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RHODE ISLAND CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE
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     Date                       Speaker                              Topic
June 1992                 Mark Dunkelman            Rhode Island Native Generals
September 1992        Virginia Adams              On the Altar of Freedom
October 1992             Thomas Turner              Lincoln’s Assassination
November 1992           film showing                 “The Birth of a Nation”
January 1993             open meeting                Round Table Discussion
February 1993            Frank Williams             Collecting Lincolniana
March 1993                Dan McConaghy           Second Day at Gettysburg
April 1993                  Joseph Frank                Seeing the Elephant
May 1993                   view collections at         Rhode Island Historical Society
June 1993                   Maury Klein                 The Fort Sumter Crisis
September 1993          Michael Burlingame      The Lincoln Marriage
October 1993              Shirley Barrett              Voices From the Civil War
November 1993            First Annual Dinner Meeting
                                  Richard N. Current        Lincoln’s Loyalists
January 1994              Gardiner Shattuck         Religion and Confederate Defeat
February 1994            meeting canceled because of snowstorm
March 1994                Anthony Nicolosi           The Naval Academy in Newport
April 1994                  R. & M. Parmenter portray  A Civil War Surgeon and Nurse
May 1994                  view collections at          Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
June 1994                 Andrew German             1st Pennsylvania Cavalry
September 1994        Will Hare                       U.S. Engineer Battalion
October 1994             Bill Hunter                     30th and 50th Wisconsin
November 1994         Second Annual Dinner Meeting
                                 Harold Holzer                The Civil War in Art
January 1995              Les Rolston                  Samuel Postelthwaite
February 1995            William F. Hanna           Lincoln’s 1860 Visit to Rhode Island
March 1995                Noah Dennen                Medford Historical Society Photo Collection
April 1995                   David Riley                   Textile Industry Links R.I. and the South
May 1995                   view collections at         Providence Public Library
June 1995                  Edward Renehan           The Secret Six
September 1995         Tom Shanahan              Sullivan Ballou
October 1995             Phil DiMaria                   Battery B, 1st R.I. Light Artillery
November 1995          Third Annual Dinner Meeting
                                 William Marvel               Andersonville: The Last Depot
January 1996              Wayne Rowe                 Robert E. Lee and Leadership
February 1996             William E. Gienapp        Presidential Leadership of Abraham Lincoln
March 1996                 Pamela Lucashu portrays  U.S. Sanitary Commission
April 1996                   Bruce Trinque                Evolution of Tactics, 14th Connecticut
May 1996                   view collections at          Varnum Armory, East Greenwich
June 1996                   Donald Marcum             Artillery
September 1996          Paul Oliveira                  Maj. Henry H. Young, Chief of Scouts
 October 1996             Jim Rocha                     Col. John S. Mosby
November 1996            Fourth Annual Dinner Meeting
                                  David M. Sullivan           U.S. Marines at First Bull Run
January 1997               open meeting                Round Table Discussion
February 1997             Fr. Timothy Ferguson     Amos Perry, 3rd R.I. Cavalry
March 1997                 Donald Yacovone           A Voice of Thunder
April 1997                    Wayne Rowe                 Appomattox Campaign
May 1997                    Richard M. McMurry       The Gettysburg Splash
June 1997                    Mary Mierka                  Women’s Contributions During the War
September 1997           Frederic Sherman Cauldwell  William Tecumseh Sherman
October 1997               open meeting                  Ghosts and Horror
November 1997             Fifth Annual Dinner Meeting
                                   Jan Turnquist portrays     Harriet Beecher Stowe
January 1998                Paul Archetto                 Gen. George A. Custer
February 1998              Robb Dimick portrays      Abraham Lincoln
March 1998                  Gregg Mierka                 Gen. George Sears Greene
April 1998                     Maury Klein                   The Coming of the War
May 1998                     view collections at           Newport Artillery Company
June 1998                    John Moon                      Fort Warren, Boston Harbor
September 1998            open meeting                 Round Table Discussion
October 1998                Joseph Sullivan              The Blue, the Gray, and the Red
November 1998             Sixth Annual Dinner Meeting
                                    Harry Dapper                 The Great Dan Sickles
  January 1999                 Mark Dunkelman            Those Damned Dutchmen
February 1999                view Lincoln collection of  Judge Frank J. Williams
March 1999                    open meeting                 Round Table Discussion
April 1999                       Bruce Trinque                Confederate Battle Flags at Pickett’s Charge
May 1999                       Mark Dunkelman            Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier
June 1999                      Joseph H. Geden            Confederate Capt. James D. Bulloch
September 1999             Brent Nosworthy            The Development of Ironclads
October 1999                 Tom Goodrich                The War on the Border
November 1999              Seventh Annual Dinner Meeting
                                     Harry Roach                  Mathew Brady’s World
January 2000                  open meeting                Round Table Discussion
February 2000                William Rosengren         Bands and Music in a Prismatic Society
March 2000                    open meeting                 Book Review
April 2000                      Samuel Hough                R.I. at Antietam, Robert Hale Ives
May 2000                      Societe d’Europe portrays   European Observers and Officers
June 2000                     open meeting                   Discussion of Battles
September 2000            Jim Mathews portrays       Capt. Brian McKay, U.S. Navy
October 2000                Tom and Deb Goodrich      A State of Siege: Kansas, 1854-1865
November 2000              Eighth Annual Dinner Meeting
                                    Earl McElfresh                Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War
January 2001                 Edwin C. Bearss             The Knoxville Campaign
February 2001                Bruce Trinque                 Infantry Tactics
March 2001                    open meeting                 Discussion of Generals
April 2001                      Brent Nosworthy             Tactical Developments in the 1850s
May 2001                       view collections at          John Hay Library, Brown University
June 2001                      Michael Vorenberg          Lincoln, the War, and Abolition
September 2001             David M. Jordan             Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren
October 2001                 David W. Blight              Race and Reunion
November 2001              Ninth Annual Dinner Meeting
                                    Bob Zeller                      The Civil War in Depth
January 2002                Meg Galante-DeAngelis    Women in Civil War Era Songs
February 2002              Mackubin Thomas Owens   Robert E. Lee, Lost Cause, Revisionism
March 2002                  Sara Bartlett                     Kady Brownell
April 2002                     Bob Hall                          The Short Life of Pvt. William Dinsmore
May 2002                     Bob Borden                      Patriotic Covers, Massachusetts Soldiers
June 2002                     View sights at                  Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut
September 2002           Mark Dunkelman               Coster Avenue Mural, Gettysburg
October 2002               Ed Inman                           RI Civil War Broadside Project
November 2002             Tenth Annual Dinner Meeting
                                    A. Wilson Greene             The Breakthrough at Petersburg
January 2003                Jim Cullen                        Lincoln and the American Dream
February 2003              Rob Goldman                   14th RI Heavy Artillery (colored)
                                                                          Student Re-enactment group
March 2003                  Al Nofi                             James Longstreet and His Enemies
April 2003                     Harriette Rinaldi               Victor Chambers
May 2003                     Mark Dunkelman               The 11th Corps at Chancellorsville
June 2003                     Bruce Trinque                   Cavalry Battle East of Gettysburg
September 2003            James Tackach                Lincoln's Second Inaugural
October 2003                John Balco                       as General U.S. Grant
November 2003             Eleventh Annual Dinner Meeting
                                   Elizabeth D. Leonard          Lincoln's Avengers
January 2004                Open meeting
February 2004              Brent Nosworthy                Revisiting Civil War Resources
March 17, 2004            Adam Braver, author of Mr. Lincoln's Wars, a novel in thirteen stories
April 21, 2004               Mark Dunkelman                Sherman's March to the Sea
May 19, 2004                Jeff Fioranvanti, Civil War artist
June 16, 2004               Jay Schmidt                      Fort Warren
September 15, 2004      Frank Fernandes                Sound on the Goose
October 20, 2004          Jeffrey C. Hall                    The Stand of the U.S. Army at Gettysburg
November 13, 2004        12th Annual Dinner Meeting   Jacqueline Glass Campbell      When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front

January 19, 2005           David Pincins                     The Confederate Soldier

February 16, 2005         Mark Dunkelman                Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment

March 16, 2005             Robert Bromley                  Artillery
April 20, 2005               George Geer                       Uncommon Valor: The 1st Minnesota at  Gettysburg
May 18, 2005                Patti Cassidy                    Frozen Glory (a documentary film on R.I. war monuments)
June 15, 2005               Michael Chesson, UMass Boston professor and Civil War author
September 21, 2005      Russell Dannecker             Chaplain John A. Perry, 1st R.I. Light Artillery
October 19, 2005          R.I. Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams, Lincoln scholar
November 12, 2005       13th Annual Dinner Meeting  Gordon Rhea, renowned Civil War author

January 18, 2006         Richard F. Miller                  Harvard's Civil War

February 15, 2006        Dana Zeiser                         Civil War Tokens

March 15, 2006            Glenn W. LaFantasie           The Heroes of Little Round Top    
April 19, 2006               John Proctor                       Henry Brown, 21st Massachusetts
May 17, 2006               Michael Werner                   Jewish Contribution to the Civil War 
June 21, 2006               Michael Chesson                 Journal of a Civil War Surgeon
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