Civil War Round Tables-- Part 1

From the Cabin Fever Issue of Northwest Quarterly 2024 "Civil War Round Tables" by Jon McGinty.

I currently belong to the McHenry County Civil War Round Table and at one time, back in the 1970s and 80s to The Civil War Round Table of Chicago, which is regarded as the very first CWRT.

Civil War Round Tables are independent groups of people who meet regularly to share a common interest in the military, political and sociological history of that war.  

The first Civil War Round Table (CWRT) was started in Chicago in 1940 by Ralph Newman, owner of the Abraham Lincoln Bookstore in that town.  He assembled a small group of authors and amateur historians to discuss topics about the Civil War.

Current estimates say that there are roughly 300 such groups  worldwide, with most of them in the United States,

There are 17 of them in Illinois.

--Old Secesh