March 2024 Meeting

At our dinner meeting on March 20th, Professor Kendall D. Gott gave an excellent program titled: “Living in Bleeding Kansas Between the Factions.” Mr. Gott discussed the trials and tribulations of the common people as they learned to cope with the violence swirling about them. Attendance at the dinner meeting was 55.

Mr. Gott is an Army veteran of Desert Storm and retired senior historian of the U.S. Army Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He is the author of several studies on American history including the book: Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862. 

In addition, Kendall has authored the following historical novels:

• Steamboat Seasons and Backwater Battles;
• Ride to Oblivion: The Sterling Price Raid into Missouri, 1864;
• Steamboat Seasons: A Dawn of a New Era;
• Gone to Kansas 1856: Fire and Tribulation.