Loudoun County Civil War Roundtable

Great discussion by Jared Peatman tonight covering his work on the 20th Maine! Go get his book, A Hell of a Regiment!

May Assembly—The Battle of Front Royal!

As a reminder the Loudoun County Civil War Roundtable will be meeting on Tuesday, May 12th at the Thomas Balch Library. Meeting starts at 6:30

Our speaker for the evening is Jerry Holsworth and he will be talking on the Battle of Front Royal.

He has several books (VA Regimental series by H. E. Howard) he would like to sell ($50 each) so get email Jim ([email protected]) if you are interested in any of them. The books he has for sale are
8, 11, 14, 18, 25, 35, 36/37,43 Cavalry Units
2 and 58th Infantry
Purcell, Crenshaw and Letcher Artillery

Hope to see you on Tuesday!!

Many thanks to Brad Gottfried for his excellent presentation and discussion on Point Lookout Prison Camp!

This wraps up our 2025 year and we’ll reconvene in March—thank you to all our of speakers from this year!

December Speakera and Meeting !

Our last meeting of this year will be held on December 9th at the Thomas Balch Library. Meeting starts at 6:30PM.

Our guest speakers will be Brad and Linda Gottfried and their talk is titled "Hell comes to Southern Maryland, The Point Lookout Civil War Prisoner of War Camp.",

We are looking forward to meeting one of the premier authors of the American Civil War. Hopefully you will too.

As always bring someone with you who loves the Civil War and would be interested in joining our organization.

Below is the bio of authors and a brief description of their talk.

Hell Comes to Southern Maryland; The Point Lookout Civil War Prisoner of War Camp: Prisoner of war camps sprung up in the North and South in mid-1863 when the cartel governing the paroling and exchanging of prisoners ended. The Point Lookout Civil War prisoner of war camp in Southern Maryland became the largest facility for Confederates in the North. A total of 50,000 men (not at all one time) were incarcerated in the two pens that totaled 30 acres. In this presentation, Dr. Brad Gottfried will explain how and why the camp was formed, life and death in the camp, and what it was like to be a prisoner of war there.

Brad & Linda Gottfried
Brad Gottfried earned a Ph.D. in Zoology and served as a college educator for over 40 years, rising to the presidency of two colleges before he retired in 2017. He has written 23 books on the Civil War. Brad is a Gettysburg Licensed Town Guide and an Antietam Licensed Battlefield Guide.
Linda Gottfried earned a BFA and served as a graphic designer and development officer at several colleges and nonprofit organizations before retiring in 2015. She now spends her time as sculptor and enjoying retirement. Several of her pieces have won awards. The Gottfried's have five children and seven grandchildren and they live in Fayetteville, Pennsylvania.
Brad and Linda have collaborated on four projects: Hell Comes to Southern Maryland (published by Turning Point Publications), Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (published by the Emerging Civil War), and The Antietam Paintings of James B. Hope (published by Turning Point Publications). Their most recent collaboration is Race to the Potomac: Meade and Lee After Gettysburg (published by the Emerging Civil War).