Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table
Dedicated to preserving the History and Stories of The American Civil War
The next KCWRT Meeting....
January 17, 2025
KCWRT member Mark Longstroth will present a program on the Battle of Stones River
December 21
1861 - Lord Lyons, the British minister to the United States, met with Secretary of State William Seward concerning the fate of James Mason and John Slidell. The two Confederate envoys were arrested by the U.S. Navy aboard the British steamer Trent. The Lincoln administration released the two men a few days later.
1864 - General William T. Sherman reached Savannah, Georgia. Sherman telegraphed Lincoln and offered him Savannah as a Christmas present.
U.S. Civil War Quote:
"It's bad. It's damned bad."
- Abraham Lincoln's first reaction to the Union Army's rout at First Manassas
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.