9/9 - Rob Orrison, Historic Site Manager at Bristoe Station Battlefield Heritage Park, The Battle of Bristoe Station
10/14 - Lance Herdegen, award-winning author and Chair of the Wisconsin Civil War Sesquicentennial
Commission, The Iron Brigade
11/11 - Dr. Christopher Phillips, Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati, Damned Yankee: the Life of Nathaniel Lyon
12/9 - Dr. Diane Barnes, Professor of History at Youngstown State University, The Emancipation Proclamation or Frederick Douglass (TBA)
1/13 - Dr. John Henris, Professor of History at Kent State University at Salem, Salem, Ohio: War,
Pacifism, and the Quaker Community Divided, 1861-1872
2/10 - Christopher Gwinn, Park Ranger at Gettysburg NMP,the 54th Massachusetts
3/10 - Jeffrey Hill, author, The 26th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry: The Groundhog Regiment
4/14 - David Bastian, author, Grant's Canal: the Union's Attempt to Bypass Vicksburg
5/12 -Clark B. Hall, co-founder of the Chantilly Battlefield Association, the Association for the Preservation
of Civil War Sites, and the Brandy Station Foundation,The Battle of Brandy Station
David Tod (1805 - 1868) was born in Youngstown and served as governor of Ohio for two years during the war.