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Meeting: June 8, 2010
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Our speaker will be Dave Booz. Dave Booz is an adjunct
professor in the Civil War Era Studies department at Gettysburg
College. He teaches at McDaniel College and Carroll Community College
as well. He spent 30 years as an educator in the Carroll County,
Maryland system and also works for the American Institute for History
Education. He is also active in the North-South Skirmish Association
and shoots competitively with Civil War firearms. He currently resides
with his wife, Barbara, near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The Vicksburg Campaign is one of the most significant ones in American history. For over six months the Federals tried to capture this Confederate stronghold. There were many unsuccessful attempts to capture Vicksburg before U.S.Grant and his Army of the Tennessee, supported by the United States navy, finally succeeded. Grant's final campaign to take Vicksburg has a brilliance that rivaled Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign. We will examine the time period from May to July of 1863 to discover the actions of both sides in the Vicksburg drama. |
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Meeting: May 11, 2010
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Our speaker will be Dr. Bradley M.
Gottfried. Bradley M. Gottfried holds a Ph.D. in Zoology from
Miami University. He has worked in higher education for more than
three decades as a faculty member and administrator. He is currently
President of the College of Southern Maryland. An avid Civil War historian, Dr. Gottfried is the author of several books, including Brigades of Gettysburg: The Union and Confederate Brigades at the Battle of Gettysburg (2002) and The Maps of Gettysburg (2007). Dr. Gottfried provides insight into how the two armies employed their artillery at the Battle of Gettysburg, how the different kinds of weapons functioned in battle, and the strategies for using each of them. He shows how artillery affected the ebb and flow of battle for both armies and thus provides a unique way of understanding the strategies of the Federal and Union commanders. |
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Meeting: April 13, 2010
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Our speaker will be Reverend John W. Schildt. Reverend
Schildt has led tours of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign for many
colleges, military and civilian groups, including the BCWRT. He has
been involved with Dr. Gabor Boritt in the “Gettysburg Civil War
Institute” and also Dr. James Robertson’s “Campaigning With Lee”
Seminar. Reverend Schildt graduated from Shephard College, Wesley Theological Seminary and has studied at Western Maryland College, Gettysburg Seminary and West Virginia University. He is the author of several books, including Roads from Gettysburg; September Echoes: The Maryland Campaign of 1862; Roads to Antietam; Stonewall Jackson, day by day; and Stonewall Jackson and the Preachers. Reverend Schildt’s presentation will discuss the Union Twelfth Corps in the 1862 Maryland Campaign. |
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Meeting: March 9, 2010 - Annual Dinner
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Meeting: February 9, 2010 - Canceled due to weather
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Our speakers will be BCWRT members Bob Mullauer and
Jerry Bayer. Bob Mullauer was a high school history teacher
for over a decade. He currently teaches nighttime courses at Anne
Arundel Community College as well as speaking to a variety of groups
on topics such as the American Civil War in the Western Theater, World
War II in the Pacific, and the Napoleonic Wars. He has led United
States Army officers on staff rides over the Chickamauga and
Chattanooga battlefields. Besides Civil War battlefields, his travels
include tours of World War II battlefields in the Pacific as well as
Normandy, the Bulge, Verdun, and various Napoleonic sites in Europe.
Jerry Bayer is a former Marylander now living in retirement with his wife, Marianne, in Harper’s Ferry, VA. He is a member of various historical groups, as well as a Life Member of both the SCV and SAR. A 1971 graduate of the University of Baltimore, Jerry has spent a lifetime studying American Military History and World War II. Both He and Marianne are re-enactors and appear in the movie “Gods and Generals”. Bob and Jerry will discuss the lives of six foreign born Generals, three Confederate, three Union. |
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Meeting: January 12, 2010
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Our speaker will be Randy Grimsley
Randy is a long-time member of
the Baltimore Civil War Roundtable. In 2004, he retired as the Executive Director of Human Resources with the Baltimore County Public Schools system, after forty years of service. During the past six years, Randy has spent Saturdays as a volunteer with the Friends of Gettysburg at the historic Rupp House and at the Members’ Services Desk at the Gettysburg National Military Park Visitors’ Center. In 2006 Randy was invited to volunteer as a member of the art conservation team working to restore the Cyclorama painting. His PowerPoint presentation will highlight the 126 year journey of the Cyclorama painting, “The Battle of Gettysburg”, from its development in 1882 to its completed restoration in 2008. |
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Jan. 16 -
Ceremony to honor General Robert E. Lee
and General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson on the anniversary of
their births held at the Lee/Jackson monument, Art Museum and Wyman
Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland. For information call, Elliott
Cummings, 410-296-9235 or e mail
basilduke@comcast.net
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