Upcoming CCWRT Program
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
Cleveland Civil War Roundtable Website’s Summer Series: Sixth Installment (July 6, 2025)
The Cleveland Civil War Roundtable typically has its season of meetings from September through May. Meetings are normally not held during the summer months of June, July, and August. In order to fill the summer months of 2025, some articles that were published during the 2024-2025 season in the Roundtable’s newsletter, The Charger, will be posted on the website during the summer months of 2025. Articles, all of which were written by members of the Roundtable, will be posted every week or so during the summer. The sixth installment in the Roundtable website’s summer series is The Nancy Harts by Al Fonner. Al’s article discusses a militia unit that was comprised of women. After the majority of the men in a town in Georgia left to fight in the war, some of the women in the town made the decision to form a militia unit to defend their town. These women armed themselves, trained, and eventually faced an invading Union force. Al’s article describing this unusual militia unit and its defense of the town can be accessed by clicking on this link.
Previous installments in the 2025 summer series are as follows.
Surrender? A Better Word Would Be Quit: Eastern Cherokee and the Confederacy
An Angel from Richmond, the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the Long Path of Discovery
Gutzon Borglum vs. UDC and the State of Georgia
Gutzon Borglum: Part Deux
Emanuel Patterson and the 6th United States Colored Troops (USCT)
Clara Barton and Clevelander John J. Elwell: A Civil War Romance
2025-2026 Program Schedule Posted
The schedule for the Roundtable’s 2025-2026 program has been posted. The 2025-2026 program that was put together by Roundtable President Charles Patton contains a nice variety of Civil War-related topics that will be presented by excellent speakers. Roundtable members will certainly find these presentations well worth attending. The 2025-2026 program schedule can be accessed by clicking on this link.
Roundtable 2025 Field Trip – Save the Dates
The Roundtable’s 2025 field trip is scheduled for September 25-28, 2025 to Vicksburg, Mississippi. A block of rooms has been reserved, and the itinerary has some very enticing activities on it. As of now, the following activities have been scheduled for the 2025 field trip: Battle of Port Gibson, Battle of Champion Hill, Battle of Big Black River, Stockade Redan Attack, USS Cairo Museum, Vicksburg National Cemetery, Surrender Interview Site, Great Redoubt, and Second Texas Lunette as well as many more. Check back for updates. A downloadable PDF containing information about the hotel, the tentative itinerary, and information about signing up for the field trip can be found by clicking on this link. (Note: This link connects to the most recent version of the PDF for the field trip, which was updated on April 9, 2025.)
Membership Roster and Contact Information
We have worked very hard to improve our membership database and contact information this year, but we know we probably have more work to do. Please be sure to keep us advised of changes in contact information by sending us the information at clecwrt@gmail.com. We monitor that email account on a regular basis, so this would be a big help in making sure we can keep you informed of group activities. If you want to see what has been posted on our Facebook page or Twitter account, you do not have to become a member of the Roundtable. Everyone is welcome to view our Facebook page and Twitter account. These can also be accessed by googling “Cleveland Civil War Roundtable” and either “Facebook” or “Twitter” and clicking on the appropriate link in the search results.
Cleveland Civil War Roundtable Monthly Meetings
Meeting Time: Monthly meetings of the Cleveland Civil War Roundtable are typically held on the second Wednesday of the month from September through May. Meetings ordinarily begin with a social hour at 6 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. and the program at 7:00 p.m. Meetings usually end by around 9:00 p.m. All of our meetings are currently held in person, and barring any future health-related restrictions, we anticipate that all meetings will be held in person.
Meeting Location: In-person meetings are held at the Holiday Inn Independence, 6001 Rockside Road, Independence, Ohio 44131.
Reservations: For in-person meetings, you must make a dinner reservation for any meeting you plan to attend. Reservations must be made no later than eight days prior to the meeting (so we can give a head count to the caterer). For information on making a dinner reservation, click on this link. It is not necessary to purchase dinner in order to attend a meeting. Anyone is welcome to attend the presentation without purchasing dinner. We ask that people who are not purchasing dinner make a reservation so that enough chairs will be set up in the meeting room. Simply make a reservation at the reservation email address (ccwrtreserve@gmail.com) and indicate “no dinner” in the reservation. If dinner is not purchased, there is no charge to attend a meeting.