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.
577th Regular Meeting
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
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 $35.00 per person. Reservations are required in order to attend the dinner meeting.
Reservation Deadline: Tuesday, August 12. To make a reservation, please contact Marlene Natoli (contact info in newsletter).
August 2025
At our dinner meeting on August 20, Civil War Round Table member and historian Arnold W. Schofield will give a program titled “A Brief History of Jennison’s Jayhawkers or the 7th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry.”
The 7th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry was organized at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on October 28, 1861. It mustered in for three years under the command of Colonel Charles R. Jennison. The 7th Kansas Cavalry mustered out of service at Fort Leavenworth on September 29, 1865.
Colonel Jennison served as leader of the Jayhawker militias until being dishonorably discharged for murder and robbery.
Dinner Menu
Milburn Golf and Country Club will serve the following meal at our dinner meeting: Beef medallions with demi sauce, asparagus, and potatoes au gratin. Dessert will be chocolate mousse. All dinners are served with house salad with Milburn house dressing, sliced bread, iced tea, water, and coffee.
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July 2025
Mr. A. Wilson Greene gave a program titled: “The Beefsteak Raid, September of 1864.” By the fall of 1864, General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia suffered from a shortage of just about everything, not the least of which was protein for the soldiers. Southern farms and the Confederacy's deteriorating railroad system simply could not provide enough meat to sustain the army. General Wade Hampton and an intrepid scout found a way to solve that problem. Hampton, recently promoted to command all of Lee's cavalry, designed an elaborate plan to reach the Union’s cattle corral and abscond with nearly 2,500 beeves.
Click here for a summary of our dinner meeting.
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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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We are sorry to report that Former Round Table member Edwin D. Shutt II passed away on March 20th. Ed served as president of our Round Table in 1986 and again in 2001. His mother, Mabel Shutt, was also a member of our Round Table. Go to the In Memoriam Archives to find out more about Ed.
Les Thierolf remembered Ed:
I used to sit with Ed all the time, but he got switched to the night shift and he couldn't make it to our dinner meetings.
Dan Smith remembered Ed:
Ed, Jr. was the president of our Round Table in both 1986 and 2001. One of his hallmarks was that he brought a cassette tape recorder to record the talk at each month's meeting. He and his mother were stalwarts by handling the book sales for a number of years, which at that time was split evenly between the CWRT and the Monnett Fund. The obituary correctly notes that Ed was a member of the Monnett Fund for a number of years.
Member News
Chris Cotten Receives the Steve Treaster Civil War Preservation Award
At our dinner meeting on July 16th, Dan Smith, Chairman of the Battle of Westport Fund, presented Chris Cotten with the prestigious Steve Treaster Civil War Preservation Award. Chris is Parks and Recreation Director for the city of Kansas City MO. He has supported battlefield preservation efforts, including the addition of ten historic markers interpreting the Byram’s Ford Battlefield of the Battle of Westport last fall.
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We would like to welcome the following new members:
- Terri Conner said she is a new grandmother. Her granddaughter, Lee West Eugster, was born on May 22nd. Congratulations Terri!
- Dick Titterington gave his program titled: "The First Lost Cause: Confederate Missourians Exiled into Mexico" on June 14th at the Bushwacker Museum in Nevada MO. This was part of the Bushwacker Days festival in Vernon County MO.
- Gary Nevius said he sent letters on behalf of both Freedom’s Frontier and the CWRT-KC requesting support for Freedom’s Frontier to Kansas Representative Sharice Davids and Kansas Senators Roger Marshall and Jerry Moran. Gary said he also talked to a Davids aide at length. Representative Davids and Missouri Representative Emanuel Cleaver have sent a letter to their colleagues, requesting support for all heritage areas. Senator Moran replied positively to Gary’s letter. However, Senator Marshall has not responded.
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