Roundtable Articles

By William F.B. VodreyThe Cleveland Civil War RoundtableCopyright © 2004, 2007, All rights reserved Every once in awhile, a Civil War book makes it to the bestseller lists, appealing to a broader audience than history fans. Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind was one such book, in its day. So…

By William F.B. VodreyThe Cleveland Civil War RoundtableCopyright © 1999, 2008, All Rights Reserved Editor’s note: This review was originally published in The Charger in the Fall of 1999. It comes as no surprise to anyone who reads about the Civil War that not every regimental colonel was as heroic,…

By William F.B. VodreyThe Cleveland Civil War RoundtableCopyright © 1999, 2010. All Rights Reserved Editor’s note: This article was originally published in The Charger in 1999. I enjoy Civil War alternative history, or “what-if,” books. At their best, these books challenge our perceptions of the war in intriguing ways, but…

By William F.B. VodreyThe Cleveland Civil War RoundtableCopyright © 1999, 2010. All Rights Reserved Editor’s note: This article was originally published in The Charger in 1999. George Armstrong Custer seems to have an unbreakable hold on the American imagination. He was a gallant cavalier during the Civil War, the northern…

By William F.B. VodreyThe Cleveland Civil War RoundtableCopyright © 2001, 2008, All Rights Reserved Editor’s note: This review was originally published in The Charger in the winter of 2002. When I was in the Roundtable contingent which visited Richmond in 2000, I noticed Dan Zeiser reading a thick book with…