December 9, 2014

The Southern Maryland Civil War Round Table is pleased to announce that its next meeting will take place on Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 7:00pm at the College of Southern Maryland’s Center for Business and Industry, Chaney Enterprises Conference Center Room BI-113, at 8730 Mitchell Road in LaPlata, MD.

Guest Speaker:  Dr. Tom Jarvis

It would just not be a Southern Maryland Civil War Round Table season if our good friend, Dr. Tom Jarvis did not address us.  Having previously spoken to us on “The Causes of the Civil War” and “Why the North Won and the South Lost The Civil War”, tonight Tom promises to take us on a little bit different of a journey. Tonight, Tom has questions and we need to provide the answers!

We know that our members have a great depth of knowledge about the Civil War.  At this evening’s meeting, we will all be given a chance to share some of that knowledge.  Dr. Jarvis will introduce a variety of topics through specific questions about the war and its participants.  We, the members of the Round Table will then have an opportunity to answer these questions and discuss them. For example, under the topic of “Civil War Generals”, one question will be:  “Who was the ranking general in the Confederate Army?”  After a period of discussion, Dr. Jarvis will briefly discuss Civil War generals, interspersing the topic with questions for discussion as well as tossing in some fascinating historical facts about Union and Confederate generals.  This  may include some more questions about some of the more famous generals.  Some other topics to broached are:  Battles, the Impact of Weather, Horses and Civil War Slang.  Come prepared for what promises to be a lively and informative session!

Tom Jarvis taught history as a Professional Instructor as American University in Washington, D.C. and is a member of the adjunct faculty at the College of Southern Maryland. He has developed two specialty courses offered at the college; “The History of American Warfare” and “The United States and Twentieth Century World Affairs”.  Tom has a Bachelor of Arts in history form Stony Brook University, a master’s degree from the School of International Service, American University, and a Ph.D. in United States History from American University.  He served three years in the U.S. Army, working in the intelligence field with the Army Security Agency. He retired from the Central Intelligence Agency as a Senior Executive.

We look forward to welcoming Tom Jarvis back to the podium for this presentation and to seeing you for an enlightening evening of discussion.

November 11, 2014

The Southern Maryland Civil War Round Table is pleased to announce that its next meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at 7:00pm at the College of Southern Maryland’s Center for Business & Industry, Chaney Enterprises Conference Room, BI-113, at 8730 Mitchell Road in La Plata, MD.

Guest Speaker:  Dr. Richard J. Siciliano

                      

The Southern Maryland Civil War Round Table welcomes College of Southern Maryland Professor, Richard J. Siciliano, as he delivers a lively and entertaining survey of movies that portray the U.S. Civil War from the early days of film making to the present.  Dr. Siciliano will show and discuss clips and trailers from of movies from the early 20th century to the present, some which may stretch historical truth, and others that are unabashedly creative with historical accuracy.  He will show clips from and talk about such movie standards as Birth of a Nation (1915), Red Badge of Courage (1951) and Gone with the Wind (1939), through more recent movies including Glory (1989), Ken Burns’ The Civil War documentary mini series (1990), Gettysburg (1991), Cold Mountain (2003), Lincoln (2012) and most recently, Copperhead (2013).  Dr. Siciliano will also discuss some lesser known (and perhaps infamous) movies about the Civil War!

A member of the SMCWRT, Dr. Siciliano has developed and teaches an on line course on the Civil War in Film and Literature (ENG-2840), which is offered every spring semester. In conjunction with that course, he also developed a Civil War Film Series, offered at the La Plata campus, which has held last winter and spring.  A professor of British Literature and American Cinema and Culture, Dr. Siciliano has taught at the College of Southern Maryland since 1968. He earned his B.A. degree in English Languages and Literature from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA; his Masters from The Catholic University in Washington, D.C.; and his Doctorate from George Washington University, Washington D.C.

 

 

 

October 14, 2014

The Southern Maryland Civil War Round Table is pleased to announce that its next meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 7:00pm at the College of Southern Maryland’s Center for Business & Industry, Chaney Enterprises Conference Room, BI-113, at 8730 Mitchell Road in La Plata, MD.

Guest Speaker:  David R. Craig

                            

The Southern Maryland Civil War Round Table welcomes Harford County Executive David R. Craig as he presents the story of native Marylander Confederate Brigadier General James J. Archer.

Born near Harve de Grace, MD in 1817 and a law student at the University of Maryland, Archer would fight in the Mexican-American War and serve in the regular army prior to the outbreak of the Civil War.  Joining the Confederate Army after resigning his commission, Archer would start as a captain, but worked his way up to the rank of Brigadier General by June 1862.

He would command troops at the Seven Days Battles, Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Antietam and Gettysburg.  Archer would suffer the distinction of being the first general officer captured from the Army of Northern Virginia since Robert E. Lee took command.  David R. Craig will provide us all the details about this native son, who earned the nickname, “The Little Gamecock”; not for being from South Carolina, but due to his slight physical build and fierce attitude in combat.

In addition to serving as Harford County Executive, David R. Craig has a distinguished record of public service, including serving in the Maryland House of Delegates and State Senate, on numerous committees, boards and commissions, including the Maryland Civil War Heritage Commission.  He resides in Harford County, Maryland with his wife, Melinda, with whom he has three children and eight grandchildren.

 

 

The 2nd Maryland Infantry Company C

PRESENTS

A CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY ENCAMPMENT

Saturday, August 9, 2014

10AM – 3PM

AT Historic Linthicum Walks

 

2295 Davidsonville Road

Next to Crofton Middle School

RAINDATE: August 10, 2014          CONTACT 410-451-5900

FAMILY ORIENTED EVENT

* Lectures          * Costumed Interpreters          * Displays

* Activities          * Tour the Historic Home       * And More

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BRING A BLANKET AND PICNIC LUNCH!

 

 

 

 

August 15 – 17, 2014

Join The Southern Maryland Civil War Round Table’s Spring Field trip speaker and guide Phillip Greenwalt and other notable authors as they discuss the Civil War in 1864 at Stevenson Ridge.  Stevenson Ridge, one of the m,ost historic properties in Spotsylvania County, is located on the Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield, 12 miles south of Fredericksburg, Virginia. The property includes nine restored historic cottages and unique Civil War earthworks. Lodging packages for the symposium are available.  Contact info@stevensonridge.com for details.

Friday, August 15, 2014:

Reception and Panel Discussion

Saturday, August 16, 2014:

Speakers Series featuring

Daniel T. Davis – “More Desperate Fighting Has Not Been Witness on this Continent“: Ulysses S. Grant and the Overland Campaign

Phillip Greenwalt – From ‘Old Bald Head’ to ‘Lee’s Bad Old Man’: A Study of the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia in 1864

Chris Kolakowski – 1864:  The Last Stand of the Confederate Navy

Meg Thompson – A Bad Month for the President:  Campaigning the Election of ’64

Lee White – “To die like men”: Patrick Cleburne and the Tennessee Campaign of 1864

Eric Wittenberg – The Trevilian Station Raid

Plus:  Savas Beatie publisher Theodore Savas and historian David Powell

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Battlefield tours of Wilderness and Spotsylvania, led by ECW co-founders Kristopher D. White and Chris Mackowski

Registration:  $55 for all three days, which includes Friday evening reception, Saturday morning coffee service, and Saturday lunch.  For more information or to register, go to www.emergingcivilwar.com for details.

 

Missing the lively discussions and presentations of the Southern Maryland Civil War Round Table? Just can’t wait until September and Dr. James Robertson?  Need a Civil War fix in a hurry?

Good News! Starting July 1, 2014 and running through the end of August, there will be a exhibit  of Civil War Memorabilia on display at the Charles County Public Library – Potomac Branch.  Among the items available to be seen are muskets, bayonets, canteens and maybe a surprise or two.

The Potomac Branch of the Charles County Public Library is located at 3225 Ruth B. Swann Drive,  Indian Head, MD 20640.  For more details please call 301-375-7375. Get out and enjoy!

 

 

 Wednesday, June 11, 2014

The Sgt. James H. Harris Camp #38, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will sponsor a lecture given by James Ogden, Historian, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and Moccasin Bend National Archeological District on Wednesday, June 11, 2014 at the Leonardtown Library at 7:00pm.

For more details, please contact Duane Whitlock at yankeewhit@gmail.com

Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Reunification, & the Nation’s First Civil War National Battlefield Park

A quarter century after the Civil War, as the expanding United States prepared to step onto the world stage, veterans of both sides, Union and Confederate, united in a purposeful show of reconciliation and reunification; once divided, now reunited. One of the places where this Gilded Age agenda played out, the first place, was on ground hallowed by some of those very veterans in 1863—Chickamauga and Chattanooga—the battles of one of the most important campaigns of the war, a campaign in which both sides could claim a victory, Chickamauga for the Confederates, Chattanooga for the Union.

Authorized by Congress in 1890 and formally dedicated in 1895 before a crowd on a weekday of 50,000, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park was the first such area in our nation and the first of the first five preserved Civil War battlefields (Maryland’s Antietam was second). In his talk this evening, “Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Reunification, & the Nation’s First Civil War Battlefield Park,” Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park (and St. Mary’s County native) Historian Jim Ogden will address the veteran-led effort that became a benchmark for early Civil War battlefield commemoration and which continues to serve as a window even now in the Sesquicentennial years into or nation’s trans-formative but tragic internecine struggle.

James H. Ogden, III, Historian
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park & Moccasin Bend

National Archeological District………”for the purpose of preserving and suitably marking for historical and professional military study the fields of some of the most remarkable maneuvers and most brilliant fighting in the war of the rebellion (Aug. 19, 1890, 16 U. S. C. 424)” & “to preserve, protect, and interpret for the benefit of the public the nationally significant archeological and historic resources located on the peninsula known as Moccasin Bend (Feb. 20, 2003, Pub. Law 108-7, 117 STAT. 247, 16 U. S. C. 424c)”

P. O. Box 2128 (postal mailing address) 706-866-9241, ext. 116
3370 LaFayette Road (shipping address only) 423-752-5213, ext. 116
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia 30742 706-866-7981 FAX
james_ogden@nps.gov

Duane G. Whitlock, Past Camp Commander

Sgt. James H. Harris Camp No. 38, SUVCW

yankeewhit@gmail.com

June 7 & 8, 2014

 

Point Lookout State Park 28thAnnual Blue and Gray Days

Saturday June 7, 2014  (11:00AM – 4:00PM)

Sunday, June 8 2014 (11:00AM-3:00PM)

The Maryland State Park Service, Department of Natural Resources, sponsored by the Friends of Point Lookout, invite you to attend the twenty-eighth Annual Blue and Gray Days Weekend at the original site of Fort Lincoln and Camp Hoffman, prisoner of war camp, at Point Lookout State Park, Scotland,  Maryland.  There is a service charge to enter Point Lookout State Park.

A Civil War Living History Program Presented by:

The Friends of Point Lookout Located at historic Fort Lincoln Point Lookout State Park, Scotland, Maryland

ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:

Infantry Drill & Musket Demonstrations

Hammond Hospital & Camp Hoffman (Prisoner Camp) Exhibits

Life in a military garrison, prisoner of war camp and civilian occupation of Point Lookout during the war.

For Further Information Contact Point Lookout State Park at (301) 872-5688