Raleigh CWRT's "The Knapsack" Newsletter Archive
The Knapsack is the official newsletter of the Raleigh Civil War Round Table and is published around the 1st of each month. The cover article of each issue introduces the guest speaker(s) and their topic for that month's meeting. The Knapsack is distributed electronically to the active membership and friends of the Raleigh Civil War Round Table. These are .pdf files that can be opened with free Adobe Acrobat Reader software, which can be downloaded from Adobe at http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/. If you have comments or ideas for future stories that could be considered for inclusion in the newsletter, please contact Bob Graesser, Newsletter Editor, at bob.graesser@gmail.com./
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In the table above, clicking on a year will jump to that year. Years are listed from newest to oldest as one scrolls down. Within a given year, the newsletters are listed from newest to oldest by month. Years shown in red have not yet had any of their newsletters scanned. Years shown in orange have had only some of their newsletters scanned. Years shown in green have had all of their newsletters scanned.
Year 2024
2024_November Knapsack (Revision 2) (1.9MB)
Wade Sokolosky, Col. U.S. Army (Ret.), speaking on the topic The Battle of Wyse Fork
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2024_October Knapsack (1.8MB)
Shelly Liebler, speaking on the topic Fort Pocahontas: Preservation and Memory
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2024_September Knapsack (1.2MB)
Chris Meekins, M.A., speaking on the topic NC Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster ‒ The Ongoing Project to Identify Service
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2024_June Knapsack (4.6MB)
Matt Young, M.A., speaking on the topic The CSS Neuse
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2024_May Knapsack (5.0MB)
Bruce Littell, M.A., speaking on the topic The Hunley Project
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2024_April Knapsack (1.7MB)
Dr. Ted Kunstling, M.D., speaking on the topic Raleigh Occupied 1865
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2024_March Knapsack (1.2MB)
Gene Schmiel, Ph.D., speaking on the topic The Career of Gen. Irvin McDowell
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2024_February Knapsack (0.9MB)
Bob Graesser, M.A., speaking on the topic Lincoln – The Two Whistle-Stop Rail Journeys Which Bookended Both His Presidency and the Civil War
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2024_January Knapsack (0.8MB)
Speakerless Meeting due to Organizational Discussion
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Year 2023
2023_December Knapsack (0.8MB)
No Meeting due to Meeting Cancelled
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2023_November Knapsack (1.6MB)
Bill Brown, M.A., speaking on the topic “…So Dark a Crime…": Shelton Laurel Massacre, January 1863
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2023_October Knapsack (1.3MB)
Robin Simonton, M.A., speaking on the topic History and "Residents" of Raleigh, NC's Oakwood Cemetery
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2023_September Knapsack (1.9MB)
Rob Orrison, M.A., speaking on the topic The Battle of Bristoe Station
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2023_August Knapsack (2.2MB)
Charlie Knight, M.A., speaking on the topic “Uselessly Sacrificed” – The Destruction of Iverson’s Brigade at Gettysburg, July 1st, 1863
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2023_July Knapsack (2.1MB)
Harry Smeltzer, M.B.A., speaking on the topic The Battle of 1st Manassas aka The 1st Battle of Bull Run
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2023_June Knapsack (1.5MB)
Andrew Duppstadt, M.A., speaking on the topic Francis Lyell Hoge
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2023_May Knapsack (1.3MB)
Tonia Smith, speaking on the topic Orton Williams
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2023_April Knapsack (0.7MB)
Earl Ijames, B.A., speaking on the topic Juneteenth
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2023_March Knapsack (2.0MB)
Jim McKee, speaking on the topic Abraham Lincoln and The Fort Anderson Flag: A Flag That Might Have Changed U.S. History
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2023_February Knapsack (2.3MB)
Michael Briggs, speaking on the topic Guilford County-Made Confederate Rifles
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2023_January Knapsack (1.7MB)
Wade Sokolosky, Col. U.S. Army (Ret.), speaking on the topic Confederate Hospitals in North Carolina
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Year 2022
2022_December Knapsack (1.0MB)
Speakerless Meeting, due to Holiday Party
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2022_November Knapsack (2.7MB)
Tom Elmore, speaking on the topic The Burning of Columbia, SC, Feb. 17th, 1865
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2022_October Knapsack (2.9MB)
Chris Hartley, speaking on the topic "I Owe the Southern Confederacy a Debt": The Life of George Stoneman
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2022_September Knapsack (3.4MB)
Ernie Dollar, M.A., speaking on the topic of his new book Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War’s Final Campaign in North Carolina
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2022_August Knapsack (4.3MB)
Gatton Awardees, Mary Lynn Bryan, Mac Healy, and David Winslow, speaking about their work on the NC Civil War & Reconstruction History Center Project
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2022_July Knapsack (3.9MB)
Dr. Chris Fonvielle, Ph.D., speaking on the topic "Freedom at Last": African Americans at Wilmington, North Carolina, 1865
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2022_June Knapsack (0.1MB)
Meeting Postponed due to Speaker's Last Minute Medical Emergency
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2022_May Knapsack (6.9MB)
Amy and Jay Bauer, speaking on the topic Discovery of a Forgotten USCT: A Mystery Solved
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2022_April Knapsack (4.4MB)
Freddie Kiger, M.A., speaking on the topic "Sheer Adulterated Violence": The Battle of Sharpsburg/Antietam
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2022_March Knapsack (2.2MB)
Gary Dyson, B.S., speaking on the topic of his book The Ambush of the Isaac P. Smith: Family Ties and the Battle on the Stono, January 30, 1863
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2022_February Knapsack (2.9MB)
Jeff Hunt, M.A., speaking on the topic of his book Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station: The Problems of Command and Strategy after Gettysburg, from Brandy Station to the Buckland Races, August 1st to October 31st, 1863
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2022_January Knapsack (0.1MB)
Meeting Cancelled due to Rescheduled for April 11, 2022
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Year 2021
2021_December Knapsack (4.5MB)
No Meeting due to Holiday Break
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2021_November Knapsack (4.6MB)
Colby Stevens, speaking on the topic Expansion Plans for the Bentonville Battlefield as Related to Mower’s Charge and Hardee’s Counterattack
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2021_October Knapsack (Revised) (2.9MB)
Dr. Judkin Browning, Ph.D., and Dr. Timothy Silver, Ph.D., speaking on the topic Environmental Influences on the Peninsula Campaign in 1862
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2021_September Knapsack (4.2MB)
David L. Bright, USN Lt. Cmdr. (ret.), speaking on the topic Locomotives up the Turnpike: The Civil War Career of Quartermaster Captain Thomas R. Sharp, C.S.A.
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2021_August Knapsack (4.2MB)
Charlie Knight, M.A., speaking on the topic of his book From Arlington to Appomattox: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War, Day by Day, 1861–1865
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2021_July Knapsack (Revised) (3.8MB)
Jeff Hunt, M.A., speaking on the topic Meade and Lee After Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign, From Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, July 14-31, 1863
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2021_June Knapsack (3.6MB)
Wade Sokolosky, U.S. Army Col. (ret.), speaking on the topic Success and Failure in the Saddle: Mounted Operations during the 1865 Carolinas Campaign
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2021_May Knapsack (Revised) (3.7MB)
Gene Schmiel, Ph.D., speaking on the topic The Civil War in West Virginia and the Role of Jacob Cox
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2021_April Knapsack (Revised) (1.4MB)
Douglas C. Waller, M.A., speaking on the topic Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation
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2021_March Knapsack (2.9MB)
Al Bredenberg, M.A., speaking on the topic Raleigh Civil War Fortifications
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2021_February Knapsack (Revised) (1.3MB)
Dr. Curt Fields, Ph.D., U.S. Grant Impersonator, speaking on the topic Reflections on the Recent Vicksburg Campaign
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2021_January Knapsack (Revised) (1.7MB)
Prof. Leonard J. Fullenkamp, Col., U.S. Army, Ret., speaking on the topic Ulysses S. Grant: The Making of a General
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Year 2020
2020_December Knapsack (1.5MB)
Michael K. Brantley, M.A., M.F.A., speaking on the topic of his book Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate
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2020_November Knapsack (Revised) (1.MB)
Michael P. Rucker, speaking on the topic The Meanest and "Damnest" Job: Being the Civil War Exploits and Civilian Accomplishments of Colonel Edmund Winchester Rucker During and After the War
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2020_October Knapsack (0.9MB)
Dr. Christian B. Keller, Ph.D., speaking on the topic The Lee-Jackson Partnership and Confederate Strategy in the East, 1861-1863
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2020_September Knapsack (Revised) (0.9MB)
Sandy Barnard, M.A., speaking on the topic of his book An Aide to Custer: The Civil War Letters of Edward Granger
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2020_August Knapsack ((1.4MB)
Dr. Ted Kunstling, MD, speaking on the topic Civil War Railroads
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2020_July Knapsack (Revised) (1.6MB)
Chris Grimes, speaking on the topic Civil War Medicine
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2020_June Knapsack (2.0MB)
Hampton Newsome, J.D., M.A., speaking on the topic The Fight for the Old North State: The Civil War in NC, January-May 1864
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2020_May Knapsack (Revised) (3.9MB)
Freddie Kiger, M.A., speaking on the topic Antietam/Sharpsburg (Monthly meeting cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic)
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2020_April Knapsack (3.7MB)
Douglas Waller, M.A., speaking on the topic Lincoln's Spies (Monthly meeting cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic)
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2020_March Knapsack (1.7MB)
Jeremiah DeGennaro, M.A., speaking on the topic The Collapse of Confederate Greensboro During April 1865
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2020_February Knapsack (1.3MB)
Richard Lewis, speaking on the topic Cloaked in Mystery: The Curious Case of the Confederate Coat
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2020_January Knapsack (Revised) (0.7MB)
David Winslow, speaking on the topic The Real Story Behind North Carolina's Gettysburg Cyclorama
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Year 2019
2019_December Knapsack (1.3MB)
Betty Vaughn, speaking on the topic Origins and Traditions of Christmas Celebrations in the Mid-1800’s.
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2019_November Knapsack (2.7MB)
Ron Roth, M.T., speaking on the topic Desperate Hours: Understanding the Battle of Gettysburg Through the Art of its Battlefield Monuments
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2019_October Knapsack (1.4MB)
Wade Sokolosky, U.S. Army Col. (retired), speaking on the topic NC Confederate Hospitals in 1865
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2019_September Knapsack (Revised) (1.1MB)
Amy Bauer, speaking on the topic 135th Infantry Regiment United States Colored Troops
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2019_August Knapsack (Revised) (3.7MB)
Philip Gerard, M.F.A, speaking on the topic The Last Battleground—The Civil War Comes To North Carolina
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2019_July Knapsack (Revised) (2.5MB)
James White, M.Ed., speaking on the topic New Bern and the Civil War
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2019_June Knapsack (1.5MB)
Charlie Knight, M.A., speaking on the topic The Battle of New Market
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2019_May Knapsack (2.0MB)
Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., speaking on the topic All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862
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2019_April Knapsack (2.3MB)
Bruce Venter, Ph.D., speaking on the topic The Kilpatrick-Dalgren Raid on Richmond
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2019_March Knapsack (1.1MB)
Harold Knudsen, U.S. Army Lt. Col. (retired), M.A., speaking on the topic Modern War Methods of General Longstreet
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2019_February Knapsack (1.3MB)
Susanna Michele Lee, Ph.D., speaking on the topic Motivations of the Civil War Soldier
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2019_January Knapsack (1.2MB)
Ed Bearss, M.A., speaking on the topic The Siege of Vicksburg
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Year 2018
2018_December Knapsack (1.2MB)
Holiday Party at the Church of the Holy Cross in Raleigh, NC, featuring Betty Vaughn speaking on the topic Origins and Traditions of Christmas Celebrations in the Mid-1800's (Cancelled due to inclement weather)
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2018_November Knapsack (0.9MB)
Andrew Ballard, Charlie Knight, and David Waller speaking on the topic The RCWRT's Project to Conserve the State Flag of the 30th NC Infantry Regiment
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2018_October Knapsack (1.0MB)
Amanda Brantley speaking on the topic Carrie McGavock and Amy Harper
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2018_September Knapsack (0.8MB)
Chris Fonvielle, Ph.D., speaking on the topic Unlucky in War: Confederate General Braxton Bragg
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2018_August Knapsack (0.7MB)
Angela Robbins, Ph.D., speaking on the topic Businesswomen in the Piedmont, 1865-1900
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2018_July Knapsack (1.0MB)
Michael Hardy speaking on the topic The Battles and Campaigns of the Branch-Lane Brigade
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2018_June Knapsack (1.1MB)
Bill Brown, speaking on the topic North Carolina Regiments in the Confederate Army of Tennessee
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2018_May Knapsack (1.0MB)
Scott Mauger speaking on the topic Major John Pelham, C.S.A.
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2018_April Knapsack (0.9MB)
Dr. Gene Schmiel, Ph.D., speaking on the topic Union General Jacob D. Cox
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2018_March Knapsack (0.9MB)
Ryan Reed, speaking on the topic Negotiations at the Bennett Place Leading to the Largest Surrender of Confederate Troops During the Civil War
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2018_February Knapsack (1.2MB)
David Shultz, speaking on the topic The Second Day at Gettysburg
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2018_January Knapsack (1.0MB)
Ed Bearss, M.A., speaking on the topic Battlefield Medicine
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Year 2017
2017_December Knapsack ((1.2MB)
Holiday Party at the State Capitol featuring Frank Ragsdale, Docent, Conducting a Tour of the Building
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2017_November Knapsack (1.3MB)
Jeff Bockert, speaking on the topic Blockade Runners of the Confederacy
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2017_October Knapsack (0.9MB)
Debbi Blake, speaking on the topic Confederate Spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow
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2017_September Knapsack (1.1MB)
Randy Sauls, speaking on the topic The Battle of Goldsboro Bridge
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2017_August Knapsack (1.3MB)
Robert Thomas, speaking on the topic Longstreet and His Gettysburg Monument
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2017_July Knapsack (1.0MB)
Dr. John R. Peacock III, Ph.D., speaking on the topic North Carolina Troops in the 1862 Maryland Campaign
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2017_June Knapsack (1,0MB)
Symposium On Reconstruction in North Carolina
- Mark Bradley, Ph.D., speaking on the topic Federal Occupation of North Carolina
- Ernie Dollar, M.A., speaking on the topic Postwar in the City of Raleigh
- Angela Robbins, Ph.D., speaking on the topic Women's Role in Reconstruction
- W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Ph.D., speaking on the topic The Civil War in Memory and Memorials
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2017_May Knapsack (3.5MB)
Michael Hardy, speaking on the topic The Capitals of the Confederacy
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2017_April Knapsack (1.2MB)
John Quarstein, speaking on the topic The Power of Iron Over Wood (U.S.S. Monitor vs. C.S.S. Virginia)
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2017_March Knapsack (1.3MB)
Jim Gaddis, speaking on the topic North Carolina’s General Richard Gatlin
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2017_February Knapsack (0.9MB)
Michael Zatarga, speaking on the topic The Battle of Roanoke Island
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2017_January Knapsack (1.2MB)
Ed Bearss, M.A., speaking on the topic Battlefield Medicine (Cancelled due to Inclement Weather)
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Year 2016
2016_December Knapsack (1.0MB)
Holiday Party at the State Capitol, featuring The Southern String Band
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2016_November Knapsack (1.1MB)
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, speaking on the topic Frederick Douglass’ Thoughts on the Civil War
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2016_October Knapsack (1.0MB)
Doug Mattox, speaking on the topic Confederate Currency and Stamps
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2016_September Knapsack (0.9MB)
Juanita Patience Moss, speaking on the topic Forgotten Black Soldiers Serving in White Units
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2016_August Knapsack (1.0MB)
Betty Vaughn, speaking on the topic Foster’s December 1862 Raid in Eastern North Carolina
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2016_July Knapsack (1.5MB)
Marshall Conyers, speaking on the topic of his Poetry on Gettysburg
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2016_June Knapsack (1.2MB)
Mike Parker, speaking on the topic The Religion of Generals Lee and Jackson
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2016_May Knapsack (1.1MB)
Mary Bandy Daughtry, speaking on the topic Confederate Cavalier W.H.F. “Rooney” Lee
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2016_April Knapsack (1.2MB)
Jim Gaddis, speaking on the topic North Carolina’s General Richard Gatlin
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2016_March Knapsack (1.1MB)
Wade Sokolosky, Col. U.S. Army (Ret.), speaking on the topic The March 1865 Battle of Wyse Fork
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2016_February Knapsack (1.0MB)
Chris Hartley, speaking on the topic Stoneman’s 1865 Raid in Western North Carolina
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2016_January Knapsack (0.9MB)
Ed Bearss, M.A., speaking on the topic The Impact of the Civil War
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Year 2015
2015_December Knapsack (1.1MB)
Holiday Party at the State Capitol, featuring The Southern String Band
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2015_November Knapsack (1.4MB)
Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., speaking on the topic Command and Control in the Civil War
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2015_October Knapsack (1.0MB)
Joseph Glatthaar, speaking on the topic Lee’s Army and the Dwindling Margin for Error
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2015_September Knapsack (1.0MB)
Rex Hovey, speaking on the topic The Battle of South Mountain
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2015_August Knapsack (1.1MB)
Steve Smith, speaking on the topic Chamberlain’s Leadership Qualities
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2015_July Knapsack (1.7MB)
Wade Sokolosky, Col. U.S. Army (Ret.), speaking on the topic The Battle of Wyse Fork
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2015_June Knapsack (1.0MB)
Dr. Ted Kunstling, M.D., speaking on the topic The Occupation of Raleigh in April 1865
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2015_May Knapsack (1.0MB)
Lee Craig, speaking on the topic The Economics of the American Civil War
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2015_April Knapsack (1.2MB)
Mark Bradley, Ph.D., speaking on the topic The End of the Civil War in North Carolina
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2015_March Knapsack (1.0MB)
Patrick Schroeder, speaking on the topic Appomattox
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2015_February Knapsack (1.0MB)
Brenda McKean, speaking on the topic The Home Front
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2015_January Knapsack (1.1MB)
Ed Bearss, M.A., speaking on the topic The Battle of Mobile Bay
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Year 2014
2014_December Knapsack (1.2MB)
Holiday Party at the State Capitol, featuring The Southern String Band
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2014_November Knapsack (1.1MB)
Noah Trudeau, speaking on the topic Sherman’s March to the Sea
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2014_October Knapsack (1.0MB)
Marvin Nicholson, speaking on the topic African-American Soldiers in the Civil War
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2014_September Knapsack (1.0MB)
Margaret Humphreys, speaking on the topic The Practice of Medicine During the Civil War
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2014_August Knapsack (1.0MB)
Stephen Davis, speaking on the topic The Atlanta Campaign of 1864
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2014_July Knapsack (0.9MB)
Keith Hardison, speaking on the topic Confederate President Jefferson Davis
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2014_June Knapsack (0.8MB)
Earl Hess, speaking on the topic The Battles at Petersburg
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2014_May Knapsack (1.1MB)
William Harris, speaking on the topic Lincoln, the Constitution, and the Civil War
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2014_April Knapsack (1.2MB)
William C. Davis, M.A., speaking on the topic “Who Was Loreta Velasquez?”
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2014_March Knapsack (1.2MB)
Bob Zeller, speaking on the topic The Civil War in 3-D
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2014_February Knapsack (1.2MB)
Aldo Perry, speaking on the topic North Carolina Civil War Courts Martial
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2014_January Knapsack (1.0MB)
Ed Bearss, M.A., speaking on the topic The Sinking and Salvage of the USS Cairo
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Year 2013
2013_December Knapsack (1.0MB)
Holiday Party at the State Capitol, featuring Norm Boggs and Rob Morrison
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2013_November Knapsack (1.2MB)
Ansley Wegner, speaking on the topic Artificial Limbs
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2013_October Knapsack (1.0MB)
Tom Crouch speaking on the topic Civil War Ballooning
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2013_September Knapsack (1.0MB)
Terry Winschel, speaking on the topic The Battle of Vicksburg
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2013_August Knapsack (1.0MB)
Debbi Blake, speaking on the topic Using The State Archives For Research
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2013_July Knapsack (1.1MB)
Rick Walton, speaking on the topic Raleigh’s Pettigrew Hospital Records
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2013_June Knapsack (1.0MB)
Stephen Wise speaking on the topic Southern Blockade Running
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2013_May Knapsack (1.4MB)
Sandy Barnard, M.A., speaking on the topic A Private in the Irish Brigade
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2013_April Knapsack (1.0MB)
Jeffrey Crow, speaking on the topic Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
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2013_March Knapsack (1.2MB)
Ernie Dollar, M.A., speaking on the topic PTSD and the War’s End in North Carolina
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2013_February Knapsack (1.0MB)
LeRae Umfleet, speaking on the topic The 1898 Race Riot in Wilmington, North Carolina
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2013_January Knapsack (1.0MB)
Ed Bearss, M.A., speaking on the topic The Battle of Fredericksburg
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Year 2012
2012_December Knapsack (0.9MB)
Holiday Party at the State Capitol, featuringThe Southern String Band
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2012_November Knapsack (0.9MB)
Chris Fonvielle, Ph.D., speaking on the topic A Photographic History of Fort Fisher
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2012_October Knapsack (1.3MB)
Josh Howard, speaking on the topic North Carolina’s Soldiers and Casualties
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2012_September Knapsack (1.0MB)
James Clark, speaking on the topic Authoring the Civil War: Walt Whitman
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2012_August Knapsack (0.9MB)
Chris Meekins, speaking on the topic Three Times a Traitor: Mayor Respess
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2012_July Knapsack (1.0MB)
Blythe Toussaint, speaking on the topic What Price Freedom? The Realities of Slavery
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2012_June Knapsack (1.0MB)
Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., speaking on the topic The Chattanooga Campaign of 1862
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2012_May Knapsack (1.0MB)
William Harris, speaking on the topic Lincoln and the Border States
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2012_April Knapsack (1.0MB)
Susanna Michele Lee, Ph.D., speaking on the topic Native Americans in the Civil War
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2012_March Knapsack (0.9MB)
Kevin Milus, speaking on the topic The Irish Experience During the Civil War
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2012_February Knapsack (1.0MB)
LeRae Umfleet, speaking on the topic North Carolina Women on the Home Front
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2012_January Knapsack (1.0MB)
Ed Bearss, M.A., speaking on the topic The Impact of Vicksburg and Gettysburg
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Year 2011
2011_December Knapsack (1,0MB)
Holiday Party at the State Capitol, with Arch Allen speaking on the topic The Impeachment of Governor Holden
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2011_November Knapsack (1.3MB)
George G. Kundahl, Maj. Gen. U.S. Army (Ret.), speaking on the topic Confederate General Stephen Ramseur
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2011_October Knapsack (1.1MB)
Wade Sokolosky, Col. U.S. Army (Ret.), speaking on the topic Preparations to Face Sherman
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2011_September Knapsack (1.1MB)
Betty Vaughn, speaking on the topic Women’s Roles In The Civil War
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2011_August Knapsack (1.4MB)
Colonel Black Jack’ Travis, speaking on the topic E. Porter Alexander, Rebel Gunner
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2011_July Knapsack (0.7MB)
Jeff Toalson, presenting Richard Watkins on ‘The Great Unpleasantness’
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2011_June Knapsack (1.0MB)
David Thomson, speaking on the topic Union General Oliver Otis Howard
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2011_May Knapsack (0.6MB)
David Zonderman, speaking on the topic Labor and Commerce During The Civil War
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2011_April Knapsack (0.9MB)
Jim Morgan speaking on the topic Civil War Veterans in Egypt
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2011_March Knapsack (0.9MB)
Sandy Barnard, M.A., speaking on the topic A Hoosier Quaker Goes to War
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2011_February Knapsack (0.6MB)
David Waller speaking on the topic Post-War Lives of Civil War Personalities\
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2011_January Knapsack (0.8MB)
Ed Bearss, M.A., speaking on the topic Lincoln’s Assassination
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Year 2010
2010_December Knapsack (0.8MB)
David Lanier, performing Period Music on Banjo and Guitar
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2010_November Knapsack (0.7MB)
Charles Hawks, Cdr. Naval Res. (Ret.), speaking on the topic Confederate Naval Warfare
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2010_October Knapsack (0.7MB)
Bruce Miller, M.A., History, speaking on the topic Only a Soldier’s Grave
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2010_September Knapsack (7.4MB)
Stan Clardy, speaking on the topic The Story Behind the Songs
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2010_August Knapsack (0.6MB)
Griff Bartlett, B.B.A., speaking on the topic His Great-grandfather, John W. Wilcox, of the Washington Artillery
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2010_July Knapsack (2.2MB)
Skip Riddle, B.A., History, speaking on the topic And What of the Wounded and Slain of the Battle of New Bern
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2010_June Knapsack (2.6MB)
James Morgan, speaking on the topic The Battle of Ball's Bluff
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2010_April/May Knapsack (1.6MB)
Dr. John Quarstein. Ph.D., speaking on the topic The Battle of Big Bethel
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2010_March Knapsack (1.3MB)
Dr. Matt Farina, M.D., speaking on the topic The Wounding and Death (Fifty Years Later) of Joshua Chamberlain
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2010_February Knapsack (2.3MB)
Teej Smith, speaking on the topic Flora Cooke Stuart: Life Without Jeb
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2010_January Knapsack (2.1MB)
Ed Bearss, M.A., speaking on the topic Civil War Prisons
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Year 2009
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2007_October Knapsack (8.0MB)
Andrew Duppstadt, M.A., speaking on the topic The CSS Neuse
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2006_June Knapsack (4.6MB)
Nora Brooks, presenting Widow Jackson
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