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. Some of the content on this website originated in The Charger.
This web page contains links to a library of digital copies of past issues of The Charger. The links on this web page are for issues from November 1956 to May 1981. Other issues can be found on other web pages (September 1981 to May 2001, September 2001 to May 2021, and September 2021 to Present). 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 Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed on a device in order to read them.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect any official policy, belief, or position of the Cleveland Civil War Roundtable.
1980-1981 Season
President: Tom Geschke
Charger Editor: Stuart Cramer
July: Yorktown, October 19, 1781; Of Raiders, Prayers, and Sharpshooters; Berdan’s Sharpshooters
September: The Forgotten Victory: The Battle for New Jersey – 1780 book review; Confederate Soldiers Attacking a Beehive; That Charming Marie
October: Field Trip Report; Field Trip Sketchbook
November: Freedom under Lincoln: Federal Power and Personal Liberty under the Strain of Civil War book review; Custer and Longstreet at Appomattox; A Civil War Anecdote from a Zanesville Soldier; John “Black Jack” Pershing’s Equestrian Prowess Challenged; Echoes of Heroes – Winfield Scott; Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Abraham Lincoln
December: Odds: 37 to 1 – CSS Arkansas vs. the Union River Fleet; Third Bull Run Won (Against Developers); A Thundering Paradox of a Man – Douglas MacArthur; The Blue and Gray in Egypt
January: Ben Hur Remembered; The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement book review; Spooky Commissary; Short but Lively Career – CSS Arkansas; He Hated Horses – Benjamin Grierson
February: Confederates book review; The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln; Lincoln Lore; A Blood-Stained Flag; Inauguration Fun – March 4, 1865
March: Encounter at Hanover: Prelude to Gettysburg book review; Spurious Pelf – Southern Style; Why February 17, 1864?; High Finance after Gettysburg; Carnival at Elmira; War Crime?
April: The Winter War book review; Circus Horses for the Union Cavalry; Lincoln Combines Clubs
May: Grierson’s Raid book review; Save Petersburg by Undermining HUD; Jacksonville, IL Honors Favorite Horseman: Benjamin Grierson
1979-1980 Season
President: Charles Spiegle
Charger Editor: Stuart Cramer
July: The First Frontier: The Indian Wars and America’s Origins, 1607-1776 book review; Stage Magicians during the Civil War; The Delilah of Spring Hill; Sad Affair of Churubusco; Another Holly Springs
September: Mur de Pierre Jacqueson; The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt book review; Not All Surprised at Shiloh; The Room in Which Earl Van Dorn Was Shot; Battlefields under Fire
October: Fate of the Monitor; Jefferson Davis book review; Field Trip Report
November: A Trip South; The Time of the Buffalo book review; A Note from Arkansas; Dime Novels and Buffalo Bill; Energy Crisis at Fredericksburg; Of Spies and Loose Women
December: The Forest at Brice’s Cross Roads; The Civil War Christmas Album book review; No Food at Amelia Court House; Boots, Boots, Boots – Excerpts from the Diary of an Ohio Soldier
January: Johnnie Reb’s Secret Weapon; Boney’s Nags and Other Horsey Bits; U.S. Grant and the American Military Tradition book review; Stage Magic during the War
February: The Mystery of Lincoln’s Teeth; With Malice toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln book review; About Those Spoons; A Laughing Lincoln – His Humor and Stories
March: The Day I Bombed Washington; The Battle of Gettysburg book review; Incident at Gettysburg; George Meade’s Panicked Horse at Gettysburg
April: Battle of Third Bull Run Still Rages; Bridge Across the Sky book review; Lincoln’s Enforcer; More about Scurvy Than You Ever Wanted to Know; A Sneaky One – Lafayette Baker
May: Southern Fare; Swords & Roses book review; First Horse Artillery; And Speaking of Strange Weapons; Spirits in the White House
1978-1979 Season
President: William Bates
Charger Editor: Stuart Cramer
September: Snowstorm over Columbia; Gideon’s Folly; First Shot at Sumter
October: The Third Battle of Bull Run; A Spanish-American War Amphibious Action; He Didn’t Know When to Quit; Word Play; The Grand Encampment at Gettysburg in 1913
November: Our Hobby Horse; A Word from a Civil War Horse Heir; Field Trip Report; John B. Gordon – A Georgia Lawyer with Fame in Two Other Fields
December: Custer in Print; Nellie Gray; The Mule Skinner; Lotteries; Mule Power
January: The Magician Who Became America’s First Air Force, Part 1; Flying Bryant; Rusty Glamour
February: The Man Who Shot Lincoln; Lincoln Lore; The Magician Who Became America’s First Air Force, Part 2
March: Forrest vs. Bragg; A Confederate from Cleveland; Lee and ESP?
April: A Visit to Quiet Shiloh; A Tragic Day in Manchester; Ol’ Bedford and the Mules; Fort Monroe – Thorn inside the Confederacy
May: Famous Stage Magicians during the Civil War; Rear Actions at Shiloh; Letters from a Union Soldier; Townsend on Embalmers
1977-1978 Season
President: Richard McCrea
Charger Editors: Neville Bayless, Ray Swanson
September: Putting on the Gloves, Rhetorically Speaking – Debate on the Best and Worst Union Generals; Mark Twain’s Musings on Historical Immortality; Ohio in the Civil War – The Ewings
October: The Battle of Spanish Fort; Cyclorama Looks to Cleveland for Rescue; General Thomas Says “A-OK!”; The Initials Should Be F.G.
November: Field Trip Report; Report on the Third National Congress; All about Horses; Cross Keys Historical Display Site Planned
December: Gettysburg Tower Owner Is Not Amused, Balks at Tax; A Special Place, Gettysburg; Gettysburg Asks for Custody of its Most Famous Address; More on “Cump”
January: Was Franklin the Gettysburg of the West?; Sash, Sash, Who’s Got the Sash?; New Account of Lincoln’s Death
February: The Man behind the Guns book review; Sherman and the Burning of Columbia book review; Roads to Gettysburg book review; Some Medical “If’s”; General Who?
March: Robert E. Lee Is Alive, Well, and Peddling Bourbon; Prisoners and Prisons of the Civil War; Just What Is CWRT Associates?
April: Adapt or Perish: The Life of General Roger A. Pryor, C.S.A book review; Sherman and the Torpedoes; Crazy Eights – Eight Civil War Trivia Questions; Exchange of Prisoners – Life of the Captured Prisoners and Escapees; They Bombed Out – Burnside and Hooker
May: Cleveland and the Civil War – Some Military Units from Cleveland; Why the Civil War?; Civil War Vignettes; On Treason and Traitors; Charles Francis Adams on Robert E. Lee’s Decision; On Treatment of Prisoners of War
1976-1977 Season
President: Milton Holmes
Charger Editors: Neville Bayless, Ray Swanson
September: Gettysburg: A Journey in Time book review; “The Flower of Lee’s Army”; Origins of the American Revolution, Part 1; “Billy” Seward and R.E. Lee Come to Cleveland
October: Field Trip Report; “Ol’ Bluelight” Knew When to Scram; Was Abe Lincoln a Cocksman?; Origins of the American Revolution, Part 2; How Do you Like That?; Rebel Hubris; Threesies
November: Movement to Restore Mary Edwards Walker’s Medal of Honor; Had a Weak Bench, Too; Origins of the American Revolution, Part 3; Chickamauga Battle Vault Looted; Besides Chile Dogs There Is a Chile Ram; One Threesie Is Actually a Foursie; Anything Can Happen in West Virginia
December: Report on the Second National Congress of Civil War Roundtables; The Russian Fleet Visits the United States
January: Sneaky End Run by “The Crimson Tide” (1862 Version); Inverse Pecking Order; Ol’ Kaintuck Was Really Pro-Union; Top Ten Tomes – A Civil War “Hit Parade”; Double Bingo; Lincoln’s Fifth Wheel: The Sanitary Commission
February: Cleveland CWRT No Longer a Teenager; Pen Portrait of Lincoln by a Boston Brahmin; Progress Made on “Project Champion Hill; Big Pry Burn-Off; Still Sucking at the Government Teat; What’s in a (Battle’s) Name?; Sunday Night Special; It’s All Oberlin’s Fault; He-Man Outfits
March: “Sherlock Holmes” Rates the Generals; Did You Know?; The First Revisited – Fort Sumter; Washington on the Eve of the Civil War
April: Ol’ Bedford and the Mules; Second Battle of Olustee; Peregrinations of the Great Seal of the Confederacy; Ammo Supply Problems – “It Can’t Be Done”; Thumbnail Reviews; Engineers Have Hairy Ears and Talk Gobbledygook – The Tower at Gettysburg
May: David G. Farragut Timeline; Portrait of an Admiral: David Dixon Porter by Gideon Welles; Arizona’s Only Civil War Battle; Deception in Warfare
1975-1976 Season
President: James Chapman
Charger Editors: Guy Di Carlo Jr., Neville Bayless, Ray Swanson
For the 1975-1976 season, only eight issues of The Charger are available.
September: Lee and Amnesty; Manassas National Civil War Roundtable Congress; Manassas Battlefield Bill Author to Address Civil War Congress; Final Arrangements: Manassas National Civil War Roundtable Congress; Congressman Harris’ Bill, H.R. 8207; Pinpointing the Proposed Lands to Be Acquired at Manassas and Their Historical Significance; Relic Hunters Are Damaging Civil War Battle Shrines
October: Field Trip Report; Cannon Balls of Civil War Plague Park; War Horses; General Grant’s Horses; General Lee’s Traveller; General McClellan’s Horses; General Sherman’s Horses; General Jackson’s Horses; General Sheridan’s Rienzi; General Stuart’s Highfly; General Meade’s Baldy; General Thomas’ Billy; General Hooker’s Lookout; General Kearny’s Horses; Giesboro Stables
November: Report on Manassas National Civil War Roundtable Congress; Manassas (Bull Run) National Battlefield Park; First Battle of Manassas, July 21, 1861; Second Battle of Manassas, August 28-30, 1862; Is It Bull Run or Manassas?; Preserving Manassas; H.R. 8207; Preserving Civil War History: A Bill to Expand the Manassas National Battlefield Park; Press Release from Congressman Herb Harris; Civil War Sites Fund of the National Park Foundation, The Battle of Pea Ridge
December: Civil War Sites Fund; Lee, the College President; Ill-Starred General
January: A Rejoinder to General Robertson by General Mosby; What Is Left; Ransom’s Division at Fredericksburg; Ohio Boy Makes Good; Confederates in New York City; From the Atlanta Century, June 15, 1862; Finances: The Secretary of the Treasury’s 1866 Breakdown of the Cost of the Civil War; The Army of Tennessee; Robert E. Lee’s Fitness for Command Analyzed
February: Arrivederci Con Amore; Reverend Pendleton Returns to Frederick as Confederate Army Brigadier General
April: Vandalization of Tomb of “Hancock the Superb”; How the Railroads Helped Destroy Sectionalism; “Old Douglas,” the 43rd Mississippi’s Camel; Youngest Recipient of Medal of Honor; Useful Chaplains; “Biggies”
May: The First King of the Mountain; May Fifteenth: “Died on the Field of Honor”; Privateering in the American Revolution; You Pays Your Money and You Takes Your Choice: Differing Opinions on the Gettysburg Tower; What, Still Another Gettysburg Battle Reenactment?; Chatham Given to National Park Service; Efforts to Preserve Champion Hill Battlefield; Grant Hooked on Gift Stogies
1974-1975 Season
President: Thomas Gretter
Charger Editor: Guy Di Carlo Jr.
For the 1974-1975 season, only eight issues of The Charger are available.
September: The 39th New York: “Garibaldi Guards”; Scenes from Our Life in the South: Burning of Bowling Green House (An Article by M.B. McGehee Published on January 5, 1865 Which Relates the Traumatic Personal Experiences during the Destruction of a Family’s House by Union Soldiers)
October: Slavery; Reasons for Not Being Drafted; A Logical Confederate Answer; Plan of the Tennessee Campaign
November: USS Harvest Moon; Flea Marketers Take Notice; Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Lieutenant General D.H. Hill, May 10, 1893
January: John Bell Hood; Lee-Jackson Memorial; I Saw Lee Surrender – An Article by a Union Soldier Published on April 6, 1940; Notes on Robert E. Lee
February: Thaddeus Stevens; War Widows; Lincoln’s Supreme Court Appointments; Lincoln’s Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861; Battle of Dunksburg; Civil War Humor: Teamsters’ Conundrums; Abraham Lincoln at the Hampton Roads Peace Conference (1865)
March: Battlefield Alert: Manassas; Abraham Lincoln Did Not Defend His Wife before the Committee on the Conduct of the War; The Army Mule
April: General Stonewall Jackson’s Physician; The Confederate Creed; The Death of the G.A.R.; Rations at Camp Morton – 1863
May: The Cost of War; Fort Sumter; The Songs of the War (An Article Published in August 1887); Julia Ward Howe’s Description of the Origin of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”; Musical Anecdotes from the Civil War
1973-1974 Season
President: Nolan Heidlebaugh
Charger Editor: Guy Di Carlo Jr.
September: Two “Dixies” Too Many at VMI?; The Monitor and the Merrimack; Abraham Lincoln’s Campaign against the Merrimack; The First Submarine of the Confederate Navy; Surrender of the CSS Shenandoah; Civil War in St. Louis; Charles William Read, Mississippi’s Greatest Confederate Naval Hero
October: Civil War Roundtable Digest Marks Its Fourth Year; Coincidence?; Life on the Alabama by One of the Crew
November: Surrender of the CSS Shenandoah; Civil War Naval Vessel Classifications; Confederate Heavy Calibers; Cruise and Combats of the Alabama by Her Executive Officer; List of Newspapers Approved by the Secretary of War to Publish Advertisements for All Bureaus of the War Department, Part 1
December: Appomattox: A Threatened Stillness; Confederate Diplomacy; Captain Minie
January: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain; 20th Maine; Lee’s Retreat Route: Petersburg to Appomattox Court House – The Current Condition of Lee’s Retreat Route; Officers in the McLean House during the Surrender Signing; List of Newspapers Approved by the Secretary of War to Publish Advertisements for All Bureaus of the War Department, Part 2
February: Reminiscences of the Tea Party; Marriott Park OK Overturned by Board; Lincoln and Cleveland Shared New Prominence; Was Tom Lincoln a Rolling Stone?; Lincoln Humor
March: Why Did the Southerner Fight against the Republic?; Jefferson Davis: Brief Biography; Dr. Craven and the Captivity of Jefferson Davis at Fort Monroe; Jefferson F. Davis; Jefferson Davis – American
April: USS Monitor Wreckage Found; The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War; Farragut: Mobile Bay, 5th August 1864; The Rebel Yell; Comrades; Civil War Humor
May: The Movie The General; The Film in Cleveland, Ohio; Keaton, a Rebel, Has Fun in South; General Warren on Little Round Top: A Letter from His Widow; General Hunt and the Artillery at Gettysburg; ore Light on the Reserve at Antietam; In the Ranks at Fredericksburg; A Song in Camp; Shooting into Libby Prison; An Anecdote of the Petersburg Crater; Wagons Ho!
1972-1973 Season
President: Arthur Jordan
Charger Editor: Guy Di Carlo Jr.
September: The Confederate Cavalry, 1861-1865; Adam Badeau on Appomattox; The 1972 Battle of Gettysburg; Eisenhower Corps Agrees to Oppose Gettysburg Tower
October: Field Trip Report; The Brevet Rank: Taken from the Army of the United States; War on the Plains; The Battle of McDowell: General Jackson’s Official Report
November: Daniel Edgar Sickles; How Many Miami University Men Were Civil War Governors?; “Donelson” – A Poem by Herman Melville; Americana: Presidential Memorial Trees in the White House Gardens
December: Gettysburg Cemetery Closed to Burials; He Didn’t Know the Cannonball Was Loaded; The Military History Buffs: Popularizing the Unpopular; “Old St. Leger,” Soldier of Fortune; Mary Todd Lincoln
January: John Singleton Mosby; Erratum Regarding the Article “Old St. Leger,” Soldier of Fortune; Belated Postscript to the Field Trip; The Confederate States Naval Academy; Short Rounds: Ratings for Civil War Generals; Grant’s Strategy in Virginia: A Speech by Bruce Catton; Civil War Humor; Theater: The Lincoln Mask at Plymouth
February: Victory on Signal Hill; The Assassins of a President; Lincoln in Redlands, California; From the “Small World” Department – Civil War Connections; Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief; Generals in Gray Statistically Analyzed
March: Damn the Torpedoes – Cost: $212,305; Civil War Regiments; New York Regimental Roots; Parrott’s Famed Cannon Perfected and Produced at Cold Spring Foundry; At Yonkers, Boom Then Bust for Starr Arms
April: Religion in the Civil War; The Unending Fight: The Great America Project of Marriott Corporation at Manassas Battlefield; Elmer Ellsworth: Death Made Him a Martyr of the North; “The Bonnie Blue Flag”
May: Prince William County Approves Great America Park; The Singing War; The Ballad Born of a Heartbreak; Someone Was out of Tune; “Dixie”; Too Many Bands?; Birth of a Song; Aura Lee; Not All Musicians Held in High Esteem; Band Serenaded Lincoln and Lee; “Tattoo”; “Taps”; Civil War Music Potpourri
1971-1972 Season
President: Bernard Drews
Charger Editor: Guy Di Carlo Jr.
For the 1971-1972 season, only five issues of The Charger are available.
January: Office Chairs at Gettysburg; Uncle Sam Wants You; Pity Poor Dobbin; The Union Cavalry, 1861-1865; How Custer Took a Disappointment; 7th Michigan Cavalry; The Cavalry Myth; The Cavalry Bureau; Horse Population, 1860; Union Cavalry Organization; Comparison of Civil War Infantry and Cavalry Regiments
February: The Grant Papers; Colonel Grant of the Illinois Volunteers; Yellow Gloves & Cucumbers (Taken from Campaigning with Grant); An Interrupted Shave (Taken from Campaigning with Grant)
March: Grant’s Early Years; Grant at Shiloh; What His Enemies Said of Grant; Grant and Longstreet; Eyewitnesses at Fort Henry
April: The Roundtable’s Contribution to Beauvoir; Vacation Reminder: Museums That Are Worth a Visit; Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition; Past Programs of the Civil War Roundtable of Cleveland, Ohio; Summary of Programs
May: When Grant Went A-Courtin’; Disappointment at Appomattox – Critique of a David L. Wolper Television Program about the Surrender at Appomattox
1970-1971 Season
President: Kenneth Callahan
Charger Editor: Guy Di Carlo Jr.
For the 1970-1971 season, no issues of The Charger are available.
1969-1970 Season
President: Frank Schuhle
Charger Editor: Guy Di Carlo Jr.
For the 1969-1970 season, only three issues of The Charger are available.
October: The War Hospitals; Army Medical Museum; Medical Exemptions from the Georgia Militia; Special Instructions to Surgeons – Guidelines for Exemptions from Military Service; The Humanities of War; Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight?
November: West Virginia; Dawn Attack at Philippi Routs South; General Garnett to Head Southern Build-up; Confederate Army Beaten by McClellan; Garnett Killed at Corrick’s Ford in Retreat across Mountains; Washington Elated over Rich Mountain Victory; Rosecrans’ Drive Routs Wise, Floyd; South Gives Up Kanawha; West Virginia-Bred Horse Catches Marse Robert’s Eye; Lee Reports Success in West Virginia; Statehood for West Virginia
December: The Movie The General; The Film in Cleveland, Ohio; Keaton, a Rebel, Has Fun in South; The Defenses of Washington; Fort Stevens, Where Lincoln Was under Fire; The Part Taken by the Naval Forces in the Defense of Washington during the Civil War
1968-1969 Season
President: Donald Heckaman
Charger Editor: Guy Di Carlo Jr.
For the 1968-1969 season, only eight issues of The Charger are available.
October: Dr. Samuel A. Mudd; War of the Rebellion, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies – A Brief History of the Writing of the Official Records of the Civil War
November: The Draft System during the Civil War; Civil War Secret Service
December: The Spy – His Adventures in Kentucky; The Sam Davis Controversy; Security vs. News; The Flying Telegraph
January: Preservation of Ohio’s Military Flags and Colors; Flags of the Confederacy; Ohio Troops in the Maryland Campaign: South Mountain and Antietam; Ohio Regiments in the Maryland Campaign; So Many Barbara Fritchies
February: Historical Significance of the Civil War; The Execution of Union Strategy; Tribute to Civil War Newsmen
March: Lee’s Lessons in Leadership; Robert E. Lee at Fort Monroe; General Lee’s Views on Enlisting Blacks; The Day Grant Saluted Lee – A Firsthand Account by Union General Horace Porter
April: New Market Battlefield Memorial; Past Programs of the Civil War Roundtable of Cleveland, Ohio; Summary of Programs
May: The Gamble Mansion in Florida – Judah P. Benjamin’s Hideout from Pursuing Union Troops; The Cult of John Hunt Morgan; A Woman Decides; McMinnville Remembers Morgan; The John Morgan I Served Under; Blue and Gray Horse Thieves – Morgan’s Ohio Raid Told in a Different Way; Eulogy upon General Morgan
1967-1968 Season
President: Frank Moran
Charger Editor: Guy Di Carlo Jr.
For the 1967-1968 season, only eight issues of The Charger are available.
October: Rear Admiral David G. Farragut; Union’s First Naval Striking Force; Farragut’s Ships Ride Levee Tops in Capture of New Orleans; Blockade Duty; The Union Navy; A Lumberjack Saved the Navy; The Fanny, the First Aircraft Carrier (1861); Our Army and Navy – An 1861 Article Criticizing the Lack of Technological Advancement by the Union Navy
November: Surrender of the CSS Shenandoah; Unconventional Assault; CSS Stonewall; The Man Who Built the Merrimack; Abraham Lincoln’s Campaign against the Merrimack; Old Beeswax; CSS Virginia; CSS Georgia; Submarines in Hampton Roads
December: “The Comanches” – The 35th Battalion of Virginia Cavalry; General Nathan Bedford Forrest; Forrest and Gould; 7th Virginia Cavalry
January: Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Inc.; The Honorary Society of the Confederate States of America; “God Save the South”; The Inauguration; Directory of Officials, Confederate States of America, 1861-1865; Final Parole, Army of Northern Virginia; Inaugural Address of President Jefferson Davis; President Davis’ Message to Congress, 29 April 1861
February: Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Inc.; Patriotism at Western Reserve College, 1862; Nevada in the Civil War; Civil War Enthusiast; Mathew Brady; Newspapermen in the War: George Alfred Townsend; Security vs. News; Letters of Theodore Lyman; Wooden Shoe Manufacturing; How Newspapermen Covered the Civil War; The Nasby Letters
March: Instructions from Flag Officer Goldsborough to Officers Commending Blockade Vessels, 1861; Codes, Ciphers, and the Military Telegraph; War Department Telegraph Office; Cipher Codes and Messages; Stager’s Cipher
April: West Virginia; Oberlin College; New Market Battlefield Memorial; Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Inc.; Confederate Codes; Confederate Telegraphic Codes; Confederate Mail Cipher
May: Organization of Confederate Forces at Gettysburg; John Brown’s Fort on the Move Again; Ohio’s Third Civil War Governor: John Brough; Sam Davis and the Decision at Pulaski; Recruiting Drives; Union Forces at the Battle of Gettysburg; Between the Battles: January to June 1863; An Unusual Ad: Copperheads; He Knew Why: The Confederate Soldier; The Zouave Jacket of the 12th Indiana Infantry; Symbols Rally the Spirit: The Beginnings of Heraldry in the Civil War; The Civil War Soldier as Foreign Observers Saw Him; U.S. Corps Badges
1966-1967 Season
President: William Schlesinger
Charger Editor: Guy Di Carlo Jr.
For the 1966-1967 season, only eight issues of The Charger are available.
October: The First Call to Arms; Bravo Ben Butler; General James Birdseye McPherson
November: Field Trip Report; “Dixie”; Polk at Perryville; Civil War Sires; Civil War Nicknames; Brady Collection of Civil War Photographs; West Virginia; Civil War Story Vividly Told by Songs; “Tattoo”; “Taps”
December: “Silent Night” from Andersonville Prison; Christmas Holidays during the War; Civil War Relatives; Nice-to-Know Category; Worthy News Items; It Really Happened – McClellan’s Statue in Washington
January: Cincinnati during the Civil War; Civil War Humor; The New Market Battlefield; Ages of Civil War Vets; The Invalid Corps; A Backward Glance at Civil War Surgery; Chimborazo Hospital; A Doctor’s Advice against the Bitter Cold; What’s in a Name? – Kenesaw Mountain Landis; The Civil War G.I.; Ford’s Theatre; Major General John McAllister Schofield
February: Tenth Anniversary; Failure Isn’t Fatal – Abraham Lincoln; A. Lincoln – Inventor; Tragic Cycle; Lincoln’s Home Life in Washington; How the White House Was Illuminated; A Light Eater; Reprieved; Lincoln’s Fortune; A Chronology of Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln – Friend of the South; Lincoln and the White House
March: When Cannon First Blazed at Airmen; The First American Wartime Aerial Reconnaissance; Aeronautics in the Civil War; Football Cheer?; Conscription during the Civil War; Ironclad of Farragut Fleet Found in Mobile Bay; Cairo Revisited
April: Preservation of Ohio’s Military Flags and Colors; Income Tax; “I’m a Good Old Rebel”; A Civil War Soldier’s Recipe for the Itch; Life in Civil War Tents; Civil War Trading Stamps; Confederate Scout; A Letter from a Dying Confederate Soldier to His Father; The Last Soldier Killed; Gourmet of the Sixties (Selected Tasty Recipes from Confederate and Union Cookbooks); First Union Soldier Killed on Northern Soil, June 22, 1863; Union Soldier’s Clothing Allowance; Confederate Soldier’s Pay; Indiana’s Youngest Boy in Blue; Drummer Boy of the Rappahannock; Chewing Tobacco – A Wartime Necessity; Battle Casualties, Army of the Potomac; Girls; Battle of the Rocks; Civil War Lingo; Over-age Regiment; Chatham Artillery Punch; How to Cook for a Regiment of 1,000 Men; The Pup Tent; Wagon Trains on the March; An Army Marches on Its Stomach; Organization of Civil War Armies; Infantry Regiment in Line; Artillery Battery in Line
May: The Fighting McCooks; Artillery of the Civil War; The Artillery at Fort Gregg; Perfect Occlusion; Ramrods; Five Top Confederate Artillerymen; Stories on the Washington Artillery (CSA); Artillery Units’ March to Cumberland Gap; Land Mines; The Gatling Gun; Booby Traps; Confederate Munitions; Colonel Ely S. Parker; The Civil War in Indian Territory; Horse Hospital
1965-1966 Season
President: Donald Hamill
Charger Editor: Theodore Adams
For the 1965-1966 season, only eight issues of The Charger are available.
October: Field Trip Report; 1865 Ordnance Office Circular Detailing Cost to Outgoing Service Members to Retain Their Firearm
November: Historic Ford’s Theatre Rebuilt; In Tennessee, Too, Cleveland’s “Troop A” Is Still Being Discussed!
December: Presentation Topics; If Abolitionists Had Won
January: Lincoln, the Man; Brevity of the Newsletter
February: German Military Men in the Civil War
March: Parallels in the Careers of Gouverneur K. Warren and George Pickett
April: Latest Intelligence from Georgia: The Carving on Stone Mountain; General Meade and the Manifold Letter-Writer
May: The Founder of the Signal Corps; Richmond during the Civil War; Tennessee Bushwhackers in the Civil War; Battle of the Crater; All About Ages of Confederate Officers at Stones River
1964-1965 Season
President: Lester Swift
Charger Editor: Theodore Adams
For the 1964-1965 season, only seven issues of The Charger are available.
October: President’s Message – Status of the Roundtable as It Begins Its Ninth Year; Politics 104 Years Ago
November: President’s Message – Cost of Dinner; Ohio on the March to the Sea; Did You Know That? – Tidbits about Francis Barlow, William Averell, and Torpedoes
December: Writing What Is Really Writing – John N. Edwards; Ohio Troops in the War, December 1864
January: The Lot of the Horse; Getting into the Act – Contributing the Contents of Bedpans to the War Effort
February: President’s Message – Some Writings about the End and Aftermath of the Civil War by Winston Churchill Presented at his Passing; Ohio in the Carolinas, February 1865; The Grand Army Badge
March: President’s Message – Brother against Brother: The Brothers Drayton; A Clevelander Who Fought with Nathan Bedford Forrest
April: President’s Message – Civil War Anecdotes Involving Women; Yankee Submarines; Ohio at Appomattox
1963-1964 Season
President: Guy Di Carlo
Charger Editor: Theodore Adams
For the 1964-1965 season, only eight issues of The Charger are available.
October: Ohio Troops in the Field, October 1863; Executive Committee Action; Field Trip Report; The Launch Used by William Cushing in the Sinking of the Albemarle; A Civil War Camp Recipe from Bacon and Flour; Reflections on Civil War Monuments
November: Ohio Troops in the Field, November 1863; Executive Committee Action; Eight Were Assassinated – Confederate Generals Who Were Murdered after the War; Chickamauga; The Evacuation of Corinth; Civil War Literature
December: Ohio Troops in the Field, December 1863; Music of the War Period: “John Brown’s Body”
January: Ohio Troops in the Field, January 1864; President’s Message – Progress Report for the 1963-1964 Season
February: Ohio Troops in the Field, February 1864; Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Mules; Musings by the Editor to Encourage Impromptu Discussions
March: Ohio Troops in the Field, March 1864; President’s Message – Request to Discourage Candidates for Membership Because Waiting List for Membership Very High Due to Constitutional Limitation of Membership to 75 People
April: Ohio Troops in the Field, April 1864; Daniel Edgar Sickles; What Was the Name of the War? – The Many Names of the Civil War; Restoration of the Randolph House
May: Why Study History?; Ohio Troops in the Field, May 1864
1962-1963 Season
President: Paul Guenther
Charger Editor: not indicated in the newsletter
October: News of Other Roundtables; New CWRT in Virginia; Yankee in Gray: The Civil War Memoirs of Henry E. Handerson; Field Trip Report; Antietam Re-enactment; Monument to Memminger; Ohio Civil War Centennial Leaflets; Satire Enjoyed
November: Talks to Be Recorded; The Civil War Horse; Personal Activities; Cincinnati Symposium
December: Homicides, Blue and Gray; Lincoln’s Address at Gettysburg
January: Sidney Lanier, Forgotten Man of the Confederacy; Stonewall Warms Up; News of Other Roundtables; Portrait of an Admiral: David Dixon Porter by Gideon Welles; Civil War Humor
February: Lincoln as Commander in Chief; Lincoln and His Cabinet Discuss Race Problems; Lincoln as Tactician; Lincoln the Lawyer; Lincoln and States Rights; True Dignity; Lincoln, Providence, and Democracy; Lincoln, Hopeful Realist
March: A Trivial Matter; Centennial Song; Who Charged?; A Yankee’s Tribute to Stonewall; Portrait of an Admiral: Louis Goldsborough by Gideon Welles; Lincoln and Grant
April: Manufacturing Methods of Artillery; Religion in the Civil War
May: Who’s Who? – Civil War Nicknames; Lincoln the Politician
June: North-South Skirmish Association National Matches
1961-1962 Season
President: Edward Downer
Charger Editor: not indicated in the newsletter
For the 1964-1965 season, only eight issues of The Charger are available.
October: Field Trip Report; 1961-1962 Roster
November: Current Events; The Andersonville Trial Play in Cleveland; Portrait of a General: Stonewall Jackson by Alexander R. Lawton
December: Halle Bros. Civil War Exhibition Honored; The Pen Is Mightier; Portrait of a General: Joseph Hooker by Charles Francis Adams Jr.; Notes from Other Roundtables; Ohio Centennial Activities; Grist for the Mills of Kibitz; Ohio Publications
January: CWRT Member’s Private Museum; Virginia Centennial Data; News of Other Roundtables; For the Bibliophile; Western Reserve Historical Society Meeting; Ohio in the Civil War; Portrait of a General: William T. Sherman; Civil War Maps
February: Historical Society and the Civil War; Centennial Commission Reorganization; Civil War Centennial Commission: Unity Not Disunion; Chimborazo – Outstanding Civil War Hospital; History of 41st Ohio; Ohio in the Civil War: 7th OVI; CWRT Assembly at Antietam; Cleveland CWRT Record of Presentations at Meetings after Its Fifth Year
March: Current Events; Thumbnail Reviews; Cleveland and the Civil War; News of Other Roundtables; Portrait of a General: John Sedgewick; What’s in a Name? – Alternative Names of the Civil War; “Panis Angelicus” by the 7th OVI; National Commission News
April: Current Activities; News of Other Roundtables; Casualties in American Wars
May: 1962 CWRT Assembly; Civil War Course; News Items; Cleveland Wins Awards; North-South Skirmish; Portrait of a General (Or How Wrong Can You Be?): Ulysses S. Grant by John Pope; Familiar Scenes Revisited
1960-1961 Season
President: Charles Clarke
Charger Editor: not indicated in the newsletter
August: Survey of Preferred Night for Meetings; Field Trip Location and Itinerary
October: Third Annual Assembly of Civil War Roundtables; News of Other Roundtables; Ohio in the Civil War: General James A. Garfield; Results of Survey of Preferred Night for Meetings; Field Trip Report; The Civil War Is Big Business; The Bookshelf – Ten Best Books as Recommended by the District of Columbia CWRT; List of Civil War Articles in Ohio Historical Society Publications
November: Ohio Centennial Observance; Ohio in the Civil War: The Story of Ohio Troops; Re-enactment of First Manassas; The Cavalrymen: Custer and Sheridan; News of Other Roundtables; Fourth Annual Assembly of Civil War Roundtables Planned for 1961; The Galena Generals; “Ballad of the Foragers”; The Centennial – Commemorate, Don’t Celebrate
December: Cleveland, 100 Years Ago; Portrait of a General: A.P. Hill by Henry Heth; Widow of a Mosby Ranger Dies; Ohio in the Civil War: The University Rifles Unit from Miami University; News of Other Roundtables; Thumbnail Reviews; Fate of Confederate Cabinet
January: Portrait of a General: Benjamin Butler by Theodore Lyman; Ohio in the Civil War: Divided Loyalties at Miami University; Current Civil War Items; News of Other Roundtables; If You’re a Buff, What Are you? – Origin of the Term “Civil War Buff”; President Eisenhower’s Proclamation about the Civil War Centennial
February: Civil War Map Published by the American Automobile Association; Portraits of Union Generals by a British Military Authority; Preston on the War – The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Civil War Brochure; Civil War Publications; Civil War Films; News of Other Roundtables; Thumbnail Reviews; Civil War Lingo; Ohio in the Civil War: Ohio-Born Confederate General Daniel Reynolds; Centennial News
March: Dr. Mudd’s Daughter-in-Law Dies; Ohio in the Civil War: Henry Martin Cist; Centennial News; Balloons – Not a Civil War First; Government Publications about the Civil War; The Saga of Jefferson Davis’ Shawl, Cloak, and Spurs; The Cleveland Public Library and the Centennial; News of Other Roundtables
April: “Concise History of the Civil War” Pamphlet Available; Centennial Commemoration at Halle Bros. in Cleveland; Honorary Members Added to the Roundtable; A Prophecy Come True by Confederate Cavalryman John Esten Cooke; Current Events; Portrait of a General: Robert E. Lee by John B. Gordon; Ohio in the Civil War: Rufus Dawes; News of Other Roundtables; Plans Continuing for Fourth National Conclave of Civil War Roundtables
May: Ohio in the Civil War: The Nasby Letters; Ohio and the Fifth Column; Current Events; News of Other Roundtables
1959-1960 Season
President: Howard Preston
Charger Editor: not indicated in the newsletter
September: 1959-1960 Program; News Item
October: Spring Assembly of Roundtables; 1960 Assembly of Roundtables; Meet Colonel Downer of the Roundtable; Civil War TV Programs; 7th OVI; North-South Skirmish Association; John Brown Raid Centennial; Memento of Early’s Raid on Washington; Civil War Firsts: The Medal of Honor
November: Field Trip Report; Field Trip Committee; Library Film Program
December: Medina Teenagers Interested in the Monitor; Third Annual Assembly of Civil War Roundtables; Personal History
January: Ohio in the Civil War: Confederate Generals from Ohio; News of Other CWRTs
February: What Price Scholastic Glory? – The West Point Class of 1842; Ohio in the Civil War: Hazen Brigade Monument Thought to Be Oldest Civil War Monument; The History of Civil War Roundtables by Stephen Ambrose; From Other Newsletters; Baseball and the Civil War
March: New Members; The Plain Dealer Covers a Meeting; Echoes of Margan’s Raid; He Helped Repel Morgan While on Leave; Colonel Stanley’s Son Preached to Morgan in Captivity; Ohio in the Civil War: Generals from Ohio – The Woods Brothers; News of Other Roundtables; Vocalists, Front and Center; Third Annual Assembly; America’s Bloody Ground – 20 Square Miles in Virginia; A Comment on Careless Writing
April: News of Other Roundtables; “Invictus” by Chet Land of the 7th OVI; Ohio in the Civil War: Western Reserve Class of ’45; Ohio Battle Flags; Grandstand Managers Beware!; How to Be a Civil War Historian”
May: Evaluating the Generals; “The Ballad of the Fighting McCooks” by Chet Land of the 7th OVI; News of Other Roundtables; Portraits of the Generals: Daniel Sickles by W.A. Swanberg and Braxron Bragg by William Preston Johnston; Civil War Photographs; Ohio in the Civil War: General James Forsyth; Can You Read Horses’ Feet?
1958-1959 Season
President: John Cullen Jr.
Charger Editor: not indicated in the newsletter
For the 1958-1959 season, only eight issues of The Charger are available.
July: Visit to Johnson’s Island; Field Trip Location and Itinerary; Why the Civil War?; The Ohio Civil War Centennial Commission; John Hunt Morgan in Guernsey County; Olustee; Some Civil War Facts about Cleveland; News from Other Roundtables
August: Information about Visit to Johnson’s Island; Information about Field Trip; Upcoming Events; Contributions from Members: A Symphonic Outdoor Drama at Virginia Beach, Civil War Military Telegraphs; Recent Civil War Books
October: Future Meetings; New Members; Field Trip Report; Report on Johnson’s Island Visit
November: Civil War Paintings by Cleveland Press Commercial Artist (a Descendant of James Kemper) at the November Meeting; The South Learns about Jefferson Davis from a Member of the Cleveland Civil War Roundtable; Some Civil War Events in November; Some Civil War Books Just Off the Press
December: Ulysses S. Grant III to Speak at December Meeting; Roundtable Panel Discussion/Debate – The Turning Point of the Civil War; Amendments to the Roundtable’s Constitution
February: Another National Assembly of Civil War Roundtables; 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Activated for North-South Shoot Association; We Stand Corrected about Corps Insignias; Second Gettysburg Battle: An Expanding Town vs. Historians; News about Our Members; New Members; Lincoln’s Homespun Similes on Military Matters
March: Spring Assembly of Roundtables in Richmond; Civil War Calendar for March; A Roundtable Rhubarb about John Imboden; Some Recent Civil War Publications; The Why of Civil War Fans – Why There Are Civil War Enthusiasts
May: Civil War Budget Cuts; Recently Elected Members; Some Philanthropists among Us; More Civil War Grandfathers; Cleveland Civil War Roundtable Record of Events – List of Meetings
1957-1958 Season
President: George Farr Jr.
Charger Editor: not indicated in the newsletter
For the 1957-1958 season, only eight issues of The Charger are available.
September: Field Trip Arrangements; Newsletter Publication Schedule
December: Sherman House: An Ohio Civil War Shrine; Book Reviews – Recent Books of More than Average Interest
January, number 1: A Distinguished Visitor: Ulysses S. Grant III; Courier News: News from outside Cleveland; Army Sutlers in the Civil War
January, number 2: Old Stone Fort, Frederick County, Virginia; News from Other Roundtables
February, number 1: Civil War Centennial Commission; One of Several Letters of a Union Soldier
February, number 2: The Last Home of Jefferson Davis; New Officers, New Members; Fireside Chatter – News from outside Cleveland
April: New Members; Field Trip for 1958-1959; Request for Contributions to the Newsletter
May: New Members; Ratings for Civil War Generals; Did You Know? – Civil War Trivia; Corps Insignia; News from Other Roundtables
1956-1957 Season
President: Kenneth Grant
Charger Editor: not indicated in the newsletter
For the 1956-1957 season, only two issues of The Charger are available.
May: April 1957 Meeting: Resolution Offered in Memory of the Late Kenneth Grant; Capacity Crowd Attended Bruce Catton Dinner; Chicago CWRT on Field Trip to Shenandoah Valley; Ohio Has Two Other Civil War Roundtables; Trapped Generals: A Golf Course Where Each Hole Is Named after a Civil War General; Honorary Memberships Presented to Bruce Catton and Ralph Newman
June: 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Gamble Mansion, Florida’s Only Civil War Museum; CWRT of Mississippi; 1961-1965 Civil War Centennial
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