2014
Eric Jacobson
The Founders, the Evolution of America, and the Road to Civil War
Rick Warwick
Civil War Sentinels: Franklin’s Antebellum Buildings
Dr. Aaron Astor
The Civil War Along The Cumberland Plateau
Thomas Jutz
The 1861 Project
Gregory S. Biggs
The Tullahoma Campaign
Julian Bibb
Reclaiming the Franklin Battlefield
Rachael Finch
The History of the Hiram Masonic Lodge
Dr. Kent Dollar
Religious Interest in the Civil War: 1861-1862
Robert Lee Hodge
Thinking in Pictures and Sound: Making Civil War Films
Stephen “Sam” Hood
The Lost Papers of John Bell Hood
Gregory L. Wade
Divided Loyalties: Life Behind the Lines
Jamie Gillum
The Battle of Spring Hill
Robert D. Jenkins
On the Eastern Flank: Attack of the Confederate Right
Dr. Brian Steel Wills
Improbable Civil Warriors: Forrest and Thomas
Dr. Gale Pewitt
Confederates in Canada: The St. Albans Raid
Jerry O. Potter
The Sultana Tragedy
Alan Corry
The Funeral of General Leonidas Polk
Dr. Gene Schmiel
Citizen-General Jacob Cox and the Battle of Franklin
Susan Whitaker
Heritage Tourism
Shelby Harriel
Forbidden, Hidden and Forgotten: Women in the Ranks
Amy Murrell Taylor
The Destructive Impact on Families
Woody Harrrell
Shiloh: The Union Left, The First Day
2013
Greg Wade
December 17th, After Nashville
Stewart Cruikshank
Civil War Veterans at Rest Haven Cemetery
Jim Kay
Failure at the Top: Why the Confederates Quit at Nashville
Dr. Earl J. Hess
Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign
Ed Bearrs
Dinner on the Battlefield & Tour
Brian Allison
The Battle of Rains’ Cut
Stephen “Sam” Hood
The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of a Confederate General
Kent Wright
Conflicted Friendships: Union & Confederate Naval Strategies
JT Thompson
The Lotz House: Beauty and Tragedy
Rep. Steve McDaniel
Parkers’ Crossroads Battlefield Tour
Dr. Steve Davis
Sherman’s Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta
Kraig McNutt
Robert Smalls and the C.S.S. Planter
Jim Ogden
The Battle of Chickamauga
2012
Peter Cozzens
Cahaba Prison
Dr. John F. Kvach
J.D.B. De Bow: An Old New South
Jack Hurst
Born to Battle: Grant and Forrest
Jim Ogden
Campaign to Chickamauga
Dr. Michael Bradley
Forrest’s Fighting Preacher
Ruth Hill McAllister
Co. Aytch Redux: More Sam Watkins
Dr. Brian McKnight
Champ Ferguson: Tennessee’s Perfect Guerilla
Bob Duncan
Maury County’s Historic St. John’s Church
Rick Warwick
Williamson County’s Historic Courthouse
Ross Massey
Confederate Cavalry at the Battle of Nashville
2011
Preservation Representatives
Holiday Mixer on Battlefield Preservation
Randy Bishop
The Tennessee Brigade
Margie Thessin
Rest Haven Cemetery Tour
Christopher Kolakowski
Battle of Perryville
Sam Davis Elliott
Isham G. Harris: Tennessee’s War Governor
Kent Masterson Brown
Lee and the Retreat from Gettysburg
Dr. Glenn LaFantasie
The Mystery of Ulysses S. Grant
Hood/Davis/Jacobson
John Bell Hood: Myths & Realities
Dr. Deanne Collins
“SCATHE: A Civil War Incident in Middle Tennessee”
Pearl Bransford/Thelma Battle
Middle Tennessee & the African-American Experience
Myers Brown
Tennessee’s Unionist Cavalrymen
2010
Greg Biggs
Nathan Bedford Forrest: Napoleonic Cavalryman
Jim Kay
Meltdown at Nashville: Hood’s Final Finality
Dorothy Kelly
A Want of Confidence: Longstreet’s East Tennessee Campaign
Dr. Timothy D. Johnson
The Mexican War: Civil War Training Ground
Jim Swan
Chicago’s Irish Legion in Dixie
Greg Wade/Thomas Flagel
“Was the War in Your Backyard?”
Jim Lewis
Cavalry in the Stone’s River Campaign
Fred Prouty
The Triune Earthworks
Peter Cozzens
Stonewall in the Valley
Bill Radcliff
The United States Colored Troops
Kent Wright
The 1864 Red River Campaign
2009
Robert Hicks
A Separate Country
Rick Warwick/David Fraley
Fighting at the Cotton Gin
Jack Hurst
Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest & the Campaign that Decided the War
Lt. Col. Tom McKenney
Jack Hinson’s One-Man War
J. T. Thompson
Lotz House Tour
Thomas Flagel
The Messengers of Death: How the Press Reported the Battle of Franklin
Vann Martin
The Post War Years: UCV versus GAR
James Lee McDonough
Five Tragic Hours
Jim Kay
The Battle of the Barricades
Jacobson/Thessin/Flagel
Battle of Franklin Panel
2008
Ruth McAllister
Co. “Aytch”: Sam’s Own Revised and Expanded Edition
Rick Warwick
The Civil War Seen Though the Female Experience
Eric Jacobson
Tested by Fire: Ohio and Missouri Troop at the Cotton Gin
Greg Wade
Harlinsdale Farm and the Retreat from Nashville
Kraig McNutt
The Carnton Cemetery
Thomas Forehand
Robert E. Lee in the First Person
John Bridges
Three Cousins from Mechanicsville
Mayor Tom Bain
The Battle of Brentwood
The Round Table
Round Table Moves to New Location!
The Franklin Civil War Round Table (FCWRT) is delighted to announce our future programs will be held at the Carnton Plantation’s Fleming Center beginning with the December 13 2015 event. We are extremely excited to be holding our presentations at Carnton and greatly look forward to this new relationship. Meeting on the actual battlefield will enhance the educational experience we strive to provide to our members on the entire Civil War era.
For the last several years, the FCWRT has met at the Franklin Police Headquarters Community Room, and we thank them for their help and hospitality. Moving forward we sincerely appreciate the warm reception from the Battle of Franklin Trust and their Chief Executive Officer, Eric Jacobson.
Nothing else will change. The presentations will still begin at 3:00 PM on the second Sunday of every month. Parking is plentiful and members can enjoy the Carnton bookstore before the sessions begin.
On Sunday, December 13th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present historian and author Eric Jacobson, who will speak on “The Founders, the Evolution of America, and the Road to Civil War.”
The question and key issues on how a new country found itself on the path to a bloody civil war only eighty-four years after achieving independence are found in the complex maze of compromises, personalities and economic pressures facing young America. Jacobson, with an assist from Round Table founder Greg Wade, will discuss the issues and events that led to this Civil War.
Jacobson is the CEO of the Battle of Franklin Trust and author of For Cause and For Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin, considered a contemporary classic on the 1864 Tennessee campaign. His latest book, Baptism of Fire, presents three Federal regiments who had not seen combat but played a critical role in the outcome of the Battle of Franklin. A Minnesota native, Jacobson has been studying the Civil War for twenty five years and resided in Arizona before coming to Middle Tennessee in 2005.
The event is free to the public, however reservations are suggested. The Franklin Civil War Round Table is an educational program of Franklin’s Charge and meets each month at Carnton Plantation’s Fleming Center, 1345 Eastern Flank Circle. For more information, email fcwrt@yahoo.com, or visit http://www.franklinscharge.com/round-table.
The Franklin Civil War Round Table official membership is now over 125 members including family and individual memberships. We appreciate your support and attendance at our programs!