When: October 12th

Where: La Navona, 154 North Hamilton Road. Gahanna Ohio 43230

Time: 7pm

Speaker: Wayne E. Motts, CEO of The National Civil War Museum

Topic: Fighting the Civil War: Historical Treasures of the Conflict in the Collection of the National Civil War Museum

Opened in 2001, The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is one of the largest museum in the country dedicated to telling the complete story of the war from the viewpoint of both sides. The museum holds more than 4,000 three dimensional artifacts and over 21,000 archival items including manuscripts, diaries, letters, photographic images, newspapers, and correspondence dating from 1861-1865. Join the museum’s CEO Wayne Motts on a journey of the history of the war illustrated by some of the nations’ rarest surviving Civil War artifacts in the museum’s collection.  

Wayne Motts holds two degrees in history and has been a licensed battlefield guide at the Gettysburg National Military Park for twenty-eight years. In 2005 he was named executive director of the Adams County Historical Society located in Gettysburg, a position he held for seven years. He is currently the CEO of The National Civil War Museum (www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  He is the co-author (with James Hessler) of Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg: A Guide to the Most Famous Attack in American History. His parents operate Motts Military Museum in Groveport.

National Civil War Museum

Motts Military Museum, Groveport, Ohio

Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg: A Guide to the Most Famous Attack in American History.

 

When:   September  14th

Where:  NEW LOCATION  La Navona, 154 North Hamilton Road. Gahanna Ohio 43230

 

Time: 7pm

Speaker: David G. Moore,  Author: William S. Rosecrans and the Union Victory: A Civil War Biography.

Topic: William S. Rosecrans

David Moore stumbled upon the story of William

S Rosecrans while on an unsuccessful search for the

Grave of Mary Surratt’s grave in Washington DC’s

My Olivet cemetery.

That led to more than twenty years of research in

an effort to discover why a man who was considered

in the 19th century one of the most important generals of the

Civil War is so little known today.

His talk will discuss Rosecrans’ accomplishments

and the role politics played in his military career.

Mr Moore is a native Washingtonian and has led tours

of history sites along the east coast for more than 35

years.

Mr Moore will have copies of his book available for purchase.

McFarland Publishing

 

 

 

 

When: August 10th

Where: Otterbein University. Towers Hall First floor. Room 121. Westerville Ohio 43081. Please go to the “About the COCWRT” tab for more information.

Time: 7pm

Speaker: Lee White, NPS Ranger at Chickamauga/Chattanooga National Battlefield.

Topic:  “Hold the Fort!, The Battle of Alatoona Pass”

William Lee White is a park ranger at the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, where he gives tours and other programs at the Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain Battlefields. He is the author of Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale: The Battle of Chickamauga, part of the Emerging Civil War Series, as well as several articles and essays on topics related to the Western Theater. He also edited Great Things Are Expected of Us: The Letters of Colonel C. Irvine Walker, 10th South Carolina Infantry CSA. Over the years, he has spoken to many roundtables, historical societies, and other history-minded groups.

Southern History: Allatoona Pass

Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale

 

 

 

 

When:   July 13th

Where: Otterbein University. Towers Hall First floor. Room 121. Westerville Ohio 43081. Please go to the “About the COCWRT” tab for more information.

Time:  7pm

Speaker: Phil Seyfrit, Superintendent Richmond Kentucky Battlefield.

Topic:   “Bull Nelson vs. Jefferson C. Davis”

A lifelong Madison County, Kentucky, resident, Phillip Seyfrit is a graduate of Model Laboratory School, Eastern Kentucky University and the Mid- America College of Funeral Service.  After a twenty year career in funeral industry, in late 2007 Phillip changed direction and accepted the position of Historic Properties Director for Madison County, which duties include management and proper interpretation of the properties relating to the Battle of Richmond and the other Madison County parks sites.  Phil’s active in Richmond’s First Presbyterian Church, the Richmond Masonic bodies, and many national, state and local Civil War preservation and history groups.  He is also past president of the Madison County Historical Society. He has been published in several Civil War periodicals and enjoys visiting Civil War battlefields and related sites.  Phillip portrays Federal Colonel William Link and Confederate Colonel Preston Smith at events relating to the Battle of Richmond.  He serves as program chairman of the Madison Co. Civil War Roundtable, president of the Central Kentucky World War II Roundtable, and commander of the Sgt. Elijah P. Marrs Camp 5, Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War.   He served on the Kentucky Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission from 2011-2015.

With two good sized Confederate armies in the Bluegrass state in the late summer of 1862, two Union generals quarrel in a Louisville hotel, resulting in the death of one and the lifelong damaged reputation of the other.  Bull Nelson vs. Jefferson C. Davis.   Come and learn about these two characters (and other significant players), their argument, Nelson’s murder/assassination, and the resulting effects (or lack thereof).

Battle of Richmond Association

Civil War Trust; Battle of Richmond

When:  June 8th

Where:  Otterbein University. Towers Hall 3rd floor. Room 318. Westerville Ohio 43081. Please go to the “About the COCWRT” tab for more information.

Time:  7pm

Speaker: Craig Dunn,

Topic:  The 19th Indiana Infantry of the Iron Brigade.

  

When:   May 11th

Where:  Otterbein University. Towers Hall 3rd floor. Room 318. Westerville Ohio 43081. Please go to the “About the COCWRT” tab for more information.

Time:      7pm

Speaker:  Daniel Davis

Topic:  “Rock Hurler George Crook, the Army of West Virginia and the Battle of Fishers Hill.”

Mr. Davis will present on George Crook’s role in the Battle of Fisher’s Hill. Better known for his campaigns against the American Indians following the Civil War, Crook’s actions at Fisher’s Hill played a major part in the Union victory. In Mr. Davis’ presentation The Rock Hurler, he will discuss Crook’s military background, the events leading up to and the battle and its aftermath. He will also examine the efforts to minimalize Crook’s contributions while placing them in their proper context.

Daniel Davis is managing editor and chief historian of the Emerging Civil War. He is a graduate of Longwood University with a B.A. in Public History. Dan has worked as a historian at both Appomattox Court House National Historic Site and at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. He resides in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with his wife Katy and Beagle mix, Bayla.
He is the co-author of several books in the Emerging Civil War Series, Bloody Autumn: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 and Hurricane from the Heavens: The Battle of Cold Harbor and Calamity in Carolina: The Battles Averasboro and Bentonville with Phillip Greenwalt and Fight Like the Devil: The First Day at Gettysburg July 1, 1863 with Chris Mackowski and Kris White. Along with Eric Wittenberg, he is near completion on a book in the Series on Brandy Station.

Emerging Civil War