Case Shot & Canister 1BA Publication of the Delaware Valley Civil War Round Table Partners with Manor College and the Civil War Institute Our 25th Year!! December 2017 4BVolume 27 5BNumber 12 Editor Patricia Caldwell Contributors Fred Antil Hugh Boyle, Book Nook Editor Rose Boyle Nancy Caldwell, Artistic Advisor Jerry Carrier Jack DeLong Paula Gidjunis Carol Ingald Bernice Kaplan Herb Kaufman Walt Lafty, MERRY CHRISTMAS, “Snapshots” Editor Carol Lieberman HAPPY HANUKKAH, Jane Peters Estes John Shivo & Larry Vogel Andy Waskie HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Original Photos Patricia Caldwell (unless otherwise noted) Our Annual Holiday Social Officers Tuesday, December 12, 2017 President Hugh Boyle 6:30 pm Vice President Austrian Village Restaurant Jerry Carrier Treasurer 321 Huntingdon Pike Herb Kaufman Secretary Rockledge, PA Patricia Caldwell e-mail:[email protected] U phone: (215)638-4244 NO RESERVATION NEEDED!! website: HUwww.dvcwrt.orgU JUST COME JOIN US FOR Umailing addresses: Membership GOOD FOOD, GOOD FUN, 2601 Bonnie Lane Huntingdon Valley PA 19006 AND HOLIDAY CHEER!! Newsletter 3201 Longshore Avenue Philadelphia PA 19149-2025 our Award of Merit, and Judy Folan for the In This Issue Frank Avato award. Congratulations again for your outstanding work. We will gather once First-person accounts of more in December on the 12th at the Austrian Christmas during the Civil War Village Restaurant in Rockledge for our annual End-of-the-year President’s social. I am looking forward to another super message Member News and Upcoming evening. It is always great to get together with Events good friends for a night of good food. I hope to see th Bernice Kaplan provides this all of you there at 6:30 on the 12 . Even if you month’s Snapshot cannot be with us that night, let me take this Paula Gidjunis with the opportunity to wish everyone of you a happy latest Preservation Notes joyous and peaceful holiday season and I look Another excellent Award forward to sharing anther year with all of you. Night Meeting recap from Larry Vogel In Our Book Nook, Hugh Boyle shares ideas See you at the Austrian Village! for holiday gift-giving, and Larry Vogel reviews a new unusual take on Gettysburg in the Civil War Our Winter/Spring classes for the Civil War Hugh Boyle Institute, and for the inaugural full season of our Military History Institute President How did Lincoln spend Christmas week while he was in office? Hugh Boyle knows what is “Under Lincoln’s ‘Christmas’ Hat” Walt Lafty with a Civil War Christmas- As 2017 comes to an end, themed article I’d like to take this Paula Gidjunis is once again “Off the Beaten opportunity to thank all of Path” you who have helped me Larry Vogel’s “Rest of the Story” features a this past year to publish a very Christmas baby, but don’t expect peace and goodwill to men rewarding and successful publication for the Del Val CWRT. It simply could not have been done without your reports, stories, book reviews, columns and news items. Please keep them coming!! So THANK YOU one and all – Because as I always say “This is YOUR newsletter.” The Holiday season is on us once again, always a time to reflect and look to the future, but before Have a Happy Hanukkah, a Merry we do that let me take a few moments to look Christmas, and a Happy New Year! back a little. Last month in November we - Pat celebrated another year of awards, recognizing outstanding people for their efforts and successes. Dan Cashin was a worthy choice for 2 Congratulations to John Hartner, our November dinner book raffle winner, and to our other raffle winners Bernice Kaplan, Eileen Homa, Rich Do You Know Your Money? Jankowski, Cathy Smith, Matt Bruce and Mary Whose Faces Appear on These Bills? Ann Hartner. Ann Kauffman was honored at the December 3 Open House at the GAR Museum for her work in transcribing the Civil War diary of Germantown resident George Bussinger. Ann has been praised for her presentation of the diary as copies of the 1 - original pages are displayed next to the transcribed text, and bracketed explanatory information is added where beneficial. Ann’s transcriptions will be displayed at the GAR Museum & Library. The diaries were a gift to the Museum from Judith Greene O’Neal, the great 2 - granddaughter of George Bussinger. “The Worst President Ever” was the topic of a program presented by Hugh Boyle at Ann’s Choice on November 20. 3 - Fred Antil, organizer of the monthly History Club And I hope a few of you have presentations at Ann’s Choice in Warminster, will some of these in your pockets! speak there on December 13 on “Lest We Forget! A Forgotten Horror of World War II”, a program on the infamous Rape of Nanking. (Answers in next month’s newsletter!) On December 14, Walt Lafty will speak to the Old ANSWERS TO GETTYSBURG ADDRESS TRIVIA Baldy CWRT on “Walt Whitman, the Civil War’s Poet Patriot”. 1 – What was the date that David Wills set for the dedication of the cemetery before it was changed to November 19th – October 23rd Bernice Kaplan is rightly proud of her nephew 2 – Who was the Grand Marshal of the Parade on Jeffrey Kaplan who has received an honorary th November 19 , 1863? – Ward Hill Lamon award from Fun & Serious, Europe’s largest video 3 – Where did Abraham Lincoln stay during his game festival, in Bilbao, Spain, for his overall time in Gettysburg? – David Wills’ House exceptional career and achievements. Jeffrey, of Blizzard Entertainment, is responsible for “some of the most epic, entertaining, and successful games in history.” http://www.pressat.co.uk/releases/blizzard- entertainments-jeff-kaplan-to-receive-honorary- award-at-the-fun-serious-game-festival- 93ceecfed272db9a93fa4cfd901653b1/ 3 Best wishes to Jack Lieberman who recently suffered a broken shoulder and will be out of commission for several months. Jack and Dor DeLong are participating members JANUARY 16, 2018 of Operation Freedom Steps, a 501 completely Round Table volunteer group that sends care packages directly Discussion to service persons overseas. Freedom Steps “Your Family recently completed a Christmas mailing of 9 Military History” packages, averaging 55 pounds each, containing a Christmas tree, food, snacks, munchies, eye FEBRUARY 20, 2018 care products, etc., Author/historian Daniel Crofts and Christmas “Lincoln and the Politics stockings filled with of Slavery” writing materials, tooth paste, and other items. Jack collects MARCH 21, 2018 donations from Historian Peter John Williams hundreds of people, “Philadelphia: mostly Viet Nam The World War I Years” veterans from his unit, and the Corvette car club of over 200 members. One member of his Viet Nam Veterans organization makes three boxes of APRIL 17, 2018 Christmas stockings with no reward asked. Dor is Historian & Meade Society pictured with two of the donated stockings. Treasurer Jerry McCormick Freedom Steps does fund raisers during the year, “An Evening with General George including an annual 5K run and walk. While the cost G. Meade in Late 1872” of mailing the 9 Christmas packages was over $1,700, it was covered by the volunteers. MAY 15, 2018 Historian Robert Hanrahan “The Blockade and the War on the High Seas” JUNE 19, 2018 “Last night was Christmas Eve. It brought to my Author Ed Bonekemper mind a thousand recollections of the past. The “The Ten Biggest Civil War contrast is great. I sat up late in the evening at Blunders” the fire, after attending to drawing rations, for we were under marching orders for this morning JULY 17, 2018 at five o’clock. A grand movement seems to be Book Discussion Evening at hand. About eleven o’clock at night I heard Topic to be Determined heavy firing in the front. Where will the next Christmas Eve find me?” Henry Freeman, 74th Illinois December 25, 1862 4 MEMBERS' SNAPSHOTS by Bernice Kaplan I think I was the luckiest person in the room when Herb Kaufman gave his excellent presentation recently to our DEL VAL group on "The Music that Got Us through WWII". I was sitting next to member Cathy Smith, who with her beautiful, soft voice was singing along to the many recordings Herb was playing. Cathy gave Kate Smith, Judy Garland and Vera Lynn some stiff competition. Cathy was born in Philadelphia and lived in West Oak Lane until her parents (she was an only child) moved to Willow Grove. After living in Warminster during the early years of her marriage, Willow Grove once again became her home. Cathy is a graduate of Upper Moreland High School and has a B.S. in Music Education plus 24 graduate credits from West Chester University. She taught elementary vocal music in the Hatboro-Horsham School District for five years. After several years as a stay at home mom, Cathy worked for Wicker and Cane for 7 years and then held various positions with Elmar Window Fashions for 23 years. She currently works for C3i (Telerx), a subsidiary of Merck, located in Horsham, doing customer support for Merck vaccines and some oncology products. Cathy has two adult children, Wendy and Jeff. Wendy is an attorney with a Philadelphia law firm. Jeff works for Timberlane Shutters in Montgomeryville, is married to Jeannine and has an eleven year old daughter. Both Jeff and Wendy are adopted. Jeff was adopted from Vietnam when he was 15 months old. Wendy was adopted from Korea at 6 months. By the way, Cathy lives around the corner from Del Val member, John Gavin. John's son John and Cathy's son Jeff have been good friends since they were youngsters.