2013
JT Thompson
The Lotz House: Beauty and Tragedy
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
“Conflicted Friendships: John Bull, Uncle Sam and King Cotton – Union and Confederate Naval Strategies” at June’s Round Table
On Sunday, June 9th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present Kent Wright who will speak on “Conflicted Friendships: John Bull, Uncle Sam and King Cotton – Union and Confederate Naval Strategies.”
The first shots and the final shots of the American Civil War were fired from cannon aboard naval vessels. Between these two, the use of naval power both North and South was integral to the outcome of battles, campaigns, and the very war itself.
Wright will explore Union and Confederate naval policies as they expanded worldwide and the resulting impact on Southern sovereignty. His topics will include the tremendous impact of Jefferson Davis’ largest naval force and the single greatest advantage almost handed to President Lincoln, strategies to win the favor of the British monarchy, the relationship between the Union army and navy, and the almost mythical role of blockage running.
Wright is a Civil War navel historian from Huntsville, Alabama who has presented numerous programs highlighting the importance of major Southern rivers including the Cumberland, Tennessee, Mississippi and Red Rivers. This is his second appearance at the Round Table.
The event is free to the public. The Franklin Civil War Round Table is an educational program of Franklin’s Charge and meets each month at the Franklin Police Headquarter’s Community Room at 900 Columbia Avenue. For more information email fcwrt@yahoo.com.
The Franklin Civil War Round Table official membership is rapidly approaching 100 including family and individual memberships. We appreciate your support and attendance at our programs!
On Sunday, April 14th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present JT Thompson, Executive Director of the Lotz House, who will speak on “The Lotz House: Beauty and Tragedy.” The Lotz House, built in 1858 by German immigrant Johann Lotz, is a stunning example of craftsmanship seldom seen today. And while [...]
On Sunday, March 10th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present Dr. Steve Davis who will speak on “What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman’s Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta.” In late July 1864 General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Union army surrounded the city of Atlanta. After a prolonged shelling by artillery, [...]
On Sunday, February 10th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present FCWRT member and Battle of Franklin blogger Kraig McNutt to speak on “Robert Smalls and the C.S.S. Planter.” Robert Smalls’ remarkable escape from slavery came when, as a ship’s pilot he escaped with other slaves out of Charleston Harbor in [...]
On Sunday, January 13th at 3 P.M., Chickamauga National Park Ranger Jim Ogden returns to the Franklin Civil War Round Table to present his interactive “Battle of Chickamauga.” His presentation last year of “Campaign to Chickamauga” was very well-attended and received. The Battle of Chickamauga is considered by many to be a lost opportunity for [...]
On December 9, 2012, at 3:00 p.m., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present Myers Brown, curator of extension services at the Tennessee State Museum, who will speak on “The War of 1812 and the Civil War.” Tennessee played a major role in the War of 1812, which propelled Tennesseans including Andrew Jackson, Sam [...]
On Sunday, November 11, 2012, at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present award-winning author Peter Cozzens, who will speak on the Cahaba Prison. The Cahaba Prison was established in Cahaba, Alabama June 1863 in a brick cotton warehouse above the banks of the Alabama River. It was intended to house only [...]
On Sunday, October 14th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present Dr. John F. Kvach of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) who will discuss the importance of J.D.B. De Bow, the antebellum South’s most influential editor. De Bow was one of the region’s most fascinating and influential individuals as [...]
On Sunday, September 9th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present its 50th Roundtable event. Author Jack Hurst will speak on his recent work, “Born to Battle: Grant and Forrest – Shiloh, Vicksburg and Chattanooga.” Hurst will look at the Civil War’s Western theater through two great leaders, Ulysses S. Grant [...]
On Sunday, August 12th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will host Chickamauga National Park Ranger Jim Ogden, who will present his interactive “Campaign to Chickamauga.” The Battle of Chickamauga is considered by many to be a lost opportunity for the Confederacy when Confederate forces defeated the Federals in an epic battle [...]
On Sunday, July 8th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present author and historian Dr. Michael Bradley, who will speak on David Campbell Kelley, a prominent Methodist who served as a Colonel under Bedford Forrest during some of their most dramatic campaigns and the subject of his latest book, Forrest’s Fighting [...]
On Sunday, June 10th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present author Ruth Hill McAllister, who will speak on her great-grandfather and his inimitable Co. Aytch, considered by many historians as one of the best first-person accounts of a common soldier’s war experiences. Ken Burns, known for his famous PBS historical [...]
On Sunday, April 15th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present author and historian Dr. Brian McKnight, who will speak on Champ Ferguson and other guerillas active in Tennessee during the Civil War. Depending on one’s historical perspective, Confederate guerilla Champ Ferguson was either a ruthless murderer or a legitimate solider [...]
On Sunday, March 11th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will is presenting a tour and lecture of St John’s Church, just outside Columbia, Tennessee. Maury County historian, Bob Duncan, will speak on the church’s history, its involvement with the Polk family including Bishop General Leonidas Polk, and as a final resting [...]
On Sunday, February 12th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will provides members and the general public a unique opportunity to learn more about Williamson County’s Historic Courthouse in the facility’s refurbished main court room. Heritage Foundation historian Rick Warwick will discuss some of the events witnessed by this Greek Revival structure [...]
On Sunday, November 13th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present author, teacher and historian Randy Bishop, who will speak on the Tennessee Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia. Leaving their families in Middle Tennessee, the soldiers of the Tennessee Brigade participated in the major Civil War battles of Lee’s [...]
On Sunday, September 11 at 3 P.M., in the Community Room of the Franklin Police Department on Columbia Pike in Franklin, the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present author Christopher Kolakowski, who will be speaking on the Battle of Perryville. The 1862 Battle of Perryville was the largest battle in the state of Kentucky [...]
On Sunday, August 14 at 3 P.M., in the Community Room of the Franklin Police Department on Columbia Pike in Franklin, the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present author and Chairman of the Tennessee Historical Commission, Sam Davis Elliott, who will speak on “Isham G. Harris: Tennessee’s War Governor.” Born in Middle Tennessee, Harris [...]
On Sunday, July 10 at 3 P.M., at the Williamson County Library in Franklin, the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present Lexington, Kentucky author, Kent Masterson Brown, who will speak on “Lee and the Retreat from Gettysburg.” Much has been written about the Battle of Gettysburg but very little about those dramatic days that [...]
