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Meeting: April 24, 2012
Our speaker will be BCWRT President Bob Mullauer. 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.

Bob will discuss the Army of the Potomac’s Overland campaign of 1864 from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor.

Wilderness Battlefield

Meeting: March 27, 2012
This month is The Baltimore Civil War Roundtable Annual Dinner. Our speaker will be Dennis Frye. Dennis is a Civil War historian well known to re-enactors, movie fans and preservationists.

He was the President of the former Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites from 1995-1998. He also has worked as a consultant in Civil War history and served as associate producer of the movie “Gods and Generals,” coordinated the 1997 and 2002 Antietam reenactments, wrote a general management plan for the Stonewall Jackson Headquarters house in Winchester, VA, and served as consulting historian for the Maryland Civil War Trails project on the Antietam and Gettysburg campaigns.

Additionally, Dennis has served as Chief Historian at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park for10 years, and has worked as an NPS historian at Harpers Ferry for 22 years.

Dennis will discuss the topic of his upcoming book: Harper’s Ferry Under Fire, 1861 – 1865.  It is hoped he will have copies available at the dinner.

Dennis Frye  Dinner Flyer 2012

Meeting: February 28, 2012

Our speaker will be Jeff Goodsen. Jeff will discuss Agents & Activities of the Union Secret & Signal Services in Maryland from 1861-1865. This is a follow-up to the discussion of the Confederate Secret services in Maryland that Jeff gave to the Roundtable January 2011.

The American Civil War marked the beginning of extensive civil and military espionage. The intelligence operations during the Civil War were pre-modern, amateurish, and even eccentric by twenty-first century standards, but elements of this odd secret war foreshadowed the later modernization of America’s novice intelligence services.

Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker ordered his deputy provost marshal, Col. George H. Sharpe, to create a unit to gather intelligence. Sharpe set up what he called the Bureau of Military Information and was aided by John C. Babcock. Sharpe’s bureau produced reports based on information collected from agents, prisoners of war, refugees, Southern newspapers, documents retrieved from battlefield corpses, and other sources.

These fascinating subjects will be discussed and presented by Jeff Goodson, Adjunct Professor of History at Carroll Community College and the Community College of Baltimore County.  Jeff brings additional insight to the topic as a Retired Counterintelligence Special Agent & Military History buff.


Colonel George H. Sharpe

Meeting: January 24, 2012
Join Baltimore historian and educator Wayne R. Schaumburg at the January meeting for an illustrated talk entitled "Baltimore and the Civil War:  A City Divided."  The lecture will look at the role played by our city in the conflict as well as stories about individual Baltimoreans.  In addition, Wayne will focus on some of the major Civil War figures buried at Green Mount Cemetery as well as the four major Civil War monuments located in the city.

Born and raised in the Waverly section of Baltimore,  Wayne graduated from City College in 1964 and Towson University in 1968.  In addition he has graduate degrees from Morgan and Hopkins Universities.  He taught high school social studies in the Baltimore City school system for 39 years before retiring in 2007. Wayne has been giving tours and illustrated lectures on Baltimore history for over 30 years, and is probably best known for his walking tours through historic Green Mount Cemetery.  Currently Wayne serves on the boards of Baltimore Heritage, the Irish Railroad Workers Museum, and Friends of the Perry Hall Mansion.

Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Charles and 29th Streets, Baltimore, MD












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