Past Events and Speakers
August 2010
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Andy Waskie
Topic: GAR history
July 2010
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Jean Hershner
Topic: The Cartridge Box - newspaper at US Hospital, York, Pa. 1864-1865
June 2010
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Bob O'Connor, Author
Topic: Perfect Steel Trap - Harpers Ferry, 1859
May 2010
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Bill Hewitt
Topic: Defense of Cemetery Ridge
April 2010
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Paul Cooksey
Topic: Fields of Fire, Union Artillery on Cemetery Ridge
March 2010
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Dick Simpson
Topic: Pea Ridge -March, 1862
February 2010
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Mike Kanazanich
Topic: Lincoln Assassination: Background Basics
January 2010
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Ross Hetrick, President, Thaddeus Stevens Society
Topic: Thaddeus Stevens
November 2009
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: LBG Jim Hessler
Topic: General Sickles, after Gettysburg
October 2009
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Art Shaub
Topic: Dred Scott Decision of Supreme Court
September 2009
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Bert Barnett
Topic: Stories of North/South artillery batteries @ Gettysburg
August 2009
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Jeffrey Wert & Jeb Stuart
Topic: "Cavalryman of the Lost Cause"
July 2009
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Dr. Richard Sommers
Topic: Petersburg, 1864 (October 2009 field trip guide)
June 2009
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Scott Mingus
Topic: Louisiana Tigers at Gettysburg
May 2009
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Gretna Theatre
Topic: One Hour Play "Keeping Mr. Lincoln"
April 2009
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Jim Corrigan
Topic: 48th Pa. in Battle of the Crater
March 2009
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Dr. Arthur Bergeron
Topic: Louisiana Irish in the Army of Northern Virginia
February 2009
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: James Ligons, Jr
Topic: 1st person impressionist - Frederick Douglass
January 2009
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Larry Keener-Farley
Topic: Victorian Dance Ensemble
December 2008
Location: Hummelstown VFW
Speaker: LBG Dr. Charlie Fennell
Topic: Lee's Retreat from Gettysburg
November 2008
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: LBG Jim Hessler
Topic: General Daniel Sickles
http://www.sicklesatgettysburg.com/
October 2008
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: LGB Kavin Kochenauer
Topic: Mine Run
September 2008
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Bob Watson
Topic: 13th Mississippi Volunteers
August 2008
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Glenn Baugher
Topic: Medicine during the Civil War
July 2008
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Rich Kohr
Topic: Fight in Peach Orchard
June 2008
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Keith S Macgregor
Topic: 142nd Pa. Volunteers
May 2008
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Prof. Arthur Bergeron Jr.
Topic: Battle of Mobile Bay
April 2008
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Rich Wagner
Topic: General Samuel Crawford, Division Commander of the Pa. Reserves @ Gettysburg
March 2008
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Frank O'Reilly
Topic: Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg
February 2008
Location: Country Meadows
Speaker: Calobe Jackson
Topic: Stories of Central Pennsylvania concerning US Colored Troops
January 2008
Location: Hershey Public Library
Speaker: Dick Simpson
Topic: Wilson's Creek
December 2007
Location: Hummelstown VFW
Address: 106 S. Hanover St Hummelstown PA
Map
Dinner: $16, Meeting : Free
Cocktails @ 6pm
Dinner @7pm
Speaker: Chuck Teague @ 8pm
Topic: The Shadow of Napoleon, and how his tactics influenced Lee's leadership.
November 2007
Location: Hershey Public Library
Speaker: Chris Heisey
Topic: Photos of the Overland Campaign
October 2007
Location: Hershey Public Library
Speaker: Brent Musser
Topic: The Kearney Cross (given to the 1st Division of 3rd Corps.)
September 2007
Location: Hershey Public Library
Speaker: Steve Anderson
Topic: First person impressionist of Thaddeus Stevens, feiry Lancaster congressman and noted abolitionst
August 2007
Location: Trinity Lutheran Church
Topic: Panel discussion of Jack Thomas, Glen Baugher, and Linda Meeneghan about the Gettysburg campaign
July 2007
Location: Trinity Lutheran Church
Speaker: Mary Weigley
Topic: Kilpatrick's raid around Atlanta
June 2007
Location: Trinity Lutheran Church
Speaker: Rich Kohr
Topic: The artillery at Gettysburg.
May 2007
Location: Hershey Public Library
Speaker: Joe Mieczkowski
Mr. Mieczkowski will be appearing in period dress as Senator Simon Cameron.
He will be accompanied by his wife, Margaretta.
Mr. Mieczkowski is a liscensed Gettysburg battlefield guide, a
Gettysburg town guide and VP of the Gettysburg Civil War Round Table.
April 2007
Location: Hershey Public Library
Speaker: Bert Barnett
Topic: Poems from the Battlefield
March 2007
Location: Trinity Lutheran Church
Speaker: Frank O'Reilly
Topic: The Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg
February 2007
Location: Hershey Public Library
Speaker: Larry Keener Farley
Topic: Myths of the Civil War
January 2007
Speaker: Dick Simpson
Topic: The Civil War in stone and bronze that never ends (Civil War monuments)
December 2006
Speaker: Troy Harmon
Topic: Lee's Plan at Gettysburg
November 2006
Speaker: Scott Mingus
Topic: Gordon's Brigade At Wrightsville; The Burning of the Wrightsville Bridge
October 2006:
Speaker: Andy Waskie
Topic: First person impressionist as General Meade - Meade and the Overland Campaign
September 2006:
Speaker: Robert Trout
Topic: Jeb Stuart and the Gettysburg Campaign
August 2006:
Speaker: Jeffrey Wert
Topic: Career of General James Longstreet