Come and Join us for a relaxing and Educational Day of Civil War History as our speakers
Present in-depth Discussions on Unique Civil War topics
Speakers books & a variety of other Civil War Titles will be available for sale by
Bob Murphy-Bookseller

   A native of Indiana, David Fraley spent 12 years with the Carter House Museum, and 4 with the Lotz House Museum, on the franklin, tennessee battlefield, of November 30, 1864. He has been featured on the History Channel's Civil War Combat Series: The Battle of Franklin, and sat on the board of directors of the Save the Franklin Battlefield group as well as the City of Franklin's Battlefield Taskforce. He is currently working on his first book on the  Confederate Retreat following the Battle of Nashville, in 1864.

 

   A lifelong Civil War enthusiast, Jim Morgan was born in New Orleans where his family moved after the war from the destroyed Morganza Plantation some 40 miles upriver from Baton Rouge.  He grew up in Pensacola, Florida, and now lives in Lovettsville, Virginia. His Civil War ancestors served in the Pointe Coupee (Louisiana) Artillery, the 6th Louisiana Battery and the 41st Mississippi Infantry. Jim is a past president of the Loudoun County Civil War Round Table, and volunteer guide at Ball's Bluff Battlefiedl Reginal Park near Leesburg, Virginia. He also serves on the advisory boards of the Mosby Heritage Area Association and the Thomas Balch History and Genealogy Library in Leesburg. As a reenactor he has done both Union and Confederate artillery and infantry impressions with several units. Some years ago he wrote a brief artillery unit history titled "Always Ready, Always Willing: A History of Battery M Second United States artillery From its Organization Through the Civil War". His tactical study of Ball's Bluff, titled "A Little Short of Boats: The Fights at Ball's Bluff and Edwards Ferry, October 21-22, 1861" was published in 2004 and has been called "the definitive account of Ball's Bluff". He has written for Civil War Times, America's Civil War, Blue and Gray and The Artilleryman among others. He is currently working on a biography of Union General Charles P. Stone. Jim served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1969-71. He holds a master's degree in Political Science from the University of West Florida and a master's in Library Science from Florida State University. He works as the Acquisitions Librarian for the State Department's Office of International Information Programs in Washington, D.C.

  Thomas Flagel teaches American History at Columbia State Community College. He holds degrees from Loras College, Kansas state University, Creighton University, and has studied at the University of Vienna. Author of books on the Civil War, World war II and the American Presidency, he is currently working on a volume concerning Abraham Lincoln. Flagel lives in Franklin, Tennessee, where he is on the Mayor's Battlefield Commission, The Carter House Board, and the franklin Found Table board. He is originally from Iowa, and among his ancestors are several Civil War veterans, including a great great great grandfather from the 2nd Iowa Volunteer Infanty.

CStpehen A. Wynalda was born i Tacoma, Washington, and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. He received his AS in radiologic sciences at Ball State University and his BA in journalism at Bowling Green state University (Ohio). His articles, poetry and short fiction have appeared  in several newspapers and magazines and a short story was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He had a three year stint in the Navy where he served on the USS Saratoga (CW-60). Steve has been a life-long lover of history-particularly of the Civil War- and he is the author of 366 days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency: The Private, Political and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President" (Skyhorse Publishing, 2010). Scott L. Mingus, Sr, author of numerous Civil War books had this to say about Steve's latest work: "This book surprised me with how much obscure and new information it presents-material that is interesting and helps the reader better understand the complexities of being the President of the United States during perhaps the most tumultuous period in American History." Steve is a x-ray technologist living in Indianapolis with his wife Melody and son Nicolas.

Directions to Yoder's Kitchen Banquet Facility:
Located at the East edge of Arthur on Route 133

Mail to: The Decatur Civil War Round Table, P.O. Box 560, Atwood, Illinois  61913
Registration form must be received by September 7. Fee includes admission to all speakers and
noon Lunch. Tickets sold at door ($60.00) if seats available.
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