BUCKS COUNTY CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE SCHEDULE FOR 2024
Regular meetings are held at the Doylestown Borough Hall, 10 Doyle Street, Doylestown, at 7:00 P.M. Parking is available next to the building. All are welcome. Free.
More information: 215-348-4870
2025 Speaker Schedule for Bucks County CWRT
(Please NOTE the change in the scheduling of in-person meetings!!)
Book Reviews -We have two a year (March and November); December meeting is annual Holiday Luncheon.
January, 2025
Zoom Speaker Series; date and details announced by email.
February, 2025
Zoom Speaker Series; date and details announced by email.
March 1, 2025
BOOK REVIEW—Book TBD – 1 pm; Book reviews are at the Bucks County Civil War Museum and Library.
April, 2025
Zoom Speaker Series; date and details announced by email.
May 6, 2025
&&¶Nancy Jill Hale – “For Honorable Living and Hopeful Dying: Union Chaplains in the Civil War” (confirmed)
June 3, 2025
§¶John Michael Priest, “The Emperor’s New Clothes: A fresh assessment of the First Corps on July 1, 1863” (confirmed)
July 1, 2025
&&¶Victor Vignola, “Contrasts in Command - the Battle of Fair Oaks May 31 - June 1, 1862” (confirmed)
August 5, 2025
**¶John Benson, “The Miller Cornfield” (confirmed)
September 2, 2025
**☺Vignettes—Members of the Bucks County CWRT will each present a short, 15-minute vignette of a personage from the Civil War period. Following are the speakers and topics: Kathryn Finch, “Sex and the Civil War”; Gerry Mayers, “The Great Snowball Battle of 1863”;
October 7, 2025
&&¶--Bernadette Loeffel-Atkins, “Widow’s Weeds & Weeping Veils” (confirmed).
November 2, 2025
BOOK REVIEW–Book TBD – 1 pm; Book reviews are at the Bucks County Civil War Museum and Library.
December 7, 2025
Annual Holiday Luncheon, Doylestown Civil War Museum & Library; date and details announced by email.
- Returning speaker from previous year(s) with new topic
♦ -- Presentation rescheduled from another year due to scheduling issues.
☺- Needs to use computer projector (or ZOOM) for presentation.
¶ -- May need use of projector for presentation; contacted and awaiting confirmation.
Possible for reschedules:
Meetings, except where noted, will be in the Doylestown Borough Hall, 10 Doyle Street, Doylestown. Meetings begin at 7 p.m. There is no admission charge.
All are welcome.