Meeting Dates
The organization meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month September through May. Meetings are held in the Williamsburg Regional Library Theatre located at 515 Scotland St in Williamsburg, VA, unless otherwise posted. The meetings begin at 7 PM. Membership is open to the general public.
September's Speaker
MONTHLY MEETING NOTICE
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 7 PM
Chris Makowski
"The Battle of Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle"
Join us for the next meeting of the Williamsburg Civil War Roundtable
at 7 PM on Tuesday, September 28, 2021.
On Tuesday September 28, 2021, Chris Makowski will present “The Battle
of Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle”
Chris Mackowski, Ph.D. is a professor of journalism and mass
communication at St. Bonaventure University. He also works as a
historian at Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, where
he gives tours at four major Civil War battlefields (Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania), as well as at the
building where Stonewall Jackson died. With Kris White, he is co-founder
of Emerging Civil War. Together, they have co-authored Season of
Slaughter: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House; Simply Murder: The
Battle of Fredericksburg; The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson; Grant’s
Last Battle: The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant;
and Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second
Fredericksburg and Salem Church. He’s also written books on the battles
of Wilderness and Chancellorsville.
Chris Mackowski visited a few sites at Petersburg National Battlefield for a series of videos.
Doug Crenshaw and Bert Dunkerly's new book "Embattled Capital", A guide to Richmond During the Civil War. link to publisher
Previous Zoom Meeting Presentations
September 21, 2020 - Kevin Pawlak presented "Robert E. Lee Defends the Confederate High Water
Mark at Sharpsburg" (view presentation -
73 minutes)
Kevin can be reached at
https://antietamguides.com/antietam-guides/antietam-battlefield-guides/kevin-pawlak/
November 24, 2020 - Scott Mingus presented "Flames
Beyond Gettysburg - The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna
River - June 1863
(View
presentation - 85 minutes)
December 8, 2020 - Ken Rutherford presented "America's
Buried History - Landmines in The Civil War".
View
presentation - 66 minutes
January 26, 2021 - Steve Phan presented "The Capital
Can't Be Taken! The Civil War Defense of Washington"
View presentation
February 16, 2021 - Dr. Thomas G. Clemens presented
“Special Orders 191 - Myths, Misconceptions and Facts Related to Lee's
Lost Orders”.
A map of the Antietam campaign and special orders 191 are on our website
at http://www.wcwrt.org/so191.jpg
and
www.wcwrt.org/Antietam-Campaign-3-to-17-1862-June.jpg. Please
download both. Video link is
wcwrt.org/zoom/feb21-clemens.mp4
-For best viewing of entire presentation, fast forward video to 5:24
minutes
March 16, 2021 - Michael Block presented the battle of
Cedar Mountan, August 9, 1862. Video link of presentation is
wcwrt.org/zoom/mar21-Block.mp4
- 93 minutes
April 27,2021 - Chris Kolakowski presented
"Perspectives of The 1862 Virginia Campaigns".
view
presentation - 63 minutes
Visit the American Battlefield Trust site to view animated Peninsula Campaign map
Visit the Williamsburg Battlefield Association (view
newsletter)
(http://www.williamsburgbattlefieldassociation.org/)
(https://www.facebook.com/WilliamsburgBattlefieldAssociation)