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 September 1981 to May 2001. Other issues can be found on other web pages (November 1956 to May 1981, 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.
2000-2001 Season
President: William Vodrey
Charger Editor: Dick Crews
September: Shelby Foote; John C. Breckinridge: He Should Have Been Hanged; The War That Never Was: Britain, the U.S., and the Trent Affair
October: Civil War Flag Controversy Breaks Out Again; The Most Overrated General; The Civil War’s #1 Pain in the Butt: The Life of Parson Brownlow
November: James McPherson Speaks on Lincoln; Lincoln vs. Kennedy; The Rock of Chickamauga
December: An Ancestor at Shiloh; 50th Illinois Infantry, Sweeny’s (3d) Brig., W.H.L. Wallace’s (2d) Div., Army of the Tennessee at 4:30 P.M., April 6, 1862; Bedford Forrest Losing in Selma Again
January: The Great Debate: The Absolutely Worst General of the Civil War; Mule-Drawn Wagon Trains
February: John B. Gordon; Three Generations of MacArthur; The Hero of Missionary Ridge; Cleaning Out the Hunley; Family Reminiscences of the Confederacy; The Angry Abolitionist: William Lloyd Garrison
March: The 51st Ohio Volunteer Infantry; The Zouaves; Roads of the Civil War; Bragg vs. Rosecrans at Stones River; Civil War Pay
April: USS Cairo; The Deadliest Enemy; Behind the Lines: My Life as a Yankee in Franklin, Tennessee-Part I; Breaks in the Storm
May: William T. Sherman; Behind the Lines: My Life as a Yankee in Franklin, Tennessee-Part II; Andrew Johnson: A Tough Man for Tough Times; Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator?; Lincoln Defended; Important Events in the Life of Jefferson Davis; Poetry Prize Winner
1999-2000 Season
President: Bob Boyda
Charger Editor: Dick Crews
September: John Bell Hood; The Carter House; Rifle Musket in the Civil War
October: The Cleveland Civil War Roundtable Invades Richmond-1999 Field Trip; Tarnished Eagles: The Courts-Martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels book review
November: William Quantrill; Unsung Hero – Henry W. Halleck
December: Christmas Traditions; Sherman’s Final Challenge: North Carolina, Part 1
January: What Is a Victory?; “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
February: Ulysses S. Grant; Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site
March: Braxton Bragg; Mutiny in the 54th; Sherman’s Final Challenge: North Carolina, Part 2
April: Lincoln and His Generals; Gods and Generals book review; Brass Pounders: The Young Telegraphers of the Civil War book review; A Union Private’s Thoughts after Antietam
May: Sherman’s Little Known Failure: The 36th State; Interview with Dr. Craig Symonds
1998-1999 Season
President: Dick Crews
Charger Editor: Dick Crews
September: Five Flawed Commands; William T. Sherman Gives a Lesson in Diplomacy; Towards Another Freedom: African American Soldiers in the War Between the States; “Father” of the Roundtable Movement Leaves a Legacy
October: Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’s Life; Rifle Musket in the Civil War; Mosby Hat; Officers’ Unusual Headgear
November: Burnside Bridge: Courage or Stupidity?; Civil War Medicine: Who Were the Doctors?; Antietam, South Mountain, Harpers Ferry: Field Trip Report; Brice’s Cross Roads Battlefield Preservation History
December: Battlefield Preservation Profile: Cedar Creek, Virginia; New Cavalry Tactics; New Civil War Institute
January: The Night Ride of Robert E. Lee; The Cost of War; Battlefield Profile: Rich Mountain, (West) Virginia
February: How Few Remain – A Novel of the Second War Between the States book review; The Peculiar Institution
March: “Dixie” – The Most Famous Song of the War Came from Ohio; Shiloh Log Church Project; Who Are Those Guys?; The Americus Brass Band
April: Hayes in the Shenandoah; New Civil War Guide Project to Put Materials on Web; Fort Granger, Franklin, Tennessee
May: How Could the South Have Won?; Civil War History: Modern Concepts of Right and Wrong; Behind the Lines; Civil War History Stars Come to Northeast Ohio
1997-1998 Season
President: John Moore
Charger Editor: Dick Crews
September: Civil War Railroads – North vs. South; The Connecticut Valley Arsenal of the Union Army; The Basic Civil War Reading List; Western Virginia Stolen, Immediate Return Demanded; Music in the Civil War
October: Silk and Guns: The Story of the Spencer Rifle; Lincoln book review; Erie Honors One of Its Own; Custer at West Point
November: President Rutherford B. Hayes at South Mountain; The Naval War in the West; Why Gen. Robert E. Lee Failed to Receive the Rations Shipped from Danville, Virginia
December: Lincoln and the South; The Story of the Official Records; Quantrill; Training for Life; Lincoln Tests the Spencer Rifle
January: General William T. Sherman: Too Soft on the South?; The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies; The Sniper Rifle; Cleveland Civil War Roundtable: Summary of 40 Years of Programs, 1957-1997
February: The Long Journey Home Begins: Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral Procession to Illinois; High School Essay Contest
March: Civil War Casualties; Booth book review; The Henry Rifle
April: The Night the War Was Lost: Farragut and the Battle of New Orleans; Lincoln’s Commando: Lt. William B. Cushing, USN
May: Edmund Ruffin: Agriculturalist and Rebel; Legislative Record of Secession; The Gatling Gun; History of Carlisle Barracks; High School Essay Contest Winner: Kimberly Gennaro
1996-1997 Season
President: Dan Zeiser
Charger Editor: Dick Crews
September: The Preacher and His Horse; How Hardtack Was Made; Lovely Southern Belles; Model 1841 Rifle: The Mississippi Rifle; Ohio Generals: William Starke Rosecrans; Civil War Cannons: The Napoleon; John Burns: The Hero of Gettysburg; The Civil War: Causes; The Grand Parade, Tennessee Style; Sidearms of the Civil War: The LeMat Revolver; USS Saugus; General Sherman’s Mischief
October: Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer book review; Hood’s Texas Brigade: Lee’s Grenadier Guard; Sidearms of the Civil War: Savage Navy Revolver; Pay of African American Soldiers in the Civil War; Confederate Guerilla
November: Sidearms of the Civil War: Lefaucheux Revolver; Bohemian Brigade; The Drummer Boy; In the Civil War, What Did the Ladies Wear?; Confederate Battle Flag Has an Honorable Tradition; John Hunt Morgan: The Funeral; Southern Icon Attacked!; Manassas Field Trip Report; CSS Atlanta; Confederate Sharpshooters; Ohio Generals: George Crook; Civil War Rifles: Sharps Rifle
December: Gray Victory book review; The Guns of the South book review; Fire on the Mountain book review; Old Abe Hits the Sauce in Mississippi; The Greatest Snowball fight of the War – March 22, 1864; Greed in the Civil War; Maintaining Army Discipline; Sidearms of the Civil War: Colt Revolvers Model 1860 Army and Model 1851 Navy; William McGrath Brings a Knowing Perspective to Marine Art in Charleston at Sunrise, 1863
January: Robert E. Lee: A Fond Remembrance; Longstreet: Lee in Pennsylvania; Letters from Robert E. Lee as President of Washington College; The Death of Robert E. Lee; The Civil War on the Internet; 11th Mississippi Infantry
February: Abraham Lincoln: Did He Fulfill His Potential?; The 10 Best Books about Lincoln; Lincoln at Gettysburg; The Summit Meeting at City Point from the Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman; The “Real” Abe Lincoln
March: Admiral David Glasgow Farragut; The 13th Goes After Jefferson Davis; If Napoleon Never Existed: “Historic Doubts Respecting Napoleon Bonaparte”; If the Confederacy Had Been Victorious: Bring the Jubilee; If the Confederacy Had Been Victorious: “History in Reverse: If the South Had Won the Civil War”; The Depression of 1861; Buckeyes in Blue; Those Who Changed Sides; The Rifle Musket That Won the War: Model 1861 Rifle Musket; The Cost of War; Ohio Generals: Americus Vespucius Rice; CSS Savannah; Sidearms of the Civil War: Kerr Revolver
April: Clement L. Vallandigham; Rockets and Grenades; Civil War Artillery: 3-Inch Ordnance Rifle; The U.S. Marines; Tales from Gettysburg: “I Am the Man, Sir”; Sidearms of the Civil War: Confederate “Colt” Revolvers
May: Memories of Forty Years of the Roundtable; Plans for a Cleveland Civil War Roundtable: October 12, 1956; Roundtable Newsletters of December 1966 and February 1977; One of My Best Memories; The Battle of Antietam
1995-1996 Season
President: John Sutula
Charger Editor: Brian Kowell
September: Around the Mall and Beyond – Ed Bearss; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about John A. McClernand; A July 4th to Remember: The Surrender of Vicksburg; Preservation Reports: Thieves Steal Cannon from Civil War Battlefield Park, Gettysburg National Park Arrests Two for Battlefield Looting; Quest for Civil War Accuracy; History Lesson Sparks Man’s Lifelong Interest
October: Preservation Report: Arlington Plans for Growth Irk Lee’s Admirers; Citizen Sherman book review; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about William C. Oates
November: Vicksburg Field Trip Report; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Justus McKinstry
December: John Cullen, CCWRT Founder, Turns 90; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Josiah Tattnall
January: Preservation Report: Ed Bearss Retires from the National Park Service; 41st Ohio’s Heroic Civil War Role; Dealer to Sell Lee’s Bible; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Richard Blazer
February: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about National Inauguration Ball of 1865; Lincoln and Your Lapel; “Get Down, You Damned Fool!”; Lincoln Was a Smart and Busy Lawyer; Loose-Lipped Lincoln Haters Mobbed; Who Was the Boy at the Hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators?; Vatican Gave U.S. a Criminal in 1866; On the U.S. Frontier, Young Abe Lincoln Was a Great Wrestler – and Sportsman; Abe Lincoln visits Cleveland: President-elect’s Pre-inaugural Tour Stirred the City; Keeping House for Lincoln; Tragic Fate of Other Couple in Lincoln’s Box
March: Cleveland Grays, Born to Parade, Lived, Died in War; Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America book review; Gray Raiders of the Sea: How Eight Confederate Warships Destroyed the Union’s High Seas Commerce book review; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about the 12-Pound Napoleon; Civil War Auto Trips; Preservation Report: March 1996 Unveiling Planned for Civil War Discovery System
April: General James Longstreet’s Winter of Discontent; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac; Lee Just Said He Was Sorry; The Eagle Has Landed: The Illinois Memorial at Vicksburg; The Passing of the Armies book review; The Killer Angels book review; In the Hands of Providence: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the American Civil War book review
May: Civil War Liberated Women, Too; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Kate Chase
1994-1995 Season
President: Norton London
Charger Editor: Brian Kowell
September: A Military History of the 8th Regiment Ohio Voluntary Infantry (1881) book review; Preservation Report: Escape Tunnel Found on Johnson’s Island; Proposed Union Monument Meets Confederate Resistance; Governmental Opposition to Disney’s Plans for a Theme Park Near the Manassas Battlefield
October: Nashville Field Trip Report; Happy Birthday to the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument; A Memory Preserved; Ken Burn’s Advice to Disney: Scrap Your Theme Park; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Joseph Wheeler
November: Vicksburg: “Gibraltar of the Mississippi; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about George Stoneman; Civil War Homefront: Parma Heights; Preservation Report: Defeated at Manassas – Disney Vows to Find Another Spot for Theme Park; Dig Uncovers a Civil War Tunnel at Johnson’s Island; Johnson’s Island Escape Tunnel Highly Unlikely
December: From the Plain Dealer of July 7, 1861: Serious Accident at Parma – Two Ladies Accidentally Shot While Viewing a Military Drill; A Mid-Nineteenth Century Christmas; The Sinking of the USS Cairo; The Fight to Preserve the Johnson’s Island Prison Site from Development; A Hard Tack Recipe (Tooth Duller); Preservation Report: Steamship Blast (Sultana) Still a Mystery; Andersonville Site to Honor All U.S. Prisoners of War; Civil War Buff Dreams Up Honor for Veteran; Unconditional Surrender: U. S. Grant and the Civil War book review; The Top Twenty Songs of the Civil War
January: The Defender of Vicksburg: John C. Pemberton; “The Whistling Dick” Confederate Cannon at Vicksburg; Exploring a Civil War Sidewheeler
February: Grant’s Canal; The Horse Soldiers: Grierson’s Mississippi Raid; Emancipation Proclamation on Display; Abe Lincoln Was a Comical Guy; President Lincoln and the Molly Maguires
March: Mississippi Capital Falls – Grant’s Union Army Attacks Jackson; Vicksburg Military Park; Clevelander Charles Corcoran at Vicksburg; Trustees to Appeal Ruling on Johnson’s Island Zoning Permit; Gettysburg Tower Purchase and Razing Is Sought by Group; Ohio’s Largest Civil War Battlefield Threatened by Gravel Quarry
April: The Vicksburg Campaign and Jefferson Davis; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Robert Augustus Toombs; Development of a National Pastime: Baseball Before and During the Civil War; U.S. Representative Wolf Offers Shenandoah Bill to Congress for Preservation; Preservation News: Success Is Greatest Measure
May: The Vicksburg Campaign and Siege; Ulysses S. Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign; High School Essay Contest Winner: Nicholas Mamone; Mother Knows Best: General Sherman Knew a Losing Battle When He Saw One; A Young Lady’s View of Abner Doubleday
1993-1994 Season
President: Bob Battisti
Charger Editor: Brian Kowell
For the 1993-1994 season, only three issues of The Charger are available.
November: President Lincoln Lives On with Professor Earnhart; Chickamauga-Chattanooga Field Trip Report; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Bushrod Rust Johnson; Rare Antietam Photos Found; Movie Gettysburg Mostly on Mark
April: Edwin Cole Bearss; Preservation Report: New Fighting Erupts at Historic Battlefields; Plaque Honors Blacks at Vicksburg; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Earl Van Dorn
May: The Grant-Cullen-Newman Connection: The Beginning of the Roundtable; Plans for a Cleveland Civil War Roundtable, October 12, 1956; The Civil War Roundtable of Cleveland, December 17, 1956; The Soldier Left a Portrait and Her Eyewitness Account; High School Essay Contest Winner: Daniel T. Schilens; Preservation Report: New Gettysburg Battle Is over Words
1992-1993 Season
President: Kevin Callahan
Charger Editor: Brian Kowell
September: Dr. Mudd’s Conviction Will Stand, Army Says; Civil War Movie Ohioan’s Chance to Be in Pictures; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Henry Wirz
October: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about John McCausland; Preservation Report: The Americus Brass Band; Petersburg Field Trip Report
November: Preservation Report: One More Battle at Fort Fisher?; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Ormsby MacKnight Mitchell
December: Preservation Report: Battlefields vs. Developments on Public TV; Guerrilla’s Bones Get a Confederate Soldier’s Funeral; Grant’s Sword Slashes Record; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Edward Porter Alexander; Yankee Tigers: Through the Civil War With the 125th Ohio book review
January: Fueling Readers’ Insatiable Appetite for Civil War Stories; Preservation Report: Australian Post Tends Graves, Southerner Leads Effort to Restore Grant’s Tomb; Few Fight “Dixie” Decision: Confederate Flag, Song Dropped by Toledo High School
February: Troops Salute Civil War Commander; Interim Office of 19th-Century President Restored; Lincoln Needed Electric Writer; Museum Seeks Stolen Bronze Lincoln Casts; Lincoln at Gettysburg book review; Delay Urged in Study of Lincoln’s Genes; Lincoln Biography Doesn’t Contain Sufficient Attribution, Report Says; A Lincoln Yarn; Lincoln Wit
March: Preservation Report: Lincoln Museum to Stay in Fort Wayne; Unusual Park Legislation Proposed in Virginia; Rev. Fr. Corby, Chaplain of Irish Brigade; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Jedediah Hotchkiss; St. Pat’s Day Has Military Ties
April: Civil War Map File; Preservation Report: James River Dredging, Destruction of a Portion of Malvern Hill, Return of Civil War Letters Stolen from Cincinnati Historical Society, Maryland Preservation Group to Buy 40 Acres Near Antietam; Civil War Soldier Directory to Be Put on Computer Files; Kentucky to Bolster Civil War Site; Brandy Station Historical Designation Revoked; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Civil War Maps; The Man Who Composed “Taps” Couldn’t Play a Note
May: Preservation Report: Johnson’s Island Developer Gets OK; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Pauline Cushman
1991-1992 Season
President: Bob Baucher
Charger Editor: Brian Kowell
No issues of The Charger are available for the 1991-1992 season.
1990-1991 Season
President: Joseph Tirpak
Charger Editor: Brian Kowell
September: Ohioan’s Medal to Go on Display in Washington; Dr. Edward Maynard and Army Dentistry; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about the Sultana Disaster; Preservation Report: Plan for Civil War Sites Finds Ear; Johnson’s Island Named National Historic Landmark
October: Youngest Union Soldier to Die in Civil War Was from Acton; None Died in Vain: The Saga of the American Civil War book review; Richmond Field Trip Report; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Alexander Schimmelfennig
November: President Garfield Still Charms Folks; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Julius P. Garesché; Preservation Report: Johnson’s Island Plan Rejected, Johnson’s Island Development OK’d
December: Preservation Report: Johnson’s Island May Contain Second Civil War Cemetery; Civil War Gave Cleveland a Huge Boost; Gen. Robert E. Lee Letter Going to English Museum; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Sullivan Ballou; Letters from the Civil War; Civil War Fought Over Proper Attire for the Beach?; Bone Fragments Clues to Missing Prison Burials?
January: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about George A. “Lightning” Ellsworth; Preservation Report: Johnson’s Island Decisions Appealed, Dock Permit, Questions Raised on Permit
February: Honest Abe Lincoln Was Right After All; Students Update Lincoln’s Ideals; Preservation Report: Gettysburg to Get Lifelike Lincoln Statue; Johnson’s Island Update; Lincoln’s Lingering Last Hours; More Lincoln Papers Found; Copy of Gettysburg Address Taken from Public View; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Boston Corbett
March: Preservation Report: Time to Ante Up for Lee’s Headquarters, Confederate Soldier Buried 127 Years after Death, Corps Looking at Johnson’s Island Permit, Zipfel Hopeful; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Philip Kearny
April: Preservation Report: Snafu at Gettysburg; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Frank Vizetelly; Army Reconsiders the Case of Dr. Mudd; Collector Finds Stolen Medal of Honor
May: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Elizabeth “Crazy Bet” Van Lew; Confederate Girl Dies in Battle with Husband; Preservation Report: Two More Johnson’s Island Suits Filed; Gettysburg Desecration Insults Wisconsin; Hollywood Celebrity Holds Garfield Letters; Civil War Treasures Tell Tales
1989-1990 Season
President: Ken Callahan Jr.
Charger Editor: Brian Kowell
For the 1989-1990 season, only three issues of The Charger are available.
October: Events of 125 Years Ago; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about the CSS Florida; Shades of Shady Ladies
November: Events of 125 Years Ago; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about the Confederate Marine Corps; In Memoriam: Bernard Drews, Civil War Expert; Civil War Series in Production for 1990; Preservation Report: There Is Virtually No Civil War Battlefield in Virginia That Is Not under Threat by Development Pressure
February: Events of 125 Years Ago; Lincoln Proclamation Touches Off New Furor; Preservation Report: Johnson’s Island; Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings book review; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about the Lincoln Railcar; Don’t Call Him Abe: The Lincoln Legends Would Astonish Him; Memories of Abraham Lincoln
1988-1989 Season
President: Neil Glaser
Charger Editor: Brian Kowell
For the 1988-1989 season, only three issues of The Charger are available.
October: Events of 125 Years Ago; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Young David Glasgow Farragut; Civil War Drama Underway in France: French Hope to Raise Confederate Privateer; Writing on the Wall: Graffiti Left by Union Soldiers at Manassas
December: Events of 125 Years Ago; Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 book review; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about the Burnside Carbine; Shiloh: The Gunboats Tyler and Lexington
January: Events of 125 Years Ago; Area Men Locate Civil War Burial Site; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about the CSS David; Preservation Report: Battlefield Fate Settled by President, Preservation Fight Looms at Brandy Station, Preservation Committee Report; Cleveland Grays Dedicate Military Library
1987-1988 Season
President: Marty Graham
Charger Editor: Brian Kowell
For the 1987-1988 season, only four issues of The Charger are available.
October: Two Lejeune Marines, Sailor Become Civil War Casualties; Events of 125 Years Ago; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Artemus Ward: Lincoln’s Comic Relief
November: Black Recipients of the Medal of Honor in the American Civil War; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Mary E. Walker: Medal of Honor Recipient; Events of 125 Years Ago Congressional Medal of Honor; Archivist’s Report
March: Events of 125 Years Ago; Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics book review; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Charles Champion Gilbert; Confederate Skeletons Uncovered in New Mexico; Glorieta Pass May Become Historic Site; Threats to Virginia Battlefields and to the Antietam Battlefield
May: Events of 125 Years Ago; Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate book review; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Charles Wilkes; Pocket Portrait of Lincoln; In Memoriam: Robert O. Fricke
1986-1987 Season
President: George Vourlojianis
Charger Editor: Ted Adams
For the 1986-1987 season, only two issues of The Charger are available.
January: A Table at Meetings for Members to Display Items of Interest; Prisoners of War Used as Manpower
February: Vallandigham and the Copperheads
1985-1986 Season
President: Tim Beatty
Charger Editor: Stuart Cramer
For the 1985-1986 season, only six issues of The Charger are available.
July: Civil War Sword and Revolver Presentations book review; Mason and Dixon Line; Battlefield Preservation: Harpers Ferry, Chickamauga and Chattanooga
September: The Long Surrender book review; 1st United States Hussar Regiment, 1864-1865; Those Nasty Northern Newspapers; A Confederate Drummer: The Last Roll Call at Appomattox
October: The Private Mary Chesnut book review; Reflection on Grant; When Grant Was Laid to Rest
November: Pegasus Bridge book review; “Long Tom”; Thanksgiving Dinner Spoiled; Farriers
December: Few Were the Tender Offers in Erie Takeover; Fort Warren; Civil War-Related National Park Sites; Shot Him Dead
January: Breaking with Moscow book review; General Pope Answers; Soldier’s Daily Prayer; If This Firm Sends You a Dividend, Make Sure It’s Using Real Money
1984-1985 Season
President: Brian Kowell
Charger Editor: Stuart Cramer
July: A Rumor of War book review; The Great Confederate Snowball Fight of Dalton, Georgia; Smedley “Gimlet Eye” Butler, Part 1
September: Lee and Grant: A Dual Biography book review; Smedley “Gimlet Eye” Butler, Part 2; Poor Cooking in the Confederate Army
October: Where the Girls Are Not; Eyewitness Account of the Grant-Lee Meeting at Appomattox; Gettysburg Episodes
November: Lincoln: A Novel book review; Report on the Field Trip; The Wilmer McLean Table; Rod Thru Gut
December: Timothy O’Sullivan: America’s Forgotten Photographer book review; Mr. Coolidge’s War; Poor Old Pope Again; Old Tippecanoe Did It
January: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant book review; A Monument to Neglect; Civil War Recipes; As Grammpappy Tol’ It
February: Lincoln Lore; Those Lincoln Kids; As Grammpappy Tol’ It; Abe’s Lifelong Hero
March: The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command book review; Rebels Raid Vermont; As Mah Grammpappy Tol’ It
April: Marching through Georgia; As Mah Grammpappy Tol’ It; Last Chance
May: Civil War Death Trap Still Draws Mourners; Perryville – Result of Bum Generalship; Don’t Believe It: A Reinterpretation of Booth’s Assassination of Lincoln; Norton I – Emperor of the United States
1983-1984 Season
President: Neil Evans
Charger Editor: Stuart Cramer
July: The Military Legacy of the Civil War book review; The Clash of Cavalry at Brandy Station
September: Gunboats USS Hamilton and USS Scourge; War in the Falklands book review; A Chess Game; Hildene: The Summer Home of Robert Todd Lincoln
October: Field Trip Report; Yours to Reason Why: Decision in Battle book review; The Old Panorama; She Chose to Wear Pants
November: Decoding the Past book review; The Civil War on the Banks of Lake Erie; Hostetter’s Celebrated Stomach Bitters
December: The Best-Dressed Confederates; The Plot to Steal Florida book review; Victory at Kennesaw Mountain National Park; That Tory Bob Thum; Member George Skoch Has Article in Civil War Times Illustrated
January: Landscape Turned Red book review; The Graybeards; Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation; Confederate Prisoner Uniforms; The “Black Terror“
February: Meet Abraham Lincoln: Profiles of the Prairie President book review; Lincoln Lore; Lincoln Largess
March: My Diary North and South book review; A Confederate Flag in a South African Museum?; Whatever Happened to The Star of the West?; Murder at Harpers Ferry
April: Unto This Hour book review; The First Confederate Privateer; Escape from Harpers Ferry; A Visit to West Point
May: Adrienne: The Life of the Marquis De La Fayette book review; Victory at Tallahassee
1982-1983 Season
President: Bill Victory
Charger Editor: Stuart Cramer
September: Jayhawkers in the East Room of the White House; Distilled from Clippings Sent In
October: A Mini Field Trip to Lincoln Country; The Attack and Defense of Little Round Top book review; A Piece of Rope; The Raid on St. Albans; First Bay of Pigs; A Memorial Day Dilemma
November: Practicing History book review; He Would Not Listen; General Early Still in the News
December: The Twentieth Maine book review; Little Lady, Big War – Harriet Beecher Stowe; The Black and the Blue; A Comment on That Television Program; Sultana Tragedy Revived by Discovery
January: Civil War Crossword Puzzle; From the Jaws of Victory: A History of the Character, Causes, and Consequences of Military Stupidity book review; Short the Candle, Bright the Flame – William B. Cushing; That Fancy Gun: The Whitworth 12-Pounder; Thaddeus Stevens vs. Simon Cameron
February: Further Exploits of Lieutenant Cushing; Save Our Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument; Lincoln Lore; Lincoln’s Personal Appearance; More Lincoln Lore
March: The Living Land of Lincoln book review; Longstreet’s Counter-March; Ohio in the War Two-Volume Set
April: Trial by Fire: A People’s History of the Civil War and Reconstruction book review; With Hood’s Texas Brigade at Second Manassas; The Camels Are Coming; Those Fateful April Dates of the Civil War
May: “Bivouac of the Dead” by Theodore O’Hara; The Strange Fate of Robert Todd Lincoln
1981-1982 Season
President: John Harkness
Charger Editor: Stuart Cramer
September: Grant book review; Relieved of Command by a Shabby Fellow; Ohio’s Cost in the Civil War
October: The Jefferson Scandals: A Rebuttal book review; Report on the Field Trip; Battlefield Preservation: Federal Budget; Longstreet’s Hodgepodge Train to the South; Confederate Humor
November: “John’s Brown Body” by Stephen Vincent Benét review; President Chester Arthur’s Visit to the Shoshoni; Historic Cannon Being Restored by Members; The South’s Reasons for Invading the North
December/January: Raid!: The Untold Story of Patton’s Secret Mission book review; Reminiscences of Bannerman’s, Part 1; Notes from the Bannerman Catalogue
February: The Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln; Thoughts on Battles and Leaders of the Civil War; Lincoln Lore; Reminiscences of Bannerman’s, Part 2; Lincoln the Lover; President Lincoln’s Target-Shooting Interrupted; Honorary Degrees for Abraham Lincoln
March: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War book review; Reminiscences of Bannerman’s, Part 3; The Moonlight Meeting of Lee, Jackson, and Stuart; The Trial of Mary Todd Lincoln
April: The Invasion of Canada: 1812-1813 book review; Confederate Humor; Strange Things Are Happening under the Lincoln Memorial; In Guerilla Territory – Partisan Warriors of Ol’ Virginny; Preservation Report: The Battle of Petersburg Has Apparently Been Won!
May: Thieves Break into Sherman Memorial; Reflections on the Civil War book review; Bruce Catton’s The Blue and the Gray – A TV Series and a Museum; Forrest’s Warhorse Goes into Battle after the Civil War; More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Grant’s Cigars
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