General-In-Chlefs Reportby

Howard Strouse

For those of you who missed theSherman Birthday Bash, I have someimportant news. You will havenoticed that the name of our organiza-tion has been changed to the RayFawcett Chapter of the Central OhioCivil War Roundtable. The announ-cement was made in the form of aGeneral Order (copy attached), andwas read by our Signal Officer, PattyBarker, to more than 150 assembledguests, including General and Mrs.Sherman and Senator and Mrs.Sherman. Ray was presented with anAmerican Flag that flew over the U. S.Capital, and he was given the originalparchment copy of the order (in anantique frame) which was signed byyour General-in-Chief and ourAdjutant General Bill Kavage. It was,in all, a great evening highlighted bystirring speeches, music, dancing,and song. Musicians from across thestate played period music, and theParty Line Contra Club Dancers, ledby August Simmons from our RoundTable demonstrated historic dancesfrom yesteryear. Although it may bea little early, we have already reserv-ed the Elk's Lodge for next year onFebruary 13, 1999 in anticipation ofyet another memorable evening.

Roundtable members are invitedto attend a weekend of Civil War Re-

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enactment, including a battle, anevening dance, an 1860's baseballgame, drill, period music, and manyother festivities at the Ohio HistoricalVillage on April 17-19, 1998. Forfurther information call Julia Evans at(614) 297-2675.

Brian Hall continues to arrange fortop shelf speakers for our regularmeetings. We have had some finepresentations in the past few months,and our Spring line-up is no excep-tion. It just keeps getting better.Thank you, Brian, for a job well done.I hope to see all of you at our nextmeeting. Until then, I am, mostrespectfully,

Your Obedient Servant,

Howard StrouseGeneral-in-Chief11560 Stonecreek Drive NWPickerington, OH 43147(614) 864-2681 (home)(614) 692-3291 (office).

Ray Fawcett

It is my sad duty to inform thmembers of the Ray Fawcett Chapterof the Central Ohio Civil War Roundable that Ray Fawcett passed awayMarch 3, 1998, after a lengthy and

courageous battle against cancer.Ray was a longtime member of

the roundtable and was the General-in-Chief from July 1995 thru June1996.In the past several years Ray was thekey co-ordinator for the ShermanBirthday Bash.

," Away from the roundtable Raywas retired from Battelle and as aFirst Sergeant in the 136th Field Arti-llery of the Ohio National Guard. Hewas a re-enactor with the 2nd O. V. I.North South Skirmish AssociationCompany C; a member of the Sons ofUnion Veterans and the Motts MilitaryMuseum. He was a docent at theSherman House and the PickawayCounty Historical SOCiety. He wasalso a member of the Knox CountyHistorical Society and the Friends ofFreedom Underground Railroad.

Ray will be sorely missed by ourorganization.

We would like to extend our deep-est sympathy to his wife Geri and allthe other members of his family.

Patty BarkerEditor

See page 2 for the Historical Gen-eral's Report.

Historian General's Reportby

Brian Hall

Our March meeting will beSaturday, March 21, at 7:30 p. m.at Chemical Abstracts. Thespeaker for the evening will beKenneth A. Hafendorfer. Thetopic will be Nathan BedfordForrest and in particular his uni-que relationship with JamesEdmonds Saunders.

Mr. Hafendorfer is a native ofLouisville, Kentucky, and has re-ceived a BA degree in Chemis-try from the University of Louis-ville and an MD degree from thethe University of LouisvilleSchool of Medicine.

He is a member and pastpresident of the Louisville CivilWar Roundtable and has writtenthree books on the Civil War -PERRYVILLE, Battle for Ken-tucky; THEY DIED BY TWOAND TENS, the Story of theConfederate Cavalry in the Ken-tucky Campaign of 1862; andNATHAN BEDFORD FORR-EST THE DISTANT DRUM,The Murfreesboro Raid of July13,1862.

Mr. Hafendorfer will bebringing a few copies of histhree books which can be pur-chased at a discount and hewill be happy to autograph themif desired.

I would like to thank every-one who came to the Januarymeeting. I heard there was agood tumout to hear CathyNelson speak on the Under-ground Railroad.

Sherman Statue Fundraiser

Attached you will find a cardwith information on the sale ofT-shirts to help raise funds forthe Sherman statue to be erect-ed in Lancaster, Oh.

Woman and the War

Saturday, March 14, from1 - 3 p. m. at the Ohio Village.The focus is on the roles thatwomen played during the CivilWar.

Cump: A Soljer's TaleBy Herb Leifer

For those of you who havenot yet seen the one man playor have seen it and would like tosee it again there will be perfor-mances: March 11-14 at 8 p. m.;March 14, Saturday matinee 2p. m. and March 15 Sundayevening 7 p. m.

At 736 N. Pearl St. (TheReality Theatre Bldg.) in Colum-bus Ohio's Short North District.

Tickets are $15; SeniorslStudents and re-enactors inuniform are $12. For reserva-tions call 1-(614) 653-5194.

Seventeenth AnnualMidwest Civil War

Roundtable

The Civil War Roundtableof Fort Wayne is hosting theSeventeenth Annual MidwestCivil War Roundtable. Thetheme will be Battles and Lead-ers.

The dates will be April 24-25in Fort Wayne, Indiana at theHilton-Fort Wayne, 1020 S.Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, IN46802.

The speakers will be AllenD. Gaff, The Iron Brigade, MenBehind the Image; Richard W.Hatcher Ill, Fort Sumter; GerryProkopowicz, Mill Springs;Stacy D. Allen, Shiloh; John T.Hubbell, General James Birds-eye McPherson; James I.Robertson, Jr., The StonewallJackson Nobody Knew.

For more information contact

Marshall Brinkman at (219) 745-5517 or the Fort Wayne CivilWar Roundtable, P. O. Box 8301,Fort Wayne, IN 46898-8301.

Sam Houston (1793-1863)

The "Father of Texas," SamHouston was a military hero inthe Texas fight for indepen-dence from Mexico and in 1836became the first president of theRepublic of Texas. WhenTexas joined the Union in 1856,he became a U. S. Senator forthe next 14 years. His staunchUnionist principles put him at.odds with most state leaders,and the secessionist-mindedTexas legislature elected hissuccessor two years before histerm was to expire. However,Houston's personal popularitycontinued and he surprised hispolitical foes by being electedgovemor in 1859. A case of thewrong man at the wrong time,Houston could not stem the flowof events as the forces for CivilWar multiplied. When seces-sionist forces carried the day in1861, Houston tried to resist byinsisting that Texas had revert-ed back to independent status.He refused to support the Con-federacy. His office was de-clared vacant and LieutenantGovemor Edward Clark suc-ceeded him. Houston spent thelast two years of his life in retire-ment on his farm.

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Editor: Patty Barker

ROUNDTABLE OFFICERS

Howard Strouse, General-in-ChiefBill Lennox, Inspector GeneralBill Kavage, Adjutant GeneralJason Dolin, War Council CommanderBrian Hall, Historian GeneralPatty Barker, Chief Signal CorpsMike Bergman, War Council MemberJohn Haas, War Council MemberDavid Larrick, War Council MemberPeter Zuhars, War Council Member

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CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS

March 21,1998 - Saturday7:30 p. m. - Kenneth Hafendorfer onNathan Bedford Forrest and JamesEdmonds Saunders.It will be at Chemical Abstracts. Formore information call Patty Barker at(614) 841-0760.

Future meetings:

April 8, 1998 - Greg Biggs

May 9, 1998 - Stephen Wise

June 10, 1998 - Debate