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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 19th
1856 - Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner began a two-day speech on the Senate floor over the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. On May 22, Southern Congressman Preston Brooks savagely beat Sumner for comments made about South Carolina Senator Andrew D. Butler, Brook's cousin.
1864 - The Battle of Spotsylvania ended with 18,000 Union casualities and 12,000 for the Confederates.
1864 - Author Nathaniel Hawthorne died in New Hampshire.
U.S. Civil War Quote:
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
- Union General William T. Sherman said this shortly before beginning his brutal March to the Sea
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.