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The newsletter of The Cleveland Civil War
Roundtable |
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The Charger newsletter is
published each month during the Roundtable season from September
through May. The Charger includes original articles written by
Roundtable members on many topics - personalities, battles, politics,
social conditions, etc. Most of the material on this web site
originated in The Charger.
This page contains a library of
digital copies of past issues of The Charger. To make
it easier to find a particular
 issue,
each entry lists the featured articles from that month's Charger.
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2012 - 2013 |
September |
October |
November |
December |
.January |
President:
Mike Wells
Charger Editor:
Dan Zeiser |
The Battle for South
Mountain, 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI)
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Morgan's Raid, Booth In the Confederate
Secret Service, Part 1 |
Fort Pillow, A Return to Johnson's Island, Booth in the Confederate
Secret Service, Part 2 |
The Irish and the Civil War, Fort Pillow
and Ball's Bluff - A Response |
The Great Debate: President Lincoln's Biggest Mistake, Simon Cameron,
Andrew Johnson |
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February |
March |
April |
May |
.June |
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Edwin M. Stanton: Buckeye Warlord, Steubenville, Ohio, Steubenville
During the Civil War |
Not as it Seems: John Wilkes Booth and the Forging of a Conspiracy, The
Lincoln Family, Exhuming the Body of John Wilkes Booth |
An Evening with President Lincoln, The Lincoln Family Part 2, The
Lincoln Home and Neighborhood |
Lincoln and the
Emancipation Proclamation, US Grant Boyhood Home Rededicated, US Grant,
A Brief Biography |
Grant and Lee at the
Whitehouse, A Review of Justice in Blue and Gray by Stephen C. Neff |
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2011 - 2012 |
September |
October |
November |
December |
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President:
Paul Burkholder
Charger Editor:
Dan Zeiser |
Experiencing the Civil
War, Historically Deficient, OK Visitor Center, Civil War In Central
Missouri
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The Battle of Monocacy,
The Red River Campaign of 1864 |
The Battle of Nashville,
CCWRT Field Trip Report, The Riddles of Francis P. Burke |
How Sibling Rivalry
Helped Spawn An Assassin, How Did the Presidential Party Get to the
Theater?, The Sherman House, Ohio's Links to the Civil War |
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January |
February |
March |
April |
.May |
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The Barlows and the
Gordons, Edwin Booth, Lewis Armistead, Civil War Revolvers |
A.P. Hill at Gettysburg, Gettysburg Maps |
The Great Debate: The
Last Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Lincoln’s Suspension of Habeas Corpus |
How Robert E. Lee Lost
the Civil War, William Henry Fitzhugh “Rooney” Lee, Mary Anna Randalph
Custis, The Children of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Randalph Custis Lee |
The US Navy at Vicksburg,
Vicksburg Maps, Book Sale |
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2010 - 2011 |
September |
October |
November |
December |
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President:
Lisa Kempfer
Charger Editor:
Dan Zeiser |
Abraham Lincoln’s Effect
On Constitutional Interpretation,
Grierson’s Raid |
An Evening with William
T. Sherman,
The Essential Lincoln
Bookshelf, The Battle of Wilson's Creek, Franz Sigel |
Civil War Female Spies:
Belle Boyd and Mary Elizabeth Bowser,
A Lesson in Artillery |
Letters from the Front:
General James A. and Lucretia Garfield Read Their Civil War Letters,
James A. Garfield, A Biographical Sketch |
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January |
February |
March |
April |
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The Great Debate: Would
Foreign Intervention Have Won the War for the South?, Conscripts In
the Civil War, Who Was Better, Grant or Lee? |
Lincoln’s Commando:
William Cushing,
Ulysses Grant: Dual
Personality? |
Would Foreign
Intervention Have Won the War for the South?, CSS Virginia vs USS
Cumberland and USS Congress Civil War Naval Battle, John Hunt Morgan |
The Fight for Money: The
Income Tax Laws of the Civil War,
Ohio Regimental Flags |
Ulysses S. Grant,
Civil War Events |
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2009 - 2010 |
September |
October |
November |
December |
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President:
Dennis Keating
Charger Editor:
Dan Zeiser |
Plenty of Blame to Go
Around: JEB Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg, Strong Vincent,
Balloons In the Civil War |
Behind the Scenes at a
Civil War Movie,
Gettysburg: Warren Saves Little Round Top, The Crater |
Copperheads: Lincoln’s
Opponents in the North, The Copperheads, Ohio Copperhead History |
Three Soldiers and the
Negro, The Decisive Battle of the Civil War: Another Nomination Pt 1 |
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February |
March |
April |
.May |
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The Great Debate: After
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman Was the
Greatest General of the War, The Decisive Battle of the Civil War:
Another Nomination Pt 2 |
The 26th Ohio Voluntary
Infantry: The Groundhog Regiment, Lovejoy of Illinois Part 1 |
Steps Toward War: Two
Dramatic Rescues That Led to It, Lovejoy of Illinois Part 2, March Civil
War Events in Ohio |
Rutherford B. Hayes and
the 23rd OVI, A Report from the Field... The 18th Annual Sarasota Civil
War Symposium, Blue and Gray on the Silver Screen |
John Wilkes Booth: Escape
and Capture, Kentucky in the Civil War - Mill Springs: No Longer a
Footnote |
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2008 - 2009 |
September |
October |
November |
December |
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President:
Jon Thompson
Charger Editor:
Dan Zeiser |
Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederacy,
Lincoln Memorial University |
The Supreme Court During
the Civil War,
The Irish In the Civil
War Pt 1 |
Blood, Tears and Glory:
How Ohioans Won the Civil War, The Irish in the Civil War Pt 2 |
Restoring the USS
Monitor, The Irish in the Civil War Pt 3 |
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January |
February |
March |
April |
.May |
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The Great Debate:The
Hitherto Unknown Meeting Of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis at
Hampton Roads, Virginia,
The Battles of Nashville |
The Great Emancipator as
Lawyer, Taking “The Gettysburg Test”, Mr. Lincoln at 200 |
Meet Me at the Fair: The
Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair of the Cleveland Chapter of the United
States Sanitary Commission, Letters from the Front Pt1,
The US Navy in the Civil War, John Pemberton |
The 54th Massachusetts
Regiment and the Battle of Olustee, Florida, Letters from the Front Pt2,
Andersonville’s “Clerk of the Dead”, The U.S.S. Cairo |
The Fighting McCooks,
Scenes from the Fighting McCooks |
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2007 - 2008 |
September |
October |
November |
December |
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President:
Terry Koozer
Charger Editor:
Dan Zeiser |
The
Lincoln Douglas Debates,
The Proclamation That Saved a Nation |
General
James Barnett, A Man of Many 'Firsts',
The Proclamation That Saved a Nation,
Pt 2 |
George
H. Thomas at the Battle of Chickamauga,
The Proclamation That Saved a Nation, Pt 3 |
Nathan Bedford Forrest
George Crook,
Civil War-Era Ship Found In Watery Grave |
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February |
March |
April |
.May |
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The Great Debate:
Resolved: " That the CSA was a viable state,"
Three Ohio Civil War Veterans Who Became President
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Civil War Quiz,
Decisive Battles of the Civil War? None,
Don Carlos Buell |
Raid!: The Confederacy
Comes to St. Albans, Vermont,
The Search for the Lost Confederate Gold |
The USS Kearsarge vs.
the CSS Alabama,
Ohio Peace Democrats |
Jesse James: The Last
Rebel,
The Fox and the Hedgehog The Hampton Roads Conference,
A review of "Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg― and Why It
Failed" |
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2006 - 2007 |
September |
October |
November |
December |
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President:
John Fazio
Charger Editor:
Dan Zeiser |
The
13th Tennessee,
Visiting the new Lincoln Library & Museum |
Mary
Ann Bickerdyke,
The Barlow-Gordon Controversy: Rest In Peace, Pt 1 |
Lincoln
at Gettysburg,
The Barlow-Gordon Controversy: Rest In Peace, Pt 2,
Review of "Civil War Monuments in Ohio" by Harold Holzer |
The
Confederacy’s New Mexico Campaign,
The Most Effective General,
The Civil War On December 13 |
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January |
February |
March |
April |
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The
Great Debate: Resolved: “That the Institution of Slavery was the
Cause of the Civil War",
Civil War Revolvers,
Review of "Behind Bayonets: The Civil War in Northern Ohio" |
Ohio's
Civil War Governors,
More on the Great Debate,
The Civil War On February 14 |
Custer's
Last Stand,
More on Barlow - Gordon,
Irwin McDowell Profile,
The Civil War On March 14 |
What
If?,
Civil War Artillery.
History Day Awards |
The
Civil War Letters of Private Alfred Weedon, 26th OVI,
The Last Casualty of the Battle of Gettysburg,
Lincoln and History,
Battle of Narcoossee Mill |
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2005 - 2006 |
September |
October |
November |
December |
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President:
Dave
Carrino
Charger Editor:
Dan Zeiser |
They
Had Navies, Too???
New Civil War Database Goes Online,
Battle of South Mountain September 14, 1862 |
How
the Civil War Still Lives,
Constitution Causes Civil War,
The Battle of Fredericksburg,
The Battle of Chancellorsville |
The
Transformation of Abolitionism in War and Peace: Oberlin, Ohio as a
Case Study,
The Changes at Gettysburg,
Spencer Rifle,
John Thomas Wilder |
The
Supply for Tomorrow Must Not Fail: The Civil War of Captain Simon J.
Perkins Jr., a Civil War Quartermaster,
Silent Witness to the Civil War,
Belle Boyd,
Confederate Spy |
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January |
February |
March |
April |
May. |
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The
Great Debate: The Most Overrated Leader (Military or Political) of
the Civil War,
Francis & Arabella Pt 1 |
Joshua
Lawrence Chamberlain: Scholar, Citizen, Soldier,
Francis & Arabella Pt 2 |
The
Trial of Henry Wirz,
John & Fanny Pt 1 |
A
New Framework for Civil War Military History,
John & Fanny Pt 2,
Colt-Root Model 1855 Percussion Repeating Rifle |
Union
Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War,
“Wounded Lion” U.S. Grant’s Last Campaign.
Poetry Prize Winner |
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2004 - 2005 |
September |
October |
November |
December |
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President:
Mel
Maurer
Charger Editor:
Dan Zeiser |
Voices
of the Civil War: Douglas, Lincoln, and Echoes on the Prairie,
Lincoln and the Black Hawk War,
September 8 In the Civil War |
Henry
Wager Halleck,
A Review of Jay Winik's April, 1865,
Ten Most Threatened Battlefield Sites,
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Winfield
Scott Hancock,
Brotherhood Forever,
Significant November Civil War Dates,
Biography of Turner Ashby |
Ghosts
of Gettysburg,
“The Prince of Rails” Robert Todd Lincoln,
Significant December Civil War Dates,
Henry Alexander Wise |
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January |
February |
March |
April |
.May |
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The
Great Debate: Which is the Best Book, Fiction or Non-Fiction, On the
Civil War?
Silent Witnesses to the Civil War Pt 1,
Weapons of the War
January Civil War Dates |
Stonewall
In the Valley,
The Vigilantes of Montana,
Forts Henry and Donelson,
Henry Wirz |
Myths
of Shiloh,
Silent Witnesses to the Civil War Pt 2,
Slavery in the U.S. 1790-1860 |
Jim
Getty as Abraham Lincoln,
Balthasar Best and the American Dream |
Patrick
Schroeder as George T. Peers,
Giuseppe Garibaldi,
Poetry Prize Winner,
May Civil War Dates |
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2003 -
2004 |
September |
October |
November |
December |
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President:
Warren McClelland
Charger Editor:
Dick Crews |
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Clara Barton,
Behind the Lines: My Life as a Yankee in Franklin, Tennessee Part IV |
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January |
February |
March |
April |
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The Great Debate:“What
equipment or innovation had the most effect on the Civil War?”,
Spotsylvania: The True Turning Point of the War, Jews In the Civil War |
Johnson
Island Prison,
Was Jefferson Davis the Reason the Confederacy Lost the War? |
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General
George Brinton McClellan,
Today's Navy and the Civil War.
A Visit to Johnson’s Island |
Lincoln
& His Generals.
The Peter Principle and George B. McClellan,
Poetry Prize Winner |
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