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The Camp Griffin Gazette News and Information from the Green Mountain Civil War Round Table The Camp Griffin Gazette News and Information from the Green Mountain Civil War Round Table Vol. XXI, No. 9 Nov. 2014 Publicity/Founding Member: Jack Anderson Treasurer: Gail Blake - [email protected] [email protected] Program Committee: Peter Sinclair – [email protected] ; Gail Blake – [email protected] ; David Walden: [email protected] John Mudge: [email protected]; Newsletter Editor:: Ginny Gage - [email protected] - Video Maven : Alan Cheever – [email protected] Our Web Site: http://www.vermontcivilwar.org/gmcwrt/index.html AND DON’T FORGET: WE’RE ON FACEBOOK! PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE HAVING TIER TWO THIS MONTH AT $19.25 PER MEAL MEMBER REMEMBRANCE MEETING TUESDAY, NOV. 11 ALSO, PLEASE CONTACT GINNY GAGE THIS MONTH IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A HOTEL COOLIDGE RESERVATION FOR DINNER! WHITE RIVER JCT., VT The Camp Griffin Gazette is the monthly newsletter of the Green Mountain Civil War Round Table. Editor: Ginny Gage. We encourage and welcome all contributions and 6-6:30 Social Hour suggestions. Send news and information to: 6:30 Buffet Dinner 7:00-7:15 Business Meeting Ginny Gage 7:15 Program, followed by discussion 365 East Road Adjournment Cornish, NH 03745 or E-mail: [email protected] Guaranteed dinner reservations MUST BE MADE by 12 Noon, Nov. 10. Cost per person for the meal is $19.25. For reservations please contact Ginny Gage at [email protected] or 603-542-4664. AS OF THIS PRINTING, THERE WERE STILL SOME SPACES AVAILABLE. Dinner will be Macaroni & Cheese November 11 – Remembrance Meeting - Honor an Pasta with red sauce/alfredo sauce ancestor at the November meeting. Everyone is invited to Southwestern Chicken and Bean Casserole think about ONE ancestor who fought in the war and make a few brief comments. To help you, you may want to Goulash consider writing out your comments and reading them. Tuna Noodle Casserole Comments might include: Name of ancestor, relationship hot vegetable to you, where born, occupation before the war, where he salad bowl (and bread if not otherwise with the entree) fought, occupation after the war, when died and where cookies/brownies/or chef's choice dessert buried. Comments should be brief and not a complete coffee/tea/decaf and punch biography. For example: “Theodore Dummerston was born in 1840 in Putney, Vermont, and was working on a farm in Nov. 2014 Westminster, New Hampshire at the outbreak of the war. Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and Auxiliary. To He served in the 17th Vermont and was wounded at be held on Saturday, November 8th, 2014 at the Pierce Gettysburg. After the war he returned to Putney where he Manse, 14 Horseshoe Pond Lane, Concord, NH. The ran the general store and raised a family of six children. He program starts at 1 PM and refreshments will follow. died in 1910 and is buried in Putney. His photograph, war diary, and some of his war letters are on the table. On behalf of myself and the Committee, in Fraternity, Theodore Dummerston was my great-great-grandfather.” Charity, and Loyalty, If you have pictures of or letters from your ancestor, please Gary A. Ward, PDC JVC Chairman display them on a table at the meeting. If you want to Encampment Committee prepare a hand-out that people can take, that’s fine. If you Department of New Hampshire - SUVCW have period clothes / re-enactment clothing, you are encouraged to wear that. President and Mrs. Lincoln will be Nov. 21 – NH Civil War Round Table – Dave Decker joining us for the meeting and he will make a few brief – “Civil War Civilians.” Epping Town Hall, Epping, remarks. Email me: [email protected]. -- Thanks -- NH. For more information: www.cwrt-nh.org John Mudge. November 3 — A High Price to Pay, A Heavy Burden NO MEETING IN DECEMBER to Bear: One Family’s Civil War Story. Abel Morrill, Sr., was an early settler of Cabot, Vermont. He was a 2015 respected farmer and maple sugar producer for much of the 19th century. His story reflects the hardship and heartbreak Jan. 10 – Peter Sinclair – “GMCWRT’s suffered by those who lived at the time of America’s greatest conflict, the Civil War. David Book’s portrayal of Abel Wilderness Tour Report.” Morrill profiles life before the war and life as it was affected by the war. Drawing on primary resources, Book’s Feb. 14 – Steve Sodergren – “Civil War monologue describes with historical accuracy life in mid- Soldiers’ Stress” 19th century Vermont and is a story that could be repeated by many families in every town in Vermont during this era. March 14 – To be determined. Hosted by the Hardwick Historical Society. Hardwick Historical Society, 47 Depot St, 7:30 pm. Elwyn April 11 – Professor Jere Daniell - “Upper Valley Daniels, (802) 586-7565. Towns During the Civil War”; he describes the topics to be covered as including “the role of towns in mobilization, The Vermont Heritage Galleries include Service & aid to those who did the fighting, funding of substitutes for Sacrifice, which is now featuring the Andrus panoramic those who were drafted but didn't want to serve, celebration battle scenes, Houghton’s photographs, and the State of of events like Appomattox, and memorializing the war once Vermont Civil War flags. Learn more about Vermont it was over.” citizens’ service and sacrifice during the War Between the States. Admission covers all three galleries and entrance to May 12 – To be determined the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. Vermont History Center, 60 Washington Street, June 9 – Angela Smythe – “Richmond Grays Photo” Barre, VT Open Mon-Fri, noon to 4:00 pm (802) via Skype 479-8519 www.vermonthistory.org Other Round Table Meetings and Happenings 1864: Some Suffer So Much - January 13, 2014 – December 2014 A VERMONT SESQUICENTENIAL Top 10 Exhibit Sons of Union Veterans Ripley Camp would like to This is the 4th in a series of exhibits that examines invite all men to any of their monthly meetings at American's first private military college and its deep the Rutland American Legion on Washington Street connections to the Civil War. 1864: Some Suffer So Much on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00 P.M. examines Norwich University alumni who served as military They are also looking for speakers for their surgeons, the history of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder winter/spring programs and would love anyone from the Civil War to the present. The exhibit will also with a program they’d like to present to contact Jim present the stories of Norwich alumni who played a Proctor at [email protected] Check out The significant role in the United States Colored Troops, African Ripley Camp #4 web site at: American combat units that fought in the battles of 1864 as www.ripleycamp.netfirms.com/ well as Norwich University Corps of Cadets response to the St Albans Raid in October 1864. Image: Medal of Honor Nov. 8 – Pierce Manse, Concord, NH - From recipient, Edward B. Williston, and his horse, ‘Pony,’ member Gary Ward: Norwich University Archives. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, 158 Harmon Your presence is requested at the Annual Remembrance Dr, Northfield, Vermont (802) 485-2183 Day Observance for the Department of New Hampshire, http://www.norwich.edu/museum/ 2 this may change. If you want to come or want more The Vermont Humanities Council’s fall conference information, contact Peter Sinclair [802-584-3280] or will be held November 14-15 in Burlington. The title of the David Curtin [802-633-2536]. conference, A Fire Never Extinguished, will discuss many of the issues associated with the Civil War. The conference Treasurers Report will examine the influence that the war has had and Gail Blake continues to have on literature, art, race, cultural memory, politics and demographics in this nation today. More TREASURER'S REPORT information can be found at: Beginning Balance: $1307.93 Vermonthumanities.org. Expenses: Newsletter: $24.85 Home Front & Battlefield: Quilts and Context in the Speaker Expenses: $34.50 ( two meals ) Civil War, September 20 - January 4th Hotel Coolidge: $356.50 Deposit: $404.90 (meals, raffle, donations) In partnership with the American Textile History Museum, Ending Balance: $1292.98 Shelburne Museum will contribute to the nationwide conversation on the sesquicentennial commemoration of the American Civil War (1861-65) through Homefront & In Memory of Our Ancestors Who Battlefield: Quilts and Context in the Civil War. Served in the Civil War When civil war broke out in America, the very fabric of life was altered. Homefront & Battlefield showcases this pivotal Albion K. Goodwin period in American history through a new lens, reflecting Co. I. – 4th NH the personal sacrifice, heroism, mourning and reconciliation Jack Anderson’s great-great grandfather that changed the course of our country. Edwin Ruthvin Mayo The quilt and its story are placed in a broader context Sergeant through the use of textile-related artifacts, relevant images Co. B – 21st ME (including paintings, photographs, prints, and ephemera), Jack Anderson’s great-great grandfather and quotations from diaries and letters. Each object represents a deeply moving and insightful personal story, Orice Oakes from the noose reportedly used to hang abolitionist John Co. I – 1st Vermont Cavalry Brown, to a quilt made by a wounded soldier from hospital Jack Anderson’s great-great grandfather blankets, as well as Confederate gray and Union blue uniform fabrics. Sanford M. Whitney Corporal Home front & Battlefield connects deeply moving and Co. B – 12th Vermont insightful personal stories about the war with the broader Gail Blake’s great-great-great grandfather national context and history and examines how textiles were both an expression of and a motivating force behind Greenbush Strong American politics and culture during the Civil War.
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