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Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table
Dedicated to preserving the History and Stories of The American Civil War
The next KCWRT Meeting....May 15 at 7:30pm
This month’s speaker is Mike Dumke
He will be presenting a program about the Michigan Cavalry Brigade.
May 13th
1861 - Union troops occuppied Baltimore, Maryland.
1863 - Union General Ulysses S. Grant began his advance toward Jackson, Mississippi, on his drive to take Vicksburg.
1864 - Twenty hours of fighting ceased, for the Bloody Angle, just before dawn at Spotsylvania. The battle continued until May 19.
U.S. Civil War Quote:
"There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end."
- Abraham Lincoln made this statement on February 15, 1861, while en-route to his inauguration
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.