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.
May's Speaker
MONTHLY MEETING NOTICE
September 26, 2023 at 6:30 PM
Hampton Newsome:
“Gettysburg’s Second Front: Union Opportunity and Failure at
Richmond"
Please join us on September 26th 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 September 26, 2023,Hampton Newsome's presentation covers the
little-known Federal offensive against Richmond during the Gettysburg
Campaign – the subject of Mr. Newsome’s book Gettysburg’s Southern
Front. Sometimes referred to as the Blackberry Raid, the operation was
led by John Dix and provided a significant opportunity by U.S. forces to
threaten the Confederate capital and damage Lee’s operation in
Pennsylvania.
Hampton Newsome is author of several books on the Civil War
including Richmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October
1864, published by Kent State University Press in 2012 and recognized as
a best book of the year by the Civil War Monitor magazine; and The Fight
for the Old North State: The Civil War in North Carolina, January-May
1864, which was published in 2019 by the University Press of Kansas and
received the Emerging Civil War Book Award and the Richard Barksdale
Harwell Award from the Atlanta Civil War Roundtable. His most recent
title is Gettysburg’s Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at
Richmond. Also published by University Press of Kansas, this new title
has received the Edwin C. Bearss Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship
from the Chicago Civil War Roundtable as well as the Emerging Civil War
2023 Book of the Year.
Michael Block, a member of the WCWRT interviewed about his new book. read
American Battlefield Trust presents "Head-Tilting History: Bushnell’s Turtle, A Revolutionary Submarine" view
American Civil War Museum upcoming events view
NAU Center programs view
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)