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Event Information:
- Regular meetings are currently suspended.
- We would like to hold special meetings from time to time, however!
Meeting Information
On Saturday, October 18, at 4:00 p.m., at the Mission Valley Branch Library, Author Tonya Graham McQuade—whose family roots go deep in Missouri— will discuss Missouri’s interesting Civil War history and share excerpts from her book, A State Divided: The Civil War Letters of James Calaway Hale and Benjamin Petree of Andrew County, Missouri, 1862-1865. The book includes fifty […]
Professor Edward J. Blum of SDSU will speak on “Counting in a Time of Crisis: A Discussion on the Census and the Civil War.” He will explore how the United States conducted its national census amid the upheaval of the Civil War and how President Abraham Lincoln turned to census officials and population data as […]
At 3:00 p.m., at the Mission Valley Branch Library, 2123 Fenton Pkwy, San Diego, CA, long-time Round Table member Carl Ingwalson has for many years been writing biographies of ordinary Civil War soldiers and their families. At this meeting, he will describe the experiences of the soldiers of the 21st Iowa Infantry Regiment. For example, […]
At 3:00 p.m., at the Mission Valley Branch Library, Clay Hoffman will speak on “The Misunderstood Life of General Fitz John Porter.” Although Porter served well in the early battles of the Civil War, his military career was ruined by a controversial court-martial instigated by political rivals. After the war, he worked for almost 25 […]