.png/:/rs=w:1209,h:366)
Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table
Dedicated to preserving the History and Stories of The American Civil War
The next KCWRT Meeting....May
This month’s speaker is TBD
April 20th
1861 - Colonel Robert E. Lee resigned from the U.S. Army. Two days earlier he had been offered command of the Union army.
1864 - The Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina, ended with the rebels capturing Plymouth. Confederated had attacked four days before in an attempt to recapture forts that had been lost to the Union two years before.
U.S. Civil War Quote:
"Boys, he's not much for looks, but if we'd had him we wouldn't be caught in this trap."
- A captured Union soldier described Stonewall Jackson in this way
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.