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 Posted: Sat Feb 10th, 2007 03:08 pm
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 Fan , I just stumbled in to this group though the Round Table I belong to here in Orange County Ca.   The book club was founded by Richard Rollins who sad to say passed away before I joined.  Rich was an author of several books on the Civil War. When he ran the group which meets at the Drum Barracks , they even took a trip together to Gettysburg .  I am so jealous of those that knew him and went on that trip.

There are five of us that carpool from Orange County to the Drum in Wilmington to attend the meeting.  We have a mix of Confederate , Yankee and basically neuetral.  The director of the Drum even is a member.  Our leader is a gentleman who teaches at a local college .  Some months the fur flies .  One lady is a strong Grant supporter. We have a couple that are just as strong for the South and Robert E. Lee, they are SCV and UDC.  Two of us are members of both UDC ,DUV (me) and SUVand SCV (other member)  

We have read some interesting books in the two years I have been a member.  Rolands  Albert Sidney Johnston,   American Brutus and Blood on the Moon, Wiley Swords Confederacy's Last Hurrah, Patrick Cleburne the Stonewall of the West, JBell Wiley's Johnny Reb and his Billy Yank, Embattled Courage, Between Two Fires (this one lead to a heated battle between the oldest member of our group 80 something and me .  He is of the only good Indian is a dead Indian school of thought)

In December we pop popcorn and share clips of favorite Civil WAr Movies.  Boy that gets me in trouble as I am out searching down the films to watch the whole thing . The December meeting was the first I attended .  I shared Wicked Spring a bargin I found on the sale table at my local grocery.  I have since shared Johnny Shiloh and Journey to Shiloh (hmm a theme?). 

The things we all have in common is our love of reading , the Civil War as a major interest, and a desire to get east to see more Battlefields.  While we wait to go east we read and discuss  the books in a building that is all that is left of Drum Barracks built to keep the peace in Los Angeles area during the Civil WAr . Commanders included  Carleton and later after the war Stoneman of the famous raid . 

As you can tell I love the group .  Look forward to Tuesday night.