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Jack Battick: the U.S September 2017 Vol XXXIII, No 1 Thurs Sept 14 Jack Battick: The U.S. Navy in the Civil War The history of the Civil War has heretofore focused almost exclusively on the campaigns and battles “on land.” But recent scholarship has begun to examine how the war was carried on at sea. In this talk, Dr. Battick will be presenting insights into the naval side of the struggle, comparative facts, the role of emerging technologies, significant interactions between the federal army and navy, and some long‐lasting effects of that struggle on the U.S. and the world economy. As a maritime state, Maine was especially affected by the war at sea. Besides providing a significant number of recruits into the federal navy, the shipping interests of Maine were drastically injured by the war and were not significantly recovered after the war. Dr. Battick’s thesis is that while the Navy did not ”win” the war, its activities and very presence strongly affected the war on land and prevented the breaking up of the United States. John F. (“Jack”) Battick was born in 1932, son of a career sailor in the U.S. Navy. As service dependents, his family traveled widely across the U.S., to China, to Puerto Rico, and finally to Hawaii where he USS Wassuc was the only Monitor class vessel built in Maine. graduated in 1950 from Roosevelt High School, Honolulu. A veteran of the Korean War, he served on a submarine based at New London. Dr. Battick earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in History from Boston University, taught English history, early modern European history, and maritime and naval history courses at the University of Maine until his retirement in Maine‐built, Unadilla class “ninety‐day gunboats,” like the Katahdin, were part 1995. He still teaches adult education courses of Admiral David Farragut’s West Gulf Blockade Squadron, shown here in Orono and Dover‐ capturing Forts Jackson and St. Phillips in April 1862. Lithograph: Currier & Ives. Foxcroft. His articles and book reviews have appeared in scholarly journals in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Battick is Past Camp Commander of the Daniel Chapman Camp #3, Department of Maine, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and is past president of the Maine Genealogical Society. JLC CWRT meetings are the second Thursday of each month: 7:00 pm Morrell Room Curtis Memorial Library 23 Pleasant St, Brunswick ME Weather Cancellations: Channels 6, 8, 13 If the Library closes due to a storm, the meeting will be cancelled. Members will receive an email notification of cancellation from the CWRT Secretary. 2 News from Headquarters From the President – Dan Cunningham I hope you all had a wonderful summer. As I write this we are enjoying warm days, cool nights and low humidity. Weather like this is why I am glad I grew up and continue to enjoy living in Maine. Another reason I enjoy living in Maine is because of the wonderful people I’ve met through the Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Round Table. I’ve been a member since 1994 and a Board member since 2002. This past year was a very successful one for the Round Table. We started off with a bank balance of almost $4,100 versus around $2,400 a year ago. We have maintained and even increased our membership by several new members. The reason for our success is due to those people who volunteered to help out the organization by serving on the Board of Trustees. Over half of our Board and committee members were new last year. Not only did they do a great job but they came up with several new fundraising ideas, which were very successful. Our success is also attributable to you, our members. Without your memberships, your participation in the book raffle and other fundraising efforts we would not exist today. I can’t thank you enough. In order to continue our success, I hope you will renew your memberships when they come due and continue to participate in our various methods of raising money for the JLC CWRT. In addition, if you know of people who might be interested in our organization please invite them to our meetings. Last year we averaged 60 people per meeting and it would be great if we could increase that number in the upcoming year. In addition to our book raffle and the Adopt‐a‐Speaker program we will have two efforts to raise cash in the upcoming year. Carol and Dave Manchester will once again be selling coffee. As was the case last year, the Chamberlain CWRT will receive $3.50 for every bag of coffee sold. A few friends have told me that the coffee was excellent and they wished they had bought more of it last year. 3 We also will be doing a silent auction but in a different format this year. Instead of doing one auction we will be doing a series of smaller auctions. We’ll start off with three multi‐volume sets of books. The names and beginning bid amounts are as follows: The War Years / Carl Sandburg, vol.1-4 – beginning bid $20.00 Photographic History of the Civil War / Francis Miller, vol. 1-4 – beginning bid $50.00 Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. 1-4 – beginning bid $25.00 These are items that you can see and bid on during the Sept and Oct meetings. All three of these multi‐volume sets were generously donated by Jay Stencil. If you have any items other than books that you would like to donate, we thought it might be fun to put them in a silent auction. We could then have perhaps several silent auctions throughout the year for you to participate in. Of course, book donations are still welcome and we’ll continue to put them in our monthly book raffle. Although our current and immediate future looks good with a strong bank balance and a full Board of Trustees, we are starting to look out beyond our 2018/2019 season. We want to continue to maintain a good financial position and to acquire ideas from our members for strengthening our CWRT. To that end we would like to invite those of you who are interested to a brief meeting (approximately ½ hour) after our October meeting as we did a year and a half ago. We are in a good position now and we want to make sure we maintain that position for the future. All are welcome to join us. Remember that the people on the Board of Trustees are just stewards for the Round Table. The Round Table actually belongs to you, our members, and your ideas and participation are very welcome. Once again thank you for being members and I hope to see you at our Sept 14 meeting. 4 JLC CWRT Board of Trustees – 2017/18 President: Dan Cunningham (729‐9520) Vice President: Gardner Shaw (703‐472‐8618) Treasurer: Paul Lariviere (724‐2414) Secretary: Steve Garrett (956‐8729, cell 607‐9713) [email protected] Program Coordinator: Bill Attick (726‐4685) Members: Steve Bunker, Lucy Cunningham, Carol Manchester, Ken McAfee From the Secretary – Steve Garrett I join with Dan in welcoming all Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Round Table members and visitors to another year of meetings, presentations and companionship. Bill Attick has put together another great series of speakers and presentations for all of us to enjoy, consider and, yes, maybe debate. I’m new to this position as I’ve moved from being your Vice President to being your Secretary. Additionally, I will continue to lead our membership drive. I ask each of you who have any ideas on how to bring new members into the Round Table, please bring those ideas to me. Our email address listed below is on our Tri‐fold brochure as well. As we look around our communities and the current national environment, it is important that we take the opportunity to teach and discuss our Civil War heritage openly and honestly. We must not let the political pundits kidnap the truth of our history, or define it for our students and children. There were events, leaders, common soldiers and citizens of the Civil War era who have much to teach us. Let’s learn from them and share our history. Secondly, please review our Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Round Table Facebook page and/or our Tri‐fold brochure. If you have any ideas relative to expanding our membership, ideas for the Facebook page, Tri‐fold brochure, or would be willing to develop a website for us, please contact me at our email address: [email protected] 5 Lastly, I’m also the leader of our affiliated Civil War & History Book‐Club. We are beginning this year at our first meeting reading and discussing Thomas W. Hyde’s Following the Greek Cross, or Memories of the Sixth Army Corps. Bath’s son, Bowdoin student, founder of Bath Iron Works and recipient of the Medal of Honor for his leadership at Antietam, Hyde details his experiences during the war in this memoir, which is well written by one of our local heroes. If you can, please join us for our book club meeting (at People Plus) on September 18. In the meantime, we look forward to seeing you at our regular JLC CWRT meeting this Thursday, September 14 at the Curtis Library on Pleasant St. Treasurer’s Update – Paul Lariviere Quick Stats – Sept: Meeting: June 8, 2017 Speaker: James DuFresne: They Met at Appomattox Attendance: 54 Book Raffle tickets sold: 83 In‐Kind Donations: 7 books Book prizes distributed: 11 INCOME: NET Loss for June: $50.00 Memberships (241.05) NET Loss $74.00 Book Raffle revenue $34.00 Cash Donations YEAR‐TO‐DATE $43.00 Book Sales Bank Balance, June 30, 2017: $4,095.39 $0.00 Adopt‐a‐Speaker Total Revenues: $3,998.50 $201.00 TOTAL Cash Income for June Total Expenses: $2,295.03 NET Income: $1,703.47 EXPENSES: $42.05 Speaker Dinner $400.00 Morrell Room Rental $442.05 TOTAL Expenses for June 6 Adopt‐A‐Speaker – Dinner Host Program In conjunction with its Adopt‐A‐Speaker setup, the JLC CWRT maintains a Dinner Host program.
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