David Whitehead, Pres. Gary Cowardin, Editor
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January 11, 2011 Program
J. Britt McCarley
"The Great Question of the Campaign Was One of Supplies;
A Reinterpretation of Sherman's Generalship during the 1864
March to Atlanta in Light of the Logistic Strategy."
8:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 11, 2011, at the
First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, VA., 4602 Cary Street Road, 23226
A parking lot is available behind the church with an entrance off the
parking lot to the left and down a few stairs. (map in August's newsleter)
January's speaker will provide a new and very interesting discussion of
the Atlanta campaign. He brings with him a treasury of Civil War
knowledge developed during his career as a military historian. An
Atlanta native, Britt McCarley completed both his BA and MA in history
at Georgia State University. He completed his dissertation on the life
and military career of General Nathan F. Twining, the first Air Force
officer to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and was
awarded his doctorate by Temple University in 1989. While completing
his graduate studies, he worked at three national parks, including
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield. Dr. McCarley began his career
in public history in 1988 when he accepted the position of Quartermaster
Branch Assistant Historian at Fort Lee, Virginia. Since then he has
held four more positions in the Army History Program, and he is now the
U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Chief Historian at
Fort Monroe, Virginia. Britt has taught military history at three Army
service schools and history at both the undergraduate and graduate
levels at a number of colleges and universities. Dr. McCarley's
publications include the chapter on Sherman's generalship during the
Atlanta Campaign in Beyond Combat: Essays in Military History in Honor
of Russell F. Weigley, a guide to Atlanta's Civil War battlefields that
has been in continuous print since 1984. He is currently working on a
study of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia.
Be sure to come early to get a good seat.
Meeting Attendance: December 2010 = ~90
NOTE: Please put on your NEW NAME BADGE on when you arrive for the meeting.
(They will be near the back or side of the room.)
New RCWRT Officers and Execitive Committee Elected for 2011
President: David Whitehead
1st VP: Jack Mountcastle
2nd VP: Brent Morgan
Secretary: Sandy Parker
Treasurer: Richard Grosse
Newsletter/Webmaster: Gary Cowardin
New Executive Committee: Jack Ackerly, John Coski, Robert E. L. Krick
and the Immediate Past President: Davis Wrinkle
Dear RCWRT members,
Welcome to 2011, our 150th anniversary year celebration. We have
a grand list of speakers for the year. In honor of our long
history, I personally wish to promote:
1. Increasing our membership
2. Encouraging EACH to promote the history of this amazing period in
our country and
3. Think about a book, tour, conference, meeting that you might tackle
to grow that knowledge.
We should all give a hardy thanks to past president Davis Wrinkle for
many hours of superb leadership over the past 3 years.
May each of you have a happy and healthy new year!
See you Tuesday January 11, 2011.
David C. Whitehead, Jr.
Civil War Preservation Trust
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Virginia Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission
Visit The Museum of the Confederacy Online
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Civil War message opened, decoded: "No help coming"
See the 12/25/10 AP article:
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101225/ap_on_re_us/us_message_in_a_bottle
Visit The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar
www.tredegar.org
and their
Events Calendar
Pamplin Historical Park and
The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier
www.pamplinpark.org
and their
Special Events Calendar
RCWRT Monthly Speakers for 2011
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