David Whitehead, Pres.                 Gary Cowardin, Editor    
4305 Cary Street Rd.                   1404 Lorraine Ave.       
Richmond, VA 23221                     Richmond, VA 23227-3735  
davidwhitehead1@comcast.net            cowardin@juno.com        
January 11, 2011 Program
J. Britt McCarley
"The Great Question of the Campaign Was One of Supplies;
A Reinterpretation of Sherman's Generalship during the 1864
March to Atlanta in Light of the Logistic Strategy."

8:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 11, 2011, at the
First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, VA., 4602 Cary Street Road, 23226
A parking lot is available behind the church with an entrance off the
parking lot to the left and down a few stairs. (map in August's newsleter)

January's speaker will provide a new and very interesting discussion  of
the  Atlanta  campaign.   He  brings  with  him  a treasury of Civil War
knowledge developed during his  career  as  a  military  historian.   An
Atlanta  native,  Britt McCarley completed both his BA and MA in history
at Georgia State University.  He completed his dissertation on the  life
and  military  career of General Nathan F.  Twining, the first Air Force
officer to serve as Chairman of  the  Joint  Chiefs  of  Staff  and  was
awarded  his  doctorate  by Temple University in 1989.  While completing
his graduate studies, he  worked  at  three  national  parks,  including
Kennesaw  Mountain National Battlefield.  Dr.  McCarley began his career
in public history in 1988 when he accepted the position of Quartermaster
Branch  Assistant  Historian  at  Fort Lee, Virginia.  Since then he has
held four more positions in the Army History Program, and he is now  the
U.S.   Army  Training  and  Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Chief Historian at
Fort Monroe, Virginia.  Britt has taught military history at three  Army
service  schools  and  history  at  both  the undergraduate and graduate
levels at a  number  of  colleges  and  universities.   Dr.   McCarley's
publications  include  the  chapter  on Sherman's generalship during the
Atlanta Campaign in Beyond Combat: Essays in Military History  in  Honor
of Russell F.  Weigley, a guide to Atlanta's Civil War battlefields that
has been in continuous print since 1984.  He is currently working  on  a
study of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia.                      

Be sure to come early to get a good seat.
Meeting Attendance: December 2010 = ~90

NOTE: Please put on your NEW NAME BADGE on when you arrive for the meeting.
(They will be near the back or side of the room.)

New RCWRT Officers and Execitive Committee Elected for 2011

President:     David Whitehead  
1st VP:        Jack Mountcastle 
2nd VP:        Brent Morgan     
Secretary:     Sandy Parker     
Treasurer:     Richard Grosse   
Newsletter/Webmaster:     Gary Cowardin               

New Executive Committee:  Jack Ackerly, John Coski, Robert E. L. Krick
and the Immediate Past President: Davis Wrinkle

Dear RCWRT members,                                                     

       Welcome to 2011, our 150th anniversary year celebration.  We have
       a  grand  list  of  speakers  for the year.  In honor of our long
       history, I personally wish to promote:                           

1.  Increasing our membership                                           

2.  Encouraging EACH to promote the history of this  amazing  period  in
our country and                                                         

3.   Think about a book, tour, conference, meeting that you might tackle
to grow that knowledge.                                                 

We should all give a hardy thanks to past president  Davis  Wrinkle  for
many hours of superb leadership over the past 3 years.                  

May  each  of  you  have  a happy and healthy new year!                 
See you Tuesday January 11, 2011.                                       
                                                 David C. Whitehead, Jr. 

Civil War Preservation Trust
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Upcoming Events



www.virginiacivilwar.org
Virginia Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission

Visit The Museum of the Confederacy Online
www.moc.org

Civil War message opened, decoded: "No help coming"
See the 12/25/10 AP article:
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101225/ap_on_re_us/us_message_in_a_bottle

Visit The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar
www.tredegar.org
and their
Events Calendar

Pamplin Historical Park and
The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier
www.pamplinpark.org
and their
Special Events Calendar

RCWRT Monthly Speakers for 2011


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