A Pleasant Evening at the New Civil War Round Table in Northwest Indiana

The new Civil War Round Table in Cedar Lake, Indiana gave me a pleasant welcome last night.  The subject of the talk was my most recent book, The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War:  A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown's Hanging to Appomattox, 1859-1865 (Savas Beatie, 2019).  The talk focused on the most vivid and prolific of the regiment's many writers.  The book won the 2019 Army Historical Foundation Award Distinguished Writing in Unit History.  Most of the distinguished writing was done by the soldiers.

    James Edward "Eddie" Whitehorne                                       George S. Bernard

       Courtesy of Fletcher L. Elmore                            Courtesy of Virginia Historical Society

    First Lieutenant Joseph Richard Manson                Private Philip Whitlock (in kepi, upper right)

            Courtesy of Richard Cheatham                           Courtesy of Virginia Historical Society