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Day Overland Campaign, Wilderness to Cold Harbor EXECUTIVE OFFICERS President Dennis Garstang Newsletter of the Civil War Round Table of Kansas City First Vice-President Dave Pattison Second Vice-President Simon Bolivar (Chip) Buckner 457th REGULAR MEETING Treasurer Paul Gault TUESDAY, June 24, 2014 Assistant Treasurer Meadowbrook Country Club Howard Mann 9101 Nall Ave., Prairie Village, Kansas 66207 Corresponding Secretary Social Hour - Cash Bar - 6:00p.m. & Recording Secretary Judy Smith Dinner - 6:30p.m. Preservation Director Arnold Schofield Board of Directors June Speaker Les Thierolf Don Bates Sr. Dave Schafer Don Bates Sr. Past Presidents -Day Overland Campaign, Don Bates Sr. Lane Smith Wilderness to Cold Harbor Howard Mann Chairman of Board Donald V. Bates, Sr. presents ,"Grant's Overland Campaign, 1864, Monnett Battle of also known as "Lee's Virginia Campaign of 1864". This was the "first" Westport Fund campaign pitting the Civil War's two greatest Generals. It covers the battles (Ex-Officio) Daniel L. Smith from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. It will be of interest to those whose Sergeant at Arms loyalties lie with either the North or the South. He will address these iconic Lane Smith generals with andedotes of their sub-ordinate officers and the men who fought Chaplain in these battles 150 years ago. Don's interest leading to this presentation Rev. David B. Holloway began with an identified tintype photograph from his collection of an officer Historian Betty Ergovich who died at Cold Harbor, 150 years ago. This officer is featured in a book, Border Bugle Editor addressing Union soldiers who had premonitions of their impending death, Michael J. Epstein and sure enough this man was killed at Cold Harbor, May 31, 1864. Don [email protected] studied history at Westminster College in Fulton, MO where Winston Churchill gave his well known, "Iron Curtain" speech. Don was President of Civil War Round Table of Kansas City the Civil War Round Table of Kansas City in 2002 and 2012. P.O. Box 6202 Shawnee Mission, KS 66206 Attendance requires a paid dinner reservation. Please be sure our Treasurer receives all reservations by Tuesday, June 17, 2014 An IRC 501(c)(3) along with payment of $26.00 per person. Mail to: Charitable Organization Paul Gault, 7118 N. Congress Ave., Kansas City, MO 64152 Homestead’s deadline for reservation changes is the following Monday afternoon, so Website- http://cwrtkc.org/ promptly report any necessary adjustments to Paul at 816-741-2962 or 816-522-8021. Join us .on Facebook! If unable to reach him, call AssistantMessage Treasurer f romHoward Mannthe at President 816-932-5663. Speakers 2014 Thanks, Dan Smith * July 22, 2014: Barbara Justice, Park Ranger, Meeting dates - Jun 18, Jul 16, Aug 20, Sep17, & Oct Battle of Monocacy 15. [email protected]. * August 26, 2014: Robert Jones - Battle of Mobile Bay * September 23, 2014: Walter Busch - Battle of Pilot Knob, Missouri. * October 28, 2014: Dan Smith - Battle of “The Sergeant Major’s Roar” Westport. * November 18, 2014: Arnold Schofield - Battlefield Dispatches #395 Aftermath of Westport (Price's retreat to Texas). * December 16, 2014: Dr. Ethan Rafuse – Sherman’s March to The Sea. “Exterminate All Bushwackers” During the Civil War, throughout Missouri & ATTENTION!!! the eastern border counties of Kansas, the Guerrilla War We are now meeting at Meadowbrook Country was consistent & constant. It started right away in the Club, located at 9101 Nall Avenue, Prairie Village KS summer of 1861 and continued in Missouri well after the 66207. conclusion of the war in 1865. From the very beginning Dinner meetings will be year-round once we the Union or Northern policy was one of eradicating or move to Meadowbrook! exterminating the Confederate Guerrillas or “Bushwhackers”. This was justified because the We Now Take Your Credit Card! “Bushwhackers” did not conduct themselves or wage We have a new service for you, if you want to war according the “Articles of War” which were the charge your dinner reservation to your credit card. rules of warfare at that time. Therefore, the To use this service go to our web site “Bushwhackers” were considered to be bandits & http://www.cwrtkc.org and hit the Meeting & Event tab outlaws & the best way to be rid of them was to kill fill out the reservation form and then make your them, which the “Union” troops in & who were mostly payment in the box to the left on that page through from Missouri did with a passion. By 1864, this form of PAYPAL If you are using this service please send me an brutal, barbaric warfare was as intense as it was previous email so I will not miss your reservation. years of the war and was evident in the following [email protected]. “Union” correspondence which is located in Series I, Vol. 34, Part IV of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion on Pages 511-512 & 525. Menu for June 2014 Meadowbrook Salad with Blue Cheese, Dried “Brookfield, Mo., June 22, 1864. Cranberry, Candied Walnut, Bacon Bits, and Balsamic Brigadier Gen. C. B. Fisk, Vinaigrette with assortment of rolls. Caraway Crusted Saint Joseph: Port Tenderloin, Mushroom Marsala Sauce, Potato General; I have conversed with Captain Crandall Parmesan Gratin, Straw cut Vegetables with Basil as to his course & the course of his men here 7 believe Butter. Pink Peppercorn Panna Cotta with Macerated the facts to be that his men are as good as can be found Berries. My my, I don’t know what they just said, but it in this country, temperate & earnest. They have sounds good! undoubtedly KILLED 3 or 4 of the “BUSHWHACKERS” who entered Laclede & in Battle of Westport ferreting them out have visited some disloyal families & BOW 150 Meeting Schedules 2014 no doubt in the hurried & arbitrary searches they have We meet every third Wednesday, 7pm, at the Battle of had to make their acts may have seemed rough. While on Westport Museum in Swope Park unless otherwise scouts [patrols] & to some extent for camp purposes, the notified by e-mail. As we get closer to our October event disloyal have been required to provide for the militia. All there may be more added to the schedule. We hope that these things will inevitably create disturbances, as you you can make many of them. The list of dates is below. know no men now live about here who will swear that The first few months of 2014 will be critical for us for they are “Good Union Men” & there is a large class who supporting our reenactment event October 24-26, 2014. are probably at heart “Union” men who have no positive If anyone can come forward to assist in fund-raising it character & who would indorse the LOYALTY of the would be greatly appreciated. DEVIL! In fact, these men have many of them been that he may better understand who maybe flanking him. allowed to live in the country heretofore for the purpose “TELL CAPTAIN CRANDALL TO KILL EVERY of indorsing “Unionism” of the disloyal & helping them BUSHWHACKER HE CAN PUT HIS HANDS UPON” out when in trouble. Their own “conservatives” can’t & to make the feeders, aiders & abettors of the help looking on all these men as friends who will help VILLIANS sorry for what they have done to help on the them out at the polls next fall & they must be protected. iniquity. Let the best discipline be continued among the I am told that even Colonel Williams has said rather than troops & when they STRIKE, let it be with such FORCE go into a war to exterminate BUSHWHACKERS & & VENGEANCE that their presence can be felt all along Rebels he would recognize the southern confederacy. To the lines. “No Gloves on Now”! Forward the railway my mind General, the time has fully come to set to work brigade. in earnest to “EXTERMINATE ALL BUSHWHACKERS” & I think soon, if not now, this CLINTON B. FISK should also be EXTENDED TO THOSE WHO Brigadier General.” CHEERFULLY AID & HARBOR THEM! _____________________________________________ I am satisfied from my own experience that compelling disloyal to foot the bills & furnish supplies, Now then, the Confederate guerillas of Missouri so that they shall, as far as possible, feel in their own were an elusive & very effective enemy and the pockets the effect of these disturbances, is the most “Union” policy of “EXTERMINATION” was never effectual way to secure their earnest co-operation to put completely successful. However, as the war continued a stop to such troubles. through the balance of 1864 and the spring of 1865 the If allowed, Mr. Crandall will do this & do it as “Union” occupation of Missouri became stronger and judiciously as any man you can find, but to suppose that the opportunity for successful “Bushwhacker” it can be done without complaint is futile. There may be operations became less, but they were not eliminated & a howl even from a certain class of Union men. Do you of course The War Went On! believe this marauding can be stopped without pursuing such a course? Captain Crandall knows how every man stands through all this country. It is not guesswork, but Battle of Westport 150 much of the knowledge is derived from written Commemoration testimony & confessions taken when he was Provost Plans are underway for the Commemoration of Marshal. I am sure that he won’t act without good the Battle of Westport in October, 2014. There will be a reasons. I feel sure you will fully sustain him in all he series of lead-up events beginning in early 2014, does, unless he wants to go farther then you feel you can creating excitement, building anticipation, and educating be yourself sustained.
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