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Our speaker at the October 8 meeting was Greg Biggs, who spoke on the topic "Sherman’s Logistics: The Atlanta Campaign, Four Months in 1864." Greg’s talk examined the nuts and bolts of Sherman’s plans to supply his armies as they moved against Johnston's Confederates and toward Atlanta.
Past Presidents honored at September meeting  Top Row, L-R: Gordon Jones, Brian Wills, Bruce Stewart, Emmett Hall, Penn Templeman, Mike Behan, Grant Moseley, David Vaughan, Bill Erquitt, Grady Ireland, J.D. Humphries; Seated: Gould Hagler, Dudley Ottley, Barbara Long, Vicky Frolich, David Beale, Terry Kingery. Dues for Campaign Year 2019-2020 are now payable. You may pay online via the link on this page. Wilson Greene Winner of 2019 Richard Barksdale Harwell Award Campaign of Giants Picked as Best Civil War Book of 2018 
 Gary Barnes, Chairman of the Atlanta Round Table's Richard Barksdale Harwell Award Committee, has announced that A. Wilson Greene has been selected for the 2019 award for the best book on a Civil War subject published in 2018. A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg Volume One - From the Crossing of the James to the Crater was published by the University of North Carolina Press. The award will be presented at the Round Table's December meeting. Greene's book was chosen from the numerous excellent books published in 2018 and reviewed by the Harwell Committee. Joanne Freeman was a finalist for the award for her book The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War. Go here for more information on our award winner, his book and the Harwell Award. The Committee is now accepting nominations for the 2020 award. Please see the submission guidelines for details.
The Atlanta Civil War Round Table was organized
in 1949 with the intent purpose to further the serious discussion and study of
the American Civil War.
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