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Distinguished Lecture Series Each CD $9.00 plus $3.00 for shipping and handling Purchase 3, receive 1 free plus $3.00 shipping & handling, 5 or more shipping is free. Make checks payable to “CWRT” and send to Hal Ardell, 6781 N. Keota Ave., Chicago, IL 60646 Tape Date Speaker Last Name 2nd last name Subject 2/12/2015 Don Doyle Doyle The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War 1/8/2015 David Moore Moore General William S. Rosecrans 12/11/2015 Dave Keller Keller Camp Douglas 11/13/2015 Philip Leigh Leigh Trading with the Enemy 10/9/2015 Dennis Frye Frye John Brown: The Spark That Ignited the War 9/11/2015 Dale Phillips Phillips The Capture of New Orleans 6/12/2015 Garry Adelman Adelman 4D Civil War Photography Extravaganza 5/8/2015 Eric Leonard Leonard Cartel, Code, and Consequences at Andersonville 4/10/2015 Michael Burlingame Burlingame The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln 3/13/2015 Tom Huntington Huntington My Search for George Gordon Meade 2/13/2015 Leslie Goddard Goddard "Gone With the Wind" and the Construction of Civil War Memory 1/9/2015 John Horn Horn George Bernard and the 12th Virginia Infantry 12/12/2014 James Ogden Ogden The Engagement at Reed's Bridge 11/14/2014 Steve Towne Towne Detecting Deserters and Disloyalty: U.S. Army Intelligence Operations in the Midwest during the Civil War 10/10/2014 Mark Bradley Bradley Wehen East Meets West: Joe Hooker, O.O. Howard and the Atlanta Campaign 9/12/2014 Frank Varney Varney General Grant and the Rewriting of History 8/15/2014 Lance Herdegen Herdegen Gettysburg: A fight for the Colors 6/13/2014 Kenneth Noe Noe The War in Appalachia 5/9/2014 David Bastian Bastian Grant's Canal 4/11/2014 Scott Bowden Bowden Last Chance for Victory 3/14/2014 Aaron Barnhart, Diane Barnhardt Eickhoff Price's 1864 Missouri Raid THE CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE OF CHICAGO - DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES Eickhoff 2/14/2014 Harold Knudsen Knudsen General James Longstreet 1/10/2014 Robert I. 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