CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE OF NEBRASKA
January 2018 Newsletter
This Month’s Meeting:
Hiram Berdan and Formation of Sharpshooters
Presented by Gayla Koerting
January 24, 2018
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!)
February 28, 2018
Program: Civil
War Medicine
Presented by Lea Anne Bogart
March 28, 2018
Program: To be
announced
April 25, 2018
Program: Recovery
of the Hunley
Presented by Dr. Bruce Rippeteau
(formerly Director of the
South Carolina Institute of Archaeology)
May 23, 2018
Annual Meeting
Program: To be
announced
Presented by Craig Schnieder
Note that meeting dates
and places could change as special events may be scheduled (e.g., we probably would not stage a
‘cannon shoot’ on a Wednesday evening at Legacy Estates).
DUES
2017-2018 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, twenty-seven members
have paid their 2017-2018 dues, with five being family memberships, with one
new member, for a total of $455.00 collected.
On Christmas day, we lost
long-time member Wally Bender. His
declining health prevented him from attending meetings for quite a while, but
he maintained his membership to the very end.
Wally was a great guy who was always quick with a joke and happy to
relate how his two sons, both of whom attended West Point, were doing. He will be missed.
This month’s
program: Hiram Berdan
and Formation of Sharpshooters
Here are a couple links to websites discussing Berdan’s Sharpshooters:
Wikipedia on the 1st U.S. Sharpshooters
History Net on Killers in Green Coats
Hope to see you all on the 24th!