Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table
Dedicated to preserving the History and Stories of The American Civil War
The next KCWRT Meeting....
Friday, April 25 from 7:00 - 9:00pm at Westwood United Methodist Church - Basement
The speaker is John Horn. His most recent book is Grant Lays Siege to Lee: Petersburg, June 18-July 1, 1864 . His program will focus on
the battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, in which the 5th Michigan and Brig. Gen. Byron Root Pierce participated. Pierce was a 5th Michigan man about whom John wrote a thumbnail biography for a series of postwar official reports that SavasBeatie will be publishing. He played a prominent role in the fighting.
April 24
1862 - Seventeen ships under the command of Union Admiral David Farragut moved up the Mississippi River past two Confederate forts toward New Orleans. Only one ship was lost.
1863 - Union Colonel Benjamin Grierson's troops tore up tracks and destroyed two trainloads of ammunition headed for Vicksburg.
1863 - The Union army issued General Orders No. 100. The orders provided the code of conduct for Federal soldiers and officers when dealing with Confederate prisoners and civilians.
U.S. Civil War Quote:
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
- Union General John Sedgwick spoke these words just moments before being shot dead by a confederate sniper at Spotsylvania
KCWRT Activities
Albert Castel Book Award
Historical Preservation Efforts
Albert Castel Book Award
To stimulate new scholarship on the Civil War, every other year KCWRT presents the Albert Castel Book Award to the author of the best recent book on the Civil War in the Western Theater.
WMU History Day 2023
Historical Preservation Efforts
Albert Castel Book Award
To help promote local interest in the Civil War, KCWRT awards an annual prize for the best Civil War-related entry in the Kalamazoo District Michigan History Day Competition.
Historical Preservation Efforts
Historical Preservation Efforts
Historical Preservation Efforts
KCWRT has conducted fund raisers to support numerous preservation efforts over the years. Generally, this is in the form of a donation to a preservation fund organized to save a specific Civil War site from development.