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 6:30 PM. Membership is open to the
general public.
Note change in meeting time to 6:30 PM. The Library has changed its
closing time to 8 PM requiring the change in meeting time.
September's Speaker
MONTHLY MEETING NOTICE
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 6:30 PM
Chris Mackowski
"The Battle of Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle"
Join us for the next meeting of the Williamsburg Civil War Roundtable
at 6:30 PM on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, at the Williamsburg Regional
Library Theatre. The presentation will also be carried via Zoom. Details
will follow in the meeting announcement later this month.
On Tuesday September 28, 2021, Chris Mackowski will present “The Battle
of Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle”. For twenty-two straight hours, in
torrential downpours, up to their knees in mud and blood, Federals and
Confederates slugged it out in the most intense sustained hand-to-hand
combat of the war. A panopoly of horror, one soldier called it. A
Saturnalia of blood. Hell’s Half-Acre. The slaughter pen of
Spotsylvania. Most remember it simply as the Bloody Angle.
Chris Mackowski, Ph.D., is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of
Emerging Civil War. He is the series editor of the award-winning Emerging
Civil War Series, published by Savas Beatie, and the “Engaging the
Civil War” Series, published in partnership with Southern Illinois
University Press. Chris is a writing professor in the Jandoli School of
Communication at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, NY, where he
also serves as associate dean for undergraduate programs. Chris is also
historian-in-residence at
Stevenson Ridge, a historic property on the Spotsylvania battlefield
in central Virginia. He has also worked as a historian for the National
Park Service 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. Chris has authored
or co-authored a dozen books on the Civil War, and his articles have
appeared in all the major Civil War magazines. Chris serves on the board
of directors for the Central Virginia
Battlefields Trust and the advisory board of the
Civil War Roundtable Congress.
For a listing of his publications, click
here.
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)