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Topic: Jefferson Davis
The meeting begins at 7:00 pm and is always open to the public. ![]() Brad Butkovich will talk about “The Battle of Allatoona Pass” at the next Clarksville Civil War Roundtable meeting. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Events | No Comments
Clarksville Civil War Roundtable’s next meeting is June 21st, 2017
The meeting begins at 7:00 pm and is always open to the public. Members please bring a friend or two – new recruits are always welcomed. Topic – “Bonnie Blue Flop: The Relationship Between Beauregard and Hood On The Tennessee Campaign of 1864.” ![]() “The Relationship Between Beauregard and Hood On The Tennessee Campaign of 1864.” is the topic for the next Clarksville Civil War Roundtable meeting. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Events | No Comments
Clarksville Civil War Roundtable’s next meeting is July 20th, 2016The 147th Meeting.
The meeting begins at 7:00pm and is always open to the public. Members please bring a friend or two – new recruits are always welcomed. Topic: “Bonnie Blue Flop: General P. G. T. Beauregard and Confederate Strategy in Fall 1864.” «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Events | No Comments
Clarksville Civil War Roundtable’s next meeting is March 19th, 2014The 120th meeting. Also their Tenth Anniversary
The meeting begins at 7:00pm and is always open to the public. Members please bring a friend or two – new recruits are always welcomed. Topic: “Conflicted Friendships: John Bull, Uncle Sam and King Cotton; The British Influence Upon Union and Confederate Naval Strategies” «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Events | No Comments
Clarksville Civil War Roundtable’s next meeting is January 15th, 2014The 118th meeting.
The meeting begins at 7:00 pm and is always open to the public. Members please bring a friend or two – new recruits are always welcomed. Topic: “Jefferson Davis: The Man” «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Events | No Comments
The sin of Confederate hero worshipWhy do Americans stand for Southerners idolizing the Confederacy, despite the evils of slavery and treason at its heart? By The Rebbe with a Cause, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach This week, I took my family to Virginia in pursuit of one of my favorite summertime activities, visiting Civil War battlefields. We traveled to the four great battlefields around Fredericksburg, where more than 100,000 soldiers died in the course of the war. I also fulfilled my lifelong dream of visiting Appomattox Courthouse where on April 9, 1865, Lee famously surrendered to Grant, in effect ending the war. What consistently baffles me in making these visits is the romanticization of the Confederacy that continues 140 years after the war’s end. Wherever you go in the South, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, J.E.B. Stuart, James Longstreet, and the other Confederate leaders are venerated as heroes. In the course of my travels, I have driven on Robert E. Lee Drive and Jefferson Davis Highway. I’ve seen myriad monuments to Stonewall Jackson, and I’ve seen the Confederate flag flying from cars and homes. As an American who loves his country, I am appalled by the persistence of Confederate hero worship in the South 140 years after the Civil War’s end. After all, the South fought for a truly evil cause. While there were other factors that led to the Civil War, no serious, objective historian would deny that the principal cause of the war was the institution of slavery, and that the South fought to preserve its “peculiar institution.” «Read the rest of this article» |
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