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Speakers Schedule
2025
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:
2: Jon-Erik Gilot, “Hunter’s Retreat from Lynchburg,” Civil War Roundtable Congress “Civil War Fridays” (Zoom)
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:
6: Neil P. Chatelain, “Light Keeper Manuel Moreno: Conflicting Loyalties Amidst Secession and Civil War,” Louisiana Historical Association annual conference, Lafayette, LA
7: Curt Fields, Mid-South Military History and Civil War Show, Southaven, MS
11: Jon-Erik Gilot, “Hunter’s Retreat from Lynchburg,” Tuscarawas Valley CWRT, Dover, OH
18: Jon-Erik Gilot, “Hunter’s Retreat from Lynchburg,” Western PA CWRT, Sewickley, PA
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
21: Chris Mackowski, “Strike Them a Blow: Battle Along the North Anna River,” CVBT Spring Seminar
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
15: Chris Mackowski, Civil War Roundtable of Kansas City
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
11–13: Chris Mackowski & Kris White, “Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church,” CVBT Annual Conference
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
