Meeting Thursday the 9th: Forrest!

Anybody like Nathan Bedford Forrest? We thought so. Well you get your chance to hear from the man who wrote what James I. (Bud) Robertson called "the best thing ever written on Forrest"! Brian Steel Wills will be our speaker this coming Thursday, April 9th at Columbia's Steak House on N. Limestone in Lexington. Meeting is at 6 and speaker at 7 (approximately). Wills is a professor of history at Virginia's College as Wise, and a former professor of history at Georgia Southern University. He has had articles published in Georgia Historical Quarterly, Journal of Military History and Parameters. In addition to "The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forrest", he is also author of "The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia". and most recently "Gone with the Glory: The Civil War in Cinema." He spent several Summers as a teenager doing Confederate living history, serving on the light artillery crew at Petersburg National Battlefied.

Another must-hear speaker brought to you by the John C. Breckinridge Camp #100. See you Thursday!