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The Charger

The newsletter of The Cleveland Civil War Roundtable

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.  Files are in pdf format, so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your PC in order to read them.  Click here to download Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Season:          
2012 - 2013 September October November December .January
President:
Mike Wells
Charger Editor:
Dan Zeiser

The Battle for South Mountain, 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI)
 

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

February March April May .June

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

 

2011 - 2012 September October November December .
President:
Paul Burkholder
Charger Editor:
Dan Zeiser

Experiencing the Civil War, Historically Deficient, OK Visitor Center, Civil War In Central Missouri
 

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

 

January February March April .May

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

 

2010 - 2011 September October November December .
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

 

January February March April .May
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

 

2009 - 2010 September October November December .
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

 

January February March April .May

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

 

2008 - 2009 September October November December .
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

 

January February March April .May

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

2007 - 2008 September October November December .
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

 
January February March April .May

The Great Debate: Resolved: " That the CSA was a viable state,"
Three Ohio Civil War Veterans Who Became President

 

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"

2006 - 2007 September October November December .
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

 

January February March April May.

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

2005 - 2006 September October November December .
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

 

January February March April May.

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

2004 - 2005 September October November December .
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,

 

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

 

January February March April .May

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

 

2003 - 2004 September October November December .
President:
Warren McClelland
Charger Editor:
Dick Crews

 

 

 

Clara Barton,
Behind the Lines: My Life as a Yankee in Franklin, Tennessee Part IV

 

January February March April .May

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?

 

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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