PROGRAM FOR MAY:
Fort Sumter CWRT Presents 2023 Roberts Foundation Award!  

The winner of the 2023 Roberts Foundation Book Award, presented by the Fort Sumter Civil War Round Table, is author Michael G. Laramie for his book, Gunboats, Muskets, and Torpedoes:  Coastal South Carolina, 1861-1865. (See 2023 Book Prize)  Laramie will be presented the book award at the upcoming May 13 Italian Banquet, to be held in the Regimental Commander's Riverview Room in Coward Hall on the the campus of The Citadel. See below ...

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IMMEDIATE PAST PROGRAM (APRIL)

     Dr. Kyle Sinisi presented an excellent presentation, "Lincoln's Forgotten General, a Life of Samuel R. Curtis," at this month's Fort Sumter Civil War Round Table, held on April 8 at Capers Hall, The Citadel. Gen. Curtis, the victor of Pea Ridge and Westport, was the most successful Union general in the Trans-Mississippi Theater. By the end of the year, he would command three different geographic departments and become embroiled in some of the major political and legal controversies of the war. Nevertheless, he remains today one of the lesser-known generals of the war. This presentation looked at Curtis's life to show he was among the more consequential Americans of the mid-19th century, let alone that of the Civil War.
     Presenter:  Dr. Kyle Sinisi, a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and a professor of history at The Citadel, is a founding member and past president of the Fort Sumter Civil War Round Table. He also is a board member and past president of the Friends of Charleston National Parks.

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Support Friends of Charleston National Parks!

As some of you may know, several of the Fort Sumter Civil War Round Table members also are associated with what, until recently, was called Fort Sumter-Fort Moultrie Historical Trust. Not long ago, the Trust "rebranded,", i.e., changed its name to better represent what it does.
    The Trust is now Friends of Charleston National Parks. Its mission is to help the National Park Service protect and preserve Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie, the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site (Snee Farm Plantation), and the U.S. Coast Guard Historic District on Sullivan's Island (the lighthouse and the old life-saving station that are next to each other)..
    With that in mind, Round Table board members are passing along this information knowing that those who are interested in one aspect of history often are interested in others. We encourage anyone who wishes to do so to support Friends of Charleston National Parks..
     For more information, visit:   https://friendofscnp.orgg

New Book Documents the Role of Fort Sumter and the
City of Charleston during the Civil War 

The North and South recognized the military significance of Fort Sumter and the Port of Charleston, which figured significantly in one of the longest, most complicated and fascinating campaigns of the Civil War. Richard Hatcher's Thunder in the Harbor:  Fort Sumter and the Civil War is the first modern monograph to document the role of Fort Sumter and the City of Charleston during the war.
     For more information, visit:  Thunder in the Harbor:  Fort Sumter and the Civil War

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