Friday, August 11 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Rob Girardi Camp Douglas, located on the south side of Chicago, was Illinois’ largest Civil War training camp. More than 40,000 […]
Friday, September 8 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Al Ottens To Civil War buffs, General John Rawlins is usually regarded as the scold that kept Ulysses Grant sober. But […]
Friday, September 15 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Free Our SPARK! group will tour the new temporary exhibit at the Civil War Museum called Faith in the Fight: Religion in the […]
Saturday, September 23 | 9:30am - 4:00pm | $64 ($80 non-members) Register Here Check-in starts at 8:30am, program begins at 9:30am. Schedule of Presentations Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg […]
Saturday, January 13 | 10:00am – 11:30am | Doug Dammann and Steve Acker | Register Here No single item of food or drink meant as much to Civil War soldiers as […]
Wednesday, January 17 | 6:30pm | Presenter: Scott Hartwig | $12 ($15 non-members) | Register Here Scott Hartwig’s I Dread the Thought of the Place, on the Battle of Antietam and its […]
Tuesday, January 30 | 6:30pm | Presenter: Doug Dammann | $8 ($10 non-members) | Register Here We will meet at the Civil War Museum Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting […]
Sunday, February 4 | 1:00pm | Speaker: Dr. Carla Knorowski | Free The Gettysburg Address is one of the greatest, if not the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American […]
Tuesday, February 6 | 6:30pm | Presenter: Mr. Dick Zimmermann | $16 ($20 non-member) | Register Here Dick Zimmerman’s workshop will give participants an introduction to the history of American artillery […]
Friday, February 9 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Frank P. Varney Speaker will be live-streamed at the Civil War Museum Ulysses S. Grant has long been viewed as one […]
Saturday, February 24 | 10:00am – 4:00pm | Free Sunday, February 25 | 12:00pm – 4:00pm | Free Join the Civil War Museum and the 17th Corps Field Hospital for a […]
Friday, March 8 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Terry Arliskas The Milwaukee VA Soldiers Home was one of the first soldiers’ homes in the country, and the only one […]
