Upcoming Events Sponsored by BONPS and Other Organizations
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Belle Meade Plantation Civil War Book Club
The Plantation’s Civil War Book Club has announced its 2012 schedule. Below is a link to all of the monthly sessions and full information for attendance at each event, held on the last Saturday of the month. For information, contact Andy Blair, Education Programs Coordinator at the Plantation, by email at andy.blair@bellemeadeplantation.com , or phone at (615) 347-3751.
Belle Meade Plantation – Civil War Book Club Brochure
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Upcoming Events of the Franklin Civil War Round Table
March 11, 2012
St. John’s Church near Columbia.
The Franklin Civil War Round Table is presenting a tour and lecture of St John’s Church, just outside Columbia, Tennessee on March 11 beginning at 3:00 p.m. It is open to the public. Maury County historian Bob Duncan will speak on the church’s history, its involvement with the Polk family including Bishop General Leonidas Polk, and as a final resting place for Confederate General Patrick Cleburne.
Shelby Foote wrote of the church. “…a tiny, high-roofed St John’s Church, Ivy-clad and gothic, where Bishop-General Polk had preached and his Episcopal kinsmen had their graves amid flowers and shrubbery fresh and green in bleak November-had so impressed Pat Cleburne, for one, that he checked his horse in passing and remarked that it was ‘almost worth dying for to be buried in such a beautiful spot…”
Bob Duncan is well known in Middle Tennessee and is a frequent speaker and writer on local and Tennessee history. He is the author of eight books and is the featured Sunday columnist of the Columbia Daily Herald. He holds several preservation awards including the Tennessee Historical Commission’s Preservation Award in 2002. He is the Maury County historian and the director of the Maury County Archives.
St John’s is seldom open to the public and if the weather cooperates Bob will not only speak but conduct a tour of the cemetery. And for those with a desire to see more, attendees will be invited to travel about two miles to visit the grave of Sam Watkins, author of Company Aytch, the renowned diary of Watkin’s experiences with the Army of Tennessee.
Round Table members plan to meet at the Franklin Police Parking lot at 2:00 and carpool for the approximate 45 minute ride to St. John’s.
April 15, 2012
Champ Ferguson
On April 15th the Franklin Round Table returns to the Franklin Police Headquarters building for an appearance by Dr. Brian D. McKnight of the University of Virginia. (Because of Easter, the Round Table will not meeting the usual second Sunday)
Dr. McKnight will be speaking on guerilla activity in the border areas of Kentucky and Tennessee and specifically Champ Ferguson. In 2011 LSU Press released his latest book, Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia. His other works include Contested Borderland The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia and numerous magazine articles and book reviews.
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February 18, 2012
Metro Historical Commission Hosts Symposium at Fisk
On February 18, The Metropolitan Historical Commission of Nashville is hosting the second Civil War Sesquicentennial symposium. It will take place at Fisk University in Nashville in the Little Theater, located on Dr. D. B. Todd Boulevard, near Jackson Street. This building was built as a Union Army barracks, and was one of the first structures used by Fisk University as it began after the Civil War. This most fitting place will host the event.
8:30 AM
Opening remarks will be made by Mayor Karl Dean, MHC Director Tim Walker, and Dr. Reavis Mitchell the Dean of Fisk University.
9 AM
Tim Smith, formerly with Shiloh National Battlefield Park and now with U. T. Martin, will speak on the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson.
9:45 AM
Break
10 AM
Dr. Carole Bucy, professor at Volunteer State Community College and Davidson County Historian, will then speak on The Great Panic, a period of great turmoil in the city following the fall of the two forts protecting the approach to the city.
10:45 AM
Break
11 AM
The 1861 Project, a musical production of songs inspired by the Civil War, brought to us by Thomm Jutz.
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March 2-4, 2012
Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Donelson
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March 9-10, 2012
Ed Bearrs to Keynote New Bern Symposium
For nearly 6 hours on March 14, 1862, 11,000 Union forces and 4,500 inexperienced and ill-equipped Confederate troops battled for control of New Bern, NC. Eventually the Confederate line broke, and Union troops pushed through forcing a retreat of the Confederate troops. The battle’s consequences will be explored in Thunder in the East: The Civil War in Eastern North Carolina. A Sesquicentennial Symposium presented by The New Bern Historical Society in Partnership with Tryon Palace on March 9 – 10, 2012. The symposium, a ticketed educational program, begins at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 10 and concludes at 5:00 p.m. It will be held at Cullman Performance Hall at theNorth CarolinaHistoryCenter.
Renowned Civil War experts will be speaking on the Civil War inEastern North Carolinaand its aftermath :
- Ed Bearrs, Keynote Speaker, Noted Civil War Historian, The Civil War in North Carolina
- Richard Sauers, Noted author, The Burnside Expedition with an Emphasis on New Bern
- Mark Bradley, Noted author, Reconstruction in North Carolina
- Hari Jones, Curator of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum, Washington, DC, US Colored Troops, Glorious March to Liberty: African Descent Soldiers in North Carolina
- Josh Howard, Research Historian with the Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina Soldiers Killed During the Civil War
- Chris Fonvielle, Associate Professor, History, UNC Wilmington, Wilmington and the Blockade Runners
Tickets, which include the Friday night reception and lunch on Saturday, are $85 and can be purchased at the New Bern Historical Society at 511 Broad St.in New Bernor online at www.NewBernHistorical.org. For more information call 252-638-8558
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OFFICIAL TENNESSEE CIVIL WAR SESQUICENTENNIAL LICENSE PLATE
A Message from Colonel James W. Danley, US Army, Retired
President, Tennessee Civil War Preservation Association
“Friends of Battlefield Preservation,
“I write to you today to ask you to join the final push to secure this last hilltop – we simply cannot do it without you. Over the past few years we’ve made steady progress and now have nearly 700 pledges for the official Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial License plate. For those of you who’ve joined the ranks by ordering the plate, thank you! To those of you who’d like to order the plate, maybe putting it aside to do later, please act NOW so we can get the plate approved and on the road! Here’s how ALL of you – veterans and new recruits – can help. Find two other drivers, who like yourself, care about preserving Tennessee’s Civil War battlefields and:
* Forward this request to them with an encouraging word of support,
* Ask them to visit the Tennessee Civil War Preservation Association website at http://www.tcwpa.org/license-plate and make their pledge using the online form: http://www.tcwpa.org/license-plate-form,
* Share via Facebook or your favorite social media,
* Mention at your local Civil War Roundtable meetings or any other gathering of like-minded people who care about saving our hallowed ground.
“This is a great cause and an important moment in our nation’s history as we commemorate the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War. Please take on this small extra duty to help achieve our goal to honor those who fought and died “in simple obedience to duty as they understood it” 150 years ago. I’ll see you on the high ground.”
Jim
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