Calendar
Note, the calendar now lists events in
reverse
chronology with the next program highlighted in blue ink.
Date: July 10, 2024
Speaker: Gerridine LaRovere
Subject: History of Taps
Date: June 12, 2024
Speaker: Robert Krasner
Subject: How the Mexican War Influenced Civil
War Generals
Date: May 8, 2024
Speaker: Ken Corhan
Subject: Life of Henry Hallack
Date: April 10, 2024
Speaker: Adam Katz
Subject: Civil War businesses still in operation today
Date: March 10, 2024
Speaker: Patrick Falci
Subject: TBD
Date: February 14, 2024
Speaker: No meeting
Subject: N/A
Date: January 10, 2024
Speaker: Robert Macomber
Subject: TBD
Date: December 13, 2023
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD
Date: November 8, 2023
Speaker: Gary Bachman
Subject: Incompetent Civil War Generals
Date: October 11, 2023
Speaker:
Subject:
Date: September 13, 2023
Speaker: Gerridine LaRovere and Janell Bloodworth
Subject: Interesting Personalities You May
Not Know about in the Civil War
Date: June 14, 2023
Speaker: Guy Bachman
Subject: Seminole Wars
Date: April 12, 2023
Speaker: Janell Bloodworth
Subject: Mudd & Moon
Date: March 8, 2023
Speaker:
Robert Krasner
Subject:
His program will be
The Life of William Barker Cushing.
Date: February 8, 2023
Speaker: Gerridine LaRovere & Bill McEachern
Subject:
A play in one act about a Planter, Traitor, Lawyer, or Spy
Date: January 11, 2023
Speaker: Robert Macomber
Subject: Russia's Intriguing Role in
America's Civil War
Date: December 14, 2022
Speaker: Bill McEachern
Subject: Wade Hampton
Date: November 9, 2022
Speaker: Gerridine LaRovere
Subject: The Life, the Myth, and
Politics of Thomas Nast
Date: October 12, 2022
Speaker: Janell Bloodworth
Subject: Clara Barton
Date: September 14, 2022
Speaker: Craig Freis
Subject:
The original Winfield Scott to Ben Butler letter
Date: August 10, 2022
Speaker: Adam Katz
Subject: Battle of Ball’s Bluff
Date: April 8, 2020
Speaker: Peppy Lizza
Subject: Civil War Music
Date: March 11, 2020
Speaker: Patrick Falci
Subject: Lee's Forgotten General at the Battle of Gettysburg
Date: February 12, 2020
Speaker: Chuck Riley and Gerridine LaRovere
Subject: Was W.W. Strickland a traitor, patriot, deserter, or
collaborator?
Date: January 8, 2020
Speaker: Adam Katz
Subject: Strong Presence of Baseball During the Civil War
Date: December 11, 2019
Speaker: Robert Macomber
Subject: Grog, the most famous drink afloat
Date: November 13, 2019
Speaker: Robert Schuldenfrei
Subject: In Judgement of Ben Butler
Date: April 10, 2019
Speaker: Charles Riley
Subject:
The
Battle of Olustee
Date: March 13, 2019
Speaker: Patrick Falci
Subject: Generals and their War Horses
Date: February 13, 2019
Speaker: David Meisky
Subject: Civil War officers who served in
Florida
Date: January 9, 2019
Speaker: Joe Truglio
Subject: John Milton Chivington - Hero of Glorieta
Pass, Butcher of Sand Creek
Date: December 12, 2018
Speaker: Robert Macomber
Subject: The Crucial Role of Key West in the
Civil War
Date: November 7, 2018
Speaker: Peppy Lizza
Subject:
Haunted Battlefields
Date: October 10, 2018
Speaker: Janell Bloodworth & Gerridine
LaRovere
Subject: Dr. Samuel Mudd & Elizabeth Dickenson
Date: September 12, 2018
No meeting in September.
Date: August 8, 2018
Speaker: Marshall Krolick
Subject: The Boy General
Date: July 11, 2018
Speaker: Peppy Lizza
Subject: Civil War Music
Date: June 13, 2018
Speaker: Cynthia "Cindy" Morrison
Subject: Teamsters and Wagoneers
Date: May 9, 2018
Speaker: Cynthia "Cindy" Morrison
Subject: Custer's Last Stand
Date: April 11, 2018
Speaker: Gerridine LaRover & Janell
Bloodworth
Subject: Mary Lee & Emilie Todd Helm
Date: March 14, 2018
Speaker: Jack Davis
Subject: The General in Love, The story of General
Gabriel C. Wharton's CSA courtship and marriage.
Date: February 14, 2018
Speaker: David Meisky
Subject: The Governor's Odyssey: William
'Extra Billy' Smith and the Fall of the Confederacy
Date: January 10, 2018
Speaker: Gerridine LaRovere
Subject: A Tour of Washington, D.C. during the
Civil War
Date: December 13, 2017
Speaker: Robert Macomber
Subject: Blood Money: The Caribbean's Crucial
Role In The Civil War
Date: November 8, 2017
Speaker: Robert Krasner
Subject: Rutherford B. Hayes and the 23rd
Ohio.
Date: October 11, 2017
Speaker:
William McEachern
Subject:
The Break Though: The Fall of the Confederacy.
Date: September 13, 2017
Speaker: TBD
Subject: TBD
Date: August 9, 2017
Speaker: LTC (Ret.) Harold Knudsen
Subject: Modern War Methods of General James
Longstreet
Date: July 12, 2017
Speaker:
Josh Liller
Subject: The Civil War and Lighthouses
Date: June 14, 2017
Speaker:
Philip Leigh
Subject: Southern Reconstruction
Date: May 10, 2017
Speaker: Members of the CWRT
Subject: Fascinating Facts About President's Who
Served in the Civil War
Date: April 12, 2017
Speaker:
Marshall Krolick
Subject: Brandy Station
Date: March 8, 2017
Speaker:
Patrick Falci
Subject:
The Making of the Movie Gettysburg
Date: February 8, 2017
Speaker:
David Meisky
Subject: Confederate money
Date: January 11, 2017
Speaker:
Joseph Rose
Subject: Grant Under Fire: An Exposé of
Generalship & Character in the American Civil War
Date: December 14, 2016
Speaker:
Robert Macomber
Subject:
Confederate Generals in Union Blue -33 years later
Date: November 9, 2016
Speaker:
Robert Krasner
Subject:
"Stonewall Jackson - Military Genius?"
Date: October 12, 2016
Speaker: No meeting in October
Subject:
Date: September 14, 2016
Speaker:
CWRT
Members
Subject:
What was going on in other countries 1856 - 1866
Date: August 10, 2016
Speaker:
William McEachern
Subject:
Robert E. Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg
Date: July 13, 2016
Speaker:
William B. Hines
Subject:
Civil War Transportation
Date: June 8, 2016
Speaker: Josh Liller
Subject:
The Civil War in the Indian River area
Date: May 11, 2016
Speaker: Robert Schuldenfrei
Subject:
Sherman at Shiloh
Date: April 13, 2016
Speaker: Ben Salata
Subject:
Teaching to the Test - Presenting the War of Rebellion to the Public
Date: March 9, 2016
Speaker: Patrick Falci (who portrays A. P. Hill)
Subject: The Man in the Red Battle Shirt
Date: February 10, 2016
Speaker: Gerridine LaRovere
Subject: A Taste of the Civil War
Date: January 13, 2016
Speaker: William Hines
Subject: The Union Navy
Date: December 9, 2015
Speaker: Robert Macomber
Subject: Joint Army-Navy Civil War Operations On The FL Gulf Coast & The
Two Men Who Made It Work
Date: November 11, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Ralph Levey
Subject:
1860: Year of the Party of No Compromise or How to Lose an Election
Date: October 14, 2015
Speaker: Robert Krasner
Subject: The Presidency of U.S. Grant and his Round the World Voyage
Date: September 9, 2015
Speaker: Craig Freis
Subject: Discussion from actual period newspapers
Date: August 12, 2015
Speaker: Gerridine LaRovere
Subject: Vinnie Ream, Talented Sculptress or Wily Temptress
Date: July 08, 2015
Speaker: Eliot Kleinberg
Subject: Civil War Florida
Date: June 10, 2015
Speaker: Janell Bloodworth
Subject: John Brown
Date: May 13, 2015
Speaker: Gene Cross
Subject:
Letter's Home, Three Years under General Lee in the 6th Alabama Infantry
Regiment
Date: April 08, 2015
Speaker: Stephen Singer
Subject:
Southern Guerillas: Quantrill, Anderson, and the James Brothers
Date: March 11, 2015
Speaker: Robert O'Neill
Subject: JEB Stuart's Christmas Raid
Date: February 11, 2015
Speaker: Robert Schuldenfrei
Subject:
T-Mails, The Telegraph and Battle Management
Date: January 14, 2015
Speaker: Steven Stanley
Subject: Mapping the Civil War
Date: December 10, 2014
Speaker: Robert Macomber
Subject: The global aspects of the American Civil War
Date: November 12, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Francis Ducoin
Subject: The Men of the Monitor
Date: October 8, 2014
Speaker: Monroe Ackerman
Subject: The first 40 days of Lincoln's Presidency".
Date: September 10, 2014
Speaker: Robert Krasner
Subject: Confederate Metal of Honor
Date: August 13, 2014
Speaker: Janelle Bloodworth
Subject: Three Civil War Human Interest Stories
Date: July 9, 2014
Speaker: Stephen Seftenberg
Subject: Battle of Shiloh
Date: June 11, 2014
Speaker: Chris Freis
Subject: A collection of New York Times newspapers from 1855-65
Date: May 14, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Gordon & Douglas Dammann
Subject: Civil War medicine & Museum in Kenosha, WI
Date: April 09, 2014
Speaker: Robert Altman
Subject: Veterinary medicine
Date: March 12, 2014
Speaker: "Bud" Robertson
Subject: The Untold Civil War
Date: February 12, 2014
Speaker: Larry Hewitt
Subject:
Civil War Myths and Mythmakers
Date: January 08, 2014
Speakers: William McEachem and Gerridine LaRovere
Subject: An interview with Daniel Sickle, a man of many attributes.
Date: December 11, 2013
Speaker: Robert Macomber
Subject: TBD
Date: November 13, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Francis Ducoin
Subject: Forensic Work on USS Monitor
Date: October 9, 2013
Speaker: Richard Adams
Subject: West Point Class of 1861
Date: September 11, 2013
Speaker: Janell Bloodworth
Subject: Emilie Todd Helm, Lincoln's sister in law
Date: August 14, 2013
Speaker: Steve Seftenberg
Subject: Red River Campaign
Date: July 10, 2013
Speaker: Panel
Subject: "inQUIZative" about the Civil War.
Date: June 12, 2013
Speaker: Bob Watson
Subject: TBD
Date: May 8, 2013
Speaker: Janell Bloodworth
Subject: Nuns in the Civil War
Date: April 10, 2013
Speaker: Donna Adair
Subject: An American Odyssey
Date: March 13, 2013
Speaker: Christian Davenport
Subject:
Florida at the time of the Civil War
Date: February 13, 2013
Speaker: Sherry Bruce
Subject:
My Brother, My Son
Date: January 9, 2013
Speaker: Robert Schuldenfrei
Subject:
The Trials of Lew Wallace
Date: December 12, 2012
Speaker: Robert Macomber
Subject:
TBD
Date: November 14, 2012
Speaker: Marshall Krolick
Subject:
Lee and Longstreet at Gettysburg
Date: October 10, 2012
Speaker: Bill McEachern
Subject:
Hampton Legion: Hebrides, History, and Hampton the Man
Date: September 12, 2012
Speaker: Stephen Singer
Subject:
George
Custer after the War
Date: August 8, 2012
Speaker:
Rodney Dillon
Subject:
Bringing the Civil War to Palm Beach County
Date: July 11, 2012
Speaker: Monroe Ackerman
Subject:
Civil
War Diplomacy
Date: June 13, 2012
Speaker: Marsha Sonnenblick
Subject:
Jews
and the Civil War
Date: May 9, 2012
Speaker: Judge Nelson Bailey
Subject:
TBD
Date: April 11, 2012
Speaker: Robert Schuldenfrei
Subject:
Out
of Thin Air, the Story of Southern Logistics.
Date: March 14, 2012
Speaker: Marshall Krolick
Subject:
Riding
for the Union: Memoirs of the 8th Illinois Cavalry.
Date: February 8, 2012
Speaker: Frank O'Reilly
Subject:
Park
Service Historian
Date: January 11, 2012
Speaker:
Chris Kolakowski
Subject:
Patton
Foundation Museum
Date: December 14, 2011
Speaker: Robert Macomber
Subject:
"The Forgotten
Cousin." It's about Alexander Semmes, cousin of the legendary Raphael
Semmes of the CSN.
Date: November 9, 2011
Speaker:
Professor Steve Engle
Subject:
Abraham Lincoln's Crisis of Federalism
Date: October 12, 2011
Speaker: Margie Yansura
Subject: My Grandfather, Union foot soldier. Note: Margie's
grandfather was 79 when her mother was born!
Date: September 14, 2011
Speaker: Bill McEachern & Gerridine LaRovere
Subject: David Davis
Date: August 10, 2011
Speaker: Ed Palmer
Subject: My Great Great Grandfather, a soldier at age 45
Date: July 13, 2011
Speaker: Monroe Ackerman
Subject: Stephen A. Douglas
Date: June 8, 2011
Speaker: Bill McEachern
Subject: "Civil War Reflections" by James I Robertson
Date: May 11, 2011
Speaker: Camille Granda
Subject:
Civil War Through the Eyes of the Ordinary Soldier
Date: April 13, 2011
Speaker: Rodney Dillon
Subject:
Moses, Abraham, Murder, and Atlanta
Date: March 9, 2011
Speaker: Marshall Krolick
Subject: The Common Soldier and the Civil War.
Date: February 9, 2011
Speaker: Member panel
Subject: This week in Civil War History; February 9, 1864
Date: January 12, 2011
Speaker: Frank
A. O'Reilly
Subject:
Battle of Fredericksburg
Date: December 8, 2010
Speaker: Robert Macomber & Holiday Party
Subject: TBA
Date: November 10, 2010
Speaker: Stephen Seftenberg
Subject:
"'The Peoria Speech' and Abraham Lincoln's rise to national prominence."
Date: October 13, 2010
Speaker:
Eliot Kleinberg staff Writer Palm Beach Post
Subject: Florida
history and the Civil War
Date: September 15, 2010
Speaker: The "Widow" Clark
Subject: Living history, southern mourning customs
Date: August 11, 2010
Speaker: Our membership
Subject: History quiz
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