American
Civil War Round Table of Australia - NSW Chapter
Meetings:
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American
Civil War Round Table of Australia - NSW Chapter |
Meetings are usually held on a Tuesday at 7.00 pm. Members meet for bistro style meal about 6:00 pm. Every meeting includes an opportunity for members to briefly speak about recent interests and observations.
Venue: Magpies Club, 11-37 Alexandria Parade, Waitara 2077 - over the road from railway station. Car parking underneath.
Next meeting shown in colour. Visitors
welcome.
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| December 3 2024 | Year-end function | |
| October 15 2024 | ||
| August 20 2024 | ||
| Tues, June 18 2024 | ||
| Tues, April 16 2024 | General Fremont (by Bob Carr), The Seven Days, A surprise |
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| Tues, February 20 2024 | 1862 - The Peninsula Campaign; and Jackson's Valley Campaign | |
| Weds December 6 2023 | Year-end function - booking required | |
| Tues October 17 2023 | 1862 - happenings in both the East and the West. Fort Pulaski, New Orleans and The Peninsular Campaign (near Richmond) | |
| Tues August 22 2023 | 1862 - Western Theatre continued & Battle of Shiloh; CW Art works; and New Orleans | |
| June 19 2023 | 1862 - Gen. George McClelland; Fort Henry and Fort Donelson; USS Monitor and CSS Virginia | |
| April 17 2023 | 1861 - Battle of Ball's Bluff, Anaconda Plan, and Trent Affair | |
| February 20 2023 | 1861 - Opening stages of the War | |
| November 28 2022 | Year-end function | |
| October 10 2022 | Siege of Petersburg | |
| August 8 2022 | Secession – Was it Illegal or Legal? | |
| June 6 2022 | Bob Carr: A House Divided - Today's America | |
| April 11 2022 | Honoring Len Traynor - in conversation with Dr Gordon Jones | |
| February 28 2022 | An evening with Dr Gordon Jones, Senior Military Historian and Curator at Atlanta History Center, Georgia | |
| February 21 2022 | Mexico before and after the Civil War (Zoom meeting) | |
| November 29 2021 | Christmas function | |
| October 11 2021 | Little Known Aspects of Soldier Life in the Civil War (Zoom meeting) | |
| August 9 2021 | The Enlightenment and the Civil War (Zoom meeting) | |
| June 7 2021 | Bleeding Kansas as Fake News |
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| April 12 2021 | Civil War submariners – valor or suicide |
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| February 15 2021 | Military impressment and the exploitation of boys and youths | |
| November 23 2020 | Christmas function - live! | |
| September 21 2020 | Women in the Civil War (Zoom meeting) | |
| August 3 2020 | War gaming Chickamauga (Zoom meeting) | |
| June 1 2020 | Epidemics (Infectious Disease) in the Civil War (Zoom meeting) | |
| February 17 2020 | The Iron Brigade | |
| November 25 2019 | Christmas function | |
| September 16 2019 | Anaesthetics in the Civil War | |
| July 22 2019 | Atlanta to the Sea and a few interesting sidelines - Tour June 2019 | |
| June 3 2019 | Coastal Operations | |
| April 8 2019 | The Cavalry | |
| February 18 2019 | Diplomacy during the Civil War | |
| November 26 2018 | Christmas function - with talk from our Hon Life Member Len Traynor | |
| October 8 2018 | Roadtest: 1) First English settlers, and 2) Thomas Jefferson | |
| August 6 2018 | Lawyers at War (continued) | |
| June 4 2018 | Kennesaw Mountain (part of Sherman's Atlanta Campaign) | |
| April 16 2018 | Prisoners of War | |
| February 19 2018 | The astonishing purpose-built River Ironclads | |
| December 4 2017 | Christmas Function - Guest speaker: Frances Clark | |
| October 9 2017 | Lawyers at War: Lincoln, Taney and the Supreme Court | |
| August 14 2017 | Snapshots from Western Theater Tour | |
| June 13 2017 | Visit of USS Kearsarge to Sydney in 1869 with Dr R M "Mick" Bedard | |
| May 1 2017 | Bob Carr: How My Interest in the Civil War Began - click on Facebook Event to indicate "Going" | |
| February 13 2017 | The Western Theater of the Civil War | |
| November 28 2016 | Christmas function | |
| September 12 2016 | Music in the Civil War | |
| July 4 2016 | Snapshots from Eastern Theater Tour | |
| May 2 2016 | 1961 Perspective - Causes of the Civil War | |
| March 7 2016 | Lessons not learned from the Civil War | |
| November 30 2015 | Christmas function - "Some Christmas Traditions during American Civil War" | |
| September 14 2015 | The Election of 1860 - the most momentous presidential election in United States History | |
| July 20 2015 | Appomattox - In their own words | |
| May 11 2015 | Abraham Lincoln - The Consummate Politician | |
| March 16 2015 | What is Abraham Lincoln's contribution to America? Discussion leader: Bruce Dennett | |
| December 1 2014 | Christmas function | |
| October 13 2014 | Civil War Naval Operations ... with special guest speaker Wayne Rowe, recently retired Head of Reference Services at the US Naval War College, former Professor of the Civil War elective, and Past-President and current member of the Rhode Island CWRT | |
| September 8 2014 | Tennessee Civil War battlefield parks/sites | |
| June 2 2014 | Fredericksburg - the town's place in history AND Gaming the Civil War - wargamming Picket-type Charge demonstartion | |
| March 10 2014 | The Sinews of War - Funding and Supplies | |
| December 6 2013 | Christmas function (6pm for 7pm) | |
| October 28 2013 | Civil War Medicine - They did their Best ... with special guest speaker R M "Mick" Bedard, MD (Link) | |
| September 9 2013 | "Waltzing Dixie" - Thomas Meagher and John Mitchel in Ireland, Australia & America - "Waltzing Dixie" by Paula Astridge | |
| July 15 2013 | After Gettysburg and How the war was remembered | |
| May 20 2013 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Canby, Sibley and New Mexico | |
| March 18 2013 | Special guest speaker Ed Bearrs - click here to go to his Wikipedia profile | |
| November 30 2012 | Christmas function (6.30 start) | |
| September 24 2012 | The Northern Homefront - Economy and Republican legislation - Discussion leader: Bruce Dennett | |
| July 23 2012 | Special guest speaker Daniel W. Stowell (Director, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org) | |
| May 21 2012 | The Northern Homefront - Politics | |
| March 19 2012 | Show and Tell - members presentations | |
| December 5 2011 | Christmas function - Roseville club | |
| October 31 2011 | A social history of antebellum North Carolina | |
| August 15 2011 | Military Intelligence in the Civil War - link to (now Senator) Bob Carr blog about this meeting | |
| May 16 2011 | The Letters of Robert E Lee | |
| March 7 2011 | Fort Pillow explored - panel | |
| January 30 2011 | CSS Shenandoah with Sam Craghead - 2.30 at National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour | |
| December 10 2010 | Christmas party and Annual General Meeting - Roseville, 6.30pm | |
| October 25 2010 | In Defence of George McClellan | |
| August 28 2010 | Garage Sale of Civil War books & magazines | |
| August 23 2010 | Defenders in the Hornets' Nest | |
| May 17 2010 | Forget the North - the South, Helped along by Hollywod, Won the Civil War! | |
| February 22 2010 | Guest speaker Len Traynor: The evolution of service and gallantry medals from Civil War times | |
| November 20 2009 | Annual General Meeting - 7.00pm Roseville Memorial Club | |
| September 28 2009 | The Historical Pedant's Guide to the Movie "Gettysburg" and "Taps" - The Story behind the Bugle Call | |
| July 6 2009 | A Confederate View of Abraham Lincoln | |
| May 4 2009 | The Ballard of Blind Tom | |
| February 9 2009 | Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief | |
| October 20 2008 | The tragedy of the crater | |
| September 29 2008 | Liverpool, UK and the American Civil War - Guest Speaker: Jerry Williams, UK | |
| August 18 2008 | The Haunting Mystery of A P Hill | |
| June 23 2008 | Would the real Gen. McClelland stand up? and George McClelland failed battlefield commander or worse? | |
| April 7 2008 | From Scavenger to Curator - Jack Melton, Jnr, member of Atlanta ACWRT | |
| February 25 2008 | Who was the Civil War's Premier Cavalry Commander? | |
| November 30 2007 | Christmas Function and AGM | |
| November 12 2007 | Will the Real Abe Lincoln Stand Up? and Lincoln - The Devil Incarnate - A Southern Perspective | |
| September 10 2007 | Lincoln – Lessons on Leadership, and, The Gettysburg Address | |
| July 9 2007 | Lincoln – The Man and the Myth | |
| June 18 2007 | Lincoln - The Great Emancipator | |
| May 14 2007 | A Surprise Nomination: Lincoln’s Path to the Presidency | |
| April 16 2007 | Trivia Quiz Night | |
| March 12 2007 | Spotsylvania Courthouse - The clash of Grant and Lee at the Crossroads | |
| February 12 2007 | The Forgotten Hero: Major General George Thomas - The Rock of Chickamauga | |
| November 24 2006 | Special Christmas Function | |
| October 25 2006 | The Civil War - Whose side was God on? | |
| August 23 2006 | John Singleton Mosby – The Grey Ghost | |
| June 28 2006 | One Promotion Too Many: A P Hill and One of the Best Younger Officers: Edward Porter Alexander | |
| April 8 2006 | Conference - Appomatox and Beyond | |
| February 22 2006 | "Taps" - The fascinating story behind the bugle call | |
| December 5 2005 | Demobilisation after America's Civil War | |
| November 25 2005 | End of year / Christmas function | |
| October 10 2005 | Homeward Bound – The Demobilisation of the Armies | |
| August 8 2005 | Sex in the Civil War - a medical perspective | |
| June 6 2005 | They each left their unique mark on Civil War history - Judson Kilpatrick, Earl van Dorn, and George Pickett! | |
| May 29 2005 | Memorial Day Commemoration Service, Waverley Cemetery 1:00 pm | |
| April 11 2005 | The Gaint Civil War Quiz with Len Traynor as Quizmaster | |
| February 7 2005 | John Quarstein from Virginia War Museum: The Penninsular Campaign 1862 | |
| January 19 2005 | Special meeting - an Evening with Roger and Elaine Dixon | |
| December 2004 | Neither an exact science nor an oxymoron - Military intelligence during America's Civil War | |
| October 2004 | Joseph E Johnson's generalship during the Atlanta campaign | |
| August 2004 | A conviction set to action - Motivation and methods behind the underground railway | |
| June 2004 | Forum - What caused the War - Southern and Northern perspectives | |
| April 2004 | George Armstrong Custer - American hero or just a fool? | |
| February 2004 | General Officers of the Union and Confederate armies | |
| December 2003 | Whose side was God on? | |
| October 2003 | Medical services at the time of America's Civil War | |
| August 2003 | Patrick R Cleburne "Stonewall Jackson of the West" His Civil War | |
| June 2003 | Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain - more than just the hero of Little Round Top | |
| April 2003 | Murder at Fort Pillow - A Confederate and Federal perspective | |
| February 2003 | What were the women doing when the men were fighting? | |
| October 2002 | West Point classmates - Civil War enemies | |
| August 2002 | Civil War veterans in Australia | |
| June 2002 | Prelude to the War | |
| April 2002 | Lessons in leadership - General John B Hood CSA | |
| February 2002 | Grant - The uncaring drunken butcher? | |
| March 2001 | Fort Donelson - Just who is running the show? | |
| February 2001 | James Longstreet - Lee's tarnished or untarnished Lieutenant? | |