The next meeting of the Nashville (TN) Civil War Roundtable will be on Monday, April 19th, 2010, in the visitor’s center of Ft. Negley Park, a unit of Metro Parks, Nashville, TN. This is located 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 and Greer Stadium. The meeting begins at 7:00 pm and is always open to the public. There is no charge to attend.

This month's program:

"The Atlanta Campaign - The Road To Kennesaw"

It can be stated that the Atlanta Campaign was the politically most important of the Civil War because it lead to the re-election of Union President Abraham Lincoln in November, 1864. I August, the two major Union offensives in Virginia and Georgia had stalled and the casualties kept coming. The Northern public was growing disillusioned and anti-war candidates were jumping into the election ring. But on September, 2nd, Atlanta fell to William T. Sherman's armies and Lincoln then knew his re-election was saved. This program will discuss the major players, the geo-political and military strategies for both sides involved as well as the battles and leaders of the campaign. This will be the first part of the presentation which will run from Ringgold Gap to the Kennesaw Line. The program will be presented by Greg Biggs who has been a student of this campaign for nearly 30 years.

Greg Biggs, of Clarksville, TN, is the Program Chair of the Nashville Civil War Roundtable and the president of the Clarksville CWRT. He is also on the Clarksville Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee and is past president of the Friends of the Ft. Donelson Campaign. Greg has lived in Georgia for a number of years and has been going over its battlefields since the 1970s. He began leading Atlanta Campaign tours for interested people and Civil War Roundtables in 1993 and continues to do so today. He lives with his wife Karel Lea, also of the Nashville and Clarksville CWRTs, and their four cats.

We hope you will join us for the March meeting of the Nashville Civil War Roundtable. The Nashville Civil War Roundtable is made possible by Nashville Metro Parks and the Tennessee Chapter of the Society of Military History.