Welcome to the Civil War Roundtable of Gettysburg. "The most important Roundtable, in the most important small town, at the most important battlefield, in the most important country in the world."
—Joe Mieczkowski, past president

Meeting date: My 23, 2024

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The Nameless & Faceless of the Civil War in Poetry

Lisa Samia

The Nameless and the Faceless of the Civil War, Gettysburg, Manassas & More is the third book in the Nameless and Faceless series. The prior two books are The Nameless and the Faceless of the Civil War and The Nameless and the Faceless Women of the Civil War. Both books earned me Artist in Residence through the National Parks Arts Foundation-National Park Service, Gettysburg Poetry September 2020, and Artist in Residence-National Park Service Manassas Poetry October 2021.

The books are a collection of 28 poems and 28 historical essays on the Civil War. We know that not everyone who witnessed and experienced the Civil War made it into the history books. What about all those who rest in Civil War Battlefield Cemeteries with only the word Unknown to note their final resting place? So many of them still without a name or a face. By combining the rhyme and narrative of poetry with Civil War History a lost voice of history comes forth to share their experiences and their suffering. A place where their humanity and the songs of their soul come together to create a voice to tell their story of compassion, life, death, agony, and grief as a reminder to the world that they did not die in vain.

There is no North or South in these collections. No border states. No governance or politics. For in the voices of the lost and unknowns, it is to remember that suffering has no boundaries.

Lisa G. Samia is an Award-Winning Poet & Author who researches, writes, and lectures on American Civil War History. Her latest accomplishments are being selected as the National Parks Arts Foundation’s Artist in Residence for Gettysburg National Battlefield Park 2020 & National Parks Service’s Artist in Residence for Manassas National Battlefield Park 2021, both for her Civil War Poetry.

Her works include “The Nameless and the Faceless of the Civil War,” a collection of 28 poems and 28 essays on the historical representations of Civil War events through the rhyme and narrative of poetry. It was released in April 2018 and endorsed by Eric Swanson, the NYT best-selling co-author of “The Joy of Living.” “The Nameless and the Faceless Women of the Civil War,” a collection of 28 poems and 28 essays, was released in April 2021 and also endorsed by Eric Swanson. Lisa's latest book released May 2023 "The Nameless and the Faceless of the Civil War Gettysburg, Manassas & More" is a captivating addition following the success of the first two books in The Nameless and Faceless series. Also, “The Man with the Ice Blue Eyes,” A Romantic Poetry Collection of Love and Heartache, debuted at number one on Amazon.com for Women’s Poetry in July 2016. Included in the collection are two award-winning poems from the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association.
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Lisa is also an avid author and speaker on John Wilkes Booth and his sister Asia Booth Clarke. She has appeared multiple times at Tudor Hall Bel Air, MD, the Booth family home.  Her recent discovery of a set of archived letters written by Asia Booth Clarke while residing in Europe provides a deeper reveal of Asia Booth Clarke. Also, a future biography of Asia Booth Clarke, her life, and her letters is Lisa's next project.
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Lisa frequently lectures at literary and historical venues, notably The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum, the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House & Museum, The Civil War Interpretive Center Blenheim, The Civil War Round Table Congress, a virtual as well as in-person presentation with The American Civil War Museum, The Gettysburg Heritage Center, The Southern MD Civil War Round Table, and multiple Barnes & Noble locations.

Lisa is currently working on a fourth CW poetry/essay book under The Nameless and Faceless of the Civil War.  I will introduce a new unpublished poem to the May 23, presentation.  I am also working on a biography of the life of Asia Booth Clarke, sister to John Wilkes Booth, A Woman of the Civil War.

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