Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table
Dedicated to preserving the History and Stories of The American Civil War
The next KCWRT Meeting....
Friday, June from 7:00 - 9:00pm at Westwood United Methodist Church - Basement
May 22
1856 - Southern Congressman Preston Brooks savagely beat Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner. Sumner had made comments about South Carolina Senator Andrew D. Butler, Brooks' cousin, in Butler's absence. The comments were related to the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The act allowed the two new territories to decide the slave issue by vote.
1863 - The War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops to recruit and assemble black regiments.
1865 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis was imprisoned at Fortress Monroe in Virginia.
U.S. Civil War Quote:
"Look at Jackson's brigade! It stands there like a stone wall!"
- Confederate General Barnard E. Bee of South Carolina gave this description of Stonewall Jackson's brigade 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.