2008

September 18, 2008

Our first meeting features Dick Simpson of Orleans, VT, with a slide show entitled "Gettysburg: America's Greatest Art Park." You'll see some of the well known and some of the lesser known monuments that dominare the battlefield park, and learn about the history of these memorials in bronze and granite.

October 16, 2008

CWRT member Marius Peladeau will speak on "Oliver Otis Howard: Hero or Scapegoat?" O.O. Howard was Maine's senior Major General, a West Point graduate, and praised by Sherman during the Georgia campaign. What really happened at Chancellorsville?

November 20, 2008

CWRT member Curt Mildner presents "What Were They Thinking?" Using extracts from Maine soldiers' letters and diaries, we'll learn what soldiers wrote about their opions of McClellan, Lincoln, slavery. camp life, etc.

December 18, 2008

Mike Nugent, co-author with Eric Wittenberg, of "One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863," will speak on the Union Army's failure to capture or destroy Lee's Army after the Battle of Gettysburg.

2009

January 15, 2009

Author Jean Mary Flahive of Falmouth will speak about the research involved with writing her book, "Billy Boy: The Sunday Soldier of the 17th Maine." Her book is historical fiction, but based on the real story of 20 year-old Billy Laird of Berwick, Maine who enlists in the 17th Maine. Billy can't read or write, and deserts the regiment in a panic.

February 19, 2009
To celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth this month, Gerry Wiles of Chebeague Island returns to our Round Table to present the story of Abraham Lincoln's life.

March 19, 2009

Peter Dalton returns to our Round Table for a presentation on his book, "Hard Times, Hard Bread and Harder Coffee," the Civil War correspondence of Hezekiah Long of the 20th Maine.

April 16, 2009

To be determined.

May 21, 2009

CWRT member, Charleen Lambert, of No. Eastham, MA, will present the story of Alden Murch, 3rd Maine Volunteer, in "Backing Into History," Murch's letters were found stuffed in a cubbyhole of a barn decades after the was ended.

June 11, 2009 - Annual Awards Dinner

We are thrilled the Craig Symonds, retired Professor of History at Annapolis Naval Academy, will return to speak on his most recent book, "Lincoln and his Admirals."
Location TBD

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