The Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meetings

Date: December 9, 1954 Moderator: E. B. ‘Pete’ Long Speakers: Monroe F. Crockrell M. Kenneth McIntyre and  Lloyd A. Miller Subject: “’Stonewall’ Jackson in 1862” Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

Date: November 19, 1954 Speakers: Professor Harold Melvin Hyman Subject: “Lincoln’s McCarthy: John F. Potter Of Wisconsin” Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

Date: October 1954 Speakers: Hartnett T. Kane & Louis M. Starr Subject: “Spies for the Blue & the Gray” (Hartnett) “Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Newsmen in Action” (Starr) Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

Date: May 15, 1954 Speaker: Bell Irvin Wiley Topic: “ The Trail of the C.S.A.: Research on the History of the Confederacy ” Professor Wiley offers a brief critique of various Confederate leaders who served the Southern cause during the rebellion years of 1861 – 1865. Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

Date: May 14, 1954 Speaker: T. Harry Williams Topic: “ Beauregard at Shiloh ” Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

Date: March 19, 1954 Speaker: T. Harry Williams Topic: “ A Pattern Of A Historian: A Critical Discussion of Douglas Southall Freeman And His Biography of Robert E. Lee ” Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

Date: February 19, 1954 Speakers: Panel Discussion Topic: “Has the Lincoln Theme Been Exhausted: A Reappraisal” Speakers include Ralph Newman, Harry Pratt, E. B. ‘Pete’ Long, William Herzog, Ralph Korngold, Joe Eisendrath, Jr., Seymour Frank, Don Russell, Elmer Gertz, Abe Geldhoff, Harold Eisenstein, Jacob Logan Fox, Marshall Rissman, and M. Kenneth McIntyre. The discussion is dedicated as a memor...

Date: January 14, 1954 Speaker: Robert Browne Topic: “ Brice’s Crossroads: A Study in Military Leadership ” Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

Date: June 12, 1953 Speaker: Bernard Weisberger Topic: “Reporters for the Union” Running Time: 42:13

Date: April 30, 1953 Speaker: Bruce Catton Topic: “The Battle of Five Forks & Gen’l Sheridan’s Indictment of Gen’l Warren” Running Time: 1:24:35

Date: May 7, 1953 Speaker: Charles E. Hatch, Jr. Topic: “The Two Sieges of Yorktown: During the Revolutionary War and Civil War periods”

Date: May 7, 1953 Speaker: Douglas Southall Freeman Topic: “The Five Problems of Critique For the Civil War Historian” Running Time: 42:13

Date: January 16, 1953 Speaker: Harry Hershenson Topic: “Thaddeus Stevens: A Thorn in Lincoln’s Side” Running Time: 2:00:52

Date: November 17, 1952 Speaker: Benjamin P. Thomas Topic: “Mr. Lincoln Reads His Mail” Running Time: 75:29 Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

Date: October 17, 1952 Speaker: William H. Townsend Subject: “Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Lion of Whitehall” President: Elmer Gertz Meeting: 116th Regular CWRT Meeting Running Time: 77:24 Comments from Barbara Hughett’s book: October 17, 1952 is a special date in Round Table history. Colonel Wm. H. Townsend, who had spoken to the group at Lincoln Memorial University during that first battlefield t...

Sept 1952 - Norman Fitzgerald on The Campaign of Mobile - The Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly Meeting

May 1952 Lloyd Miller - The Unions Left Flank at Gettysburg, July 2nd 1863 Chicago Civil War Round Table May 1952 Meeting.

June 1952 - Otto Eisenschiml on Gettysburg - Chicago Civil War Round Table Dr Eisenschiml talk to the Chicago Civil War Round Table during their yearly Battlefield tour.

These talks were given on the CWRT’s first battlefield tour of Gettysburg, Antietam, and Harper’s Ferry. Bruce Catton delivered a short talk at the Gettysburg College with preceding remarks delivered by college dignitaries at that time. Catton’s talk is titled: “ The Army of the Potomac: A Problem in Command .”  Total Time: 79:12

April 1952 - E.B. Pete Long on US Grant, The Man Behind the Memories - Chicago Civil War Round Table Monthly MeetingDate: April 11, 1952 Speaker: E. B. ‘Pete’ Long Subject: “ U.S. Grant, the ManBehind the Memoirs ”

Feb 1952 Chicago Civil War Round Table meeting Speaker: Raymond Dooley Subject: “ Abraham Lincoln, Logan County, Lincoln, Illinois ” Dooley’s talk is complete. Lincoln’s relationship to Logan County, Lincoln, Illinois. Lincoln was a surveyor, friend, and lawyer to Logan County. Logan County was established on February 5, 1839 and it was named after Dr. John Logan, a good friend of Lincoln’s.

Jan 1952 - Elmer Gertz on Charles A Dana: the Eyes of the Government at the Front - Chicago Civil War Roundtable Meeting

Ralph Korngold was an active member of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago at the time he delivered his secession talk before the Round Table group. It is very difficult to follow Mr. Korngold because the sound is muted and English is a second language for Mr. Korngold. Even though his word pronunciations are technically correct, the listener must focus carefully on every word. Even then, he is v...

Date: November 2, 1951 Speaker: Major General Jim Dan Hill Subject: “ The Red River Campaign ” Time: 1 hr/ 01 min’s/ 03 sec’s President: Seymour J. Frank 107thRegular Chicago CWRT Meeting Transfer Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2004 The beginning of the talk is broken up. That is because when we recorded from the reel-to-reel to audio-cassette, the emulsion on the reel tape began peeling away because...

this is the very first time the Chicago CWRT meeting had ever been recorded. E. B. Long (Bruce Catton's fact-man) brought a reel-to-reel tape recorder to this meeting, turned it on and various members have been recording ever since. The quality of this recording suffers, due in part to the manner in which it was stored over the years and the quality of magnetic tape available to consumers in 1951....