Speakers and Programs of the RCWRT
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Date Speaker Topic
August 1954 William F. Mallory, Richard H. Meyers, & E. W. Stevenson
Union and Confederate Mistakes at Gettysburg
September 1954 Robert W. Waitt, Jr. The Fight for New Mexico
October 1954 Van Dyk McBride & August Dietz, Sr. Postal System in the Confederate States
November 1954 Troop 1, 2nd Virginia Cavalry Small Arms
December 1954 William F. Clark Battles & Leaders Around Richmond
January 1955 Members: Reviews of Recent Books
February 1955 Movie: "The Birth of a Nation"
March 1955 Members: Who Were the Best Generals?
April 1955 Members: The Four Big Battles Around Fredericksburg
May 1955 William H. Stauffer Newsmen of the Civil War
June 1955 Robert W. Waitt, Jr. President's Annual Report
July 1955 Hugh W. Williams & W. H. Stauffer Harpers Ferry
August 1955 Samuel J. Moore President Jefferson Davis
September 1955 William F. Clark Seven Days Battles North of Chickahominy River
October 1955 Robert W. Waitt, Jr. Feminine Participation in the Civil War
November 1955 Earl F. Lutz Judah P. Benjamin
December 1955 William F. Mallory The South's Ablest Field Commanders
January 1956 Hugh H. Williams Small Military Units' Achievements
February 1956 Robert W. Waitt, Jr. Arguments for Secession and Unionism
March 1956 William W. Jones & M. E. Mason The Confederate Cavalry
April 1956 N. E. Warriner Logistical Problems in CSA Command
May 1956 Richard B. Harwell Literary Climate of the Confederacy
June 1956 Members: Briefing on Gettysburg Tour
July 1956 Bernard F. Martin Postwar Careers of Civil War Generals
August 1956 Lee A. Wallace Battle of the Crater
September 1956 William H. Stauffer & Raymond Caudle (yes)
William F. Mallory & Louis Rubin (no)
Did Longstreet Fail at Gettysburg?: A Debate
October 1956 John E. Damerel Richmond on the Eve of War
November 1956 William F. Mallory & N. E. Warriner Battles of Wilderness & Spotsylvania
December 1956 Samuel J. Moore Defense of Richmond
January 1957 Members: R. E. Lee
February 1957 Sam Neal Lee's Withdrawal From Gettysburg
March 1957 J. Ambler Johnston Lee and Freeman
April 1957 Robert W. Waitt, Jr. Women Spies
May 1957 Eudora R. Richardson Organization of CSA Government
June 1957 Virgil C. Jones Gray Ghosts & Rebel Raiders
August 1957 Movie: "This Was Shiloh"
September 1957 N. E. Warriner Civil War Ordnance
October 1957 Bernard F. Martin The Confederate Navy
November 1957 Members: Reviews of Recent Books
December 1957 Robert W. Waitt, Jr. Elizabeth Van Lew
January 1958 William F. Clark The Battle of Sharpsburg
February 1958 William H. Stauffer Sherman and Modern Warfare
March 1958 David F. LaPrade Jackson's Valley Campaign
April 1958 Samuel J. Moore Five Forks
May 1958 William N. Chew George H. Thomas
June 1958 George Gordon Meade
August 1958 Documentary films
September 1958 William F. Clarke & Samuel J. Moore Seven Days Battles
October 1958 William G. Bean "Sandie" Pendleton
November 1958 Harnett Kane Christmas in the South
January 1959 Thomas H. Oxenham Chancellorsville
February 1959 C. Hobson Goddin Jubal A. Early
March 1959 Sidney E. King Historical Dioramas
April 1959 William H. Stauffer Last Days of the Army of Northern Virginia
June 1959 Kent Wade & Robert Howard Confederate Arms and Ordnance
August 1959 Joseph Cullen Richmond National Battlefield Park Plans
September 1959 Roland Galvin The Trial of John Brown
October 1959 Francis F. Wilshin Second Battle of Manassas
November 1959 E. Milby Burton The Siege of Charleston
January 1960 James L. McConaghie Siege of Vicksburg
February 1960 Alfred P. Goddin, Robert W Waitt, Jr., Louise M. Galvin, and Samuel J. Moore
Pre-Civil War Backgrounds on Jefferson Davis,
Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Grant, and R. E. Lee
April 1960 Philip Van Doren Stern Confederate Navy in Europe
May 1960 Jim Comstock West Virginia in the Civil War
June 1960 Joseph P. Cullen U.S. Grant's Achievements
August 1960 Members: Quiz meeting
September 1960 India W. Thomas The Confederate Museum
October 1960 Spencer D. Albright, Jr. Causes of the Civil War
November 1960 James Keeler Gettysburg
December 1960 S. L. Latimer Columbia, South Carolina: Secession and Burning
January 1961 C. Hobson Goddin and Samuel J. Moore Peace Conference of 1861
February 1961 Charles L. Kessler, USN Jefferson Davis as Chief Executive
March 1961 Members Discussion: Abraham Lincoln as Chief Executive
April 1961 Sam Neal Rich Mountain
May 1961 Confederate War Cabinet
June 1961 George W. Rogers (Presented by Jack Stinson) Parker's Virginia Battery
July 1961 Members: Quiz meeting
August 1961 C. Hobson Goddin & Joseph P. Cullen Consequences of First Manassas
September 1961 John C. Stinson, Thomas Oxenham, Beverly McDowell, and Hugh Williams
21st Virginia Infantry, 1st Virginia Regiment,
13th Pennsylvania Regiment, 20th Maine Infantry
October 1961 George W. Rogers House Divided
November 1961 Richard H. Kern Overall Effect of Civil War
January 1962 Harry J. Warthen, Jr., MD Stonewall Jackson and Hunter McGuire
February 1962 William H. Stauffer Myth of McClellan's Unfitness
March 1962 Roland Galvin Virginia's Wartime Government
April 1962 William Kay War in the West, 1862
May 1962 Richard H. Kern 1862 Valley Campaign
June 1962 N. E. Warriner Peninsula Campaign I
July 1962 N. E. Warriner Peninsula Campaign II
August 1962 Richard H. Kern Second Battle of Manassas
September 1962 William F. Mallory Battle of Sharpsburg
October 1962 Joseph P. Cullen Battle of Fredericksburg
November 1962 Members: Quiz meeting
January 1963 Louis H. Manarin Robert E. Lee
February 1963 William H. Stauffer Newspapermen as Writers of Civil War History
March 1963 W. W. Jones Generals in Gray
April 1963 Samuel J. Moore Public Finance in the Confederacy
May 1963 Richard Kern Chancellorsville
June 1963 William F. Mallory Gettysburg, Day One
July 1963 Jack Stinson Gettysburg, Days Two & Three
August 1963 Chester T. Bradley Jefferson Davis at Fort Monroe
September 1963 Richard Lanier The American Citizen Soldier
January 1964 Don Wiseman Stonewall Jackson
February 1964 William K. Kay War in the Trans-Mississippi Theater
March 1964 J. J. Keeler Civil War Logistics
April 1964 William K. Kay Nathan Bedford Forrest
May 1964 F. Nash Boney Governor John Letcher
June 1964 Members: Quiz meeting
July 1964 Thomas M. Glaser Civil War Societies in England
August 1964 R. Bolling Batte Virginia Military Institute in the War
September 1964 Beverly McDowell "Willie" Pegram
October 1964 Benjamin J. Hillman Edward Porter Alexander
November 1964 James V. Murfin Maryland Campaign
December 1964 James I. Robertson, Jr.
January 1965 H. Douglas Pitts Brook Hill During the War
February 1965 William F. Mallory Outstanding Battery Commanders
March 1965 Samuel J. Moore Southern Leaders' Views on Slavery, States' Rights,
and Secession
April 1965 C. Hobson Goddin The Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865
May 1965 James Kretschmann The Battle of the Crater
June 1965 Harry J. Warthen Medicine & Surgery in the War
July 1965 William K. Kay Raising & Training An Infantry Regt.
August 1965 Charles E. Shedd, Jr. The Raising of the Cairo
September 1965 John E. Damerel Richmond City Council Minutes
October 1965 William R. Hollomon Andrew Johnson
November 1965 William H. Stauffer Early's 1864 Valley Campaign
December 1965 Glenn Tucker Chickamauga
January 1969 L. David Horner, III Blockade Runners
February 1969 Members: The Civil War Character I Dislike the Most, and Why
March 1969 R. Bolling Batte The Confederate Corps of Engineers
April 1969 W. W. Jones The Army of Tennessee
May 1969 W. Roland Galvin George Wythe Randolph
June 1969 Frank Daylor Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
September 1969 George H. Burnett Campfires & Battlefields Revisited
November 1969 Douglas O. Tice Richmond Bread Riot
December 1969 J. Ambler Johnston Lee's First 65 Days in Command
January 1970 Hobert G. Cawood Fighting at Charleston, 1863-65
February 1970 Daniel T. Balfour Southampton Insurrection
March 1970 John E. Damerel Lee's Retreat
May 1970 Herbert M. Schiller Fort Pulaski
June 1970 Frank Root Lewis & Clark
September 1970 William H. Stauffer Jefferson Davis
November 1970 Hobart G. Cawood & David Dutcher George H. Thomas
December 1970 Members: Recognition of Members Who Served on the
Centennial Committee
January 1971 Members: "Show & Tell"
February 1971 William W. Jones Economic Conditions in the Confederacy
March 1971 Dale Wiley James River & Kanawha Canal
April 1971 Ralph Happel Fredericksburg in the Civil War
June 1971 Members: Quiz meeting
September 1971 George Meadows & Mac Mason Bullets of the Civil War
November 1971 Douglas O. Tice Prosecution of Jefferson Davis
December 1971 James I. Robertson, Jr. A Virginia Private in the CSA
January 1972 John E. Damerel Roads of Two Wars
February 1972 Louis H. Manarin Resources of the Virginia State Library
March 1972 Members: Show and Tell
May 1972 Kurt Brandenburg White House of the Confederacy
June 1972 W. Roland Galvin The Civil War on the Outer Banks
September 1972 R. Bolling Batte The Chambersburg Raid
October 1972 Leslie L. Jones Personal Experiences in WWI
November 1972 Archibald G. Robertson Personal Experiences in WWI
December 1972 Members: Past Presidents Give Highlights of Their
Time in Office
January 1973 Members: Favorite Civil War Books
February 1973 Members: Quiz program
March 1973 M. L. Neuroth Drugs Used in the Civil War
April 1973 Oscar C. V. Wev Confederate Navy
June 1973 Richmond National Battlefield Park Staff Life of the Civil War Soldier
September 1973 Hyman Schwartzberg Civil War Uniforms
October 1973 Members: Discussion on Vicksburg
November 1973 Craig Carroll Johnny Reb: The Tangible & Intangible
December 1973 Don Steiner History of Photography
January 1974 Joseph P. Cullen Seven Days Battles
February 1974 Samuel J. Moore Jefferson Davis and the Peninsula Campaign
March 1974 Oscar C. V. Wev Navies in the Peninsula Campaign
April 1974 C. Hobson Goddin Richmond During the Peninsula Campaign
May 1974 John E. Damerel Mechanicsville and Gaines's Mill
June 1974 William M. Fambrough, Jr. Andrews' Raid
September 1974 Douglas O. Tice & Terry H. Umphlett Savage Station to Malvern Hill
October 1974 J.E.B. Stuart, IV J.E.B. Stuart
November 1974 Members: Quiz meeting
December 1974 Ralph W. Donnelly Confederate Marine Corps
January 1975 Samuel J. Moore Lee, An Enigma
February 1975 R. Bolling Batte Malvern Hill to Second Manassas
March 1975 Kurt Brandenburg Harper's Ferry, 1859-1865
April 1975 H. Hugh Williams Second Manassas
May 1975 William F. Mallory Spotsylvania to the James
June 1975 W. Roland Galvin Virginia Railroads in the Civil War
September 1975 Kenneth E. Apschnikat Antietam and the Maryland Campaign
October 1975 Stephen M. Rowe Southern Historical Society
November 1975 John E. Damerel Battle of Fredericksburg
December 1975 Joseph P. Cullen Chimborazo Hospital
January 1976 Suse Field & Stephanie Halloran Elizabeth Van Lew
February 1976 Giles Cromwell Virginia Manufactory of Arms
March 1976 C. Hobson Goddin John D. Hobson, Co. F, 4th Virginia Cavalry
April 1976 R. Bolling Batte Chancellorsville and Salem Church
May 1976 Samuel J. Moore & Douglas O. Tice Jefferson Davis, Burton Harrison,
and the Confederate White House
June 1976 Tom Tankersley & Charlie Breeland Civil War Music
September 1976 Douglas O. Tice, Terry H. Umphlett, and William M. Powell
Chancellorsville to Gettysburg
October 1976 William F. Mallory Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
November 1976 William K. Muse, Jr. Gettysburg, July 3, 1863
December 1976 Robert K. Krick Parker's Virginia Battery
January 1977 Louis H. Manarin North Carolina Troops in the Army of Northern Virginia
February 1977 William F. Mallory Longstreet's Corps at Chickamauga
March 1977 Sandra V. Parker Libby Prison
April 1977 James H. Dement, Jr. Ulysses S. Grant
May 1977 Robert K. Krick Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
June 1977 William K. Muse, Jr. The Overland Campaign
September 1977 C. Hobson Goddin In Defense of Early's Valley Campaign
October 1977 Daniel P. Jordan Richmond as Confederate City
November 1977 W. Roland Galvin Bermuda Hundred
December 1977 Horace E. Jones, Jr. Civil War Medical and Health Services
January 1978 Henry M. Holland, M.D. Psychiatrist's View of R. E. Lee's Personality
February 1978 William D. Henderson Petersburg During the War
March 1978 James H. Dement, Jr. & William F. Mallory Cold Harbor to Petersburg
April 1978 John E. Damerel Battle of the Crater
May 1978 Kenneth Apschnikat Appomattox Court House
September 1978 John G. Barrett Sherman in the Carolinas
October 1978 Douglas O. Tice Was Jefferson Davis a Traitor?
November 1978 Samuel J. Moore Lee After the War
December 1978 William F. Mallory, Samuel J. Moore, Douglas O. Tice, and H. Hugh Williams
The Good Old Days at RCWRT
January 1979 James H. Dement, Jr. Battle of Shiloh
February 1979 Robert K. Krick Edward P. Alexander
March 1979 William A. Frassanito Civil War Photography at Antietam, Gettysburg,
and the Virginia Campaign
April 1979 Ludwell H. Johnson, III The Plundering Generation
May 1979 William W. Jones The Army of Tennessee and its Leaders
June 1979 Roland Galvin Ambrose P. Hill
September 1979 H. Douglas Pitts "Beechenbrook"
October 1979 Members: Quiz meeting
November 1979 Leslie D. Jensen Exhibits at The Museum of the Confederacy
December 1979 Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr. Richmond's Wartime Christmases, 1861-1864
January 1980 Henry M. Holland, M.D. "The Stonewall Personality"
February 1980 C. Hobson Goddin The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid
March 1980 John B. Breeden The "Other" Civil War Prisons in Richmond
April 1980 John Davis Appomattox Manor
May 1980 Michael Thomas Roberdeau Wheat and the Louisiana Tigers
June 1980 Betty Ownsby Lewis Paine
September 1980 Edwin C. Bearss Jackson at Cross Keys and Port Republic
October 1980 Quiz meeting Jackson's Valley Campaign
November 1980 James H. Dement, Jr. Phil Sheridan
December 1980 James I. Robertson, Jr. "Ambler Johnston and One of Historical Dreams"
January 1981 Christopher M. Calkins Sayler's Creek
February 1981 Francis F. Wilshin First Manassas and the David Bullock Harris Maps
March 1981 John P. Ackerly, III Jackson's McDowell Campaign
April 1981 Oscar C. V. Wev Cruise of the CSS Alabama
May 1981 John Broadwater Civil War shipwrecks
June 1981 James L. Morrison, Jr. West Point and the Confederacy
September 1981 E. B. Potter "Yorktown - the Campaign that won Our Independence"
October 1981 William F. Mallory Longstreet after the War
November 1981 Richard D. Mudd Dr. Samuel A. Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination
December 1981 Emory M. Thomas "The Confederate State of Richmond Revisited"
Febuary 1982 H. Douglas Pitts Letters of a Gaston Ranger
March 1982 Douglas O. Tice Eppa Hunton
April 1982 James T. Moore The Confederate Cabinet
May 1982 Louis H. Manarin Henrico County in the Civil War
June 1982 Michael Chesson Richmond During the War
September 1982 Richard J. Sommers Lee and Grant at Richmond and Petersburg
October 1982 Quiz meeting Richmond During the War
November 1982 John W. Schildt Hunter Holmes McGuire
December 1982 Les Jensen "The Common Soldier, the Lighter Side"
January 1983 Dan Balfour George H. Thomas
February 1983 Robert K. Krick Cedar Mountain
March 1983 Richard McMurry General John Bell Hood
April 1983 C. Hobson Goddin General Jubal A. Early
May 1983 J.E.B. Stuart, IV J.E.B. Stuart's early years
June 1983 James L. Morrison, Jr. General Henry Heth
September 1983 Robert G. Tanner "Stonewall in the Valley"
October 1983 Quiz meeting "General in Gray - General in Blue"
November 1983 Andrew N. Lytle "On Being a Southerner"
Dece mber 1983 J. Bryan, III "The Sword Over the Mantel"
January 1984 John E. Divine Cavalry Actions Prior to Gettysburg
February 1984 William F. Mallory Lee and Longstreet at Gettysburg
March 1984 Richard McMurry The Army of Tennessee vs. The Army of Northern Virginia
April 1984 James O. Hall The Dahlgren Papers
May 1984 Dennis E. Frye The Siege and Capture of Harpers Ferry
June 1984 Charles W. Royster The Character of General William T. Sherman
September 1984 Douglas O. Tice (affirmative) and William F. Mallory (negative)
"Was Stuart Right in Taking the Route He Did
from Virginia to Gettysburg?"
October 1984 Quiz meeting Confederate and Federal Cavalry
November 1984 David A. Bovenizer "From Appomattox to Aquarius: The Continuing Cause"
December 1984 Harold E. Howard The Returning Confederate Soldier
January 1985 William C. Davis The Siege of Charleston
February 1985 Edwin C. Bearss The Battle of Brice's Crossroad
March 1985 Ludwell H. Johnson Red River Campaign
April 1985 B. David Mann General George E. Pickett
May 1985 Kim B. Holien The Battle of Ball's Bluff
June 1985 Millard L. Spivey Longstreet and His Virginians at Chickamauga
September 1985 Mary Tyler Freeman Cheek Douglas Southall Freeman and the
Writing of R. E. Lee
October 1985 Virginius Dabney Richmond Before, During and After the War
November 1985 John W. Lynn Andersonville: Now and Then
December 1985 Jon Kukla Hollywood Cemetery
January 1986 Herbert M. Schiller Bermuda Hundred Campaign
February 1986 Oscar C. Wev Civil War Naval Operations on the Western Rivers
March 1986 Christopher M. Calkins The Battle of Five Forks
April 1986 James T. Moore Disloyalty in the Confederacy
May 1986 Richard McMurry General John Bell Hood in the Atlanta
and Tennessee Campaigns
June 1986 Elizabeth Scott McKemie and the curators of the Museum
Behind-the-Scenes at The Museum of the Confederacy
September 1986 Robert R. Smith The Battle of Ox Hill
October 1986 James C. Ruehrmund Money in Wartime Richmond
November 1986 Robert K. Krick Reflections on Longstreet's Attitudes
December 1986 Daniel P. Jordan "Richmond, First City of the Confederacy"
January 1987 A. Wilson Greene Stonewall Jackson and the Seven Days
February 1987 James I. Robertson, Jr. General A. P. Hill
March 1987 Joseph A. Gutterrez, Jr. USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
April 1987 K. Jeremy Williams The Confederate Navy and Its British Connection
May 1987 Gary W. Gallagher The Unpublished Porter Alexander
June 1987 Ralph W. Donnelly The Confederate Marine Corps
September 1987 Dennis E. Frye Leadership in the Maryland Campaign
October 1987 John E. Divine The Second Ride Around McClellan
November 1987 A. Wilson Greene Meade vs. Jackson at Fredericksburg
December 1987 Mary P. Coulling The Lee Girls
January 1988 Douglas O. Tice The Confederate Constitution
February 1988 William D. Henderson The Road to Bristoe Station
March 1988 Jeffrey D. Wert Early vs. Sheridan: Generalship in the
1864 Valley Campaign
May 1988 Gregory A. Mertz The Lee-Jackson Connection
June 1988 Richard M. Lee Wartime Washington and Richmond
September 1988 Robert H. Prosperi The Development of Gettysburg National
Military Park
October 1988 Quiz meeting Gettysburg Campaign
November 1988 Benjamin F. Cooling Forts Henry and Donelson Revisited
December 1988 Patricia Sumner "The Fighting Lady - The Woman in Uniform"
January 1989 Dennis P. Mroczkowski Fort Monroe and the Monitor and the Virginia
February 1989 Merlin E. Sumner "Some Observations on Grant and His Army"
March 1989 Howard O. Hendricks Artifacts of the Overland Campaign in
The Museum of the Confederacy
April 1989 Thomas A. Wheat, M.D. The Confederate Medical Service
May 1989 Gary W. Gallagher The Antietam Campaign
June 1989 Richard M. McMurry Confederate Newspapers
September 1989 William D. Matter The Struggle for the Salient
October 1989 Quiz meeting The Petersburg Campaign
November 1989 Michael J. Andrus General Edward "Allegheny" Johnson
December 1989 James I. Robertson, Jr. "Stonewall Jackson: Cromwell of the Confederacy"
January 1990 Steven A. Cormier The Siege of Suffolk
February 1990 James H. Blankenship, Jr. A History of City Point
March 1990 Christopher M. Calkins The Petersburg Campaign
April 1990 William C. Davis "Myths and Realities of the Civil War"
May 1990 John B. Carter General Wade Hampton
June 1990 John E. Divine Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign
September 1990 William F. Mallory The Battle of Chaffin's Farm
October 1990 Paul N. Meier The Amphibious Assaults on Fort Fisher
November 1990 Douglas O. Tice The "Lost Cause" movement
December 1990 Harriet A. Engler "Attire During the Civil War"
January 1991 Frank A. O'Reilly Archer's Brigade at Fredericksburg
February 1991 J.E.B. Stuart, IV The military legacies of J.E.B. Stuart
March 1991 Christopher M. Calkins The Battle of Five Forks
April 1991 Dennis E. Frye Mosby vs. Sheridan in the Valley
May 1991 Steven J. Schmit Strategy and Tactics in the Western Theater
June 1991 Richard McMurry The Gettysburg Decision
September 1991 William A. Tidwell The Confederate Secret Service
October 1991 Ted Tunnell The Carpetbagger's Tale
November 1991 A. Wilson Greene Gettysburg - Culp's Hill
December 1991 Tom Lewis "Putting Historical Preservation into Politics"
January 1992 L. C. Angle, Jr. The War in Southwest Virginia
February 1992 Charles F. Bryan, Jr. Virginia's Yankee Generals
March 1992 John Hennessy Subordinate Commanders in the Army of the Potomac
April 1992 Theodore P. Savas The Battle of Payne's Farm
May 1992 Michael Litterst Lincoln's Visit to Richmond
June 1992 C. Hobson Goddin The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid
September 1992 Joseph L. Harsh McClellan and the Maryland Campaign Reconsidered
October 1992 David Ruth Siege of Charleston
November 1992 William A. Young, Jr. Rev. George W. Fin ley, 56th Virginia Infantry
December 1992 Robert K. Krick The Virginia Homefront
January 1993 Edward Longacre Army of the James in the Virginia Campaign
February 1993 Henny Schuster Flora Cooke Stuart
March 1993 Robert J. Trout "The Men Who Followed Stuart's Plume"
April 1993 Ernest B. Furgurson, Jr. Chancellorsville
May 1993 J. Anderson Thomson "Putting the General [Lee] on the Couch"
June 1993 James C. Kelly and Giles Cromwell How the South Armed Itself
September 1993 Craig L. Symonds Joseph E. Johnston in the Atlanta Campaign
October 1993 Mark Malvasi Masters and Slaves in the Antebellum South
November 1993 Peggy Vogtsberger Welbourne: Diaries and Letters of the
Dulany Family, 1861-1865
December 1993 H. Alexander Wise, Jr. John S. Wise of Virginia
January 1994 W. Roland Galvin George Wythe Randolph
February 1994 Frank O'Reilly Evolution of Cavalry in 1864 and the
Battle of Trevilian's Station
March 1994 John Hennessy Union Subordinate Command in the Peninsula Campaign
April 1994 Theodore P. Savas CSS Arkansas in the Defense of Vicksburg
May 1994 Robert E. L. Krick Sheridan's Raid and the Battle of Yellow Tavern
June 1994 Gary W. Gallagher Shenandoah Valley, 1862/ 1864
July 1994 John M. Coski The 32nd Wisconsin Infantry
August 1994 Mark Malvasi The African-American Struggle for Freedom
September 1994 Jeffry D. Wert The Generalship of James Longstreet
October 1994 Richard McMurry The Atlanta Campaign
November 1994 John M. Priest The Opening Day of the Wilderness
December 1994 Henny Schuster Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Howell Davis
January 1995 A. Wilson Greene Stoneman's Raid
February 1995 Robert P. Johnson Civil War generals in the Mexican War
March 1995 Robert K. Krick William E. "Grumble" Jones
April 1995 Peter S. Carmichael Willie Pegram - Lee's Young Artillerist
May 1995 Gary W. Gallagher The Army of Northern Virginia in May 1864:
A Crisis in Command
June 1995 Danny Shackelford The War in Missouri and Kansas
July 1995 James M. McPherson The Chancellorsville Syndrome
August 1995 Robert J. Trout The Stuart Horse Artillery
September 1995 Christopher M. Calkins Lee's Retreat to Appomattox
October 1995 Gregory A. Mertz J.E.B. Stuart at Chancellorsville
November 1995 Chris J. Hartley General James B. Gordon
December 1995
January 1996 Noah A. Trudeau Fighting Along the New Market,
Darbytown, and Williamsburg Roads, October 1864
February 1996 Dennis E. Frye Why Antietam Should Never Have Occurred
March 1996 Mark L. Bradley The Battle of Bentonville
April 1996 Edward L. Ayers "Worrying About the Civil War"
May 1996 Edward G. Longacre General George E. Pickett
July 1996 William J. Miller Jed Hotchkiss
August 1996 Robert E. L. Krick Stonewall Jackson and the Seven Days
September 1996 Mac Wyckoff Kershaw's Brigade in the Seven Days
October 1996 John Hennessy Abraham Lincoln and the Virginia Front in 1862
November 1996 Gordon Rhea Lee's Generalship in the Wilderness and Spotsylvania
December 1996 Robert K. Krick "Stonewall Jackson's Books"
January 1997 John M. Coski "The Four Most Valuable Men in the Confederate Navy"
February 1997 David F. Bastian Grant's Vicksburg Canal
March 1997 Gary W. Gallagher Guerrilla War
April 1997 Michael F. Holt "Did Slavery Cause the Civil War? Another Look"
May 1997 Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr. The Wilmington Campaign
June 1997 Daniel W. Barefoot General Robert F. Hoke
July 1997 Robert O'Neill The Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville
August 1997 Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. The Red River Campaign
September 1997 Gregg S. Clemmer Confederate Medal of Honor Recipients
October 1997 Ernest B. Furgurson Richmond at War
November 1997 Scott Mauger The Life of John Pelham
December 1997 James I. Robertson, Jr. The Writing of Stonewall Jackson
January 1998 David R. Ruth Hanover County Civilians during the Civil War
February 1998 James Tice Moore Virginia's Civil War Governors
March 1998 Robin Reed The Lighter Side of Soldier Life
April 1998 Edward L. Ayers The "Valley of the Shadow" Project
May 1998 Donald C. Pfanz General Richard S. Ewell
June 1998 Jeff Driscoll The Life of Billy Yank
July 1998 Gary Ecelbarger The Jackson-Garnett Court Martial
August 1998
September 1998 Brian Steel Wills The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest
October 1998 Eric Campbell Gettysburg Through the Words of the Soldiers
November 1998 Wayne Motts Gen. Lewis A. Armistead
December 1998 Keith and Pat Gibson Civil War Music
January 1999 Howard E. Bartholf The Story of Libby Prison
February 1999 A. Wilson Greene The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier:
A Preview
March 1999 Charles E. Walton Elmira Prison Camp
April 1999 James P. Gannon 6th Louisiana Infantry "Irish Rebels"
May 1999 Jerry W. Holsworth The Battle of New Market
June 1999 J. Tracy Power Cold Harbor as Seen by the Army of Northern Virginia
July 1999 Charles D. Ross Acoustics in the Civil War
August 1999 William Glenn Robertson Longstreet at Chickamauga
September 1999 John L. Heatwole Sheridan's Burning of the Shenandoah Valley
October 1999 Scott Mauger The Cabinet of Jefferson Davis
November 1999 Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr. Lt. Commander William B. Cushing, USN
December 1999 William C. Davis Lincoln and the Union Soldier
January 2000 Robert J. Schneller John W. Grattan, USN, and the Experience of
Naval Combat in the War
February 2000 Mark K. Ragan Union and Confederate Submarine Warfare
in the Civil War
March 2000 Steven H. Newton Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmond
April 2000 Don Allison Diary of a POW at Belle Isle
May 2000 Thomas Cartwright The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
June 2000 David Johnson Douglas Southall Freeman
July 2000 Thomas G. Clemens "Will the Real Iron Brigade Please Stand Up!"
August 2000 James L. Conrad The Confederate States Naval Academy
September 2000 William J. Miller Union leadership in the 1862 Valley
October 2000 Richard R. Duncan Lee's Endangered Left in 1864
November 2000 Craig Symonds Admiral Franklin Buchanan
December 2000 Edwin C. Bearss The Raising of the Cairo
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