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The story of cotton is intertwined with the war as it is intertwined with slavery. Both sides factored cotton into their strategies, fiscal as well as military. Gordon Gidlund will discuss many cotton-picking matters that you may have never even known about. Further, please come prepared to have your conventional wisdom challenged. The adventure starts […]
At 3:00 p.m., at the Mission Valley Branch Library, the San Diego Civil War Round Table is hosting a “Show and Tell” program where buffs are invited, for example, to present a book review of their favorite campaign narrative or a travelogue about an especially fulfilling battlefield visit. We also certainly invite descendants to talk about […]
On Saturday, April 11, at 3:00 p.m. , at the Mission Valley Branch Library, Author Clay Hoffman will speak on his book Notable Companions of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, which comprises profiles of historic American patriots. His talk will discuss a number of the patriots portrayed in the book who have served in […]
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 […]