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We again want to thank St. Andrews On The Sound Episcopal Church for permitting us to use their facilities again this year. The program begins promptly at 7:30 PM with a social (half) hour at 7:00 and the registration desk open at 6:30. Dues for the program year are $30, payable by check or cash.
Mark your calendars:
Friday March 19th: curator guided tour of the CSS Hunley. Charles Watson is project officer for this event.
Ed Gibson has a great collection of books and memorabilia for the raffle.
Your Steering Committee has prepared an exciting program year with a March field trip planned to Charleston, SC.
| September 10th - Jeff Bockert returns to discuss Blockade Runners at their ports of origin. This is a fascinating story of activities occurring in Bermuda, The Bahamas, Cuba and other foreign ports as Captains prepared their ships to run the blockade. You think that Wilmington was wild and wicked. Wait until you learn what was going on in Nassau or Halifax. |
| October 8 - North Carolina Military Historical Society President Tom Belton presents the North States Flag Collection |
| November 12 - Richard Triebe discusses the fate of Fort Fisher POW's incarcerated in Elmira, NY |
| December 10 - Member Bob Cooke presents his Wild, Wicked, Wartime Wilmington |
| January 14 - Former member and present Curator at Appomattox Battlefield, Robert (Bert) Dunkerly, will discuss Appomattox and Greensboro |
| February 11 - Dinner Meeting with James L. Walker Jr., author of Rebel Gibraltar as our guest speaker). |
| March 11 - Member Colonel Jack M. Black Jack Travis, Artillery, CSA, (Longstreet's Corps) will discuss artillery at Gettysburg. |
| March 19 - Battlefield Tour, a day trip to Charleston (curator guided tour) to see the CSS Hunley and other area CW attractions. |
| April 8 - Member Ed Gibson will complete the schedule with a discussion of Civil War Marines, sub-titled Marines vs. Marines. |
| May 13 - Dr. Max Williams - Topic: General Robert E. Lee and Zebulon Vance Fight the Yankees - The relationship between this mountain politician and a Virginia aristocrat makes for an intriguing story. |
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