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Knoxville Civil War Roundtable | |
Knoxville Civil War Roundtable meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month, at the Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike (on the south side of Kingston Pike, 0.2 mile east of Northshore Drive and just west of Buddy's Bar-B-Q). All meetings are open to the general public, and anyone with an interest in the Civil War, or a specific speaker or topic, is both welcome and encouraged to attend.
A dinner
buffet is
served at 7:00 p.m. Cost is
$15.00 for members and $17.00 for nonmembers. Reservations must be made
or
cancelled not later than 11:00 am on the day before the meeting. Call
(865)
671-9001 to make or cancel reservations.
Roundtable
business
is conducted at
approximately 7:45 p.m.
A guest speaker, normally an author, educator, or historian of national prominence in his or her field, speaks for approximately one hour, on some aspect of the American Civil War. This address is followed by a brief question and discussion period. Cost (for those not dining) is $3.00 for members and $5.00 for nonmembers.
The normal schedule of events at each meeting is as follows:
| DATE | August 12, 2008 - Tuesday |
| SPEAKER | Bobby Kirk - NPS Historian |
| TOPIC | R.E.
Lee and His Staff: Who They Were and How He Used Them |
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DATE
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September 9, 2008 - Tuesday |
|---|---|
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SPEAKER
|
Brian Wills - Historian & Author |
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TOPIC
|
Thomas' Crucial Victory at Mill
Springs, KY: The Rock Starts to Roll |
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DATE
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October 14, 2008 - Tuesday |
|---|---|
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SPEAKER
|
Conrad Laplante - Author and Member of Ottawa CWRT |
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TOPIC
|
Canada
and the American Civil War |
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DATE
|
November 11, 2008 - Tuesday |
|---|---|
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SPEAKER
|
Glenn LaFantasie - Historian & Author |
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TOPIC
|
The Military Rise of Ulysses S. Grant |
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DATE
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December 9, 2008 - Tuesday |
|---|---|
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SPEAKER
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Jim Ogden - Chief Historian Chickamauga Chattanooga National Military Park |
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TOPIC
|
Telegraphing Knoxville: Bragg's First
Two Moves Toward Burnside |
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DATE
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January 13 , 2009 - Tuesday |
|---|---|
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SPEAKER
|
James L. McDonough - Historian & Author |
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TOPIC
|
War in Kentucky, from Shiloh to
Perryville |
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DATE
|
February 10, 2009 - Tuesday |
|---|---|
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SPEAKER
|
Ed Archer - Historian, Author & Greatgrandson of General James L. Archer, CSA |
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TOPIC
|
The Life of Confederate General James L. Archer |
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DATE
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March 10, 2009 - Tuesday |
|---|---|
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SPEAKER
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Greg Biggs - Historian, Author & President of Clarksville, TN CWRT |
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TOPIC
|
The Crack of Doom: The Collapse of Confederate Department No. 2 |
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DATE
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April 14, 2009 - Tuesday |
|---|---|
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SPEAKER
|
To be announced |
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TOPIC
|
To be announced |
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DATE
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May 12, 2009 - Tuesday |
|---|---|
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SPEAKER
|
Ben H. Severence - Professor & Author |
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TOPIC
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A Unionist and a Radical: The Civil War career of East Tennessee's General Joseph A. Cooper |
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DATE
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June 9, 2009 - Tuesday |
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SPEAKER
|
Karel Biggs - Historian & Author |
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TOPIC
|
Making Do: Shortages and Substitutes on the Confederate Homefront |
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DATE
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July 14, 2009 - Tuesday |
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SPEAKER
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Ed Bearss - NPS Historian Emeritus |
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TOPIC
|
To be announced |
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