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Speakers Bureau

Roundtable members available for group talks

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Robert Boyda
Former Roundtable President
  • Nathan Bedford Forest
  • John B. Gordon
  • Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign

Dick Crews
Former Roundtable President
Member, Lincoln Forum
  • Dan Sickles
  • William T. Sherman
  • John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Assassination

John C. Fazio
Former Roundtable President
Member, Lincoln Forum
  • The Montana Vigilantes
  • John and Fanny, a Love Story
  • Braxton Bragg, a Dour Martinet
  • Francis and Arabella, a Love Story
  • The Barlow-Gordon Controversy: Rest in Peace
  • Thus Always with Miscreants, John Wilkes Booth
  • The Turning Point, Wilderness and Spotsylvania
  • Lincoln's Assassination, the Confederate Conspiracy
  • Eye of the Storm, Review of Robert Sneden's Memoir
  • Intrepid Mariners: The Saga of the Kearsarge and Alabama
  • The Sword Was Mightier Than the Pen, Wartime Correspondence Between Hood and Sherman
  • The Proclamation That Saved a Nation (The Emancipation Proclamation)

John C. Harkness
Former Roundtable President
Member, Company of Military Historians
Member, Ohio Gun Collectors Association
Supervisor, Alloy R and D, Brush Wellman Inc.
  • Materials and Processes in the Manufacture of Civil War Small Arms

Mel Maurer
Former Roundtable President
Roundtable Historian
Member, Lincoln Forum
Member, Civil War Preservation Trust
  • The Battle of Franklin
  • Lincoln at Gettysburg
  • Abraham Lincoln, There's Nothing Trivial About Him
  • Jesse James – The Last Rebel of the Civil War?

William McGrath
Former Roundtable President
  • C.S.S. Alabama and U.S.S. Kearsarge
  • U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia

Dale Thomas
Retired U.S. History Teacher
Member, New Salem Lincoln League
Former Roundtable Historian and Webmaster
Archivist, Olmsted Historical Society
  • Lincoln, An Old Friend of the Family
  • Silent Witnesses, Civil War Veterans Buried in Local Cemeteries
  • Corp. Nathan W. Hawkins of Rockport, Ohio: A Civil War Soldier with Two Gravestones

Jon Thompson
Retired English and Civil War History Teacher
Roundtable Vice President
  • The Civil War Letters of Private Alfred Weedon, 26th Ohio Volunteer Infantry - A Hands-On Lesson in History

William Vodrey
Former Roundtable President
Member, Civil War Preservation Trust
Member, Blue and Gray Education Society
  • Blood in the Streets, The New York City Draft Riots
  • Political Graverobbery: The Confederacy and George Washington
  • The Gettysburg Address: Lincoln Redefines America
  • What If...?: An Overview of Civil War Alternatives
  • Lee, Jackson and Longstreet: Traitors All?
  • The Last Duel: the U.S.S. Kearsarge vs. the C.S.S. Alabama
  • Brown Water, Black Ships: U.S. Navy Operations on the Mississippi
  • Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: Scholar, Citizen, Soldier
  • Lincoln's Commando: William Cushing and the Sinking of the C.S.S. Albemarle
  • Clash of Ironclads: The U.S.S. Monitor vs. the C.S.S. Virginia
  • The war that Never Was: Britain, the U.S. and the Trent Affair
  • Dennison, Tod and Brough: Ohio's Civil War Governors
  • Raid!: The Confederacy Comes to St. Albans, Vermont

Marjorie Wilson
Retired Teacher
Member, Roundtable Executive Committee
Volunteer Guide @ Lakeview Cemetery
  • General James Barnett, A Man of Many 'Firsts.'  General Barnett organized the 1st Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery and led six batteries from Cleveland on April 22, 1961. His personal comments about their 90 days in Western Virginia tell us a lot about Ohio's fdifficulties at the beginning of the War. He later served as Chief of Artillery under General Rosecrans. In civilian life, Barnett was active in local military affairs and played a major role in Cleveland's business and civic life. He was a vital force in overcoming some stubborn obstacles to the building of the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument.
  • Clevelanders In the Civil War

The Cleveland Civil War Roundtable