The mission of the Civil War Round Table of Kansas City is to promote historical, educational, literary, and preservation activities related to the Civil War.
563rd Regular Meeting
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Please Note: Meeting/Dinner Starts 30 Minutes Earlier in 2024
Milburn Golf and Country Club 7501 West 69th Street, Overland Park, KS 66204 Social hour begins at 5:00 p.m. and dinner is at 6:00 p.m.
This meeting will include a plated dinner at a cost of $34.00 per person. Reservations are required in order to attend the dinner meeting.
Reservation Deadline: Tuesday, May 7th. To make a reservation, please contact Marlene Natoli (contact info in newsletter).
May 2024
Mr. Michael S. Lang will be giving a
presentation titled: "The Enemy Are Crossing
the Potomac in Force - The Critical Decisions
of the Maryland Campaign.” Mr. Lang will
give an overview of the Command Decision of
America's Civil War book series and what
constitutes a Critical Decision. He will also
discuss two of the most important decisions that impacted the campaign, the war, and the course of the history of the nation.
The 1862 Maryland Campaign is widely
considered to be one of the most important
turning points of the entire war. Robert E. Lee,
on the heels of two successful campaigns in
Virginia, faced off against George B.
McClellan in a battle that has come to be known as the Bloodiest Day in American History.
Dinner Menu
Milburn Golf and Country Club will serve the following meal at our dinner meeting: Sautéed
salmon with lemon butter sauce, rice pilaf, and vegetable medley. Dessert will be S’mores bread pudding. All dinners are served with house salad with Milburn house dressing, sliced bread, iced tea, water, and coffee.
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April 2024
 
At our April dinner meeting, Civil War historians and authors Mr. Todd Mildfelt (right) and Mr. David D. Schafer (left) spoke about their book published in October of 2023, titled: Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind, James Montgomery and His War on Slavery.
James Montgomery was a radical abolitionist and the “original jayhawker” in pre-Civil War Kansas. During the war, Montgomery led a regiment of Black soldiers in the Department of the South.
Click here for a summary of their program.
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CWRT KC Board Meeting
The next meeting of the Round Table’s Executive Committee will be held at 10:00 a.m. on June 8, 2024. The location of the meeting will be the Lenexa Library, located at 8778 Penrose, Lenexa City Center.
2024 Civl War Wednesday Speaker Series
The Monnett Battle of Westport Fund is sponsoring a 2024 series of programs at the Westport Branch, Kansas City Public Library, 118 Westport Road, Kansas City, Missouri. There is no charge to attend. The programs are scheduled once a month from April through November. Click here to download a pdf of the program schedule.
CWRT-KC Partners with Freedom’s Frontier
TAt the dinner meeting on February 21st Gary Nevius announced that the Civil War Round Table of Kansas City will partner with Freedom’s Frontier to sponsor a Civil War symposium at the Truman Library, located in Independence MO, on Saturday, August 17, 2024. The symposium will focus on Civil War activities that took place in western Missouri and eastern Kansas. More information regarding the symposium will be provided later.
Change in Dinner Meeting Start Time in 2024
The following change will take effect starting in January 2024: Social hour will be from 5:00-6:00 p.m. and dinner will begin at 6:00 p.m. This will allow Milburn’s staff and our members to get home at an earlier time.
Round Table Now Accepting Digital Payments
The Civil War Round Table of Kansas City now accepts digital payments via the Square digital payment processing service. This process is simple to use and secure. Square charges the Round Table a fee for this service. If you decide to use this service, we add this fee to the total charge. For more information, please refer to our Round Table Digital Payments page.
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Book Auction
With apologies to our speakers, one of the highlights of each dinner meeting is the book auction led by Arnold Schofield.
This month the following items will be auctioned:
- A Glorious Army: R. E. Lee’s Triumph by Jeffery D. Wert. Published in 2011. In excellent condition with dust jacket and mylar cover.
- Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears. Published in 1997. In excellent condition with with dust jacket.
- Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Volume 25, Part I Reports: Chancellorsville. Published by the National Historical Society in
1971. In mint condition.
- Rebel Raider: The Life of General John H. Morgan by James A. Ramage. Published in 1986. In very good condition.
- Framed print of Union General Nathaniel Lyon, who was killed at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek on August 10, 1861. Dimensions including the wood frame are approximately 22” x 27”.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Click here to read the article that appeared in the May 2024 edition of the Border Bugle newsletter.
Remembering Colonel Jack Brooks on D Day
The following writeup is from Round Table member Don Bates regarding Colonel Jack Brooks, who served as president of our Round Table in 1987 and again in 1990.
On June 6, 1944 Captain Jack Brooks took an Infantry company onto Normandy Beach. He was in the first wave to storm Omaha Beach. The assault had the most casualties on D-Day. "We lost 48 men”, Brooks said, referring to his company of 140 soldiers. "Our regiment of 3,200 troops lost 35 officers and 950 men on the first day." His Division was the Big Red One out of Ft. Riley, Kansas. He was promoted to Colonel and served a tour of duty in Korea and two tours in the Vietnam War, before retiring in 1966.
Colonel Brooks received a multitude of decorations. Most notably, in 2011, he was awarded the Knight of the French Foreign Legion of Honor for his service to the people of France by the French government in a ceremony at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth. This was for heroics on DDay, landing in the first wave on Omaha Beach with the Big Red One on June 6, 1944.
It was my absolute pleasure to pick Jack up and bring him to our Round Table meetings after he stopped driving. We always had meaningful conversations. Jack passed away January 13, 2020, at almost 100 years of age.
Member News
We would like to welcome new member Lisa Mildfelt of Chanute, Kansas and Max Bowers of Lee's Summit, Missouri. We would also like to welcome returning memers Jeff Hill and Kris Downing of Overland Park, Kansas and Marcia Hicklin of Lexington, Missouri.
New Members
These photographs were taken at recent Round Table dinner meetings . Please introduce yourselves and welcome our new members.
Battlefield Dispatches
"Battlefield Dispatches" made its first appearance in the Border Bugle with the December 2005 issue. The column was later given the label, "The Sergeant Major’s Roar." Over time, the Round Table's Website Administrator will be slowly all the "Battlefield Dispatches" which have appeared in the Border Bugle. The website administrator will enhance Sgt. Maj. Arnold Schofield's column with images where applicable. Just click on the menu item, Sgt. Major's Roar, to see the progress.
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