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Case Shot & Canister Case Shot & Canister 1BA Publication of the Delaware Valley Civil War Round Table Partners with Manor College and the Civil War Institute Our 21st Year May 2013 Special Chancellorsville and 4BVolume 23 5BNumber 5 Memorial Day Issue Editor Patricia Caldwell Contributors Hugh Boyle, Book Nook Editor Rose Boyle Mike Burkhimer Nancy Caldwell, Artistic Adviser Jack DeLong Jim Dover Paula Gidjunis Walt Lafty Carol Lieberman Courtney Lee Malpass Tom Stewart Larry Vogel Andy Waskie Our May Meeting Original Photos An Evening with General Meade Patricia Caldwell (unless otherwise noted) Presenter: Historian Dr. Andy Waskie Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3BUOfficers President 7:30 pm Hugh Boyle 6:15 pm for dinner Vice President Jerry Carrier Radisson Hotel Treasurer Route 1 @ Old Lincoln Highway Herb Kaufman Secretary Trevose, PA Patricia Caldwell e-mail:[email protected] U Dinner Menu – Roast Sirloin, served with Caesar Salad, rolls, phone: (215)638-4244 butter, iced tea, diet soda and dessert. website: HUwww.dvcwrt.orgU Substitute: Pasta (chef’s selection). Umailing addresses: for membership: Call Rose Boyle at 215-638-4244 for reservations 2601 Bonnie Lane Huntingdon Valley PA 19006 by May 16. Dinner Price $24.00 [Note new dinner price!] for newsletter items: You are responsible for dinners not cancelled 3201 Longshore Avenue Philadelphia PA 19149-2025 by Monday morning May 20. serves on the board of the GAR Museum & Library In This Issue in Frankford. Events for the 1863 sesquicentennial year Preservation news from Paula Gidjunis Larry Vogel summarizes our April meeting Murder or Retribution? – a “Civil War Vignette” Current schedule for the Civil War Institute Hugh Boyle laments the possible demise of a Gettysburg staple, and Mike Burkhimer reviews a classic by Gordon Rhea in the Book Nook Chancellorsville & Robert E. Lee – the subject of Mike Burkhimer’s “What I Think About That” Larry Vogel comments on the whereabouts of Stonewall Jackson’s arm It’s another year and another Bensalem Walt Lafty marks Memorial Day with a piece reenactment; those years now add up to 20. Yes, on a local cemetery it has been 20 years since we have been a sponsor Our commemoration of the Sesquicentennial and a working force at this reenactment. A continues with events of May 1863 working force that has brought many years of Photos of Del Val at Neshaminy success. I am not going to say that it seems like yesterday because it seems and feels like 20 years. Our involvement in this reenactment started back then with Bob Kane’s suggestion that we do An Evening with General Meade so. We and the reenactment have come a long way in those 20 years, but it is amazing that so many of the same faces still walk the grounds of Dr. Anthony Waskie, in the guise of General George Neshaminy State Park. There are many of the G. Meade, will make a return appearance to our Round Table at our May meeting. I’m sure that most same sponsors and many of the same reenactors, of us know Andy and are well acquainted with the yet many were not even born when this depth of his knowledge on Civil War topics and, in reenactment started 24 years ago. The particular, the life and career of General Meade. reenactment still has the same excitement as it had in the beginning. It has raised many Andy was born and raised in Bloomsburg, Columbia thousands of dollars for battlefield preservation County, Pennsylvania, and did his undergrad work as with both on-field donations and money raised in a German/Russian major, History minor at Bloomsburg University, and has received M.A. and sales and sponsor dollars. I must say again this Ph.D. degrees from New York University. Andy had year that we as a round table were a major factor experience with the U.S. State Department as a in the success of the event. Speaking for the Foreign Service officer, and saw duty with the U.S. reenactment committee, the members of this Army Reserves, specializing in language round table deserve a most profound thank you. interrogation and interpretation. He spent 31 years as Speaking for myself – “You’re the best”. an educator at the Pennsbury School District in Bucks County. Retiring in 1999 from public education, Andy is now a professor at Temple Thank you for another year of being great!! University and at one time was an instructor for the Del Val Civil War Institute at Holy Family Hugh Boyle University. He is very active in the Civil War history, research and preservation communities, seeking to President promote the Civil War History of the city. Andy also 2 annual Compuserve Civil War Reunion which met in Charleston and its environs from April 11-14. a Jim and Linda Dover recently cruised the Caribbean, with stops in San Juan, St. Thomas, St. MAY BRAIN TEASERS Maartens, and the Dominican Republic. 1 – On what battlefield were the East and West Carol and Jack Lieberman vacationed in Eastern Woods? Europe with stops in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. They also visited 2 – What was John Hunt Morgan’s raid behind two Concentration Camps as well as the Warsaw Federal lines in Kentucky in December 1862 called? Ghetto. 3 – Name the Secretary of the Navy during the The May 5 First Sunday Open House at the GAR Civil War. Museum featured Andy Waskie speaking on GAR Decoration Day Traditions and Customs. (Answers in next month’s newsletter!) Herb Kaufman spoke on ‘Military Conscription and ANSWERS TO THE APRIL BRAIN TEASERS the Civil War Draft Riots” at the Mercer Museum on May 5. 1 – Who presided over Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial? – Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase Hugh Boyle is scheduled to speak on “Presidential 2 – Who was McClellan’s running mate in the Assassins” to the residents of Ann’s Choice in 1864 presidential election? – George Hunt Warminster on May 9. Pendleton of Ohio 3 – Name Lincoln’s personal secretary, who later Many of us know that Courtney Lee Malpass has served as Secretary of State for three Presidents. – John Milton Hay been working on a novel for the past year. Courtney will be presenting the novel at her thesis presentation at the Castle at Arcadia University on May 9 at 7:00 it is free to the public, and all are welcome to attend. Sandy Kaufman is scheduled to speak on “Women in the Civil War” on May 19 as part of the Turning Point Lecture Series at the Mercer Museum. Congratulations to our April raffle winners! Dr. Details are in the Upcoming Events column. Leslie Rose was the winner of the dinner raffle. Alan Ash, Alan Shaw, Marshall Sterling and Walt Millicent Sparks will present a first-person Lafty won books following our presentation. portrayal of Harriet Tubman at the Upper Moreland Historical Association in Willow Grove on Tom Stewart’s trivia question – “Who successfully May 28. ran his 12-ship fleet past Vicksburg?” – was correctly answered as Admiral David Porter by Jim Dover. Maybe Jim read that in the April issue of Case Shot & Canister – that fact was an entry in the Sesquicentennial Events for April 1863. Just sayin’ Eleanor White – Philadelphia … it pays to read your newsletter!!! Paula Gidjunis, John Shivo, Carol Ingald and Pete Romeika were among those who gathered for the 3 museum admission. And…On selected dates throughout the spring and summer, watch for special appearances by soldiers, civilians, politicians and other “people from the past” in conjunction with the museum’s exhibit, Turning Points: Civil War, 1863- JUNE 18 1864. Check the museum website for details. Roger Arthur http://www.mercermuseum.org/exhibits/current-and- upcoming/ John Brown’s Raid May 18, 2013 – Sunday – 10:00 am – JULY 16 Gravesite Placement of Veterans’ Flags at Laurel Hill Cemetery – Meet at the gatehouse of Book Discussion Night Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue (215-228- Gettysburg, Day 1 8200) at 10:00 am. The group assembled will place Edited by Gary Gallagher US flags on the graves of veterans’ of all wars. As time and manpower permit, the cemeteries to be covered include Laurel Hill, Mt. Peace & St. James AUGUST 20 the Less. Refreshments. All welcome! Local Historian Jim Heenahan May 19, 2013 – Sunday – 2:00 pm – Turning Colonel Ira Grover Points Lecture Series: Women in the Civil th 7 Indiana at Gettysburg War – Mercer Museum, Doylestown – Sandy Kaufman discusses the varied and sometime little-known roles played by women in the Civil War. SEPTEMBER 17 Will feature women in the literary world as well as Author Dr. Judith Giesberg those in medicine, politics, nursing and military Women on the Homefront service. Presented in collaboration with the Civil War Institute at Manor College. Supported in part by the Friends of the Bucks County Historical Society. OCTOBER 15 $12/Free to members. Call 215-348-9461 to register. Local Historian Dan Cashin May 26, 2013 – Sunday – 12:00 Noon – The 71st PA at the Angle Annual Memorial Day Observed at Historic Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA – NOVEMBER 19 Recreating Original G.A.R. Decoration Day Service of 1868: The traditional Decoration Day service of the Author Greg Urwin Grand Army Meade Post #1 will be recreated at Gettysburg – History & Hype Historic Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Ave. All are welcome to attend and participate. Refreshments served after the ceremony. Tours of the historic cemetery available. For info: 215-228-8200. May 27, 2013 – Monday – 12:00 noon – Special Memorial Day Observance – Christ Church Burial Ground at 5th& Arch St. The final resting place of five signers of the Declaration of Through August 25, 2013 – Ongoing – Independence, including Benjamin Franklin! The Exhibit – Turning Points: Civil War: 1863- Benjamin Franklin American Legion Post #405 of the 1864.
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