Williamsburg Civil War Roundtable

The purpose of this organization shall be to promote discussion and study of the Civil War and to further stimulate interest in all aspects and phases of the Civil War period.

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..

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