Wednesday, 9 February, 2022

The Civil Warriors Civil War Round Table
will hold its next meeting of 2022 at 7PM PST
on Wednesday, February 9, via Zoom. We
will be hosting an online presentation by
historian and author David Dixon who will be
talking on “August Willich: Radical
Warrior.”
Mr. Dixon will be speaking about his book Radical
Warrior: August Willich’s Journey from German
Revolutionary to Union General (University of
Tennessee Press, 2020), the biography of a
Prussian army officer who renounced his nobility
and joined in the failed European revolutions of
1848. He emigrated to America, edited a daily
labor newspaper in Cincinnati, and became one of
the most accomplished generals in the Union
Army. This presentation sheds new light on the
contributions of 200,000 German-Americans who
fought for the Union in the Civil War.

In an age of global social, economic, and political
upheaval, transatlantic radicals helped effect
America’s second great revolution. For many
recent immigrants, the nature and implications of
that revolution turned not on Lincoln’s
conservative goal of maintaining the national
Union, but on issues of social justice, including
slavery, free labor, and popular self-government.
The Civil War was not simply a war to end
sectional divides, but to restore the soul of the
nation, revive the hopes of democrats worldwide,
and defend human rights. Transatlantic radicals
like Willich viewed the war as part of a much
larger, global revolution for social justice and
republican government.

David Dixon earned his M.A. in history from the
University of Massachusetts in 2003. His first
book,  The Lost Gettysburg Address , told the
unusual life story of Texas slaveholder Charles
Anderson, whose speech followed Lincoln’s at
Gettysburg, but was never published. It turned up
140 years later in a cardboard box in Wyoming.
David presented this work to the Civil Warriors in
October, 2016.

David has given nearly 100 talks to audiences
across the country. He appeared on Civil War
Talk Radio and other podcasts. He hosts B-List
History, a website that features obscure
characters and their compelling stories. You may
download free pdf versions of his published
articles on that website at  www.davidtdixon.com .

We will be meeting via the Zoom meeting
app. We will send out the meeting on-line
connection information shortly before our
meeting day (2/9/22). Please plan on
beginning your hookup a few minutes before
the 7PM PST 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
effects of COVID-19, the Civil Warriors have
been unable to meet face-to-face for two years and
have been using the Zoom app to continue our
monthly educational get-togethers. We hope to
resume in-person meetings later in 2022.​