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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....on October 16
This month’s speaker is Dan Masters
Dan will be presenting him with the 2026 Albert Castel Award for his book on the Stones River Campaign Hell By The Acre.Dan spoke to us in May 2025 on Stones River, so this month, in addition to saying a little about his book, he will give a talk on "Drunk or Diabetic: The Misadventures of General Sam Sturgis at Brice's Crossroads"
October 16th
1859 - In Harpers Ferry, Virginia, abolitionist John Brown led a small group on a raid against an arsenal.
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln appointed General Ulysses S. Grant to command all operations in the western theater.
1864 - Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest began moving part of his force to Johnsonville, Tennessee. Most of his men were not in place until early November. On November 4, Forrest began attacked the Union supply base at Johnsonville.
U.S. Civil War Quote:
"Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books."
- Walt Whitman
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.