The Grand Rapids Civil War Round Table is on its winter break. We wish you all a safe and blessed Christmas and New Year's.
We will resume our meetings in January. Hope to see you then!
Membership fees for the 2024-2025 season are $30.00.
Checks can be made out to GRCWRT.
Get your membership/renewal form on our website
membership page or at one of our meetings.
Dues are based on the meeting year, September - June.
We are always looking for new speakers. If you would like to give a presentation to the GRCWRT, or can recommend someone, please contact our program director.
"A year ago we would have considered it impossible to get on for a day without the things that we have been doing without for months."
~ Kate Stone
in a diary entry from May 22, 1862
"In a recent battle fell a secession colonel, the last remaining son of his mother, and she a widow. That mother had sold eleven children of an old slave mother, her servant. That servant went to her and said, 'Missis, we are even now. You sold all of my children. God took yourn. Not one to bury either of us. Now I forgive you."
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
writer and abolitionist
Chicken guts: The term fighting men had for the gold braid on an officer's coat.
Northerners who sympathized with the South were often called "Copperhead" due to the copper pennies many wore as identifying badges.
Wednesday
January 15, 2025
John Simmons
D. H. Hill:
Protector of Richmond
We Meet At:
Orchard View Church of God
2777 Leffingwell Ave. NE
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Located at the southwest corner of
3 Mile Road NE and Leffingwell Avenue NE
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Program begins at 7:00 pm
Civil War Notes
Our Next Meeting
Special Announcements:
"Christmas Morning"
from
Harper's Weekly
