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Case Shot & Canister 1BA Publication of the Delaware Valley Civil War Round Table Partners with Manor College and the Civil War Institute Our 23rd Year July 2015 4BVolume 25 5BNumber 7 Editor Patricia Caldwell Contributors Hugh Boyle, Book Nook Editor Rose Boyle Matt Bruce Nancy Caldwell, Artistic Adviser Jerry Carrier Paula Gidjunis Ed Greenawald Carol Ingald John Jastrzebski Bernice Kaplan Herb Kaufman Our July Meeting Walt Lafty Jack Lieberman Our Annual Book Discussion Night Zack Margolies Jane Peters Estes “The Long Surrender” by Burke Davis Pete Romeika Facilitator: Jerry Carrier Larry Vogel John Voris Sheryl Weiner Tuesday, July 21, 2015 Original Photos 7:30 pm Patricia Caldwell (unless 6:15 pm for dinner (all welcome!) otherwise noted) Radisson Hotel 3BUOfficers Route 1 @ Old Lincoln Highway President Hugh Boyle Trevose, PA Vice President Jerry Carrier Treasurer Dinner Menu – Grilled Sage Chicken with Cabernet Demi-Glaze. Herb Kaufman Served with salad, rolls/butter, iced tea, soda, dessert. Secretary Substitute: Pasta (chef’s selection). Patricia Caldwell Contact Rose Boyle at [email protected] or 215-638-4244 for e-mail:[email protected] U phone: (215)638-4244 dinner reservations by July 16. Dinner Price $24.00 website: HUwww.dvcwrt.orgU Umailing addresses: for membership: You are responsible for dinners not cancelled 2601 Bonnie Lane by Monday morning July 20. Huntingdon Valley PA 19006 for newsletter items: 3201 Longshore Avenue Philadelphia PA 19149-2025 In This Issue Member News and Upcoming Events Matt Bruce found something interesting “In the Media” to share Paula Gidjunis with the latest in Preservation News An event 150 years ago this month is recalled by Hugh Boyle Our June meeting is wonderfully recapped by Let us talk about a good book Walt Lafty The Fall schedule for the Civil War Institute July is always a special month here at the at Manor College Delaware Valley Civil War Round Table, Zack Margolies brings us a baseball-related because this is the month that we set aside for (surprise!) “Civil War Vignette” our book discussion. This year’s book is right on Hugh Boyle tackles CW reference books in with the 150th remembrance of the Civil War. It the Book Nook, while Matt Bruce reviews a very is Burke Davis’s The Long Surrender. A book timely recent classic that takes us through the fall of Richmond and Larry Vogel shares his experiences from the flight of Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet. It Gettysburg’s East Cavalry Field in “My Personal seems like a simple story, but it is not. There is Civil War” mystery, intrigue, and an exciting story of men Once again Historicus II shares his thoughts on the run. We also can’t forget the story of the A local soldier is the subject of Larry Vogel’s capture of Jefferson Davis, his imprisonment and “The Delaware Valley & the Civil War” how he finished his life, and what happened to John Voris recounts a very special filming involving local living historians, along with photos his family. It was a good book and a good read. It will not matter to those who did not read the book, because all will find the discussion interesting. Vice-President Jerry Carrier will lead the book discussion that night. What makes Back to Basics these discussion nights so valuable is that it gives the entire round table membership the For our Annual Book chance to speak up and let us hear you thoughts Discussion Night, in light and ideas. So often we say that this is the way of the 150th anniversary of the official end of the war, that the round tables were formed, not with we’ve chosen The Long speakers and presentations, but with people just Surrender by Burke Davis. sitting around [a round table] and talking Civil Jerry Carrier will lead the War [you know, the kind of discussion that discussion, and of course, would bore your family]. So I look forward to the everyone is welcome to July meetings so we can have everybody voice their thoughts and opinions. So, read the book – involved. See you there at the meeting! or some portion of it! – or just come and listen. You might recall that in other years the book night evolved into quite a lively discussion!! For new Hugh Boyle members, everyone is welcome to voice their thoughts and opinions. We’d like to get a good President discussion going!!! And the book is still available very inexpensively on Amazon. 2 Sheryl Weiner joined Jane Peters Estes’ "Land of Lincoln" tour from June 27 to July 3. Among the sites visited were the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, his house in Springfield and his tomb. Also on the agenda was a paddle boat ride on the Mississippi River. JULY BRAIN TEASERS Pete Romeika will spend some vacation time with The Confederacy at the End of the War his daughter and her family in July and then take part in an art workshop at the Barnes Foundation. 1 – Who was the Secretary of State for the Confederacy in 1865? John Jastrzebski and Ed Greenawald attended 2 – Who was Vice-President of the Confederacy the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute in 1865? summer program in June. The program included 3 – Who was the Secretary of War for the talks, with special tours of Confederacy in 1865? Gettysburg battle field in the afternoon. They also (Answers in next month’s newsletter!) traveled to Richmond for a staff ride doing Lee's ANSWERS TO JUNE “WHO WAS” BRAIN TEASERS retreat to Appomattox, and another covering the 1 – Who was known as “The Stonewall of the West”? – General Patrick Cleburne Petersburg Campaign. The 2 – Who was called “The Snapping Turtle”? – guys gave it rave reviews General George G. Meade despite temperatures of 3 – Whom did Lincoln call “Father Neptune”? – 100+ degrees. John sends a Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles photo of Ed with the group at Fort Fisher. 4 – Who was called “The Hell Cat”? – Mary Todd Lincoln 5 – Who was called “The Pathfinder”? – General On a similar note, Ed Greenawald writes, “CW John C. Fremont buffs & sports – I wore my Blue Jacket tee-shirt on the bus ride from Gettysburg to Richmond for our two days of touring. While carrying my gear into the hotel I was accosted by two men in their late twenties shouting "Blue Jackets – the only national sports team with a CW emblem!" They may have been from our five busloads, but it Congratulations to our June book raffle winners, shows the well-roundedness of CW Matt Bruce (dinner book), John Voris, Fred aficionados. Or your newsletter has a wider Rosso and Ann Kauffman. circulation than you realize.” [Note: See “Off the Wall” in the February 2014 issue of CS&C for the Our June meeting featured two Meade-related reference.] trivia questions – (1) When at West Point together, what later Confederate general was Zack Margolies traveled to Yankee Stadium on Meade’s best friend and roommate? And (2) June 24 for a Phillies games and spent Father’s Which Confederate general (also governor of Day at the Camden Rivers Sharks courtesy of his Virginia) was Meade’s brother-in-law? Pat Corey family as a Father’s Day gift. But he says just so correctly answered John C. Pemberton to question we don’t think he has no tastes other than #1 and Walt Lafty knew that Henry Wise was the baseball, Zack also attended two programs at the answer to question #2. Mann, “Tchaikovsky with Fireworks with the Philadelphia Orchestra” on June 23 and on June 25 the movie The Godfather was presented 3 with the iconic and haunting score performed live many other buildings in town, were draped in by The Philadelphia Orchestra. You had a busy black. Jane and Gary did not stay for the actual week there, Zack! re-enactment (some 10,000 people were expected to attend) but very much enjoyed Springfield and Jerry Carrier and John Voris joined forces with St. Louis, Missouri. Over the summer Jane will be other members of the Confederacy of Union conducting Starr tours in the Shenandoah Valley, Generals to film a re-enactment of the trial of the Cape Cod & Nantucket, Memphis & Nashville, QVC seven men and one woman who conspired with John & American Treasures, and Niagara Falls & Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Toronto, and a tour visiting Nova Scotia, New Lincoln. Jerry played key witness Louis Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Weichmann, and John portrayed one of the prosecutors. Former Del Val member Pat Bernice Kaplan spent two weeks in June with her Fairbairn co-wrote the script and also played a brother and sister-in-law in La Canada, member of the military commission and his wife, California. The highlight of the visit was spending Mary Ellen Fairbairn, played Mary Surratt, the time with her family. During her stay, Bernice had first woman to be executed by the federal the opportunity of seeing two superb Civil War government. The most noteworthy part of the exhibits, one at The Autry Museum in L.A. and the shoot, which was based on the transcript of the other at the Pasadena Museum of History. Also of trial, was the location. It was shot in the very great interest and enjoyment was a three hour, room where the original trial was held – the third private behind-the scenes tour of the fabulous floor of Grant Hall, on the grounds of the National L.A. Zoo and a visit to the magnificent Ronald Defense University at Fort Lesley McNair in Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Washington, D.C.