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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 November 20th
This month’s speaker is Claire Herhold
Director of Education at the Historical Society of Michigan, returns to the KCWRT to present a program on “Art of the American Civil War.”
November 9th
1861 - Soldiers of the 11th, 18th and 29th Illinois Regiments camped in Bloomfield, Missouri. The used an empty newspaper office to print a newspaper about their activities. They named the paper the Stars and Stripes.
1862 - General Ambrose Burnside assumed command of the Union Army of the Potomac. General George B. McClellan had been removed from command on November 5. He served until January 25th when General Joseph Hooker took the position.
U.S. Civil War Quote:
"I never felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper."
- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln commented about signing the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.
KCWRT Activities
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
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
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.