2013-2014 Schedule

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

 

Member Research

MVCWRT logoThe Mahoning Valley Civil War Round Table has among its members many knowledgeable and insightful historians who have been published in such periodicals as Gettysburg Magazine, Timeline: a Publication of the Ohio Historical Society, Military Images, and Civil War History: a Journal of the Middle Period.

all entries are in .pdf format

Jim Wright - "Vincent's Brigade on Little Round Top," Gettysburg Magazine.  Issue number one.  July, 1989.

Jim Wright - "Time on Little Round Top," Gettysburg Magazine.  Issue number two.  January, 1990.

Jim Wright - "I Will Take the Responsibility": Strong Vincent Moves to Little Round Top: Fact or Fiction?  Gettysburg Magazine. Issue number twenty-five.

Jim Wright - "Eulogy of General Strong Vincent - Erie Cemetery,  Erie,  PA."  May 21, 1995.  On May 21, 1995, MVCWRT member and long-time Strong Vincent researcher Jim Wright, gave the eulogy at the rededication ceremony at Vincent's grave in Erie, Pennsylvania. These are his words.

Carole Babyak - "George Washington Williams, 6th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry."  Carole's article appeared in People of Trumbull County 2000 published by the Trumbull Co Archivist.

Timothy R. Brookes - "Harvey, Yankee War Dog,"  Timeline.  A Publication of the Ohio Historical Society.  January - February 1994, Volume 1 / Number 1.

Timothy R. Brookes - "Murder in Dayton: the Death of Lieutenant Waterman."  Timeline.  A Publication of the Ohio Historical Society.  May - June 1996, Volume 13 / Number 3. 

Timothy R. Brookes - "A Saltwater Buckeye: Lt. Cdr. John J. Cornwell, U.S.N."  MI - Military Images magazine.  July - August 2000, Volume XXII, Number 1.

Timothy R. Brookes - "David Hamilton Morton," vignette.  MI - Military Images magazine.  July - August 1992, Volume XIV, Number 1.

Timothy R. Brookes - "Sunshine to Greenbacks: An incomplete history of Ohio photographer Emmor Crew."  MI - Military Images magazine.  May - June 1992, Volume XIII, Number 6.

Timothy R. Brookes - "A Double Sacrifice," vignette.  MI - Military Images magazine.  March  - April 1990, Volume XI, Number 5. 

Timothy R. Brookes - "The Walking Artillery."  MI - Military Images magazine.  January - February 1989, Volume X, Number 4.

Timothy R. Brookes - "Private Abashe Cowen, 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry."  MI - Military Images magazine.  July - August 1987, Volume IX, Number 1.

Larry Hardman - Home Camp of the 7th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  This is a detailed, well-researched web-site Larry built and maintains.  Click on the link or go to http://members.tripod.com/Larry_Hardman/

Hugh G. Earnhart - "The Administrative Organization of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau in Ohio, 1863-65."  Northwest Ohio Quarterly: A Journal of History and Civilization.  Summer 1965, Volume XXXVII, Number 3.  Published by the Maumee Valley Historical Society (formerly the Historical Society of NW Ohio).  

Hugh G. Earnhart - "Commutation: Democratic or Undemocratic?"  Civil War History: a Journal of the Middle Period.  June 1966, Volume 12, Number 2. 

Ken Bandy - "Sgt. George Harlan, 65th Ohio Infantry," vignette.  MI - Military Images magazine.  May - June 1993, Volume XIV, Number 6.  Note - the last two pages of this entry were supplied by the author and not a part of the original article.