Welcome to
the Most important Round Table, in the Most important small town,
at the Most important Battlefield,
in the Most important Country
in the World.
Joe Mieczkowski, Past President
Thursday, Nov. 20th @ 7:00pm - Gettysburg’s Southern Front
Presented by Hampton Newsome
PLEASE NOTE NOVEMBER'S MEETING IS THE THIRD THURSDAY DUE TO THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY.
About the program:
Newsome’s presentation covers the little-known Federal offensive against Richmond during the Gettysburg Campaign – the subject of his book Gettysburg’s Southern Front. Sometimes referred to as the Blackberry Raid, the operation was led by Major General John Dix and provided a significant opportunity by U.S. forces to threaten the Confederate capital and damage Lee’s operation in Pennsylvania.
About our Speaker:
Hampton Newsome is author of several books on the Civil War including Richmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864, published by Kent State University Press in 2012 and recognized as a best book of the year by the Civil War Monitor magazine; and The Fight for the Old North State: The Civil War in North Carolina, January-May 1864, which was published in 2019 by the University Press of Kansas and received the Emerging Civil War Book Award, the Richard Barksdale Harwell Award from the Atlanta Civil War Roundtable, and the book of the year by Civil War Books and Authors. His most recent title is Gettysburg’s Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond. Also published by University of Kansas Press, it received the Edwin C. Bearss Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the Chicago Civil War Roundtable as well as the Emerging Civil War 2023 Book of the Year award. Recently retired from a career practicing consumer and environmental law, Newsome is a regular speaker at Civil War Round Tables and has led tours of sites around Richmond and Petersburg. He posts book-related information on Facebook at “Hampton Newsome – Author.”
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