Thanks, South Suburban Civil War Round Table!

Thanks, South Suburban Civil War Round Table, for helping overcome a technical problem in my first Zoom presentation on the night of Thursday, February 25, 2021. The presentation was on some of the distinguished writers of the 12th Virginia Infantry, the Petersburg Regiment. Covered were nine of the soldiers whose writings contributed to 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), winner of the 2019 Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished Writing Award for Unit History. (The sketch below is from War Talks of Confederate Veterans (1892), compiled and edited by George S. Bernard of the 12th Virginia, and depicts him (wounded) and Lieutenant Joseph Richard Manson of the 12th (waving Bernard's handkerchief) surrendering at Crampton's Gap, Maryland, on September 14, 1862. Bernard and Manson, who both survived the war, were among the Petersburg Regiment's distinguished writers covered in my presentation. Bernard had a sequel ready for publication in 1896 but it disappeared, showed up at a flea market in 2004, was purchased for $50 and sold to the Museum of Western Virginia History for $15,000 and published as Civil War Talks: Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard & His Fellow Veterans in 2012.)