The next meeting of the Clarksville (TN) Civil War Roundtable will be on Wednesday, December 16th, in the café of Borders Books in Governor’s Square Mall. This is located on Wilma Rudolph Blvd (Hwy 79) south of Exit 4 off I-24, then head south a bit. The mall is on the left. The meeting begins at 7:00 pm and is always open to the public. Members please bring a friend or two – new recruits are always welcomed.
OUR SPEAKER AND TOPIC:
“It is a Happy Thing These Days to Be Obscure – Women and Civilians in Occupied Middle Tennessee”
Many of us look at the Civil War era through lenses that are filtered by modern pop culture such as movies, television and books, as well as our own prejudices and experiences as people living in the twenty-first century. Since many of our Civil War books deal with battles and famous individuals, we often forget about the daily trials of the people on the fringes of these great happenings – the women, children and civilians who populated the area where these historic events occurred. Karel Lea Biggs takes this oversight and presents a talk on the horror and brutality that extended well beyond the battlefield and touched everyone living in the middle Tennessee area during the Civil War.
Karel Lea Biggs is a seventh grade science teacher at New Providence Middle School in Clarksville. She is also co-founder and secretary of the Clarksville Civil War Roundtable. She has researched the Civil War for nearly twenty years, often with a focus on the impact the war had on Southern Civilians. She has also reenacted and written for reenacting publications as well.
Please join us for what promises to be an interesting and informative program!