CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE
OF NEBRASKA
March 2012 Newsletter
This Month's Meeting:
The Battle of Pea Ridge
Presented by member Neal Nelson
March 28, 2012
7:15 p.m.
Legacy Estates Theater, 7200 Van Dorn
(use the lower parking on the west side)
Board meeting at 6:30 - all are invited to attend
and contribute suggestions and ideas)
Upcoming Meetings
(Get all these on your calendar!)
| April 25, 2012 Program to be announced |
May 23, 2012 Culp's Hill Presented by member Craig Schnieder |
Note that
meeting dates and places could change as special events may
be scheduled (e.g.,
we probably would not have a cannon shoot on a Wednesday
evening at Legacy Estates).
DUES2011-2012 dues
are now due! Please bring your cash or a check for
$15.00 ($25.00 for a family membership) to the meeting, or
you may mail it to Civil War Round Table, 1227 Lincoln Mall,
Lincoln, NE, 68508. So far, 40 members have paid their
2011-2012 dues, five being family members, and six being new
members, for a total of $650.00 collected. The
treasurer reports the following as having paid at this
point:
If you have paid and are not on the list, please contact the treasurer to correct the records. The Secretary-Treasurer apologizes to Lester Lawson, who paid his dues in December, but was not noted as a paid up member on the January and February Newsletters; that mistake has been corrected in this Newsletter. If you have not paid, please support the Civil War Round Table of Nebraska!
Doug Scott is well known to the Round Table. He did archaeological work at Pea Ridge as the Great Plains Team Leader for the National Park Service's Midwest Archaeological Center here in Lincoln and he has given presentations for the Round Table on multiple occasions. Here is a link to an article from the Civil War Trust's website resulting from his work at Pea Ridge:
| Beverly
Ashley Wally Bender Reed Clark Dean Cole (New Member!) Tom Dawson Hal Dellert Roger Ehlers (New Member!) Jim Faimon Gary Greene, Family Robert Guenzel Steve Guenzel, Family Loren Hansen, Family (New Member!) Joyce Harb Stan Hart (New Member!) Butch Haws John Higgins Ken Hunter William Jantzen Gayla Koerting Gary Krumland |
Lester
Lawson Neal Nelson, Family Mark Nichols Lawrence Obrist Bob Oliver Howard Ottoson Jim Owens Bob Peterson Jim Potter Mike Reagan Paul Reagan Tom Rinkevich Ron Rockenbach Wayne Roelle Val Schmiedeskamp (New Member!) Craig Schnieder, Family Darrell Stock Ron Svoboda Dave Well Steve Wetzel (New Member!) |
If you have paid and are not on the list, please contact the treasurer to correct the records. The Secretary-Treasurer apologizes to Lester Lawson, who paid his dues in December, but was not noted as a paid up member on the January and February Newsletters; that mistake has been corrected in this Newsletter. If you have not paid, please support the Civil War Round Table of Nebraska!
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Doug Scott is well known to the Round Table. He did archaeological work at Pea Ridge as the Great Plains Team Leader for the National Park Service's Midwest Archaeological Center here in Lincoln and he has given presentations for the Round Table on multiple occasions. Here is a link to an article from the Civil War Trust's website resulting from his work at Pea Ridge:
Lessons
from Pea Ridge
And here is a link
to the National Park Service site for Pea Ridge, which
has lots of good information about the battle:
NPS Pea
Ridge site
And last, here
is the Civil War Trust's site for Pea Ridge, which
contains many links to maps, articles (including
Scott's above), and other resources: