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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....in September
This month’s speaker is
July 12th
1861 - The Confederacy completed treaties with the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes.
1862 - The Confederate ironclad Arkansas was completed and steered down the Yazoo and into the Mississippi. The ship lasted only 23 days before running aground and being blown up by the crew on August 6 to avoid capture.
1864 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln witnessed the battle where Union forces repelled Jubal Early's army on the outskirts of Washington, DC.
U.S. Civil War Quote:
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
- The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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.