The mission of the Civil War Round Table of Kansas City is to promote historical, educational, literary, and preservation activities related to the Civil War.
567th Regular Meeting
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Milburn Golf and Country Club 7501 West 69th Street, Overland Park, KS 66204 Social hour begins at 5:00 p.m. and dinner is at 6:00 p.m.
This meeting will include a plated dinner at a cost of $34.00 per person. Reservations are required in order to attend the dinner meeting.
Reservation Deadline: Tuesday, September 10th. To make a reservation, please contact Marlene Natoli (contact info in newsletter).
September 2024
Dr. Megan L. Bever, associate professor of history and chair of the Social Sciences Department at Missouri Southern State University will be giving a program titled: “At War with King Alcohol: Civil War Soldiers Debate Drinking.”
Soldiers in the Civil War drank liquor and myriad debates ensued over whether or not troops could drink and be patriotic men. These conversations over drinking, intermingled with discussions of class, race, and ethnicity, and soldiers and civilians argued – with each other and among themselves. Did service to one’s country during a time of war require sobriety? Americans disagreed.
Dinner Menu
Milburn Golf and Country Club will serve the following meal at our dinner meeting: Chili
Glaze Salmon with rice pilaf and asparagus. Dessert will be Caramel Butterscotch Cake. All dinners are served with house salad with Milburn house dressing, sliced bread, iced tea, water, and coffee.
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August 2024
At our dinner meeting on August 21st, Dr. Tai Edwards, associate professor of history and director of the Kansas Studies Institute at Johnson County Community College gave an excellent program titled: “The U.S. Civil War and Colonization of Indigenous Nations.”
Click here for a summary of Dr. Tai Edwards program.
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Honoring Our Members Who Are Veterans
As announced by Gary Nevius at the July dinner meeting, the Civil War Round Table of Kansas City plans to honor all of our members and their spouses who have served in the military. Prior to the dinner meeting Dr. Dan Cudnik, Jill Jaworski, Father Dave Holloway, Dave Pattison, and Gary Nevius met to develop a plan for honoring our veterans. The first step will be to e-mail all of our members, requesting that they provide information regarding their service if they are veterans. Members who have or had spouses that are veterans should also provide their spouse’s service information. The intent is to honor our veterans at the dinner meeting on November 20th.
2024 Civl War Wednesday Speaker Series
The Monnett Battle of Westport Fund is sponsoring a 2024 series of programs at the Westport Branch, Kansas City Public Library, 118 Westport Road, Kansas City, Missouri. There is no charge to attend. The programs are scheduled once a month from April through November. Click here to download a pdf of the program schedule.
Casualties of War: A Civil War on the Western Border Symposium
Freedom's Frontier and the Civil War Round Table of Kansas City are sponsoring a symposium on August 17, 2024 at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum. Tickets on sale now.
For more information and to register/purchase tickets please visit https://freedomsfrontier.org/casualties-of-war/
Change in Dinner Meeting Start Time in 2024
The following change will take effect starting in January 2024: Social hour will be from 5:00-6:00 p.m. and dinner will begin at 6:00 p.m. This will allow Milburn’s staff and our members to get home at an earlier time.
Round Table Now Accepting Digital Payments
The Civil War Round Table of Kansas City now accepts digital payments via the Square digital payment processing service. This process is simple to use and secure. Square charges the Round Table a fee for this service. If you decide to use this service, we add this fee to the total charge. For more information, please refer to our Round Table Digital Payments page.
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Book Auction
With apologies to our speakers, one of the highlights of each dinner meeting is the book auction led by Arnold Schofield.
Our monthly auction is on holiday for a while.
Newsletter Articles
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Click here to read the article that appeared in the May 2024 edition of the Border Bugle newsletter.
Click here to read the article that appeared in the June 2024 edition of the Border Bugle newsletter.
The USS Cairo
Click here to read the article that appeared in the July 2024 edition of the Border Bugle newsletter.
Member News
We would like to welcome the following new members:
- Terri Conner is an accountant and lives in Overland Park KS. She has Union ancesters from southwest Missouri and Confederate ancestors from the Appomattox area of Virginia.
- Liz Edmundson is a Registered Nurse (RN) and lives in Kansas City MO. She is also a member of the Civil War Round Table of Western Missouri.
- Tom Jones is retired and lives in St. Joseph MO. He has Union and Confederate ancesters and is primarily interested in the Trans-Mississippi region, the Missouri politcal split between radicals and conservatives, and emancipation.
It was good to see Arnold Schofield and his wife Clara at the July dinner meeting.
It was also good to see Phil and Mary Griffin at the July dinner meeting.
Battlefield Dispatches
"Battlefield Dispatches" made its first appearance in the Border Bugle with the December 2005 issue. The column was later given the label, "The Sergeant Major’s Roar." Over time, the Round Table's Website Administrator will be slowly all the "Battlefield Dispatches" which have appeared in the Border Bugle. The website administrator will enhance Sgt. Maj. Arnold Schofield's column with images where applicable. Just click on the menu item, Sgt. Major's Roar, to see the progress.
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