Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table
Dedicated to preserving the History and Stories of The American Civil War
The next KCWRT Meeting....
Friday, March 21 from 7:00 - 9:00pm at Westwood United Methodist Church - Basement
This month's speaker is Author John Horn. He will present a program on the Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road. This battle was part of the Petersburg campaign in which the 5th Michigan and Brigadier General Byron Root Pierce participated.
March 28
1862 - Confederate General Henry Hopkins Sibley was defeated at the Battle of Glorietta Pass. Sibley's men had come up the Rio Grande and within a few weeks had captured Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
1865 - At City Point, Virginia, U.S. President Lincoln met with Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman and Admiral David Dixon Porter.
U.S. Civil War Quote:
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
- Abraham Lincoln
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.