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: This Month the meeting will be held on the 3rd Tuesday
MONTHLY
MEETING NOTICE
Tuesday,
October 21, 2025,
at 6:30 PM
Owen Lanier
“Big
Guns In The Tidewater: Yorktown's 1862 Siege"
Join us on Tuesday, October 21st for the meeting of the Williamsburg Civil War Roundtable, commencing at 6:30 PM in the Williamsburg Regional Library Theatre. The library is located at 515 Scotland Street in Williamsburg.
Fellow Members and Friends,
Feather Foster has regretfully advised that she must cancel her
presentation. She advised that she had knee replacement surgery on
October 6 and will not be sufficiently recovered or mobile by the
October 21 meeting date.
Please join me in expressing our collective best wishes for a successful
recovery. We’ll continue to keep Feather in our prayers.
While our current schedule for this season is fixed, we’re hopeful that
we will be able to schedule her program next year.
Short notice notwithstanding, we’re pleased to welcome young Owen Lanier
to share his presentation about the actions that took place in Yorktown
during the Spring of 1862.
On
Tuesday October 21st, Owen Lanier will present “Big Guns in
the Tidewater: Yorktown's 1862 Siege”
To
halt Maj. Gen. McClellan's march up the peninsula toward Richmond,
Confederate Maj. Gen. Magruder built three dams to create impassable
lakes on the Warwick River and fortified the dams to prevent frontal
assaults by Union forces during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign. Gloucester
Point and Yorktown were transformed into a proverbial "Gibraltar of the
Confederacy." Explore the photographs, people, and events that made up
an often overlooked chapter of the American Civil War.
Owen Lanier graduated from Gettysburg College as a David Wills Scholar.
With his social media account CivilWarFiles, Owen has researched and
written about his own family history, and that of many other Americans,
for an audience of more than ten thousand. As an independent researcher
in Yorktown, Owen has written articles for the Emerging Civil War Blog
and the American Battlefield Trust. Most recently, he was published in
the Center for Civil War Photography’s Battlefield Photographer magazine
for his discoveries surrounding a series of photographs taken at
Cornwallis Cave in 1862. Now an employee of York County’s Economic &
Tourism Development office, Owen enjoys encouraging visitation to
Yorktown, a crucial town in American history.
Avoid long lines at the October meeting to sign-up for this season's membership. Print the membership form here and mail or bring to the October meeting..