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March 2010 Civil War Symposium From: Antoinette van Zelm Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2010 10:43 am Dear Colleagues: In partnership with the Stones River National Battlefield, the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area is coordinating its sixth Legacy of Stones River Symposium, to be held on March 20, 2010. We have a terrific program planned--please see the information below. We would greatly appreciate it if you could help us promote this event in your upcoming newsletters or online calendars of events. Thank you!
Antoinette van Zelm “The Legacy of Stones River: Why They Fought” symposium will take place on Saturday, March 20, 2010, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Murfreesboro, TN. The program features talks by Keith Bohannon, Sam Davis Elliott, and Kenneth Noe at the Rutherford County Courthouse in the morning, followed by park ranger-led programs at Stones River National Battlefield in the afternoon. Bohannon of the University of West Georgia has written extensively about the war, including essays on John Bell Hood and the Battle of Chickamauga. Elliott, an attorney in Chattanooga, is the author of the forthcoming Isham G. Harris of Tennessee: Confederate Governor and United States Senator. Noe is the Draughon Professor of Southern History at Auburn University. His Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army After 1861 will be published this year. The $10 registration fee includes continental breakfast. Call 615-893-9501 or visit www.nps.gov/stri or www.tncivilwar.org to download a registration brochure.
Antoinette G. van Zelm, Historian (Posted January 6, 2010) |
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If you are familiar with Dave Powell and Jim Ogden's "Seminar in the Woods" tours in March each year, then you'll want to check Dave Powell's Blog for the Study Group 2010 agenda and all the latest information.
Also, please note that Dave's long awaited book (146 years in the making),
The Maps of Chickamauga is now "hot off the press." You can order your copy
from SavasBeatie.com.
Just go to their website, click on the Books tab, type in the Keywords search box: The Maps of Chickamauga.
No serious student of Chickamauga will want to be without this one.... |
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| Check here for the National Park Service's anniversary program: 146th Anniversary of the Battles for Chattanooga detailing their Saturday and Sunday, November 21-22, 2009 schedule of events. |
| Check here for the National Park Service's anniversary program: 146th Anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga detailing their Thursday through Sunday, September 17 - 20, 2009 schedule of events. |
| Check here for the Major General Patrick Cleburne Statue unveiling and dedication ceremony in Ringgold, Georgia on October 3, 2009. |
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[KCWRT 1865] Fwd: UNKNOWN SOLDIER RECOVERED FROM FRANKLIN BATTLEFIELD From: hwmorgan@comcast.net To: kcwrt1865@discoveret.org Date:Fri, Aug 21, 2009 5:11 am FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12, 2009 UNKNOWN SOLDIER RECOVERED FROM FRANKLIN BATTLEFIELD To Be Reinterred at Historic Rest Haven Cemetery in Franklin, Honored with Monument FRANKLIN, Tenn. - A construction project in the area where the calamitous Battle of Franklin was fought on Nov. 30, 1864, has disturbed the resting place of an unknown soldier who was buried in a shallow grave 145 years ago during the tragic last days of the Civil War in Tennessee. The City of Franklin's Battlefield Task Force, along with local historians and government officials, led the recovery of the soldier's remains and will direct a funeral ceremony to re-inter his body at the Historic Rest Haven Cemetery in downtown Franklin, where other brave veterans - both Union and Confederate - were laid to rest. It is not known for which army the unknown soldier fought. A coffin containing his remains will lie in state at St. Paul's Episcopal Church at 510 West Main Street in Franklin - the circa 1827 sanctuary which served as barracks for Federal troops during their occupation of the town in 1864 - from 8 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8 until the funeral ceremony at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10. One Union and one Confederate honor-guard sentry will be posted at the front doors of the church during the 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. visitation period each day and prior to the ceremony on Saturday morning. The soldier will receive full military honors from re-enactors representing brothers-in-arms from both the Union and the Confederacy. On Saturday morning, a Union and a Confederate Chaplain will conduct a brief funeral service in the church. Following the service, the casket will be borne from the church by uniformed pallbearers (Union and Confederate) and placed on a waiting, horse-drawn caisson in front of the church. Accompanied by a color guard, honor guard, and Civil War-era bagpiper, the caisson will move north on Main Street, crossing Fifth Avenue, circling the Square, proceeding north on Third Avenue, and then west on North Margin Street to the Rest Haven Cemetery gates. As the procession leaves St. Paul's and continues up Main Street, townspeople and visitors are invited to fall in behind the ranks of the marching re-enactors. After arriving at Rest Haven Cemetery, a brief eulogy will be delivered by the chaplains, and will conclude with period-appropriate military honors including a 21-gun salute and the playing of "Taps" by a uniformed bugler. A Monument to The Unknown Soldier who died on the Franklin Battlefield will be unveiled as part of the ceremony. Active participation in the ceremonies at Rest Haven and at St. Paul's will be restricted to uniformed re-enactors only, but the public is invited to view the ceremonies from designated areas. Any re-enactment unit that wishes to participate is encouraged to contact Robert Huff at (615) 500-8211, or via email at: rghuff123@aol.com . For information on Franklin and Williamson County, go to www.visitfranklin.com. |
| At the August 2009 meeting of our Round Table, we discovered how easy it is to view
the Civil War troop movements and positions in Hamilton County during the time of the Battles for Chattanooga. The link below will take you
to the website of the Hamilton County Geographic Information Systems (HCGIS). Alexander Archaeological Consultants, Inc, and
The Trust for Public Land, through a grant from the American Battlefield Protection Program, have overlayed the six Betts Maps of
1896 & 1901. The result is a display of troop positions relative to today's streets and topography. Save yourself a lot of head scratching and pavement pounding by visiting the Chattanooga Battlefields GIS Project. |
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FROM: Mike Dyer SUBJECT: National Geographic Civil War Map TO: Chattanooga Civil War Round Table DATE: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 4:41 pm Hello Chattanooga CWRT, In April 2005 National Geographic Maps in collaboration with the Civil War Preservation Trust and the National Park Service published a supplement map to accompany the magazine article “Civil War Battlefields: Saving the Landscape of America’s Deadliest War” which ran in National Geographic Magazine. Since then we have received requests from Civil War aficionados, students, and preservationists to purchase reprints of this highly detailed thematic map. I’m writing today to let your organization know that the map is once again available as a premium printed edition, ideal for framing. Additionally, we are offering the map to members of civil war round tables, descendent, historical, genealogical and preservation organizations like yours at a 40% discount and free shipping until June of 2009. If you or other members of your organization are interested in taking advantage of this special pricing simply visit www.natgeomaps.com/vip and enter the promo code: NGCIVILWAR in the “New Member Registration” section on the left-side of the page. Proceeds from the sale of this map go to support The National Geographic Society’s non-profit mission to increase global understanding and promote conservation of our planet through exploration, research, and education. Please feel free to spread the word to your members and other Civil War enthusiasts. We hope our map falls into the hands of those that truly appreciate it and find its content useful and beautiful. Should you wish to view the map online or read the original article, you can visit: http://www.natgeomaps.com/battles_civilwar.
Thank you – Mike Dyer |
| A 2006 book by authors Charles and Barbara Whalen entitled: THE FIGHTING McCOOKS: America's Famous Fighting Family is available via their website: http://www.thefightingmccooks.com/index.html. Our Round Table is very familiar with this name, as nearly every battle we have studied in the Western Theater involved a McCook family member. "Heroic and bold, they fought on forty-six battlefields. No major battle took place in the western theatre of war that did not include at least one of the seventeen Fighting McCooks. They were on the front lines from the first shots of the war to the last." (Posted March 4, 2009) |
| A new book release has been announced by author James E. Stallings, Sr. It is entitled: GEORGIA'S CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WHO DIED AS PRISONERS OF WAR 1861-1865. You can find out all you need to know at his website: http://www.jamesstallings.com/. (Posted February 24, 2009) |
| General Patrick Cleburne Monument dedication scheduled for October 2-3, 2009 in Ringgold, GA (Posted February 13, 2009) |
| Check out the General Management Plan for Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park at: General Management Plan (Posted February 10, 2009) |