 23 May 2009 - Admiral Du Pont
Speaker: Kevin Weddle
Once revered as one of the finest officers in the U.S. Navy, Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont is now, when remembered at all, criticized for resisting technological innovation and for half-heartedly leading the disastrous ... read more ›
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 18 April 2009 - Custer: The Union's Prince Rupert
Speaker: Kevin Galvin
George Armstrong Custer graduated USMA 34/34(1861) class, he was commissioned second lieutenant on June 24, 1861. Boatner Dictionary describes him as “ An outstanding cavalry leader ..[he] was named B.G. USV 29 June 1863 ... read more ›
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 31 January 2009 - British Political and Public Involvement with the Union & Confederate Propaganda Movements
Speaker : Tom Sebrell
Tom was preparing a PhD on British Propaganda in the American Civil War. This required him to evaluate the propaganda war and assess its role in keeping Britain neutral during the conflict. He looked forward to completing it ... read more ›
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 29 November 2008 - Spring Hill & Franklin
Speaker: Rees Taylor
Mystery, Romance, Grandeur, Tragedy, Lies, Recrimination, Misunderstanding and above all Bravery are all adjectives that apply to the events surrounding Spring Hill and Franklin but to whom and to what? In his memoirs, posthumously ... read more ›
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 27/28 September 2008 - Heros and Zeros
Speaker 1: David Kirkpatrick - Albert Sidney Johnston.
At the start of the Civil War, Albert Sidney Johnston had the reputation of being one of the best soldiers in the US Army, and he was given a high command in the Confederate army. ... read more ›
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 9 August 2008 - Making Sense of Battles
Speaker: Stephen Chowns
Let me say straight away that I have never taken part in a battle - and perhaps many readers have; so this will not be an article in which personal expertise and erudition are on display! I want, instead, to guide you ... read more ›
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 14 June 2008 - Clad in Iron : Union Monitors v the Royal Navy
Speaker: Howard J. Fuller
By 1863 the influential Controller of the Royal Navy declared that naval intervention in the American Civil War was all but 'impossible'. Tempting strategic targets along the American coastline, such as New York ... read more ›
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 19 April 2008 - The Curious Claim of John Brawner
Speaker: Greg Bayne
Late in the afternoon of August 28th 1862, on the eve of 2nd Manassas, six regiments of the Union army were ambushed on the Warrenton turnpike by 2 divisions of Stonewall Jackson’s corps. The next two hours were amongst ... read more ›
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 9 February 2008 - Bitter Harvest – The Union Generals at War
Speaker: Thomas Goss
Our first lecture at the Civil Service Club proved to be (with apologies to those who preceded it) one the best we have had for some time.
Thomas Goss started by outlining the diversity of the 583 Union generals that served ... read more ›
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 1 December 2007 - "What was happening outside America 1861-1865?”
By Jeremy Mindell
Wars rarely happen in a vacuum. The American Civil War was no exception. To understand why the south lost one needs to look as much at European diplomacy as southern strategy. Almost all rebellions or wars which involve a weaker state ... read more ›
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