was already committed to another 150th Anniversary event, in North Carolina); $395; for more information, see www.georgiabattlefields.org NEW--April 4-5, 2012--Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Signature Event: Invasions by Rail and River, Pickwick Landing State Park, near Shiloh National Military Park; speakers include Larry Daniel, Wiley Sword, Stacy Allen, Tim Smith, James McDonough, John Marszalek, Carrol Van West, and others; for more information call 615-741-2159 or email vionne.williams@tn.gov NEW--April 6-7, 2012--150th Anniversary Commemoration of the Battle of Shiloh, Shiloh National Military Park; for the full schedule, see www.nps.gov/shil October 26-27, 2012--The Battle of Stones River 150th Anniversary Symposium; scheduled speakers include Dr. Larry Daniel, Dr. Earl J. Hess, Richard McMurry, Jim Lewis, Antionette Van Zelm, Dr. Dwight Pitcaithley; $20.00 admission fee includes lunch; for more information, call 615-893-9501 November 8-10, 2012—20th 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 November 7-9, 2013—21st 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 November 6-8, 2014—22nd 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 November 5-7, 2015—23rd 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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