[ January 19, 2012; 7:15 pm to 9:00 pm. ] In 1861, 74-year old General Winfield Scott recommended a broad strategy to President Lincoln to blockade the South’s 3,500-mile coastline and to invade along the Mississippi River to outflank and split the South. The press derided the idea and called it the “Anaconda Plan.” The Lincoln administration informally adopted this strategy that became a monumental [...]

[ November 17, 2011; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Author and historian Peter Cozzens will make his first appearance in front of the Cincinnati Civil War Round Table at its November meeting. Cozzens works as a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. government. In 2002 he received the American Foreign Service Association’s highest award, given annually to one Foreign Service Officer for exemplary moral [...]

[ October 20, 2011; 7:15 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Frank J. Williams to Debut at Cincinnati Civil War Round Table
Author, historian, and state Supreme Court Justice Frank J. Williams will make his debut appearance in front of the Cincinnati Civil War Round Table at the October meeting.  Williams was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, and received his A.B. degree in Government and History from [...]

An upcoming concert of Civil War music at Cincinnati’s National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will benefit new educational programming at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House.
 
This year marks the 200th anniversary of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s birth and the sesquicentennial of the start of the Civil War. The Ohio Historical Society and the Friends of Harriet Beecher [...]

[ October 1, 2011; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] To recognize the 200th anniversary of Stowe’s birth and the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, a benefit concert of Civil War music will be performed by the Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Family Band, Jacqueline Schwab, and the Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers. Ungar, Mason and Schwab are famous for their musical accompaniment on The Civil [...]