Rappahannock Valley Civil War Round Table

Programs Listed Alphabetical by Speakers Last Names

Speakers
Alexander, Keith – “The 33rd North Carolina”
Alexander, Keith - "Lee and Hooker: Generalship at Chancellorsville"
Alexander, Keith - "The Effects of Illness and Wounds on Civil War Soldiers"
Andrus, Mike - “The Petersburg Campaign North of the James River”
Andrus, Mike – Bus tour of Cold Harbor
Baldwin, Jim - “General Micah Jenkins”
Balis, Mike – “The Battle of Dam #1 in the Peninsula Campaign”
Bartholomew, Ann - "Clara Barton: Professional Angel"
Barefoot, Daniel - “General Robert F. Hoke: Lee’s Modest Warrior”
Bartholomees, Dr. J. Boone - “Staff Operations in the Army of Northern Virginia and Army of the Potomac”
Bastian, Dave - “Grant’s Canal in the Vicksburg Campaign”
Bearss, Edwin C. - “Lee vs. Grant: The Generals”
Bearss, Edwin C. - “A Critical Evaluation of Grant’s Generalship in the Overland Campaign”
Bearss, Edwin C. - "Comparing Treatment of the Wounded in the Civil War and World War II"
Beck, Dr. Brandon - The Three Winchester Battles
Berkoff, Todd - "Botched Battle at Bristoe: The Bristoe Station Campaign
Bernard, Sandy - “John Ryan: From the Irish Brigdade to Custer’s 7th Cavalry”
Biggs, Greg - “The Atlanta Campaign”
Biggs, Greg - “Ragged Rags: Battleflags of the Confederate Army”
Biggs, Greg - “Tactical Perfection: Nathan Bedford at Brice’s Crossroads”

Biggs, Gregg = “The Crack of Doom: The Collapse of Confederate Department No. 2"
Blanton, Deanne - "Women in the Civil War"
Boasberg, Tersh - Panel discussion on "The Highest and Best Use of Land"
Boasberg, Tersh - "Civil War Battlefield Preservation"
Bohannon, Keith – Walking tour of Upton’s Attack against Doles’ Brigade at Spotsylvania
Bonekemper, Edmund - "U.S. Grant, a Victor not a Butcher - Overlooked Military Genius."

Bonekemper, Edward H III - "Did George McClellan Try to Lose the Civil War?"
Bradley, Mark - “The Battle of Bentonville”
Bradley, Mark - "General Joe Johnston's Surrender at the Bennett House"
Brennan, Pat - "The Raising of the Hunley" (switched from speaking on Battle of Secessionville)
Brigdes, David - "Fighting With Jeb Stuart: Major James Breathed and the Confederate Horse Artillery"
Brown, David - "Clarfying Preservation Issues"
Brown, Ray - “The Battle of Salem Church: Opportunity for Cadmus Wilcox”
Brown, Ray – “The Battle of Salem Church”
Brown, Ray – Bus tour of 2nd Fredericksburg and Salem Church
Bryant, Jim - "African-Americans in the Civil War: The Virginia Experience
Burks, Maria - "Clarifying Preservation Issues"
Calkins, Chris - “The Apple Jack Raid”
Campbell, Eric - Bus tour of 2nd Day of Gettysburg
Campbell, Dr. Otho - “Petersburg Siege and the Final Days of the Civil War”
Campbell. Dr. Otho – “The 1860 Presidential Election”
Carmichael, Pete - “Colonel Willie Pegram, Confederate Artillerist”
Carmichael, Pete - “The Lost Generation: Sons of Virginia Slaveholders and the Creation of Confederate Identity”
Cashwell, Dewey - "Building Community Consensus" (for Battlefield Preservation
Chalker, Jim - “The High Mortality Rate of Black Soldiers in the Union Army”
Coffin, Howard - “Vermonters and the Civil War”
Christie, Jeanne - “Women’s Roles at City Point”

Clemmer, Gregg - "The Life and Wars of General Ed Johnson

Clowers, Larry & Connie - "A Fresh Look at General Grant"

Connor Jr, Albert Z. - "Not for Fame or Reward: A Few Good Men from VMI of Local Interest"

Creedon II, Robert A - "Artillery at Gettysburg"
Crown, Phillip - “Henry C. Matrau of the Iron Brigade”
Cushman, Steve - "Reflections on the Battle of the Wilderness"
D'Onofrio, Dr. Peter J. - "Medical Advances of the Civil War"
Delcour, Melissa – “The Battle of Front Royal”
Delocur, Melissa - "Chancellorsville: An Overview"
DiNardo, Richard - “Bragg’s Actions and Decisions After Chickamauga”
Dinardo, Richard - "The Tullahoma Driscoll, Jeff – “The Common Soldier of the Army of the Potomac”
Dudding, Gregg and Hakenson, Don - "Mosby in Fairfax County"
Duvall, Paul - "No More Bloody Bandages"
Ecelbarger, Gary - “Stonewall takes a Stand: Thomas Jackson vs. Richard Garnett”
Elstner, Carolyn - “Ellwood: It’s Past and Future”

Emerson, Jason - "The Madness of Mary Todd Lincoln"
Estilow, Betsy - Tour of Civil War Medical Museum in Frederick, Maryland
Estilow, Betsy - "Women Nurses in the Civil War"
Furgurson, Ernest - “The Battle of Chancellorsville”
Fickett, George - “Bermuda Hundred: Past, Present and Future”
Fickett, George – Bus tour of Bermuda Hundred
Fonvielle, Chris - "The Fall of Wilmington"
Ford, Betty – “Women in the Civil War”
Ford, Betty – “Southern Civilian Women”
Ford, Betty – “Women View the Civil War”
Ford, Betty - “Women’s Activities in the Civil War: Sketches and Vignettes"
Ford, Milton - “Civil War Arms”
Ford, Milton - “Burnside’s 1862 Expedition to North Carolina”
Frye, Dennis - “Mosby’s Impact on Sheridan: An Analysis”
Frye, Dennis - "Changing People's Minds: Convincing the Doubters About Preservation Efforts"
Frye, Janice – Sung Civil War Songs
Fulginiti, Joe - “The Life Cycle of a Civil War Print”
Furqueron, Ron - “John T. Wilder and The Lighting Brigade at Chickamauga”
Gallagher, Dr. Gary - “Putting the ‘War’ Back into the Civil War”
Gambaro, Stephen - “The Civil War, the American Indian and Manifest Destiny”
Gannon, Jim - “The 6th Louisiana: Irish Rebels: Confederate Tigers”
Gates, Grant - “The C & O Canal in the Civil War
Gilliam, Catherine - "Preserving Virginia's Heritage"
Goodrich, Tom and Debra - "The Wild Side: American History, 1854-1880"
Gorman, Mike - “Researching Civil War Richmond”
Gorman, Mike – Walking tour of Tredegar Iron Works and Belle Island
Greene, Will - “The Character and Personality of ‘Stonewall’ Jackson”
Greene, Will – Debate with Joe Harsh on “The Generalship of General George McClellan”
Greene, Will - "Preservation Partnerships: APCWS Case Studies"
Greene, Will - "Preserving Jackson's Legacy"
Greene, Will - Bus tour of the Last Days of the Petersburg Campaign
Gross, Justin - "The Economics of Battlefield Preservation"
Hakenson, Don and Dudding, Gregg - "Mosby in Fairfax County"
Hall, Bud - “Brandy Station: Yesterday and Today”
Hall, Bud - Bus tour of Brandy Station
Hall, Bud – Bus tour of Kelly’s Ford and Brandy Station
Harrison, Noel - “Researching Sites on the Chancellorsville Battlefield”
Harrison, Noel - “The Impact of the War on the Fredericksburg Civilians”
Harrison, Noel – Walking tour of Destruction Caused by the Union Army in Fredericksburg
Hartwig, Scott - Bus tour of 1st Day of Gettysburg
Heatwole, John – “The Burning of the Shenandoah Valley”
Harris, Al – “The Battle of Franklin”
Harsh, Dr. Joe – Debate with Will Greene on “The Generalship of General George McClellan”
Hartgrove, Dane - “L.Q.C. Lamar & Confederate Foreign Relations: A Study in Civil War Diplomacy”
Hartgrove, Dane - “Two Great Rebel Nations”
Hartgrove, Dane - “A Country Divided by Extremists: The South’s Fire Eaters vs. The North’s Radical Abolitionists”
Hartgrove, Dane – “The Bristoe Campaign”
Hartgrove, Dane - "The Lives and Prison Experiences of Civil War Soldiers"
Hartgrove, Sue – “Women in the Civil War”
Hennessy, John – Bus tour of 2nd Manassas
Hennessy, John - "Civil War preservation"
Hennessy, John – “Preservation of the Rappahannock Valley Civil War Sites”
Hennessy, John - "Return to Bull Run"

Hennessy, John - Winter of Discontent: Springtime of Change: The Army of the Potomac, Joseph Hooker, and the Prelude to Chancellorsville"
Hodge, Robert Lee - "Civil War Battlefield Preservation"
Housch, Bobby - “The Battle of Chickamauga”
Humphrey, Stacy - "The Washington Artillery"
Jacobson, Mark – “The Bermuda Hundred Campaign”
Johnson, David - "Historian Douglas Southall Freeman"
Jordan, Melanie - “The First Ladies, Varina Davis and Mary Todd Lincoln”
Kauffman. Michael - “What We Don’t Know About the Death of Lincoln”
Kauffman, Michael – Bus tour of Ford’s Theatre and John Wilkes Booth Escape Route
Kelly, Dorothy – “The Failure of Longstreet’s East Tennessee Campaign”
Kennedy, Frances - "The Dollars and Sense of Battlefield Preservation
Kleese, Richard - Panel discussion of "The Highest and Best Use of Land"
Kleese, Richard – “The Battle of Fisher’s Hill”
Kleese, Richard - Bus tour of 3rd Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Tom's Brook
Kolakowski, Chris - "New York City in the Civil War"

Kolakowski, Chris - "Perryville: The Battle that Saved Kentucky"
Krick, Bob - “Reflections on Longstreet’s Attitude”
Krick, Bob – Book discussion of his book on Cedar Mountain
Krick, Bob - "On War's Savage Heal"
Krick, Bob – Bus tour of Chancellorsville
Krick, Bob – Bus tour of Wilderness
Krick, Bob – Bus tour of Cross Keys and Port Republic
Krick, Bob - Bus tour of Cedar Mountain
krick, Bob - Walking Tour of Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery
Krick, Bobby – Bus tour of Seven Days Campaign
Krick, Bobby – “The Battle of Falling Waters”
Krick, Bobby – “The Battle of Yellow Tavern”
Krick, Bobby – “The Battle of Haw’s Shop”
Leisch, Juanita - “Women and the War – The Photographic Evidence”

Landis, Lincoln - "Dr. Abraham Hoch Landis - Father of Kenesaw Mountain Landis"

Levin, Kevin - "Confederate Military Executions"

Levin, Kevin - "The Battle of the Crater in History and Memory"
Lewis, Reed - "Development, History, Principles, and Methods of Army Signalling"
Lewis, Thomas - "Cedar Creek Seen From the Present"
Litterst, Mike - “The Seven Days Campaign”
Litterst, Mile – “The 2nd Manassas Campaign”
Logan, Diane – “Confederate Diarist Mary Chestnut: A 1st Person Impression”
Lohman, Elsa – “Women in the Civil War”
Lohman, Elsa – Walking tour of Lee’s Last Line at Spotsylvania
Lohman, Elsa – Walking tour of the wounding of General Stonewall Jackson
Lohman, Elsa - “Northern Civilian Women”
Lohman, Elsa – “Women View the Civil War”
Lohman, Elsa – “Women in Combat in the Civil and Other Wars”
Lohman, Elsa - "The Roles of Women in Support of the War"
Lohman, Elsa - “Women’s Activities in the Civil War: Sketches and Vignettes"
Longacre, Dr. Ed - “The Real George Pickett”
Longacre, Dr. Ed - “Ben Butler and the Army of the James”
Lowe, Ian – Walking tour of Widow Tapp Field at the Wilderness
Lowry, Dr. Thomas - "The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War"

Mackey, Col. Robert R. - "Unconventional Warfare’ in the Civil War" by
McConnell, Virginia - "Preserving Virginia's Heritage

McKinney, Joseph W. - "Buford at Brandy Station"
McManus, Bobby - "The Role of Elected Officials in Battlefield Preservation"

Markle, Donald E - "The Telegraph Goes to War"
Marsh, Alan - "Andersonville Prison"

Martin, Greg - "The 116th Ohio Volunteer Infantry"
Marvel, William - “General Ambrose E. Burnside”
Maryniak, Ben - "Elmira Prison"
Matter, Bill – “The Battle of Spotsylvania”
May, Stephen - Artists of the Civil War: Winslow Homer, Edouard Manet and Company

Means, Howard - "The Avenger Takes His Place"
Mertz, Greg – Walking tour of Hazel Grove at Chancellorsville
Mertz, Greg – Walking tour of Gordon’s Flank Attack at the Wilderness
Mertz, Greg – Walking tour of Harris Farm at Spotsylvania
Mertz, Greg – Walking tour of Chancellorsville History Trail at Chancellorsville
Mertz, Greg - Bus tour of Chancellorsville
Mertz, Greg – Bus tour of Spotsylvania
Mertz, Greg - Bus tour of Cross Keys and Port Republic (br> Mertz, Greg – Bus tour of Kelly’s Ford and Brandy Station
Mertz, Greg - “Preceding Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg”
Miller, Mike – Bus tour of North Anna
Mink, Eric - “Colonel William Gilham: Southern Educator and Soldier”
Mink, Eric – Bus tour of Lesser Known Sites on the Chancellorsville Battlefield
Monahan, Jay - "Current Issues, Legislative Affairs" (Battlefield Preservation)
Moncure, Thomas - “Comparing/Contrasting Provost Marshalls John H. Winder, CSA and Marsena Patrick, USA”
Morgan, Jim - Tour of Ball's Bluff
Morgan, Jim - "60's Music: The Songs of the American Civil War"

Morgan, James A - "Balls Bluff"
Morris, Stephen - "Significant Sites Outside the National Park System: Recent Initiatives"
Morton, Virginia - "Civil War in Culpeper"
Musick, Mike – “How to Do Civil War Research at the National Archives”
Musselman, Homer – “The 47th Virginia”
Nelson, Eric - "Preservation and the Professional Staff"
Nelson, Eric - “Decisive Terrain: The Rappahannock River Fords During the Battle of Chancellorsville”
Netherland, Jerry – “The Bermuda Hundred Campaign”
Ogden, Jim - “To the Edge of Glory: Rosecrans’ Campaign for Chattanooga”
Ogden Jim – Bus tour of Chickamauga and Chattanooga Battlefields
Olsen, Julie – “Women in the Civil War”

O'Connor, Bob "The Perfect Steel Trap: Harpers Ferry"
O'Connor, Tony - "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln"
O’Grady, Kelly - “Irishman in the Army of Northern Virginia”
O’Reilly, Frank - “George G. Meade: Not a Braver Man on the Field”
O’Reilly, Frank – Walking tour of Prospect Hill at Fredericksburg
O’Reilly, Frank – Walking tour of Harris Farm at Spotsylvania
O’Reilly, Frank – Walking tour of Bernard’s Cabins at Fredericksburg
O’Reilly, Frank – Bus tour of Fredericksburg
O’Reilly, Frank – Candlelight tour of the Jackson Shrine
O”Reilly, Frank – Bus tour of 2nd Fredericksburg and Salem Church
O’Reilly, Frank – Walking tour of the Fredericksburg Street Fighting
O’Reilly, Frank – Bus tour of Mine Run
O’Reilly, Frank - “The Battle of Trevilian Station”
O’Reilly, Frank - “New Perspectives on the Battle of Fredericksburg”
O’Reilly, Frank – “The 1864 Shenandoah Campaign: An Overview
O'Reilly, Frank - "Two Conferences of War in the Civil War: Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

Patch, Dave - "Introduction of the President and Mrs. Lincoln"
Patchen, Scott - “The Battle of Piedmont”
Person, Gustav - "Drill Books and Rifles - Revolution in Tactics"  

Person, Gustav - "Uniforms and Equipment of Regular Troops at 1st Bull Run
Pfanz, Don – “Stonewall Jackson’s 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign”
Pfanz, Don - "The 1862 Valley Campaign"
Pfanz, Don - “General Richard Ewell in the Gettysburg Campaign”
Pfanz, Don - "The 11th Corps at Chancellorsville"
Pierce, Don – Walking tour of Hollywood and Oakwood Cemeteries

Plummer, Charles W - Reflections from General Joshua L. Chamberlain
Poehler, Kristie - "Women of Gettysburg"

Powell, Dave - Bus tour of Antietam Power, Dr. Tracy - “Morale in the Army of Northern Virginia in the War’s Last Winter”

Purks, Ken - "Civil War Balloons - The Air War"
Purks, Stuart - "Civil War Maps and Mapmakers"
Quigley, Tom – Walking tour of Catharine’s Furnace at Chancellorsville
Reardon, Dr. Carol - “Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory”
Rehm, Karen – “Civil War Veterans and Their Gift of Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania N.M.P.”
Rhea, Gordon – “General Grant’s Leadership From Wilderness to Bloody Angle”
Roberts, Dave - Field trip to Point Lookout Prison
Roberts, Dave - "Behind: Enemy Lines: St. Mary's County, Maryland in the Civil War"
Robertson, Dr. Glenn - “Bull of the Woods? Longstreet at Chickamauga”
Ruth, Dave - “The Siege of Charleston”
Ruth, Dave – “Morris Island and the Defense of Charleston”
Sheffield, Walt - “The Career of General Billy Mahone”
Selby, John G. - "Virginians at War: The Civil War Experiences of Seven Young Confederates"

Shikhvarg, Allan - "General James Longstreet"
Shrimpton, Rebecca - "Significant Sites Outside the National Park System: Recent Initiatives"
Siegel, Chuck - "The Orange and Alexandria Railroad"

Singel, Kati"Making the Right Choice: The Mine Run Campaign, November 1863
Sill, William - “The CSS Alabama”
Sledzyk, Paul - “Bones and Battle Casualties.”
Smith, Tim - Walking tour of Pickett/Pettigrew Charge at Gettysburg Snell, Mark – “General William Buel Franklin: Undeserved Scapegoat”
Snyder, Keith - “The Battle of Antietam”

Staton, Charles - Redoubts at Yorktown"
Stephens, Mark - "Building Community Consensus"
Stephens, Mark - “The Effect of Union veterans Who Left at the End of Enlistment”
Stephens, Mark - “The Battle of Pea Ridge”
Stephens, Mark - "A Short History of the Creation of National Battlefield Parks"
Stevens, Mike - "Preserving the Land, Preserving the Stories: CVBT and Its Fight to Save America's Sacred Soil"
Stevens, Mike - "The Effects of Illness and Wounds on Civil War Soldiers"
Stratton, Al - "The Battle of New Orleans"
Stratton, Col. Guy - "Bridging Techniques in the Civil War"
Swain, Glen – Walking tour of Kershaw’s Brigade at Fredericksburg

Talkov, Andrew H - "The June 9th 1864 Battle of Old Men and Young Boys - The Petersburg Campaign"
Thomann, Terry - "Researching a Historic Artifact"

Thomann, Terry - "A Museum on a Mission"
Thompson, Marc – “The Battle of North Anna”
Thompson, Marc - “Stuart at Gettysburg: The Battle of Rummel’s Farm”
Thompson, Marc - Bus tour of Jeb Stuart's Gettysburg Campaign
Thompson, Marc - "Stoneman's Raid" Thompson, Jack - “The Men of the 54th Massachusetts: Some Life Stories”
Tidwell, William - “Confederate Secret Service”
Van Winkle, Tom - “Ellwood: It’s Past and Future”

Walker, Scott - "Matthew Fontaine Maury - Pathfinder of the Seas"
Watkins, Robert - "Battlefield Preservation Efforts in Frederick County and Winchester"
Wheat, Dr. Thomas A. "Medical Knowledge on the Eve of the Civil War"

White, Kristopher - "Battle of Five Forks and the Controversy Between Sheridan and Warren"

White, Kristopher - "The Battle and Siege of Chattanooga"
Whitehorne, Joe - Bus tour of Cedar Creek
Whitehorne, Joe - "Cedar Creek and the 1864 Valley Campaign"
Wittenberg, Eric – “The Battle of Tom’s Brook”
Wilson, Pete - “The Civil War: One Man, His Unit, His Family and His Community”
Wise, Dr. Stephen - “Battling for the Symbol of Secession: Charleston in the Civil War”
Wyckoff, Mac – “The Battle of Shiloh
Wyckoff, Mac – “Richard Kirkland”
Wyckoff, Mac – Walking tour of Widow Tapp Field at the Wilderness
Wyckoff, Mac – Walking tour of Kershaw’s Brigade at Fredericksburg
Wyckoff, Mac - Walking tour of Kershaw’s Brigade at Laurel Hill at Spotyslvania
Wyckoff, Mac - Car caravan tour of the Union Opening Moves at Chancellorsville
Wyckoff, Mac – Car caravan tour of the Confederate Response to the Opening Union Moves at Chancellorsville
Wyckoff, Mac – “Kershaw’s Brigade in the Maryland Campaign”
Wyckoff, Mac – Bus tour of Spotsylvania
Wyckoff, Mac – Bus tour of Fredericksburg
Wyckoff, Mac – Walking tour of the wounding of General Stonewall Jackson
Wyckoff, Mac – “Visiting Chickamauga and Chattanooga N.M.P.”
Wyckoff, Mac – Walking tour of Upton’s Charge at Spotsylvania
Wyckoff, Mac – Bus tour of Lesser Known Sites on the Chancellorsville Battlefield
Wyckoff, Mac – “Crisis in Charleston Harbor”
Wyckoff, Mac - "The Effects of Illness and Wounds on Civil War Soldiers"
Wyckoff, Mac - "The Lives and Prison Experiences of Civil War Soldiers"

Wyckoff, Mac - 'The Making of a Civil War Historian"
Youhn, Susan - "Undelivered Letters to Confederate Prisoners at Point Lookout"
Zirkle, Alan - "The Civil War in New Mexico - Gettysburg if the West?"

 

Rappahannock Valley Civil War Round Table
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Fredericksburg, Va. 22404