Thanks to Michelle for suggesting this article. https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/find/content-reconstruction-era-politics-and-people-after-the-civil-war You can find more like this and other resources at www.cwrtcongress.org

Our speaker for October is Judy Cook. Her topic is “On the Homefront.” Judy’s presentation will be via Zoom beginning at 7:00 p.m. on October 28. All members will be given a link to the Zoom meeting a few days before it is scheduled. Feel free to share the link with persons you think might be interested in joining our Roundtable and want to see what the (virtual) meetings are like. We can accommodate up to 100 persons at the…

Our December speaker, Tom Wack, practiced law with major St. Louis law firms for 48 years, litigating commercial cases in the state and federal courts all over the country. Tom will offer a reprise of his talk on the Dred Scott litigation in the Missouri state courts, first presented at the Roundtable’s 60th Anniversary Symposium in 2017. He will speak via Zoom on Wednesday, December 2, 2020, at 7:00 p.m. If you would like to hear this talk as a…

At our next meeting, Michael Jesberger will tell us about the Confederate submarine H. L. HUNLEY then and now. On February 17, 1864, the HUNLEY sank a Union warship, but itself was sunk in Charleston Harbor. The vessel was raised in 2000, and in 2004 its crew interred in Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston. We will meet via Zoom on January 27 at 7:00 p.m. Members will be sent the link a few days before that. First-time visitors and guests can…

We all know that Abraham Lincoln gave his immortal Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. Many of us know that the keynote speaker was Edward Everett, who gave a two-hour address before Lincoln’s two-minute speech. But how many of us know there was a third Gettysburg Address? David Dixon will tell us about the Lost Gettysburg Address at our meeting on Wednesday, February 24 at 7:00 p.m. CST. As an extra incentive, our speaker will be raffling off books at…