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Speakers Schedule
2025
September:
6: Jon-Erik Gilot, “The Upper Ohio Valley and John Brown’s Raid,” Underground Railroad Museum, Flushing, OH
8: Curt Fields, The Northeast Indiana CWRT, Fort Wayne, IN
9: Curt Fields, President Grant will address his successes and failures, Civil War Round Table of Southwest Michigan, Saint Joseph, MI
10: Kevin C. Donovan, “The Court Martial of Fitz John Porter: Fair or Fixed?”, Jersey Shore CWRT, Toms River, NJ
11: Tonya McQuade, “A State Divided: The Civil War Letters of James Calaway Hale and Benjamin Petree of Andrew County, Missouri,” San Joaquin Valley CWRT in Clovis, CA
13: Chris Mackowski, Spotsylvania battlefield tour, Central Virginia Battlefields Trust tour
17: Joe Ricci, John Bell Hood and his postwar years, New Orleans (LA) Civil War Round Table
18: Chris Mackowski, “The Rise of Stonewall Jackson,” Hampton Roads Civil War Roundtable, Virginia Beach
18: Neil P. Chatelain, “Unpacking the Civil War’s Most Misunderstood Naval Engagement: The Head of Passes, October 12, 1861,” 2025 McMullen Naval History Symposium, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.
19–21: Curt Fields, Van Raalte Farm Civil War Muster, Holland, MI
23: Curt Fields, General Grant and General Pemberton (Morgan Gates) will discuss the siege and surrender of Vicksburg, CWRT Congress’s Giving Tuesday event @ 7 p.m. EDT/4 p.m. PDT (Please join us and contribute to the cause of the CWRT Congress and the American Battlefield Trust!)
24: Chris Mackowski, “Stonewall Jackson’s Greatest Hits,” Buffalo (NY) Civil War Roundtable
23: Kevin Pawlak, “Antietam Endgame,” Williamsburg CWRT
25: Derek Maxfield, Gettysburg CWRT, Gettysburg, PA
27: Curt Fields, The National Society of Dames of the Court of Honor Annual National Conference, Little Rock, AR
27: Tim Talbott, “We Look Like Men of War: USCTs and the Richmond–Petersburg Campaign of 1864-65,” 161st Anniversary of the Battle of New Market Heights event to be held at the Varina Ruritan Club
October:
4–5: Curt Fields, Dover (TN) Relic Show
8: Chris Mackowski, “A Tempest of Iron and Lead: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House,” Lynchburg (VA) CWRT
14: Curt Fields, General Grant and General Beauregard (Larry McCluney, Jr.) will discuss their “meeting” at Shiloh, CWRT Congress’s Giving Tuesday event @ 7 p.m. EDT/4 p.m. PDT (Please join us and contribute to the cause of the CWRT Congress and the American Battlefield Trust!)
15: Kevin C. Donovan, “The Court Martial of Fitz John Porter: Fair or Fixed?” York CWRT, York, PA
15: Curt Fields, “Unconditional Surrender”: The Book, Civil War Talks Zoom program (open to the public)
16: Derek Maxfield, Miami CWRT (virtual)
18: Curt Fields, “Grant Speaks,” Georgetown, OH
18: Tonya McQuade, “A State Divided: The Civil War Letters of James Calaway Hale and Benjamin Petree of Andrew County, Missouri,” San Diego CWRT in San Diego, CA
20: Daniel Welch, “Battle of Secessionville,” Inland Empire Civil War Round Table, (Virtual)
21: Curt Fields, Grant in the Western Theatre, Twin Cities CWRT, Eden Prairie, MN (on the new telegraph of ZOOM)
21: Tonya McQuade, “A State Divided: The Civil War Letters of James Calaway Hale and Benjamin Petree of Andrew County, Missouri,” Peninsula CWRT in Redwood City, CA
24: Curt Fields, “Remembering Sam Clemens,” Civil War Roundtable Congress, “Fridays with Grant” (on the new telegraph of ZOOM)
25: Madeline Feierstein, “”St. Elizabeths Asylum: Civil War Care at the Hospital for the Insane,” Lee-Fendall House Museum, Alexandria, VA
Oct. 31—November 1: Curt Fields, Civil War Days, Johnsonville State Historic Park, Johnsonville, TN
November:
4: Curt Fields, General Grant and General Lee (Thomas Jessee) will discuss the Appomattox Campaign and surrender, CWRT Congress’s Giving Tuesday event @ 7 p.m. EDT/4 p.m. PDT (Please join us and contribute to the cause of the CWRT Congress and the American Battlefield Trust!)
6: Bert Dunkerly, “Final Bivouac: The Appomattox Surrender and Disbanding,” Hanover Tavern, Hanover Courthouse, VA
7: Bert Dunkerly, “Final Bivouac: The Appomattox Surrender and Disbanding,” Civil War Round Table Congress
7: Curt Fields, U. S. Grant Symposium, Cape Giradeau, MO
8: Chris Mackowski, “Stonewall Jackson’s Greatest Hits,” Louisville (KY) CWRT
10: Kevin C. Donovan, “The Court Martial of Fitz John Porter: Fair or Fixed?”, Shenandoah Valley CWRT, Harrisonburg, VA
10: Curt Fields, “Grant’s visit to Raleigh to confer with Sherman,” Raleigh (NC) CWRT, (on the new telegraph of ZOOM)
11: Jon-Erik Gilot, “The Hardest Campaign Ever Inaugurated: Hunter’s Retreat from Lynchburg,” Stonewall Jackson CWRT, Clarksburg, WV
11: Jon-Erik Gilot, “The Hardest Campaign Ever Inaugurated: Hunter’s Retreat from Lynchburg,” Stonewall Jackson CWRT, Clarksburg, WV
11: Chris Mackowski, “The Mud March,” Veterans Day observances, Fall Run, VA
12: Jon-Erik Gilot, “The Hardest Campaign Ever Inaugurated: Hunter’s Retreat from Lynchburg,” Ohio Valley CWRT, Wheeling, WV
18: Curt Fields, “Grant: The Man Behind the Uniform,” John Knox Village CWRT, Kansas City, MO
18: Jon-Erik Gilot, “The First Cut: The Civil War’s First Amputation,” Mason Dixon CWRT, Morgantown, WV
20: Jon-Erik Gilot, Kevin Pawlak, “John Brown’s Raid,” Miami CWRT Book Club, Miami, FL (Virtual)
20: Derek Maxfield, Hershey CWRT, Hershey, PA, 7:00 PM
December:
5: Curt Fields, Hopkins County Genealogy Society, Madisonville, KY
9: Kevin Pawlak, “Never Such a Campaign,” Baltimore CWRT
9: Derek Maxfield, Scottsdale CWRT, Scottsdale, AZ, 7:00 PM
10: Kevin C. Donovan, “The Court Martial of Fitz John Porter: Fair or Fixed?”, Jersey Shore CWRT, Toms River, NJ (rescheduled from September 10)
11: Bert Dunkerly, “Surrenders of the Civil War,” Bull Run Civil War Round Table, Manassas, VA
13: Curt Fields, General Grant will place a wreath at the grave of the Unknown Soldier in the “Wreaths Across America” program, Veterans Cemetery, Crossville, TN
17: Neil P. Chatelain, “Geography Meets History: Annual Freshet Impacts on 1862’s Mississippi River Valley Naval Activity,” Tallahassee History Roundtable (Virtual)
2026
January:
6: Neil P. Chatelain, “Treasure and Empire in the Civil War,” Brunswick Civil War Round Table
7: Evan Portman, “A Civil War within a War: NYC Draft Riots,” Tallahassee History Roundtable, Tallahassee, FL
8: Curt Fields, North Shore CWRT, Commack, NY (zoom)
15: Jon-Erik Gilot, “The Hardest Campaign Ever Inaugurated: Hunter’s Retreat from Lynchburg,” Mid-Ohio Valley CWRT, Marietta, OH
February:
9: Chris Mackowski, “A Tempest of Iron and Lead: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House,” Raleigh (NC) Civil War Roundtable
10: Neil P. Chatelain, “Defending the Arteries of Rebellion,” Fort Worth Civil War Round Table
10: Kevin C. Donovan, “Pope Pius IX & the Confederacy,” Roanoke (VA) CWRT, Roanoke, VA
17: Curt Fields, Scottsdale CWRT, Scottsdale, AZ
19: Curt Fields, The Museum of the West, Scottsdale, AZ
28: Curt Fields, 4th Annual Civil War Symposium, Dover, TN
March:
7: Curt Fields, Mid-South Military History and Civil War Show, Southaven, MS
18: Evan Portman, “A Civil War within a Civil War: the New York City Draft Riots,” Phil Kearny Civil War Round Table, Virtual Presentation
19: Curt Fields, “Unconditional Surrender: Ulysses S. Grant in the Civil War,” American Civil War Museum, Richmond, VA
24: Curt Fields, Arkansas CWRT, Little Rock, AR
25: Jon-Erik Gilot, “A Neglected Campaign: Loring’s Offensive in the Kanawha Valley, September 1862” Ohio Valley CWRT, Wheeling, WV
27-29: Curt Fields, “General Grant’s innovations as a military commander in the Civil War,” Virginia Tech’s annual Civil War Weekend, Blacksburg, VA
April:
4: Curt Fields, The General’s Breakfast On the Grounds of the Cherry Mansion, Savannah, TN
10: Jon-Erik Gilot, “A Neglected Campaign: Loring’s Offensive in the Kanawha Valley, September 1862” Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Conference, Martinsburg, WV
10: Kevin Pawlak, “The Battle of Shepherdstown,” Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Conference, Martinsburg, WV
11-12: Curt Fields, Appomattox Surrender observation, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, VA
17 – 18: Multiple ECW Authors, Carnegie Civil War Symposium, Carnegie, PA
18-19: Curt Fields, Civil War Symposium, Adams County-Quincy, IL
20: Neil P. Chatelain “Confederate Privateering Activity in San Francisco,” Inland Empire Civil War Round Table, Virtual Presentation
22: Chris Mackowski, “The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson,” Williamsburg (VA) Civil War Roundtable
23-26: Curt Fields, Grant Days!, Georgetown, OH
May:
18: Evan Portman, “A Question of Conscience: Saint Vincent Archabbey in the Civil War,” Greater Pittsburgh Civil War Round Table
19: Neil P. Chatelain, “Treasure and Empire in the Civil War,” Scottsdale Civil War Round Table
27: Curt Fields, Grant at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, St. Louis CWRT, MO
June:
1: Neil P. Chatelain, “Treasure and Empire in the Civil War,” Atlanta Civil War Round Table
1: Curt Fields, The Cumberland County Playhouse, “Grant: An American Life!,” Crossville, TN
July:
4: Curt Fields, “Vicksburg: Just 24 Hours” in the Vicksburg National Military Park Visitor Center Auditorium for the 163rd anniversary of the surrender of Vicksburg, MS
18: Curt Fields, General Forrest Chapter Annual Forrest Luncheon for the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Memphis, TN
August:
7–9: 12th Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge. Click here for details!
11: Evan Portman, Central Delaware Civil War Round Table
28-30: Curt Fields, Civil War Round Table Congress Annual Conference, Pamplin Park, VA
September:
8: Chris Mackowski, “Grant’s Last Battle,” Ann Arbor (MI) Civil War Roundtable
16: Neil P. Chatelain, “Confederate Privateering Activity in San Francisco,” Phil Kearney Civil War Round Table, Virtual Presentation.
23: Chris Mackowski, Buffalo (NY) Civil War Roundtable
October:
9: Chris Mackowski, Louisville (KY) Civil War Roundtable
17: Curt Fields, Ulysses S. Grant Symposium, Georgetown, OH
November:
10: Chris Mackowski, Northeast Ohio Civil War Roundtable, Wickliffe, OH
17: Chris Mackowski, Twin Cities Civil War Roundtable, Bloomington, MN
December:
3: Chris Mackowski, “Grant’s Last Battle,” Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable Holiday Banquet
