The Chattanooga Civil War Round Table will hold its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 19, 2013.  The meeting is at 7 PM and will be held in the Millis-Evans Room of Caldwell Hall on the campus  of the The McCallie School (enter the campus from Dodds Avenue and follow the signs to the Academic Quadrangle and Caldwell Hall).  National Medal of Honor Museum Executive Director Jim Wade is the speaker.  Mr. Wade will speak on the Medal of Honor and its Civil War Chattanooga connections on the 150th anniversary of its first presentation.  The meeting is free and open to the public.  

"Congress has by a recent law ordered medals to be prepared on this model, and your party shall have the first.  They will be the first that have been given to private soldiers in this war." 

            So said United States Secretary of War Edwin Stanton on Wednesday, March 25, 1863.  The medal referenced was the recently Congressionally authorized Medal of Honor; the "party" was six members of the Andrews' Raid expedition from the previous April who had recently been exchanged.  On this March Round Table meeting date just six days short of 2013 National Medal of Honor Day and the 150th anniversary of the presentation of the first of the medal that is now so much of our nation's recognition of its military heroes, National Medal of Honor Museum Director Jim Wade will speak to the Round Table about "The Civil War, Chattanooga, and the Medal of Honor at 150." 

            Jim Wade, Director of the National Medal of Honor Museum is a former U. S. Army Air Defense officer who has also worked in the marketing field.  An avid cyclist, Jim is also a Civil War buff and a member of the Lions Club.  He is a resident of Signal Mountain. 

James Ogden, III, President

Chattanooga Civil War Round Table

  {The Chattanooga Civil War Round Table is a group of area citizens interested in the study of the American Civil War.  The Round Table meets on the third Tuesday of each month, normally in the Millis-Evans Room of Caldwell Hall on the campus of The McCallie School on Missionary Ridge (enter off Dodds Avenue at Union Street).  At each month’s meeting, a historian or author from the region or from across the nation, or a member, makes a presentation on some aspect of the conflict.  The meetings are free and open to the public and membership in the Round Table is open to all with an interest in the era of the War Between the States.}