We had a really good meeting for the October session of the Civil War Round Table. If you miss our meeting please, take time out and join us. You will learn a lot about the civil war and our past. Our speaker was Eric Buckland, a retired LT. COL. Of the U.S. Army. He spoke to us on his book “Mosby’s Leadership”. He explained the life of Col. John S. Mosby from boyhood up to and through the civil war and beyond the war when he died in 1916. In my opinion it was well done and gave me great insight on the man.
Our next meeting is on November 5th, 2019. We will have Richard Lewis, an author and publisher of articles in the Civil War Times and Hallowed Ground magazines. He will speak on “Cloaked in Mystery” The curious case of the confederate coat. I hope to see you all there that night.
I want to bring to your attention information on a news article that was written on the web. In the news article, a Virginia judge blocked the City of Charlottesville’s effort to remove the Confederate statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. The judge ruled to remove the Statue violated a state law protecting war memorials. In my opinion, removing Confederate statues is erasing history. History is the roadmap to the future. Without history, we are lost.
For all your college football fans that belong to our round table. The Wisconsin Badgers play their home games in Madison at a stadium called Camp Randall, a historic U.S. army site, named after Wisconsin governor, Alexander Randall. He served from 1858 to 1861. It was a training facility of the Union army during the Civil War. More than 70,000 recruits were trained there. The 6th regiment, Wisconsin infantry, was organized there in 1861. The army also established a hospital and a stockade for Confederate prisoners of war who were located at the camp. The 140 prisoners of war who died at the camp are buried at Confederate Rest Cemetery.
Barry