June 11th, 2024 – Our 159th meeting!! We continue our fifteenth year!
The next meeting of the Nashville (TN) Civil War Roundtable will be on Tuesday, June 11th, 2024, in the visitor’s center of Ft. Negley Park, a unit of Metro Parks, Nashville, TN. This is located at 1100 Fort Negley Blvd. off I-65 just south of downtown between 4th Avenue South and 8th Avenue South on Edgehill Avenue/Chestnut Avenue. Take Exit 81, Wedgewood Avenue, off I-65 and follow the signs to the Science Museum.
The meeting begins at 7:00 PM and is always open to the public.
PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS A SPECIAL SECOND TUESDAY OF THE MONTH MEETING DATE. WE WILL BE BACK TO THE USUAL THIRD TUESDAY IN JULY.
Our Speaker and Topic – ”Partisan Warfare in 1862 Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee”
In the summer of 1862, partisan ranger warfare entered western Kentucky as Adam Rankin Johnson attempted to raise a regiment behind Union lines. A partisan ranger regiment operated differently than a typical cavalry regiment, mostly since their activities were behind enemy lines. He gained recruits with flashy attacks and raids that not only reached the local newspapers, but even the international press, especially when he captured Newburgh, Indiana in July 1861. To remain a viable and active force, Johnson had to constantly resupply his men by capturing Union equipment and weapons. This activity forced the Union to redirect several infantry and cavalry regiments, Brown Water Navy vessels, and valuable resources that could have been used with the main armies advancing in the South. Eventually the Union learned how to quell Johnson's success and re-establish control behind their own lines, but not before many lives and millions of dollars of valuable military goods were lost.
Derrick Lindow is an 8th grade United States history teacher in Owensboro, Kentucky. He graduated from Kentucky Wesleyan College (2010) with a BA in history and holds a Master's in Education from the University of the Cumberlands. He obtained a Master of Arts in History from Western Kentucky University in 2023. He is the 2015 Dr. Tom and Betty Lawrence National History Teacher Award recipient from the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and the 2019 James Madison Fellow for the state of Kentucky. Derrick is the creator and co-administrator of the Western Theater in the Civil War website, which brings together authors and historians to write about that crucial area of the war. The Kentucky native is married to his lovely wife Allie and is the father of two boys, Ezra and Owen.
Derrick will have copies of his new book for sale at the meeting.