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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.”
October 23rd
1864 - During a raid on Missouri, Confederate General Sterling Price's army was pinned between two Union forces at Westport, near Kansas City. (Battle of Westport, Missouri)
1864 - Union General Grant ordered parts of three army corps, commanded by Generals Winfield Hancock, Gouverneur K. Warren, and John Parke, to advance toward Confederat trenches along Hatcher's Run near Petersburg, Virginia. The goal was to cut the railroad supply line for the Confederates. On October 25, Union troops were turned back.
U.S. Civil War Quote:
"We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us."
- Abraham Lincoln on holding elections during a military emergency.
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.