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Nashville TN CWRT - January 2015 program

Hello and Happy New Year.

January 19th, 2015 – Our 71st Meeting!! We continue our sixth year!

The next meeting of the Nashville (TN) Civil War Roundtable will be on Monday, January 19th, 2015, in the visitor’s center of Ft. Negley Park, a unit of Metro Parks, Nashville, TN. This is located off I-65 just south of downtown between 4th Avenue South and 8th Avenue South on Edgehill Avenue/Chestnut Avenue. Take Exit 81, Wedgewood Avenue, off I-65 and follow the signs to the Science Museum. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM and is always open to the public. Members please bring a friend or two – new recruits are always welcomed.

Our Speaker and Topic - “Hood’s Tennessee Campaign: Vignettes Large and Small”

Hood’s Tennessee Campaign has been much on our minds the last few months what with the 150th Anniversary of that campaign only recently passed. This month’s program will cover that campaign, first with an overview and then focusing on more of the little known aspects of it. From officers to men in the ranks, deeds large and small were done and often glossed over by something even larger. Controversy, bad decisions and leadership will be covered along with good decisions and good leadership along with, perhaps, the almost inevitable “who was the biggest bonehead of the campaign.” This should be a lot of fun for everyone and a different tack on a campaign that many of us have grown up with and have heard a lot about of late. Come prepared to have a good time and engage in some good give and take with our speaker.

Please join us as Franklin based historian James Knight informs us about the ill-fated Tennessee Campaign of late 1864. James is a retired pilot with service in the United States Air Force and over thirty years flying for Federal Express. The Arkansas native has been published in that state’s historical journal as well as through a book on Bonnie & Clyde and four Civil War titles, all for the History Press of Charleston, SC. His latest book is entitled Hood’s Tennessee Campaign: The Desperate Venture of a Desperate Man. He does tours for the Carter House in Franklin, Tennessee and continues to write with a new boom on the early years of Ulysses S. Grant on tap soon.