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Fort Fisher UDC Meets the Fourth Thursday of every month (September through June) at 7:00 pm
Tag Archives: Kaye Lavin
The March by E.L. Doctorow (book report)
Presented by Kaye Lavin 17 March 2011 As the War Between the States was moving toward its inevitable conclusion, General William Tecumseh Sherman marched 60,000 Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, leaving a 60-mile-wide trail of death, destruction, looting, … Continue reading
CONFEDERATE GOLIATH, THE BATTLE OF FORT FISHER (book Report)
Since we are the Fort Fisher Chapter of the UDC, I think it is important that we all read at least one book on the Fort’s history, and I highly recommend this month’s selection – Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher by Rod Gragg, published 1991, winner of the prestigious Fletcher Pratt Award presented to the author or editor of the best non-fiction book about the Civil War published during the previous calendar year. Continue reading
Posted in Book Reports, Meeting Programs
Tagged Battle of Fort Fisher, Chris E Fonville Jr, Colonel William Lamb, Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher, Fletcher Pratt Award, General Alfred H Terry, General Benjamin F Butler, General Braxton Bragg, General WHC Whiting, James I Robertson Jr, Kaye Lavin, Rear Admiral David D Porter, Rod Gragg
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