BULL RUN CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE
Presentation Archive
WHAT: The Bull Run Civil War Round Table holds monthly meetings that feature a guest speaker presenting a topic of interest to Civil War enthusiasts. As conditions permit, we record some lectures and offer them here online.
WHERE: Centreville Regional Library, Centreville VA.
[map]
Second Thursday of each month, 7:00 to 9:00 P.M.
Free and open to the public.
HOW: During the pandemic, clicking on a lecturer's
picture or name below will bring up two options for
viewing the presentation: Facebook or Zoom. Earlier
presentations can be heard online with the graphics.
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Topic: "Fort Harrison, and the
Battle of Chaffin’s Farm 1864" Recorded 8 August 2024 |
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| Doug Crenshaw | ||||
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Topic: "The Battle of Cool Spring
July 1864" Recorded 11 July 2024 |
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| Jonathan Noyalas | ||||
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Topic: "The Maps of Battle of
Spotsylvania Courthouse, May 1864" Recorded 27 June 2024 |
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| Brad Gottfried | ||||
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Topic: "The Battle of Wilderness,
May 1864" Recorded 9 May 2024 |
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| Chris Mackowski | ||||
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Topic: "Elizabeth Van Lew: Union
Spy in the Heart of the Confederacy" Recorded 11 April 2024 |
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| Jim Anderson | ||||
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Topic: "Colonel John Singleton
Mosby and the Lincoln Conspiracy" Recorded 14 March 2024 |
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| David Goetz | ||||
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Topic: "The Emancipation
Proclamation" Recorded 8 February 2024 |
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| Kevin Pawlak | ||||
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Topic: "The 69th NY Militia at
the Battle of 1st Bull Run/Manassas" Recorded 11 January 2024 |
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| Harry
Smeltzer |
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Topic: "The Battle of Bristoe
Station October 14th 1863" Recorded 12 October 2023 |
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| Kate Bitely and Kevin Pawlak | ||||
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Topic: "The Battle at
Rappahannock Station, Nov 1863" Recorded 14 September 2023 |
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| Jeffrey Hunt | ||||
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Topic: "Longstreet at Gettysburg: A
Critical Reassessment" Recorded 10 August 2023 |
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| Cory
Pfarr |
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Topic: "The Impact of Intelligence
on the Gettysburg Campaign" Recorded 13 July 2023 |
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| Jim
Anderson |
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Topic: "The Battle of 2nd Winchester
June 1863" Recorded 8 June 2023 |
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| Scott Mingus | ||||
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Topic: "The Battle of
Chancellorsville , May 1863" Recorded 11May 2023 |
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| Frank O'Reilly | ||||
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Topic: "Camp Nelson KY Story,
Founded 1863" Recorded 13 April 2023 |
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| Stephen Phan | ||||
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Topic: "The Lutheran Seminary in the
Battle of Gettysburg" Recorded 9 March 2023 |
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| Cody Eash | ||||
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Topic: "Removing Confederate Dead
from Gettysburg" Recorded 9 February 2023 |
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| Janet McCabe | ||||
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Topic: "Winter 1862-63, Mosby
Command Begins" Recorded 12 January 2023 |
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| Don Hakenson/Chuck Mauro | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of Fredericksburg –
Dec. 1862" Recorded 8 December 2022 |
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| Chris Mackowski | ||||
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Topic: "Women At War: The Female
Soldiers of the American Civil War and Those
That Wished They Were" Recorded 10 November 2022 |
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| Dominish
Marie Miller |
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Topic: "Albert G. Jenkins’
Trans-Allegheny Raid" Recorded 13 October 2022 |
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| Jon-Erik Gilot | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of Cedar Mountain –
August 1862" Recorded 16 August 2022 |
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| Michael Block | ||||
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Topic: "August 27: The Critical
Actions of the Second Manassas Campaign" Recorded 14 July 2022 |
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| Kevin Pawlak | ||||
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Topic: "Centreville VA Civil War
Defenses 1861-1862" Recorded 9 June 2022 |
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| John Carter | ||||
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Topic: "Federal Colonel Joseph
Thoburn in the Valley" Recorded 12 May 2022 |
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| Scott Patchan | ||||
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Topic: "The Battle of Shiloh, April
1862" Recorded 14 April 2022 |
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| Greg
Mertz |
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Topic: "Battle of Dranesville VA ,
December 1861" Recorded 13 January 2022 |
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| Ryan Quint | ||||
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Topic: "Searching for Irvin
McDowell, Forgotten Civil War General." Recorded 9 December 2021 |
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| Schmiel,
Schneider, Simione |
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Topic: "Federal Cavalry Early
Warning Camps in Northern Virginia in 1864." Recorded 18 November 2021 |
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| Brian McEnany | ||||
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Topic: "Commander Worden and the
USS Montauk Destroy the CSS Nashville" Recorded 5 October 2021 |
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| John Quarstein | ||||
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Topic: "The Cornfield, Battle of
Antietam September 1862" Recorded 9 September 2021 |
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| David Welker | ||||
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Topic: "The Battles of
Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House:
The Final Fury and the Last to Die." Recorded 12 August 2021 |
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| Patrick Schroeder | ||||
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Topic: "In Memory of Self and
Comrades of the 1st Virginia Cavalry" Recorded 8 July 2021 |
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| Michael Shaffer | ||||
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Topic: "Are We Traitors &
Cowards": Dissent in Virginia's Shenandoah
Valley" Recorded 10 June 2021 |
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| Jonathan Noyalas | ||||
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Topic: "The Civil War in York
County PA" Recorded 13 May 2021 |
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| Scott Mingus | ||||
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Topic: "The Victor of
Gettysburg: George Gordon Meade & the Civil
War" Recorded 8 April 2021 |
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| Dr. Jennifer Murray | ||||
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Topic: "Jeb Stuart at Laurel
Hill VA" Recorded 11 March 2021 |
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| Melissa Weeks | ||||
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Topic: "Gen McDowell's Strategy
before 1st Manassas 1861" Recorded 11 February 2021 |
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| Harry Smeltzer | ||||
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Topic: "Gen Lee's strategy from
Battle of Chancellorsville to Gettysburg 1863" Recorded 14 January 2021 |
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| Al Stone | ||||
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Topic: "Arlington House – The
Last Battle of the Civil War" Recorded 10 December 2020 |
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| Ron Beavers | ||||
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Topic: "The Lost Gettysburg
Address" Recorded 11 November 2020 |
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| David Dixon | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of Ox Hill" Recorded 8 October 2020 |
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| BRCWRT Team | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of Wilson's Creek" Recorded 10 September 2020 |
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| Kristen Pawlak | ||||
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Topic: "Grant’s Last Battle –
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant" Recorded 13 August 2020 |
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| Chris Mackowski | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of Cedar Mountain" Recorded 9 July 2020 |
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| Michael Block |
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Topic: "I Held Lincoln; A Union
Sailor's Journey Home" Recorded 11 June 2020 |
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| Richard Quest | ||||
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Topic: "Railroads, Herman Haupt,
and the Battle of Gettysburg" Recorded 14 May 2020 |
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| Steven Ditmeyer | ||||
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Topic: "The Burning of the
Shenandoah Valley" Recorded 13 February 2020 |
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| Terry Heder | ||||
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Topic: "The War Outside My
Window" Recorded 9 January 2020 |
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| Janet Croon |
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Topic: "Battle of Big Bethel VA
June 1861" Recorded 12 December 2019 |
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| John Quarstein | ||||
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Topic: "The Chaos and Carnage in
the Hospitals of First Manassas" Recorded 14 November 2019 |
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| Paige Gibbon-Backus | ||||
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Topic: "The U.S. Marine Corps:
John Brown’s Raid & the Civil War" Recorded 10 October 2019 |
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| Dan Clendaniel |
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Topic: "To Hazard All: A Guide
to the Maryland Campaign, 1862" Recorded 12 September 2019 |
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| Rob Orrison/Kevin Pawlak | ||||
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Topic: "Cloaked in Mystery: The
Curious Case of the Confederate General's Coat" Recorded 8 August 2019 |
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| Richard Lewis | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of Fort Fisher,
NC" Recorded 11 July 2019 |
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| Ed Bearss | ||||
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Topic: "Mosby in Fauquier County" Recorded 13 June 2019 |
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| Don Hakenson/Chuck Mauro
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Topic: "Julia Wilbur and Harriet
Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"" Recorded 9 May 2019 |
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| Paula Whitacre | ||||
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Topic: "Seed and Blood: Slavery
and American Capitalism" Recorded 11 April 2019 |
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| Noah Cincinnati | ||||
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Topic: "Cavalry Action at Battle
of Chickamauga" Recorded 14 March 2019 |
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| Eric Whittenberg | ||||
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Topic: "The Battle of Antietam
and the Union Command Controversy" Recorded 14 February 2019 |
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| Gene Schmiel | ||||
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Topic: "They Rode with Mosby" Recorded 13 December 2018 |
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| Buckland, Eric | ||||
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Topic: "Gettysburg’s Unknown
Soldier: The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos
Humiston" Recorded 8 November 2018 |
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| Mark Dunkleman | ||||
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Topic: "Take Care of the
Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran
Families in Virginia" Recorded 11 October 2018 |
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| Jeff McClurken | ||||
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Topic: "Sunstroke and
Ankle-Deep Mud" Recorded 13 September 2018 |
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| Brian McEnany/Jim Lewis | ||||
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Topic: "The Kentucky
Campaign August to November 1862" Recorded 9 August 2018 |
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| Christopher Kolakowski | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of Ft Donaldson
and Ft Henry" Recorded 12 July 2018 |
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| Ed Bearss | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of Nashville
December 1864" Recorded 14 June 2018 |
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| Stephen Phan |
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Topic: "C W Press: Resisting Censorship
to Publish Secretsl" Recorded 10 May 2018 |
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| Randy Ferryman |
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Topic: "Ambrose Powell Hill" Recorded 12 April 2018 |
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| Patrick Falci | ||||
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Topic: "Evening with US Grant" Recorded 8 March 2018 |
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| Brian Withrow | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of Falling Waters" Recorded 8 February 2018 |
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| George Franks III | ||||
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Topic: "Leadership Lessons of the CW" Recorded 11 January 2018 |
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| Ralph Peters |
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Topic: "CSS Albemarle" Recorded 14 December 2017 |
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| John Quarstein | ||||
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Topic: "Fighting the Civil War:
Historical Treasures of the Conflict in the
Collection of the National Civil War Museum" Recorded 9 November 2017 |
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| Wayne
Motts |
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Topic: "The Potomac River Blockade
1861-62" Recorded 12 October 2017 |
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| Rob
Orrison & Bill Backus |
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Topic: "The Jewels of War": Robert
E. Lee, George B. McClellan, and the Battle of
Antietam Recorded 17 September 2017 |
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| Kevin
Pawlak |
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Topic: "Battle of Chickamauga, GA" Recorded 10 August 2017 |
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| David
Powell |
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Topic: "Gettysburg Day 3" Recorded 8 June 2017 |
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| Ed Bearss | ||||
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Topic: "General Civil War
Medicine" Recorded 11 May 2017 |
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| Gordon
Dammann |
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Topic: "Civil War Artillery
Projectiles and Fuzes"" Recorded 13 April 2017 |
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| John Biemeck | ||||
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Topic: "Slaughter at the Chapel;
The Battle of Ezra Church" Recorded 9 March 2017 |
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| Gary
Ecelbarger |
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Topic: "Clara Barton in the Civil
War" Recorded 9 February 2017 |
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| Jenee
Lindner |
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Topic: "Lee's Decision to Resign from the US Army" Recorded 12 January 2017 |
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| Al Stone | ||||
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Topic: "CSS Shenandoah" Recorded 8 December 2016 |
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| Dwight
Hughes |
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Topic: "Kill Jeff Davis, The K&D Richmond, VA Raid" Recorded on 10 November 2016 |
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| Bruce Venter | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of Bristoe Station" Recorded on 13 October 2016 |
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| William Backus | ||||
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Topic: "Civil War History at the Bull Run Winery" Recorded on 8 September 2016 |
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| Jon Hickox | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of 2nd Manassas Campaign" Recorded on 11 August 2016 |
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| Ed Bearss | ||||
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Topic: "The Battle of 1st Manassas July 1861" Recorded
on 14 July 2016 |
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| John Hennessy | ||||
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Topic: "25th Anniversary Panel
of BRCWRT Presidents" Recorded on 9 June 2016 |
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| BRCWRT Presidents |
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Topic: "Battle of Mule Shoe
Salient" 61min, Recorded on 12 May 2016 |
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| Chris Mackowski | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of Mobil Bay" 65min, Recorded on 14 April 2016 |
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| John Quarstein | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of Kennesaw
Mountain GA" 72min, Recorded on 10 March 2016 [view slides] |
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| Dan Vermilya | ||||
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Topic: "The Use of Balloons by
Union and Confederate Armies During the
Civil War" 70min, Recorded on 11 February 2016 [view slides] |
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| Kevin Knapp | ||||
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Topic: "The War Came By Train" 50min, Recorded on 16 January 2016 [view slides] |
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| Daniel Toomey | ||||
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Topic: "Battle at the Devil's
Den-Gettysburg Pa July 1863" 77min, Recorded on 17 December 2015 [view slides] |
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| Matt Atkinson | ||||
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Topic: "CSS Alabama" 72min, Recorded on 12 November 2015 |
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| Christopher Kolakowski | ||||
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Topic: "Looting of
Fredericksburg, VA 1862" 62min, Recorded on 8 October 2015 [view Graphic] |
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| Elizabeth Parnicza |
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Topic: "Battle of North Anna
Va. May 1864" 71min, Recorded on 10 September 2015 [view Graphic] |
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| Christopher Mackowski | ||||
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Topic: "The Origins of the
Longstreet Controversy 1865.- 1890" Recorded on 9 September 2015 at the Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia |
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| Dan Paterson |
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Topic: "Lee"s Retreat to
Appomattox 1865" 74min, Recorded on 13 August 2015 [view Graphic] |
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| Ed Bearss | ||||
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The Life of Confederate Colonel John S.
Mosby Speakers: Chuck Mauro, Eric Buckland, Don Hakenson, Dave Goetz |
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| Mosby Panel | ||||
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Topic: "Mosby's Raids in Civil
War Northern Virginia" 75min, Recorded on 11 June 2015 [view slides] |
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| William Connery | ||||
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Topic: "The West Point Class
of 1862" 75min, Recorded on 14 May 2015 [view slides] |
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| Brian McEnany | ||||
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Topic: "Jonathan Roberts: The Civil War's Quaker Scout & Sheriff of Fairfax County, Va" 75min, Recorded on 9 April 2015 [view slides] |
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| Gregory Wilson | ||||
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Topic: "Confederate Surrenders in the West 1865" 86min, Recorded on 12 March 2015 [view slides] C-SPAN Longwood Conference Presentation 15 March 2015 |
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| Bert Dunkerly | ||||
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Topic: "The Battle of
Bentonville, NC March 1865" 59min, Recorded on 12 February 2015 |
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| Daniel Davis | ||||
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Topic: "Confederate Navy
James River Campaign 1862/1865" 73min, Recorded on 8 January 2015 |
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| John Coski |
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Topic: "Hell is Being a
Republican in Virginia": The Postwar
Relationship Between John Singleton
Mosby and Ulysses S. Grant 73min, Recorded on 18 December 2014 Photos of Meeting Link to C-SPAN History video broadcast 17 & 25 January 2015 |
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| Dave Goetz | ||||
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Topic: "Citizen-General:
Jacob Dolson Cox and the Civil War Era,
Battle of Franklin Tenn. November 1864" 75min, Recorded on 13 November 2014 |
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| Schmiel & Mayer | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of New
Market Heights/Chaffin's Farm September
1864" 73min, Recorded on 9 October 2014 [view slides] |
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| James Price | ||||
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Topic: "Sheridan at
Opequon Creek September 1864" 66min, Recorded on 11 September 2014 |
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| Scott Patchan | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of the
Crater/Petersburg July 1864" 80min, Recorded on 14 August 2014 [view slides] |
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| Emmanuel Dabney |
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Topic: "Battle of Cold
Harbor June 1864" 68min, Recorded on 10 July 2014 [view slides] |
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| Robert Dunkerly | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of Fort
Stevens July 1864" 82min, Recorded on 12 June 2014 |
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| Benjamin Cooling |
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| Virginia
Time Traveler interview of President Mark
Trbovich & Communication Chair Jim
Lewis 19 May 2014 |
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Topic: "Battle of the
Wilderness - May 1864" 81min, Recorded on 8 May 2014 [view slides] |
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| Ed Bearss | ||||
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Topic: "The Gettysburg Address - Some
New Reflections" 54min, Recorded on 10 April 2014 |
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| Al Smith |
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Topic: "Battle of New Market
VA May 1864" 84min, Recorded on 13 March 2014 [view slides] |
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| Scott Harris | ||||
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Topic: "How
Grant Won and Lee Lost the Civil War" 91min., Recorded on 25 February 2014 [view slides] |
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| Edward Bonekemper | ||||
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Topic: "Mosby's
Conglomerates - Jan 1, 1863-Jun 10, 1863" 89min., Recorded on 9 January 2014 [view slides] |
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| Eric Buckland |
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Topic: "C.S.S.
Hunley - Civil War Submarine 1863/1864" 81min., Recorded on 12 December 2013 Movie clip |
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| Robert Neyland |
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Topic: "Battle of Mine Run -
November 1863" 72 min., Recorded on 14 November 2013 [View Slides] |
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| Greg Mertz | ||||
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Topic: "Battle of Bristoe
Station" 63 min., Recorded on 10 October 2013 [ View Slides 1-30 31-55] |
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| Bradley Gottfried | ||||
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Topic: "The 54th Massachusetts
(Colored) & Fort Wagner" 53 min., Recorded on 12 September 2013 [View Sides in Order of Appearance] |
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| Ronald Nichols |
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Topic:
"Gettysburg, 2nd day, 2 July 1863" |
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| Ed Bearss | ||||
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Topic: "Meade’s
Breakthrough at Fredericksburg: Battle of Fredericksburg December 13, 1862" 85 min., Recorded on 13 December 2013 |
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| Don
Ernsberger |
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Topic: "Battle of New
Orleans - April 1862" 65 min., Recorded on 8 November 2012 |
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| Keith Young | ||||
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Topic: "The Battle of South Mountain and the Antietam Campaign September 1862" Recorded on 11 October 2012 |
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| John Hoptak | ||||
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Topic: "The Battle of Ox Hill/ Chantilly September 1, 1862" Recorded
on 13 September 2012 |
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| Chuck Mauro | ||||
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Topic: "The Battle of 2nd Manassas/ Bull Run August 1862" Recorded
on 9 August 2012 |
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| John Hennessy | ||||
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Topic: "2nd Manassas: Longstreet's Attack and the Struggle for Chinn Ridge" Recorded on 12 July 2012 |
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| Scott Patchan | ||||
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Topic: "The Seven Days Battles June 1863" Recorded on 14 June 2012 |
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| Edward Sanders | ||||
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Topic:
"The Battle of Shiloh, April 1862" |
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| Ed Bearss | ||||
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Topic: "The
Battle of the USS Monitor and the CSS
Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack)" [Photos of Monitor and Virginia] (Mariner's Museum, Newport News, VA) |
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| John Quarstein | ||||
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Topic: "Confederate
Blockade of the Potomac River 1862" 61 min., Recorded on 8 March 2012 |
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| Robert Alton | ||||
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Topic:
"Lead Like A General" 72 min., Recorded on 9 February 2012 |
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| Paul Gilbert | ||||
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Topic: "The Battle of
Dranesville" 60 min., Recorded on 8 December 2011 |
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| Mark Trbovich | ||||
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Topic: "Battle
of Balls Bluff, Leesburg Va" 67 min., Recorded on 13 October 2011 |
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| Jim Morgan | ||||
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Topic: "The Confederacy's Last Northern Offensive"
47 min., Recorded on 11 August 2011 |
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| Steven Bernstein | ||||
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Topic: "1st Battle of Bull
Run, 21 July 1861" 90 min., Recorded on 12 May 2011 [View Slides in Order of Appearance] |
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| Ed Bearss | ||||
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Topic: "West Point At The
Outset Of War" 59 min., Recorded on 10 February 2011 |
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| Brian McEnany | ||||
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Lecture title: "Was It Practicable?" Living Historian LtGen Richard Ewell, CSA lectures on events at the end of the day, July 1, 1863 at Gettysburg. 82 min., Recorded on 18 November 2010 |
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| Richard Ewell |
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Topic:
"A
Southern Spy in Northern Virginia Laura
Ratcliffe" Laura Ratcliffe was a loyal southern woman who was 25 years of age when the War of Northern Aggression began. She supported her country by providing information, food and lodging to the Confederate officers and soldiers who marched and rode through western Fairfax County. 67 min., Recorded on 9 September 2010 |
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| Chuck Mauro | ||||
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Topic: Battle of
Chancellorsville Recorded on 13 May 2010 at the Bull Run Civil War Round Table meeting. Camcorder stopped running from 7:50:29 to 8:26:54 PM so 36m 25s of the presentation was lost. The file is 1 hr long (84 MB download). [View Slides in Order of Appearance] |
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| Ed
Bearss |
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Topic: 2nd Manassas/ Bull Run:
Policy & Political Considerations 75 min., 36 MB, Recorded on 14 May 2009 |
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| John Hennessy | ||||
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Topic: Bristoe Station to
the Wilderness: Prelude to the Overland Campaign
of 1864 1 hr long 84 MB, Recorded on 8 May 2008 |
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| Ed
Bearss |
