August 12, 2020
The Civil Warriors Round Table will hold its
next meeting of 2020 at 7PM on Wednesday,
August 12, via Zoom. We will be hosting a
presentation by Pasadena CWRT president,
Nick Smith, who will talk on “The Prisoner’s
Dilemma: The Problem of Civil War Prisons.”
Mr. Nick Smith will present a talk on how
personalities, economics, medicine and even
international law combined to cost thousands of
lives of prisoners on both sides of the Civil War.
Charges were hurled from both sides that the
deaths were due to deliberate action, or at best
dangerous incompetence, even though both sides
claimed to be following the law and the rules of
civilized warfare. Only one man, Confederate
Henry Wirz, was ever charged with war crimes in
relation to the management of the POW camps
run badly by both sides. The real story is how and
why they were apparently run so badly, and why
that led to so many deaths.
Don't miss this presentation to better understand
a very real part of the Civil War that, other than
Andersonville, is too often neglected. You will
walk away with many new insights after hearing
Nick Smith make this exciting presentation.
Nick Smith has been a member of the Pasadena
Round Table for over 30 years, and has given
numerous talks here and at other Round Tables
and conferences on a variety of Civil War-related
topics. His co-curation of a museum exhibit about
the local Civil War veterans was well-received at
the Pasadena Museum of History, and he has
spent more than a decade researching those
veterans and their stories. He has also been
involved in the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil
War and their projects to document Civil War
graves and monuments.
His interest in this part of the Civil War came
from his research into local Civil War veterans,
with the discovery that two of them had important
roles in the history of Andersonville Prison as
prisoners, and that a third was one of the guards
there.
We will be meeting via the Zoom meeting
app. We will send out the meeting on-line
connection information shortly before our
meeting day (8/12). Please plan on beginning
your hookup a few minutes before the
meeting time. If you are a first time visitor to
the Civil Warriors, please contact us at
cwrtsfv@gmail.com for information
regarding the hookup. Guests, new members
and returning members are always welcome
to join us for this and future meetings! If you
can’t make this meeting, please consider one
of our exciting upcoming meetings noted in
our Future Presentations section.
Our Round Table ordinarily meets at Weilers Deli
at 22323 Sherman Way, West Hills. Due to the
COVID-19 restrictions imposed by civil
authorities, the Civil Warriors will be unable to
meet face-to-face for an indeterminate period and
will use on-line means such as the Zoom app to
continue our monthly educational get-togethers.
The Civil Warriors Round Table will hold its
next meeting of 2020 at 7PM on Wednesday,
August 12, via Zoom. We will be hosting a
presentation by Pasadena CWRT president,
Nick Smith, who will talk on “The Prisoner’s
Dilemma: The Problem of Civil War Prisons.”
Mr. Nick Smith will present a talk on how
personalities, economics, medicine and even
international law combined to cost thousands of
lives of prisoners on both sides of the Civil War.
Charges were hurled from both sides that the
deaths were due to deliberate action, or at best
dangerous incompetence, even though both sides
claimed to be following the law and the rules of
civilized warfare. Only one man, Confederate
Henry Wirz, was ever charged with war crimes in
relation to the management of the POW camps
run badly by both sides. The real story is how and
why they were apparently run so badly, and why
that led to so many deaths.
Don't miss this presentation to better understand
a very real part of the Civil War that, other than
Andersonville, is too often neglected. You will
walk away with many new insights after hearing
Nick Smith make this exciting presentation.
Nick Smith has been a member of the Pasadena
Round Table for over 30 years, and has given
numerous talks here and at other Round Tables
and conferences on a variety of Civil War-related
topics. His co-curation of a museum exhibit about
the local Civil War veterans was well-received at
the Pasadena Museum of History, and he has
spent more than a decade researching those
veterans and their stories. He has also been
involved in the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil
War and their projects to document Civil War
graves and monuments.
His interest in this part of the Civil War came
from his research into local Civil War veterans,
with the discovery that two of them had important
roles in the history of Andersonville Prison as
prisoners, and that a third was one of the guards
there.
We will be meeting via the Zoom meeting
app. We will send out the meeting on-line
connection information shortly before our
meeting day (8/12). Please plan on beginning
your hookup a few minutes before the
meeting time. If you are a first time visitor to
the Civil Warriors, please contact us at
cwrtsfv@gmail.com for information
regarding the hookup. Guests, new members
and returning members are always welcome
to join us for this and future meetings! If you
can’t make this meeting, please consider one
of our exciting upcoming meetings noted in
our Future Presentations section.
Our Round Table ordinarily meets at Weilers Deli
at 22323 Sherman Way, West Hills. Due to the
COVID-19 restrictions imposed by civil
authorities, the Civil Warriors will be unable to
meet face-to-face for an indeterminate period and
will use on-line means such as the Zoom app to
continue our monthly educational get-togethers.