WELCOME TO THE CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE OF DALLAS

 

No event in our history fascinates Americans as much as the Civil War.  Our interest in the war is only natural for "it was the crossroads of our being," as author Shelby Foote said, "It defines us."

 

The Civil War Round Table of Dallas is a diverse group of men and woman of all ages and from varying backgrounds who enjoy learning about the American Civil War.  It includes history enthusiasts as well as individuals who are just beginning to develop an interest in the Civil War.  It is neither pro-Confederate nor pro-Union in its views, but rather presents topics from both viewpoints of the war.

We meet on the second Wednesday of each month to hear guest speakers, many of whom are nationally known historians, and to discuss a wide range of topics.  Membership is open to anyone at the cost of $25 per year.

 

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MEETING LOCATION

Our meetings are held at the Divine Coffee Shop in the Northlake Shopping Center, located at 10233 East Northwest Highway, Suite 434.  This is on the northeast corner of Ferndale Road and Northwest Highway (Mapsco 27Z) (click here for map to restaurant).  The meal is a buffet at a cost of $15 per person.  It is served shortly after 6:00 and the speaker begins about 7:00.  There is usually a question and answer period following the presentation, time permitting.  Meetings are generally end around 8:15.  Dress is casual.

 

 

PLEASE MAKE RESERVATIONS – WE HAVE TO GIVE A GUARANTEE

To make your reservation, email Gerry York at Gygolf@charter.net or call Pax Glenn at 214-352-8138 or Scott Robson at 214-348-7703 by noon on the Tuesday before the Wednesday meeting.  DON’T BE A NO-SHOW.  If you have made reservations and then learn you cannot attend, we ask you to cancel by noon on the Tuesday before the meeting so we can inform the restaurant.  If we are charged for the no-show meal by the restaurant, we will have to charge you for it.

 

 

NEXT MEETING – WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

OUR 267^th MEETING

 

Speaker – John C. Waugh

 

Our Presenter

John C. Waugh is a veteran former newspaper correspondent and bureau chief of The Christian Science Monitor.  Since 1989 he has turned his talent to reporting the past instead of the present. His first book, The Class of 1846, published in 1994, won the New York Civil War Round Table’s Fletcher Pratt Award, given annually for what that round table considers the best nonfiction Civil War book published that year. In 2000 he received the Grady McWhiney Award of Merit from the Civil War Round Table of Dallas.

 

He has since written One Man Great Enough, Reelecting Lincoln, Surviving the Confederacy, On the Brink of Civil War, and three shorter paperback books: Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians, Last Stand at Mobile, and most recently, 20 Good Reasons to Study the Civil War. He also authored Edwin Cole Bearss: History’s Pied Piper, a tribute to one of America’s great historians. “Jack” as he is better known to us, is a resident of Pantego, Texas, and a member and popular speaker of the Civil War Round Table of Dallas.

 

His latest book Lincoln and McClellan: The Troubled Partnership Between A President And His General was recently published by PalgraveMacmillan.

 

Presentation:

During the Civil War, both sides were plagued with command frictions, but the western Confederate armies highlighted a special brand of toxic bickering that had an enormous impact on military operations. The degree to which command infighting could destroy an army’s effectiveness is exemplified by the Army of the Tennessee during the 1863 Chickamauga-Chattanooga campaigns. It is directly into this chaotic situation that James Longstreet and his First Corps was thrust in September 1863. Our speaker will discuss motives for the First Corps to travel West, Longstreet’s transfer to the Western Concentration Bloc, the impact of Longstreet transfer to the West and the “Perfect Storm” of personality conflict and other intangibles which harmed the First Corps’ operations.

 

Quick Links

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Grady McWhiney Award of Merit

The Grady McWhiney Award, named in honor of Dr. Grady McWhiney, is presented annually to an individual or organization that has contributed significantly to the scholarship or preservation of Civil War history.  Winners of the Grady McWhiney Award of Merit have been:

 

1998 Grady McWhiney, Ph.D.

 

1999 Charles and Peggy Pearce – Pearce Collection of Civil War Letters and Documents

 

2000 John C. Waugh: Author of The Class of 1846 and Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle of the 1864 Presidency

 

2001 Scott Bowden and Bill Ward – Authors of Last Chance for Victory: Robert E. Lee and the Gettysburg Campaign

 

2002 Steve Woodworth, Ph.D. – Author of numerous books on the Civil War and Professor of History at TCU

 

2003 Donald S. Frazier, Ph.D. – Civil War historian and Executive Director of the Grady McWhiney Research Foundation

 

2004 B.D. Patterson, D.D.S. – Dean of the Harold B. Simpson Hill College History Complex and Conference Research

 

2005 Anne J. Bailey, Ph.D. – Professor of History at Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia

 

2006 Glenn Linden, Ph.D. – Professor of History at SMU

 

2007 Edwin C. Bearss – Civil War Historian and Chairman Emeritus of the U.S. National Parks

 

2008 Richard F. Selcer, Ph.D. – Northlake College

 

2009 Rick McCaslin, Ph.D. – University of North Texas