Continuing my movements around the country, it will be my pleasure to speak to the Round Tables in Kitty Hawk, NC and Hershey, PA next week.
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On April 17 In Kitty Hawk, I will discuss with the Outer Banks Civil War Round Table the role Jacob D. Cox played in the final months of the Civil War in North Carolina. Having just regained his second star as a Major General, Cox and his 23rd corps forced the Confederate forces out of Wilmington and then took that city for the Union, thereby closing off the final open Confederate port city. Subsequently, he was assigned to re-build the railroad from New Bern to Goldsboro in preparation for the merger of his army and that of General Sherman, advancing from the south. From May 7-10 Cox and his men fought his final battle against the forces of General Braxton Bragg at Kinston/Wyse Forks The victorious Union forces then advanced to Goldsboro where the united forces prepared for the final advance against Raleigh. While they prepared they received the news of Lee’s surrender, and the final days of the war ensued.
On April 19 at the Hershey Civil War Round Table, I will discuss Jacob Cox’s life as one of the finest “citizen generals” in the Union forces. Without formal training in the military, he achieved considerable success on the battle fields of West Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. But his greatest contribution may have been his writings in Civil War literature, including four books, dozens of articles, and over 160 book reviews of relevant literature. To this day historians make reference to his books not only as original source materials, but also as objective, well-documented histories.
GENE SCHMIEL, CIVIL WAR HISTORIAN, AUTHOR, AND LECTURER 