The President’s Message:
In September, the Palm Beach Round Table will be
celebrating twenty-nine years as an organization.
The oldest one is the Chicago Round Table which was established
December 3, 1940. Milwaukee is the second oldest and was founded in
1947. As we prepare to
celebrate the twenty ninth anniversary of our Round Table, please join
us at the September meeting.
There will be a celebration cake and a great program, “What was
Happening in Other Countries During the Civil War.”
August 10, 2016 Program:
William McEachern
will speak on the topic
Robert E. Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg.
Bill is a member of our Round Table and has addressed us a number
of times in the past.
William D. McEachern is a graduate of Duke University with a bachelor of
arts in religion and psychology.
His focus at Duke was on early Christianity.
His fascination with Rome grew out of his Latin and Greek classes
at St. Paul’s School in New York in the early 1960s.
Reading Caesar fueled his love of Rome and ancient history, which
he has studied for half a century.
A practicing tax attorney for more than thirty-five years, he has
written numerous articles and several law treatises about estate
planning, estate and gift taxation, and the use of trusts. In this his
first novel, Mr. McEachern’s unique voice blends law, religion, and
history.
July 13, 2016 Program:
Williams Hines, a
retired park ranger, spoke last month.
His topic was Civil War Transportation.
The over all theme of the presentation was the impact of the
industrial revolution. This
included steam power, telegraph, fountain pen, education, and the
industrial scale of all enterprises.
If it were not for the railroad the Midwestern states might have
gone over to the Confederacy.
This is because a pre-industrial section depended on river
transportation. The drainage
basin of the rivers west of the Allegany mountains was the Mississippi
River. With the Railroad Act
of 1862, the United States government paid for rail transportation.
This meant that products from the Midwest were at a competitive
advantage travelling east and not south.
 Herman
Haupt was an American civil engineer and railroad construction engineer
and executive. As a Union
Army General, he played a key role in the use of railroads.
He supervised the operations of large-scale railroad
transportation used to move and supply armies rapidly over long
distances. Although he often
did not have legal authority, in fact he “owned” the technical people
that built the equipment and ran the trains.
Almost every battle of the Civil War was fought near a railroad
station. He is remembered
for the many bridges he built or had reconstructed.
During the war the North built 400 engines and 20,000 boxcars.
Mr. Hines discussed
river transportation which was enhanced by the capture of New Orleans
and the fall of Vicksburg.
Once away from rivers and the railroads the Union Army depended on
road transportation. This
was the weak link of logistics.
The army was stuck using the standard mule pulled wagon.
Bob Franke’s Donation:
Bob Franke, a member
of our Round Table, has made a generous donation of thirty pieces of
Civil War art, currency, and stock certificates.
All the items will be available for purchase.
All proceeds will go to the Round Table.
Some items will also be in the monthly raffles.
Each item is framed,
under glass and in mint condition.
This is a wonderful opportunity to add to your collection.
The following is an inventory of the items for sale. Round Table
members will have the first opportunity to purchase these wonderful
treasures.
1. A Confederate $10.00
bill, valued at $100.00
2. Jefferson Davis
photo
3. Nathan Bedford
Forrest photo
4. Joseph Johnson sketch
5. A series of numbered
sketches by B. Horton, 8 X 10 individually framed and under glass,
valued at $400.00. Included
in the series: Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, Nathan Bedford Forrest, A.P.
Hill, Kirby Smith, Stonewall Jackson, Richard Taylor, Robert Rhodes, Jeb
Stuart, James Longstreet, and Benjamin Cheatham.
6. Robert E. Lee and his
twenty-five generals sketch
7. Tobacco sponsored
picture of fourteen Union and fifteen Confederate Generals, with a
history on the back, value $500.00
8. Confederate bond
with coupons
9. General Grant sketch
10. 1864 City Point,
Virginia, sketch by E.L. Henry
11. Stonewall Jackson
sketch by E.L. Elder
12. The Surrender
13. Jeb Stuart, sketch by
C. A. Reisly
14. Jackson, Stuart,
Hill, and Mosby, photo
15. 1863, $1000.00,
Confederate Bond with only one coupon missing.
16. R.E. Lee
17. 1863 $1000.00,
Confederate Bond with only one coupon missing
18. Stonewall Jackson,
sketch
Individual sketches
of Stuart, A.P. Hill, Lee, Early, Longstreet and other officers, 4 x 6.
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