March 3 Meeting: D. Scott Hartwig to Receive 2024 Harwell Award  

             

                                                  Photo by Barbara J. Sanders

Our speaker at the March meeting will be D. Scott Hartwig, winner of the 2024 Richard Barksdale Harwell Award for his I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign.

The title of Hartwig's presentation will be "The Soldier's Experience," an examination of the battle from the point of view of the soldiers who fought on September 17, 1862. 

The Round Table presents the Harwell Award annually for the best book on a Civil War subject published in the previous year. The Round Table has presented this prize each year since 1989.

The award-winning book was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Hartwig was the supervisory park historian at the Gettysburg National Military Park for twenty years. He previously authored To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.

You can register for the March 3 meeting by using the pay button to the left or you may mail a check ($45) to:

Atlanta Civil War Round Table
c/o Elizabeth Talmadge, Secretary-Treasurer
2069 Cottage Lane NW
Atlanta Georgia 30318

        

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Please go HERE for a Power Point presentation with information on each speaker.