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Crown Hill Tours: Nikki Schofield will be doing several walking tours on Saturdays at Crown Hill this year.
- October 5, 9:30 a.m. - NEW! "Treason in Indianapolis" walking tour
- October 19, 9:30 a.m. - "Tombstones & Trees" walking tour
Battle of Chickamauga and the Civil War in 1863: Wabash College is holding a
seminar day Friday, September 27 in Crawfordsville with the following schedule:
- Keynote speaker: Dan Crofts, North & South regional conflict;
- 1:00 – Patience & Jim Barnes, the unusual research for their new book 500 Strong: Wabash College Students in
the Civil War;
- 2:00 – Brent Harris, Battle of Chickamauga;
- 3:00 Bob Quirk & Ezra Ball, descendants of Wabash men who fought in the Civil War;
- 4:15 – Tracey Salisbury, “A Colored Regiment in the Civil War”;
- 5:00 – Roger Billings, Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War and his book, Abraham Lincoln, Esq.: The Legal Career of America’s Greatest President;
- 5:45 – book signing in Detchon Hall by Billings, the Barneses, and Nancy N. Baxter (Gallant Fourteenth: The Story of an Indiana Civil War Regiment);
- 6:00 – cocktails and dinner. Our group would be invited to sit with Jim & Patience and probably
other speakers.
Cost is $20 per person.
“Where the River Campaigns Began” Civil War Tour:
Greg Biggs will be hosting a Civil War tour on Sept. 27-28.
The group will meet and stay in Paducah, KY on Friday.
That night they will head downtown in a vehicle caravan and see the Ohio Riverwall which has wonderful historic murals depicting Paducah history
including the arrival the arrival of Union regiments under J.S. Grant as well as Nathan Bedford Forrest’s raid of March 1864.
They will also drive by CS Gen. Lloyd Tilghman’s home as well.
On Saturday, they will visit the following cities: Cairo, IL [ Fort Defiance site; Fort Defiance park (confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers)
where we'll see where the Union
forts at Bird's Point, MO and Fort Holt, KY were located;
Grant's headquarters and the home he visited after he was president;
location of the Mississippi River Flotilla; Cairo Museum and the recent Civil War Museum];
Mound City, IL [site of the naval ways where three of the City Class ironclads were built (USS Cincinnati, USS Mound City, USS Cairo);
location of the massive naval base and naval hospital; Mound City National Cemetery];
Wickliffe, KY [This town did not exist during the Civil War but was where
the Federals rebuilt Fort Jefferson (George Rogers Clark built the original in the late 1700s),
an advance base to protect Cairo from Confederate incursions from Columbus];
6 Columbus, KY [site of the Columbus-Belmont State Park.
This site interprets the massive Confederate fortifications built there (some 142 heavy guns) and the Battle of Belmont which was fought across the river.
This park is seasonal and closes at the end of October for the year.
A lot of the huge earthworks still remain there].
The cost is $30 per person and payments and contact info (including phone numbers) should be sent to
Greg Biggs, 2600 W. Henderson Way, Clarksville, TN 37042.
Hamilton County Civil War Roundtable
The Carmel-Clay Civil War Roundtable is
now the Hamilton County Civil War Roundtable. They meet at the Conner Prairie
Interactive History Park located at 13400 Allisonville Road. Doors open at 7:00 p.m., and
the program will start at 7:30 in the Lilly Theater on the 2nd floor of their main office
building. We will have plenty of free parking, and people should enter through the main
entrance where the ticket office is located. Camp coffee and hardtack should be available.
Meetings will be on the 3rd Wednesday of the month, September through May, excluding
December.
- 9/18 Scott Trostle – “Lincoln’s Funeral Train”
- 10/16 Daniel Moll – “A Portrayal of Edmund Ruffin”
- 11/20 Harvey Warner – “Confederate Finances
- Dec. – no meeting
- 1/15 Brian Dirck – “Lincoln and Civil Liberties”
- 2/19 Jim Johnson – “Religion During the Civil War”
- 3/19 Brian McCutcheon – “Ft. Donaldson”
- 4/16 Robert May – “Origins of the Confederacy”
- 5/21 Mark Jaeger – “The 10th Indiana Volunteers”
Madison County Historical Society Civil War Roundtable
They meet on the third Monday each month except July, August and December at 7 p.m. at the Madison County History Center, 15 West 11th Street,
in downtown Anderson.
- 9/16 Donna Schmink – “Indiana’s Battle Flags”
- 10/21 TBA
- 11/18 DVD Lecture Series “Border States”