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Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table
Dedicated to preserving the History and Stories of The American Civil War
The next KCWRT Meeting....February 20
Evan Kutzler
is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southwestern University. He is the author (with photographer Jill Stuckey) of Ossabaw Island: A Sense of Place.
He will look at “The U.S. Soldier's Lived Experience at Andersonville“
February 20th
1862 - Willie Lincoln, one of U.S. President Lincoln's sons, died from typhoid fever.
1864 - In Florida, Confederate forces under General Joseph Finegan defeated an army led by Union General Truman Seymour. The Confederates kept control of Florida for the rest of the war. (Battle of Olustee)
1864 - Union General William T. Sherman left Meridian, Mississippi, and headed for Vicksburg. He had waited five days for Union General William Sooy Smith to arrive. Smith never reached Meridian after being defeated by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and forced to return to Memphis.
1865 - Union General William T. Sherman's army left Columbia, South Carolina. Soldiers under Sherman had begun ransacking the city three days earlier.
U.S. Civil War Quote:
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present...fellow citizens, we cannot escape history...The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union...In giving freedom to the slave, we ensure freedom to the free--honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth."
- U.S. President Lincoln, the last paragraph of his State of the Union address on December 1, 1862.
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.