.png/:/rs=w:1353,h:410)
Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table
Dedicated to preserving the History and Stories of The American Civil War
The next KCWRT Meeting....January 16
Matt Zwart
Local Attorney and a Director of the Kalamazoo Abraham Lincoln Institue.
He will present a program on the Dakota Uprising in Minnesota in 1862.
December 15
1862 - In Fredericksburg, Virginia, a truce was called so that Union forces could collect their dead and wounded after a battle on December 13.
1863 - Confederate General Archibald Gracie, Jr. was wounded at the Battle of Bean's Station.
1864 - The Battle of Nashville, Tennessee, began. The Confederate Army under General John Bell Hood suffered a crushing defeat over two days.
U.S. Civil War Quote:
"I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it."
- Abraham Lincoln's self-criticism of his famous "Gettysburg Address"
KCWRT Activities
Albert Castel Book Award
Historical Preservation Efforts
Albert Castel Book Award
To stimulate new scholarship on the Civil War, every other year KCWRT presents the Albert Castel Book Award to the author of the best recent book on the Civil War in the Western Theater.
WMU History Day 2023
Historical Preservation Efforts
Albert Castel Book Award
To help promote local interest in the Civil War, KCWRT awards an annual prize for the best Civil War-related entry in the Kalamazoo District Michigan History Day Competition.
Historical Preservation Efforts
Historical Preservation Efforts
Historical Preservation Efforts
KCWRT has conducted fund raisers to support numerous preservation efforts over the years. Generally, this is in the form of a donation to a preservation fund organized to save a specific Civil War site from development.