The Grand Prairie Civil War Round Table will meet on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at the Lonoke County Museum in downtown Lonoke, 215 SE Front Street, beginning at 7. Brian Brown, noted speaker and attorney from Little Rock, will speak on the Battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi, which was fought on May 16, 1863 and lasted roughly six hours. At the time of the battle, the Federal combat strength was 32,000 suffering casualties of 2,441 while the Confederate combat strength was 22,000 with casualties of 3,840.
As historian Edwin Bearss once observed, the road that ran from Champion Hill took Grant on to Vicksburg, to his great November 1863 victory at Chattanooga, Tennessee and to Appomattox Court House, Virginia, where on April 9, 1865, he received the surrender of General Robert E. Lee.
Everyone is invited and there is no admission charge.