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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 6th
1862 - In Tennessee, General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Henry. It was the first major Union victory.
1865 - Confederate General John Pegram was killed at the Battle of Dabney's Mill, Virginia.
1865 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis selected John C. Breckinridge to be Secretary of War.
U.S. Civil War Quote:
"It's bad. It's damned bad."
- Abraham Lincoln's first reaction to the Union Army's rout at First Manassas
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.