"The Knapsack" 2001-2023
The Knapsack is the official newsletter of the Raleigh Civil War Round Table and is published around the 1st of each month. The cover article of each issue introduces the guest speaker(s) and their topic for that month's meeting. The Knapsack is distributed electronically to the active membership and friends of the Raleigh Civil War Round Table. These are .pdf files that can be opened with free Adobe Acrobat Reader software, which can be downloaded from Adobe at http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/.
If you have comments or ideas for future stories that could be considered for inclusion in the newsletter, please contact Bob Graesser, Newsletter Editor, at bob.graesser@gmail.com.
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2023-08 KNAPSACK
(2.2M)Charlie Knight, M.A., on the topic “Uselessly Sacrificed” – The Destruction of Iverson’s Brigade at Gettysburg, July 1st, 1863 (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2023-07 KNAPSACK
(2.1M)Harry Smeltzer, M.B.A., on the topic The Battle of 1st Manassas aka The 1st Battle of Bull Run (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2023-06 KNAPSACK
(1.5M)Andrew Duppstadton the topic Francis Lyell Hoge (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2023-05 KNAPSACK (REVISED)
(1.3M)Tonia J. Smith on the topic Orton Williams (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2023-04 KNAPSACK (REVISED)
(680K)Earl L. Ijames, B.A., on the topic Juneteenth (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2023-03 KNAPSACK (REVISED)
(2M)Jim McKee, M.A., on the topic Abraham Lincoln and the Fort Anderson Flag: A Flag that Might Have Changed U.S. History (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2023-02 KNAPSACK (REVISED)
(2.3M)Michael Briggs, on the topic Guilford County-Made Confederate Rifles (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2023-01 KNAPSACK
(1.7M)Wade Sokolosky, Col. U.S. Army (Ret.), on the topic Confederate Hospitals in North Carolina (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; due to technical difficulties, no video was captured) -
2022-12 KNAPSACK
(1023K)No Featured Speaker: Holiday Get-Together at the Historic Borden House in Fletcher Park, Raleigh, NC on Dec. 12th, 2022 -
2022-11 KNAPSACK (REVISED)
(2.7M)Tom Elmore, on the topic The Burning of Columbia, SC, Feb. 17th, 1865 (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2022-10 knapsack (REVISED)
(2.9M)Chris J. Hartley, on the topic I Owe the Southern Confederacy a Debt: The Life of George Stoneman (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2022-09 KNAPSACK (REVISED)
(3.4M)Ernest A. Dollar, on the subject of his new book Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War’s Final Campaign in North Carolina (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2022-08 KNAPSACK
(4.3M)The 2022 Gatton Award recipients, Mary Lynn Bryan, Mac Healy, and David Winslow on the topic The Story of The Civil War & Reconstruction History Center in Fayetteville, NC, its Mission, the Events Leading up to the Recent Ground-breaking for Phase 3, and Plans for the Future (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2022-06/07 KNAPSACK
(3.9M)Dr. Chris Fonvielle, Ph.D., on the topic 'Freedom at Last': African Americans at Wilmington, North Carolina, 1865 (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2022-05 KNAPSACK (Revised)
(6.9M)Amy and Jay Bauer on the topic Discovery of a Forgotten USCT: A Mystery Solved (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2022-04 KNAPSACK
(4.4M)Freddie Kiger, M.A., on the topic "Sheer Adulterated Violence": The Battle of Sharpsburg/Antietam (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2022-03 KNAPSACK
(2.2M)Gary L. Dyson, B.S., on the topic of his book The Ambush of the Isaac P. Smith: Family Ties and the Battle on the Stono, January 30, 1863 (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2022-01 & 2022-02 Combined KNAPSACK (Revised)
(2.9M)Jan. 2022 Meeting Cancelled Due to Covid / Feb. 2022: Jeff Hunt, M.A., on the topic Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station: The Problems of Command and Strategy after Gettysburg, from Brandy Station to the Buckland Races, August 1 to October 31, 1863 (Monthly meeting held via Zoom; video archived) -
2021-12 KNAPSACK
(4.5M)Holiday Break -- NO MEETING THIS MONTH -
2021-11 KNAPSACK
(4.6M)Colby Stevens, Site Manager of the Bentonville Battlefield Historic Site, on the topic Expansion Plans for the Bentonville Battlefield as Related to Mower’s Charge and Hardee’s Counterattack (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2021-10 KNAPSACK (REVISED)
(2.9M)Dr. Judkin Browning, Ph.D., and Dr. Timothy Silver, Ph.D., on the topic Environmental Influences on the Peninsula Campaign in 1862 (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2021-09 KNAPSACK
(4.2M)David L. Bright, USN Lt. Cmdr. (ret.) on the topic Locomotives up the Turnpike: The Civil War Career of Quartermaster Captain Thomas R. Sharp, C.S.A. (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2021-08 KNAPSACK
(4.2M)Charlie Knight, M.A., on the topic of his book From Arlington to Appomattox: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War, Day by Day, 1861–1865 (Monthly meeting hybrid [in-person and simultaneously via Zoom]; video archived) -
2021-07 KNAPSACK (REVISED)
(3.8M)Jeff Hunt, M.A., on the topic Meade and Lee After Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign, From Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, July 14-31, 1863 (Monthly meeting held via Zoom; video archived) -
2021-06 KNAPSACK
(3.6M)Wade Sokolosky, U.S. Army Col. (ret.) on the topic Success and Failure in the Saddle: Mounted Operations during the 1865 Carolinas Campaign (Monthly meeting held via Zoom; video archived) -
2021-05 KNAPSACK (REVISED).pdf
(3.7M)Gene Schmiel, Ph.D., on the topic The Civil War in West Virginia and the Role of Jacob Cox (Monthly meeting held via Zoom; video archived) -
2021-04 KNAPSACK (REVISED)
(1.4M)Douglas C. Waller, M.A., on the topic Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation (Monthly meeting held via Zoom; video archived) -
2021-03 KNAPSACK
(2.9M)Al Bredenberg, M.A., on the topic Raleigh Civil War Fortifications (Monthly meeting held via Zoom; video archived) -
2021-02 KNAPSACK (Revised)
(1.3M)Dr. Curt Fields, Ph.D., U.S. Grant Impersonator, on the topic Reflections on the Recent Vicksburg Campaign (Monthly meeting held via Zoom; video archived) -
2021-01 KNAPSACK (REVISED)
(1.7M)Prof. Leonard J. Fullenkamp, Col., U.S. Army, Ret., on the topic Ulysses S. Grant: The Making of a General (Monthly meeting held via Zoom; video archived) -
2020-12 KNAPSACK
(1.5M)Michael K. Brantley, M.A., M.F.A., on the topic of his book Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate (Monthly meeting held via Zoom; video archived) -
2020-11 KNAPSACK (REVISED)
(1.6M)Michael P. Rucker on the topic of his book The Meanest and "Damnest" Job: Being the Civil War Exploits and Civilian Accomplishments of Colonel Edmund Winchester Rucker During and After the War (Monthly meeting held via Zoom; video archived) -
2020-10 KNAPSACK
(912K)Dr. Christian B. Keller, Ph.D., on the topic The Lee-Jackson Partnership and Confederate Strategy in the East, 1861-1863 (Monthly meeting held via Zoom; video archived) -
2020-09 KNAPSACK (Revised)
(969K)Sandy Barnard, M.A., on the topic of his book An Aide to Custer: The Civil War Letters of Edward G. Granger (Monthly meeting held via Zoom; video archived) -
2020-08 KNAPSACK
(1.4M)Dr. Ted Kunstling, MD, on the topic Civil War Railroads (Monthly meeting held via Zoom; video archived) -
2020-07 KNAPSACK (REVISED)
(1.6M)Chris Grimes on the topic Civil War Medicine (Monthly meeting held via Zoom) -
2020-06 KNAPSACK
(2M)Hampton Newsome, J.D., M.A., on the topic The Fight for the Old North State: The Civil War in NC, January-May 1864 (Monthly meeting held via Zoom) -
2020-05 KNAPSACK (REVISED)
(3.9M)Freddie Kiger on Antietam/Sharpsburg (Monthly meeting cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic) -
2020-04 KNAPSACK
(3.7M)Douglas Waller on Lincoln's Spies (Monthly meeting cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic) -
2020-03 KNAPSACK
(1.7M)Jeremiah DeGennaro, M.A., on The Collapse of Confederate Greensboro During April 1865 -
2020-02 KNAPSACK
(1.3M)Richard Lewis on Cloaked in Mystery: The Curious Case of the Confederate Coat -
2020-01 KNAPSACK (Revised)
(739K)David Winslow, on The Real Story Behind North Carolina's Gettysburg Cyclorama -
2019-12 KNAPSACK
(1.3M)Betty Vaughn, on Origins and Traditions of Christmas Celebrations in the Mid-1800’s. -
2019-11 KNAPSACK
(2.7M)Ron Roth, M.T., on Desperate Hours: Understanding the Battle of Gettysburg Through the Art of its Battlefield Monuments -
2019-10 KNAPSACK
(1.4M)Wade Sokolosky, U.S. Army Col. (retired), on NC Confederate Hospitals in 1865 -
2019-09 KNAPSACK (REVISED)
(1.1M)Amy Bauer on 135th Infantry Regiment United States Colored Troops -
2019-08 KNAPSACK (Revised)
(3.7M)Philip Gerard, M.F.A., on The Last Battleground—The Civil War Comes To North Carolina -
2019-07 KNAPSACK (Revised)
(2.5M)James White, M.Ed., on New Bern and the Civil War -
2019-06 KNAPSACK
(1.5M)Charlie Knight, M.A., on The Battle of New Market -
2019-05 KNAPSACK
(2M)Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., on All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862 -
2019-04 KNAPSACK
(2.3M)Bruce Venter, Ph.D., on The Kilpatrick-Dalgren Raid on Richmond -
2019-03 KNAPSACK
(1.1M)Harold Knudsen, U.S. Army Lt. Col. (retired), M.A., on Modern War Methods of General Longstreet -
2019-02 KNAPSACK
(1.3M)Susanna Michele Lee, Ph.D., on Motivations of the Civil War Soldier -
2019-01 KNAPSACK
(1.2M)Ed Bearss on The Siege of Vicksburg and 2019 T. Harry Gatton Award Winner Announced -
2018-12 KNAPSACK
(1.2M)Holiday Party at the Church of the Holy Cross in Raleigh, NC featuring Betty Vaughn on Origins and Traditions of Christmas Celebrations in the Mid-1800's (Cancelled due to inclement weather) -
2018-11 KNAPSACK
(954K)Andrew Ballard, Charlie Knight, and David Waller on The RCWRT's Project to Conserve the State Flag of the 30th NC Infantry Regiment -
2018-10 KNAPSACK
(1M)Amanda Brantley on Carrie McGavock and Amy Harper -
2018-09 KNAPSACK
(783K)Chris Fonvielle, Ph.D., on Unlucky in War: Confederate General Braxton Bragg -
2018-08 KNAPSACK
(660K)Angela Robbins, Ph.D., on Businesswomen in the Piedmont, 1865-1900 -
2018-07 KNAPSACK
(973K)Michael Hardy on The Battles and Campaigns of the Branch-Lane Brigade -
2018-06 KNAPSACK
(1.1M)Bill Brown on North Carolina Regiments in the Confederate Army of Tennessee -
2018-05 KNAPSACK
(1M)Scott Mauger on Major John Pelham, C.S.A. -
2018-04 KNAPSACK
(918K)Dr. Eugene Schmiel on Union General Jacob D. Cox -
2018-03 KNAPSACK
(879K)Ryan Reed on Negotiations at the Bennett Place Leading to the Largest Surrender of Confederate Troops During the Civil War -
2018-02 KNAPSACK
(1.2M)David Shultz on The Second Day at Gettysburg -
2018-01 KNAPSACK.pdf
(1004K)Ed Bearss on Battlefield Medicine -
2017-12 KNAPSACK
(1.2M)Holiday Party at State Capitol featuring Frank Ragsdale, Docent, Conducting a Tour of the Building -
2017-11 KNAPSACK
(1.3M)Jeff Bockert on Blockade Runners of the Confederacy -
2017-10 KNAPSACK
(969K)Debbi Blake on Confederate Spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow -
2017-09 KNAPSACK
(1.1M)Randy Sauls on The Battle of Goldsboro Bridge -
2017-08 KNAPSACK
(1.3M)Robert Thomas on Longstreet and His Gettysburg Monument -
2017-07 KNAPSACK
(1004K)Dr. John R. Peacock III on North Carolina Troops in the 1862 Maryland Campaign -
2017-06 KNAPSACK
(1017K)Symposium On Reconstruction in North Carolina
- Mark Bradley, Ph.D., on Federal Occupation of North Carolina
- Ernie Dollar, M.A., on Postwar in the City of Raleigh
- Angela Robbins, Ph.D., on Women's Role in Reconstruction
- W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Ph.D., on The Civil War in Memory and Memorials -
2017-05 KNAPSACK
(3.5M)Michael Hardy on The Capitals of the Confederacy -
2017-04 Knapsack
(1.2M)John Quarstein on The Power of Iron Over Wood (U.S.S. Monitor vs. C.S.S. Virginia) -
2017-03 Knapsack
(1.3M)Jim Gaddis on North Carolina’s General Richard Gatlin -
2017-02 Knapsack
(953K)Michael Zatarga on The Battle of Roanoke Island -
2017-01 Knapsack
(1.2M)Ed Bearss on Battlefield Medicine (Cancelled due to Inclement Weather) -
2016-12 Knapsack
(1M)Holiday Party at State Capitol featuring Southern String Band -
2016-11 Knapsack
(1.1M)W. Fitzhugh Brundage on Frederick Douglass’ Thoughts on the Civil War -
2016-10 Knapsack
(1015K)Doug Mattox on Confederate Currency and Stamps -
2016-09 Knapsack
(985K)Juanita Patience Moss on Forgotten Black Soldiers Serving in White Units -
2016-08 Knapsack
(992K)Betty Vaughn on Foster’s December 1862 Raid in Eastern North Carolina -
2016-07 Knapsack
(1.5M)Marshall Conyers on his Poetry on Gettysburg -
2016-06 Knapsack
(1.2M)Mike Parker on The Religion of Generals Lee and Jackson -
2016-05 Knapsack
(1.1M)Mary Bandy Daughtry on Confederate Cavalier W.H.F. “Rooney” Lee -
2016-04 Knapsack
(1.2M)Jim Gaddis on North Carolina’s General Richard Gatlin -
2016-03 Knapsack
(1.1M)Wade Sokolosky on The March 1865 Battle of Wyse Fork -
2016-02 Knapsack
(1M)Chris Hartley on Stoneman’s 1865 Raid in Western North Carolina -
2016-01 Knapsack
(875K)Ed Bearss on The Impact of the Civil War -
2015-12 Knapsack
(1.1M)Holiday Party at State Capitol featuring Southern String Band -
2015-11 Knapsack
(1.4M)Gerald Prokopowicz on Command and Control in the Civil War -
2015-10 Knapsack
(1M)Joseph Glatthaar on Lee’s Army and the Dwindling Margin for Error -
2015-09 Knapsack
(949K)Rex Hovey on The Battle of South Mountain -
2015-08 Knapsack
(1.1M)Steve Smith on Chamberlain’s Leadership Qualities -
2015-07 Knapsack
(1.7M)Wade Sokolosky on The Battle of Wyse Fork -
2015-06 Knapsack
(987K)Ted Kunstling on The Occupation of Raleigh in April 1865 -
2015-05 Knapsack
(1M)Lee Craig on The Economics of the American Civil War -
2015-04 Knapsack
(1.2M)Mark Bradley, Ph.D., on The End of the Civil War in North Carolina -
2015-03 Knapsack
(974K)Patrick Schroeder on Appomattox -
2015-02 Knapsack
(1M)Brenda McKean on The Home Front -
2015-01 Knapsack
(1.1M)Ed Bearss on The Battle of Mobile Bay -
2014-12 Knapsack
(1.2M)Holiday Party at State Capitol featuring Southern String Band -
2014-11 Knapsack
(1.1M)Noah Trudeau on Sherman’s March to the Sea -
2014-10 Knapsack
(1023K)Marvin Nicholson on African-American Soldiers in the Civil War -
2014-09 Knapsack
(1003K)Margaret Humphreys on The Practice of Medicine During the Civil War -
2014-08 Knapsack
(1018K)Stephen Davis on The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 -
2014-07 Knapsack
(868K)Keith Hardison on Confederate President Jefferson Davis -
2014-06 Knapsack
(799K)Earl Hess on The Battles at Petersburg -
2014-05 Knapsack
(1.1M)William Harris on Lincoln, the Constitution, and the Civil War -
2014-04 Knapsack
(1.2M)William C. Davis on “Who Was Loreta Velasquez?” -
2014-03 Knapsack
(1.2M)Bob Zeller on The Civil War in 3-D -
2014-02 Knapsack
(1.2M)Aldo Perry on North Carolina Civil War Courts Martial -
2014-01 Knapsack
(1M)Ed Bearss on The Sinking and Salvage of the USS Cairo -
2013-12 Knapsack
(1M)Holiday Party at State Capitol featuring Norm Boggs and Rob Morrison -
2013-11 Knapsack
(1.2M)Ansley Wegner on Artificial Limbs -
2013-10 Knapsack
(1M)Tom Crouch on Civil War Ballooning -
2013-09 Knapsack
(1M)Terry Winschel on The Battle of Vicksburg -
2013-08 Knapsack
(1M)Debbi Blake on Using The State Archives For Research -
2013-07 Knapsack
(1.1M)Rick Walton on Raleigh’s Pettigrew Hospital Records -
2013-06 Knapsack
(1M)Stephen Wise on Southern Blockade Running -
2013-05 Knapsack
(1.4M)Sandy Barnard on A Private in the Irish Brigade -
2013-04 Knapsack
(1006K)Jeffrey Crow on Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation -
2013-03 Knapsack
(1.2M)Ernie Dollar on PTSD and the War’s End in North Carolina -
2013-02 Knapsack
(1M)LeRae Umfleet on The 1898 Race Riot in Wilmington, North Carolina -
2013-01 Knapsack
(1M)Ed Bearss on The Battle of Fredericksburg -
2012-12 Knapsack
(938K)Holiday Party at State Capitol featuring Southern String Band -
2012-11 Knapsack
(936K)Chris Fonvielle, Ph.D. on A Photographic History of Fort Fisher -
2012-10 Knapsack
(1.3M)Josh Howard on North Carolina’s Soldiers and Casualties -
2012-09 Knapsack
(1M)James Clark on Authoring the Civil War: Walt Whitman -
2012-08 Knapsack
(889K)Chris Meekins on Three Times a Traitor: Mayor Respess -
2012-07 Knapsack
(1002K)Blythe Toussaint on What Price Freedom? The Realities of Slavery -
2012-06 Knapsack
(950K)Gerald Prokopowicz on The Chattanooga Campaign of 1862 -
2012-05 Knapsack
(1M)William Harris on Lincoln and the Border States -
2012-04 Knapsack
(950K)Susanna Lee on Native Americans in the Civil War -
2012-03 Knapsack
(894K)Kevin Milus on The Irish Experience During the Civil War -
2012-02 Knapsack
(982K)LeRae Umfleet on North Carolina Women on the Home Front -
2012-01 Knapsack
(956K)Ed Bearss on The Impact of Vicksburg and Gettysburg -
2011-12 Knapsack
(1M)Holiday Party at State Capitol with Arch Allen on Impeachment of Governor Holden -
2011-11 Knapsack
(1.3M)Maj. Gen. George G. Kundahl (Retired) on Confederate General Stephen Ramseur -
2011-10 Knapsack
(1.1M)Wade Sokolosky on Preparations to Face Sherman -
2011-09 Knapsack
(1.1M)Betty Vaughn on Women’s Roles In The Civil War -
2011-08 Knapsack
(1.4M)'Colonel Black Jack’ Travis on E. Porter Alexander, Rebel Gunner -
2011-07 Knapsack
(708K)Jeff Toalson presents Richard Watkins on ‘The Great Unpleasantness’ -
2011-06 Knapsack
(1000K)David Thomson on Union General Oliver Otis Howard -
2011-05 Knapsack
(639K)David Zonderman on Labor and Commerce During The Civil War -
2011-04 Knapsack
(937K)Jim Morgan on Civil War Veterans in Egypt -
2011-03 Knapsack
(917K)Sandy Barnard on A Hoosier Quaker Goes to War -
2011-02 Knapsack
(649K)David Waller on Post-War Lives of Civil War Personalities -
2011-01 Knapsack
(849K)Ed Bearss on Lincoln’s Assassination -
2010-11 Knapsack
(706K)Charles Hawks on Confederate Naval Warfare -
2010-10 Knapsack
(676K)Bruce Miller on “Only a Soldier’s Grave” -
2010-03 Knapsack
(1.3M)Matt Farina on The Wounding and Death (Fifty Years Later) of Joshua Chamberlain -
2007-10 Knapsack
(8M)Andrew Duppstadt on The CSS Neuse -
2006-06 KNAPSACK
(4.9M)Nora Brooks returns to RCWRT as Widow Jackson