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Volume XLIV Number 7 March 26, 2019
Ryan Quint
“Determined to Stand and Fight - The
Battle of Monocacy on July 9, 1864”
Join us for the next meeting of the Williamsburg
Civil War Roundtable at the Williamsburg Public
Library Theatre at 7 PM on Tuesday, March 26, 2019
On Tuesday March 26, Ryan Quint will present
“Determined to Stand and Fight – The Battle of
Monocacy on July 9, 1864”.
In early July 1864, a quickly patched together force
of outnumbered Union soldiers under the command of
Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace prepared for a last-ditch
defense along the banks of the Monocacy River.
Behind them, barely fifty miles away, lay the
capital of the United States, open to attack. Facing
Wallace’s men were Lt. Gen. Jubal Early’s
Confederates. In just under a month, they had
cleared the Shenandoah Valley of Union soldiers and
crossed the Potomac River, invading the north for
the third time in the war. The veterans in Early’s
force could almost imagine their flags flying above
the White House. A Confederate victory near
Washington could be all the pro-peace platforms in
the north needed to defeat Abraham Lincoln in the
upcoming election.
What followed, the Battle of Monocacy, came to be
known as “The Battle that Saved Washington.” Ryan
Quint will tell the story of the fight through the
words of those who lived it, using contemporary
accounts and photographs to reveal the determined
fighting that took place through the hot hours of
July 9, 1864.
Ryan Quint graduated from the University of Mary
Washington with a degree in history. He worked as a
seasonal park guide at the Fredericksburg &
Spotsylvania National Military Park before moving to
work at as an interpreter for the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation. His first book Determined
to Stand and Fight: The Battle of Monocacy, July 9,
1864, was published in 2017 by Savas Beatie as part
of their award-winning Emerging Civil War Series. He
is currently at work on a second book about the
Battle of Dranesville.
Last Month
Dr, Jonathon White presented “The Amazing,
Awe-Inspiring (and Possibly Salacious) Life of
Abraham Lincoln”. His talk will explore Abraham
Lincoln's early life, from his birth in a log cabin
in Kentucky through his young adulthood. It
will examine various aspects of his experiences as a
child and young adult, including his education,
work, travel, family, and romance. By
exploring who Lincoln was as a young man, we can
better understand how he became a president who led
the Union through the Civil War.
Jonathan W. White is associate professor of American
Studies at Christopher Newport University, where he
has taught since 2009. He is the author or
editor of eight books, including Abraham Lincoln and
Treason in the Civil War: The Trials of John
Merryman (2011), and Emancipation, the Union Army,
and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln (2014), which
was a finalist for both the Lincoln Prize and
Jefferson Davis Prize, a “best book” in Civil War
Monitor, and the winner of the Abraham Lincoln
Institute’s 2015 book prize. He has published
more than one hundred articles, essays and reviews,
and is the winner of the 2005 John T. Hubbell Prize
for the best article in Civil War History, the 2010
Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize, and the 2012 Thomas
Jefferson Prize for his Guide to Research in Federal
Judicial History (2010). He serves as vice chair of
the Lincoln Forum, president of the Abraham Lincoln
Institute, and on the boards of the Abraham Lincoln
Association and the John L. Nau III Center for Civil
War History at the University of Virginia. He also
serves on the Ford’s Theatre Advisory Council and
the editorial board of the Pennsylvania Magazine of
History and Biography. In 2017, C-SPAN invited him
to participate in its survey of presidential
leadership. His most recent books include
Lincoln on Law, Leadership and Life (2015); Midnight
in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the
Civil War (2017), which was selected as a “best
book” by Civil War Monitor; and “Our Little
Monitor”: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War
(2018), which he co-authored with Anna Gibson
Holloway. In 2019 he will publish College Life
During the Civil War (Kent State University Press)
with his student, Daniel Glenn. He is
presently writing a biography of a convicted slave
trader named Appleton Oaksmith. Check out his
website at
http://www.jonathanwhite.org/ or follow him on
Twitter at @CivilWarJon
2018-2019 Officers of WCWRT:
President: Bill Miller
Vice-President: Lee Underwood
Secretary:
Gene Danko
Treasurer: George Callis
The Executive Committee consists of the elected
officers, the immediate past president and other
members appointed by the incoming president. Those
members include
Debbie Bedosti,.Tom Lamb, and Terri Teopke.
Upcoming Meetings and Speakers
- April 23, 2019 - Edward Alexander: “Breaking Through to the Other Side – Petersburg, April 2, 1865”
- May 28, 2019 - Bert Dunkerly: “To the Bitter End: The Surrenders of the Confederacy”
Special Events
- February 11 - May 24, 2019 - American Civil War Museum calendar of events details
- February 15 - April 18, 2019 - UVA Nau Center for Civil War History events calendar details
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March 2019
- John NAU Center March events
details
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March 23, 2019
- Bermuda Hundred Campaign at PBF
details
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March-April, 2019
- Mosby Association Bus Tours
details
June 14 - 19, 2019 - Civil War Institute summer conference at Gettysburg College details schedule
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