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 6:30 PM. Membership is open to the
general public.
February's Speaker
MONTHLY MEETING NOTICE
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 6:30 PM
J. Michael Moore
"John Taylor Wood and The Rebel Horse Marine"
Please join us on Tuesday, March 28 for the meeting of the
Williamsburg Civil War Roundtable, commencing at 6:30 PM in the Theater
of the Williamsburg Regional Library. The library is located at 515
Scotland Street in Williamsburg.
The program will also be presented online via a Zoom link for our
members and friends near and far. The details for the Zoom link will be
provided by a follow-up announcement several days prior to meeting date.
On March 28,2023, J. Michael Moore will present “John
Taylor Wood and The Rebel Horse Marine".
Join historian J. Michael Moore for a lively discussion of John Taylor
Wood's career and exploits as one of the most successful Confederate
naval raiders. The Chesapeake Bay was a vital Union communication and
supply link from Washington, D.C. to Fort Monroe. With great ingenuity
and incredible forethought, Wood developed the “boats on wheels” concept
for attacking Union shipping. Wood earned the sobriquet of the Rebel
Horse Marine with a naval raiding career that was something out of the
action-adventure genre of fiction and foreshadowed the development of
commando and special operations warfare in the twentieth century."
J. Michael Moore is employed by the City of Newport News and serves as
curator for Lee Hall Mansion and Historic Endview. Moore received a
bachelor of arts in history from Christopher Newport University and a
master of arts in history from Old Dominion University. During his
tenure with the City, he has curated exhibits at several local historic
sites, developed historic signage, and led battlefield tours in
Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. Working with the
Virginia Department of Historic Resources, he has placed Causey’s Mill,
Endview Plantation, Lee’s Mill, and Whitaker’s Mill on the National
Register of Historic Places. In addition, Michael is a popular lecturer
for CNU’s LifeLong Learning Society. Moore has co-authored two books –
The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis in 2005 and
Yorktown’s Civil War Siege: Drums Along the Warwick in 2012. In
addition, he has served as the editor and photographic editor for twelve
books and written articles for Virginia Cavalcade, North & South,
Military Collector & Historian, and Mulberry Island Notes. In
recognition of his work in public history, the Governor of Kentucky
commissioned Moore a Kentucky Colonel in 2014. He is a Newport News
native and resides in Historic Yorktown.
Michael Block, a member of the WCWRT interviewed about his new book. read
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NAU Center For Civil War History newsletter
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Butch Barringer, a member of WCWRT, publishes new biography on Colonel Thomas Taylor Mumford, "Unhonored Service"
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)