September, 2015 Our Next Meeting Thursday, September 17, 2015 Edition 21, No. 1

September, 2015 Our Next Meeting – Thursday, September 17, 2015 edition 21, No. 1

“Atlanta is ours, and fairly won.” Telegram, General W. T. Sherman to Abraham Lincoln, September, 1864

the OLDE COLONY CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE

The cAMPAIGN!

Reporting the latest Occurrences from Both the Front and the Rear.

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OFFICERS

President

Joe Dipoli

Vice President

Dana Zaiser

Secretary

Gail Dugan

Treasurer

Don Fitzgerald

Campaign Editor

Paul Griffel

Past President

Rich Campagna

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

(Officers are also members) President Emeritus Joe Scalia Bob Hearsey

Martha Horsefield

Barbara Magruder

Dana Zaiser

Dave Sheldon

Programs: Jack Kavanagh

Membership: Paula Cunningham

Jubilee: Bob Hearsey, Gail Dugan

Web Master and Preservation: Dana Zaiser

Revere Award: Martha Horsefield

Refreshment Barbara Magruder

THE CAMPAIGN!

A publication of the

Olde Colony Civil War Round Table

Headquarters: Dedham, Massachusetts

Editor Emeritus – David Kenney

Current Editor

OCCWRT Monthly Meetings (except June/July/August and the October Jubilee Dinner)) are regularly held the 3rd Thursday each month, 7:30 PM (except December—2nd Thursday) at the Endicott Estate, Dedham.

Our next meeting

Our Last Meeting:

June 13, 2015

Picnic!

The OCCWRT annual picnic was at the Fairbanks House in Dedham, on Saturday, June 13th. The Fairbanks Houseis the oldest standingtimber-frame house in North America,dating back to 1636.

The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built between 1637 and 1641 making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America that has been verified by dendrochronology testing. Puritan settler Jonathan Fairbanks constructed the farm house for his wife Grace (Lee Smith) and their family. The house was occupied and then passed down through eight generations of the family until the early 20th century. Over several centuries the original portion was expanded as architectural styles changed and the family grew.

Today the Fairbanks house is owned and operated by the Fairbanks Family in America, a member-based non-profit organization, as a historic house museum. The Family Association has preserved, studied and interpreted their ancestral home and its collections for over 90 years. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Members of the OCWRRT had a private tour of the facility.

The present house and its collections represent the evolution of a building and a family over nearly 270 years. The decision was made not to attempt to restore the house to its appearance at any one period of time, so the Fairbanks House today provides detailed evidence of the many different time periods of its construction and use. Much can still be seen of the original woodwork and the 17th-century construction methods. Since the builders who constructed the house were English carpenters from the region of East Anglia, the Fairbanks House is a valuable resource for English architectural historians as well as American.

Our next meeting!

7:00pm Book Sale

Reminder that we will be meeting on Thursday, September 17th at 7:30pm at the Endicott Estate"

Mini bit: presented by President Joe DiPoli

“General Darius Couch”featured speaker: Barbara Berenson presents "The Election of 1864"

Raffle

Refreshments after the meeting

Barbara F. Berenson is the author of Boston in the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution (The History Press 2014), the author of Walking Tours of Civil War Boston: Hub of Abolitionism and co-editor of Breaking Barriers: The Unfinished Story of Women Lawyers and Judges in Massachusetts (MCLE 2012). A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, she works as a Senior Attorney at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Her next book will be about the Woman Suffrage Movement in Massachusetts.

The presidential election of 1864 was a remarkable example of the resilience of the democratic process in a time of extreme national uncertainty and chaos. The last presidential election to take place in wartime had been in 1812. More than for just a candidate, voters cast their ballots to determine questions underpinning the broader fate of the Union: Should the war be continued, or should a peace settlement be negotiated? How would the outcome of the war define the role of blacks in a post-war society?

The election pitted incumbent Abraham Lincoln and his running mate Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee and a former U.S. Senator from the Volunteer State, against former commander of the Army of the Potomac, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan and running mate George Pendleton. McClellan ran on a peace platform — the consensus platform of the faction-wrought Democratic Party. Republicans and a number of War Democrats together formed the National Union Party, which backed Lincoln as its nominee. An incumbent candidate had last been elected for a second term in 1832, and Lincoln’s shift to include emancipation in his war aims was troubling for many Northern voters. Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant seemed unable to administer a definitive blow in Virginia, and as the brutal summer of 1864 wore on, his armies continued to suffered staggering losses. War weariness was rampant, as Union armies struggled to overwhelm Southern forces, notching bloody defeats at Mansfield (La.), Cold Harbor (VA), Kennesaw Mountain (Ga.) and the Crater (VA).

Lincoln wrote a dour memorandum on August 23, 1864, asking his cabinet to accept the grim prospects for his re-election: “This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such grounds that he cannot possibly save it afterwards.”

The political landscape shifted dramatically, however, when Gen. William T. Sherman took Atlanta in early September. This major military shift, coupled with the severe internal strife within the Democratic Party, solidified Lincoln’s chance at victory.

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OCCWRT is a registered 501(C)(3) non-profit organization

Annual Jubilee Dinner and Preservation Raffle

Thursday, October 22, 2015, Tickets $40.00 each

Lombardo’s in Randolph

Social at 6:00pm; opening presentations at 7:00pm; dinner at 7:30pm

Exhibits of Civil War artifacts

The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the RappahannockFrank O’Reilly

Frank O'Reilly is an historian at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. He received his BA and MA from Washington and Lee University and is a frequent contributor to national and international history journals. He has written several books on Fredericksburg including the Award winning The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock. Frank is in the final stages of researching and writing his new book on the Battle of Malvern Hill and the Seven Days Campaign around Richmond.

Tickets are $40 each and can be obtained before Oct. 14, 2015 by sending a check payable to OCCWRT and addressed to Bob Hearsey, 311 Sherman St., Canton, MA 02021. He can be reached at 781-828-3183.

Here is a sample of some of the prizes to be won at the Preservation Raffle at the Jubilee:

DVD’s

The American Civil War: Brother Against Brother

Looking for Lincoln (PBS)

Robert E. Lee (PBS)

Books

1861:The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart (HC, pub. at $29)

A.Lincoln:Great Amer. Historians on Our 16th Pres. ed. (HC, pub. at $28)

American CW, An English View,(Viscount Wolseley) ed.(HC, pub. at $27)

Brady’s CW Journal by Theodore Savas (HC, pub. at $30) 2 COPIES

Brave Men in Desperate Times by John McKay (Soft Cover, pub. at $13)

Brothers ’til Death: CW Letters of Wm., Tom, and Maggie Jones, ed (HC)

The Campaigns for Vicksburg by Kevin Dougherty (HC, pub. at $33)

The Civil War by Ken Burns (HC, pub. at $50)

The Civil War: 1st Year, Told by Those Who Lived It , ed. (HC, pub at $38)

CW Battlefields, Then & Now by James Campi, Jr (HC) 2 COPIES

The CW Veteran, A Historical Reader,ed (Soft Cover)

Curiosities of the CW by Webb Garrison (HC, pub. at $20)

Deliver Us From Evil: The Slavery Question…by Lacy Ford (HC, pub. at $35)

General Gordon Granger by Robert Connor (HC, pub. at $33)

Ghost, Thunderbolt, and Wizard (Mosby, Morgan, & Forrest)by Col. Robert Black (Soft Cover, pub at $20)

The Greatest Brigade (Irish Brigade) by Thomas Craughwell (Soft Cover, pub. at $20)

Life in the Confederate Army by William Watson (Soft Cover, pub. at $20)

The Life of Billy Yank by Bell Irvin Wiley (HC, pub. at $30)

Lincoln’s American Dream, ed.(Soft Cover, pub. at $30)

Lincoln and McClellan at War by Chester G. Hearn (HC)

Lincoln, A Pres. for the Ages, ed. (Soft Cover, pub. at $15) 2 COPIES

The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators:Letterbook of John Hartranfted. by Edward Steers Jr. and Harold Holzer (HC)

Lincoln, the Cabinet, and the Generals by Chester G. Hearn (HC)

Looking for Lincoln by Kunhardt (Philip, Peter, & Peter,Jr) (HC, pub.at $50) 2 COPIES

Pinkerton’s War by Jay Bonansinga (HC, pub. at $25)

Meade’s Army: Col. Theodore Lyman’s Notebooks, ed.(HC)

Quest for a Star:CW Letters/Diary of Col. Francis T. Sherman,88th Ill. ed (HC)

River Run Red (Fort Pillow), by Andrew Ward (HC, pub at $30)

A War of the People: VT CW Letters, ed. (Soft Cover)

Well Satisfied with My Position; CW Journal of Spencer Bonsall,ed (HC.pub. at $28)

A Yankee Private’s Civil War:Robert Hale Strong, ed. (Soft Cover, pub. at $13)

Poster Gettysburg 135th Anniversary memorial poster

THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE PRESIDENT

Thank you board, for your time and hard work in your respective departments.
If you visit a historic site send back photos and let us know what you learned and saw. I am going to go to Hershey Pa. to see my granddaughter dance at the Hershey Park. What a coincidence! Gettysburg and Antietam are close by.
Remember, we are a roundtable; we are all seated around a figurative “table” and all of us are invited to speak. We all have many years between us of knowledge and experience in Civil war History and an opportunity to share it with others of like mind.

Joe Dipoli

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OCCWRT 2015-2016

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Friends of Olde Colony Civil War Round Table

Generous donations were provided by the following businesses and individuals, and resulted in one of the most successful raffles. Wherever possible, please consider using the services of those businesses that supported the raffle:

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CAFÉ BAGEL, DEDHAM, MA, 2 DOZEN BAGELS & CREAM CHEESE

CAMPAGNA, JOAN, NECKLACE AND EARRINGS

CIVIL WAR NEWS, TUNBRIDGE, VT, 1 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION AND BACK ISSUES

CUNNINGHAM, PAULA, 2 BOOKS

DEDHAM COMMUNITY THEATRE, DEDHAM, MA, $25.00 GIFT CARD

DEDHAM SAVINGS, DEDHAM, MA, $50.00 AMERICAN EXPRESS GIFT CARD

DIPOLI, JOE, 4 DISPLAYS, CIVIL WAR RELICS

DUGAN, GAIL, MINUTEMAN STATUE

FULTON, PAT, CIVIL WAR STAMPS AND VINTAGE CIRCUS POSTER STAMPS

GRIFFEL, PAUL, GETTYSBURG POSTER, BOOK

HEARSEY, DOREEN, 2 TICKETS, CHORUS PERFORMANCE

HEARSEY, ROBERT, 33 BOOKS, 1 DVD

HOLIDAY INN DEDHAM, DEDHAM, MA, HOTEL ROOM FOR JIM HESSLER

ISABELLA RESTAURANT, DEDHAM, MA, $25.00 GIFT CARD

KAVANAGH, JACK, 5 BOOKS

KINGS BOWLING, DEDHAM, MA, BOWLING PASSES

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PARADISE CAFÉ, DEDHAM, MA, 50% DISCOUNT

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RON’S ICE CREAM, DEDHAM, MA, $15.00

SARRA, HELEN $30.00 GIFT CARD FOR CHATEAU RESTAURANT, NORWOOD, MA

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STAR MARKET, DEDHAM, MA $25.00 GIFT CARD

TAUNTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY, TAUNTON, MA, MEMBERSHIP 1 YEAR

THOMAS PUBLICATIONS, GETTYSBURG, PA, 4 BOOKS

VALORI TRELOAR, MD, NEWTON, MA, DERMATOLOGY SAMPLES, 3 BAGS

USS JACOB JONES VFW POST 2017, DEDHAM, MA, 2 DINNERS AND $20.00 DONATION

ZAISER, DANA, CIVIL WAR TOKEN

50’S RESTAURANT, DEDHAM, MA, $25.00 GIFT CARD

Civil War History:

The incredible opportunities to learn and share our heritage:

The Civil War Round Table of Greater Boston

Meetings: 7:30 pm on the 4th Friday of each month, Sept. to June

President David L. Smith

781-647-3332

www.cwrtgb.com

The Civil War Round Table

of North Worcester County

Meetings: 7:00 pm on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, Sept. to June, at the

Leominster Historical Society

17 School Street

Leominster, MA 01453

For information contact:

President, Ruth Frizzell

or www.nwrccwrt.org

978-365-7628

The Civil War Round Table of

Central Massachusetts/Worcester

Meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. on the

4th Wednesday of each month

September to June

at the Holden Senior Center

Main Street

Holden, MA

For information contact:

President Mark Savolis

860-923-2777

Civil War Roundtable of Cape Cod

P.O. Box 1431 20 Main St.

The Riverview School on Rte 6A

3rd Monday of each month, 1:00 p.m. Yarmouth Senior Center

Fred Wexler, President, or John Myers, Programming

at (580) 896-6421

The Civil War Roundtable

of the Merrimack

P.O. Box 421

West Newbury, MA 01985

54th Mass Glory Brigade Foundation

Ben Goff, Corr. Secy

P.O. Box 260342 Mattapan 02126

(617) 254-7005

President Emmett Bell-Sykes

617-333-9970

The Greater New Bedford

Civil War Roundtable

Joe Langlois, Pres.

Fourth Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m.

1000 S. Rodney French Blvd. New Bedford

(thanks to Nadine Mironchuk, Northshore CWRT)

Rhode Island Civil War Round Table

third Wednesday of the month at the William Hall Library,1825 Broad Street, Cranston, R.I.; social hour at 6:30, meeting and speaker at 7:00.