The Round Table sponsors an annual fall field trip to a major Civil War battlefield. The trip usually takes place the last weekend in October. Recent field trips have included tours of the battlefields of Gettysburg, Antietam, Charleston, and Vicksburg. Past sping trips have included tours of the battles of Galveston and Sabine Pass.
The 2003 fall field trip went to Shiloh, site of the first great battle of Tennessee in 1862 in which the Union general U.S. Grant fought the Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston - a Texan - to a draw. General Johnston died as a result of a wound he received in the fighting. The noted battlefield guide Ed Bearss, retired chief historian of the National Park Service, led the tour in November, 2003
The 2004 field trip followed the Shenandoah Valley campaigns of General Stonewall Jackson in 1862 and General Jubal Early in 1864. Ed Bearss again led the tour, which took place October, 2004.
The 2005 fall field trip followed the Red River Campaign of 1864 through Louisiana. Dates were October 27 to 31, 2005. Our battlefield guide was again the incomparable Ed Bearss.
The Round Table will announce the spring trip soon.
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The Bearss Brigade
at Fisher's Hill, Virginia
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