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The oldest such group in the United States is The Civil War Round Table of Chicago, which was founded in 1941 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. The second and perhaps third oldest are the Civil War Round Table of Milwaukee (founded in 1947) and the Civil War Round Table of Atlanta (founded in 1949).
Ralph Geoffrey Newman (3 November 1911 – 23 July 1998) was an American writer and well known Abraham Lincoln scholar. He owned the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago, Illinois, and hosted a monthly gathering known as the Civil War Round Table. [1]
Greene received the 2011 Nevins-Freeman Award from the Chicago Civil War Round Table. The Nevins-Freeman Award was established in 1974 to recognize special individuals for their outstanding American Civil War scholarship. The award includes a substantial financial contribution to a historical preservation project selected by the recipient. [4] [13]
It was sponsored by the Chicago Board of Trade, from which the battery took its name. [2] In March 1863, the battery changed from mounted field artillery to "flying" horse artillery, the only battery of flying artillery in the Union Western armies. [1] The battery was mustered out on June 30, 1865, in Chicago. [1]
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His young readers' book, Father Abraham: Lincoln and His Sons, won the first James Robertson Jr. Award for Civil War Children's Literature from The Civil War Round Table of New York. He has also won lifetime achievement awards from The Civil War Round Tables of New York, Chicago, and Kansas City, and from Lincoln groups in Washington and New York.
In 2021, his monument with bronze columns honoring the late civil rights icon Ida B. Wells was dedicated in the city's Bronzeville neighborhood. Prolific Chicago sculptor whose public works ...
Of note, Companies C, D, F, I, and K were sent north to Chicago with prisoners of war after the capture of Arkansas Post on 11 January 1863. The remaining five stayed to participate in the siege and capture of Vicksburg. C, D, F, I, and K rejoined the regiment in December 1864. [citation needed]