First Defenders Civil War Round Table of Berks County

September 23 2017

Harper’s Ferry Chief Historian Dennis Frye made his third trip to the First Defenders Civil War Round Table in fine style by questioning mainstream historians and logic itself by asking whether George McClellan out-thought Robert E. Lee during the first invasion of the North in 1862. Frye outlined four instances in the first two weeks...

September 12 2017

THE UNION UNDIVIDED, NOW AND FOREVER!

On April 14, 1861, the Stars and Stripes were lowered over Fort Sumter. The next day, President Abraham Lincoln, with an iron will to “preserve the Union”, issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion. Thousands of Northern men left cities, farms, and towns to answer the call. The first to arrive in...