September 7, 2010: The Battle of Glendale and its Preservation Today

Robert E. L. Krick

We begin our 2010/2011 Campaign with one of our favorite speakers and battlefield guides Robert E. L. Krick. Bob, a graduate of Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg with a degree in history, has literally grown up on the Chancellorsville Battlefield. The son of acclaimed historian on the Army of Northern Virginia Robert K. Krick, Bob has been employed by the National Park Service as an historian at the Richmond National Battlefield since 1991. Prior to that, he has worked at the Custer Battlefield in Montana and the Manassas Battlefield in Virginia.

Bob has been widely published on Confederate topics writing articles in several of the popular Civil War essay books and Civil War and historical publications. His first book was a regimental history of the 40tth Virginia Infantry for the Virginia Regimental History Series. His last work, Staff Officers in Gray, published by the University of North Carolina Press, is destined to become the definitive work on the subject. We eagerly await his latest work, a study on one of the Seven Day’s battles, the battle of Gaines’s Mill. Bob is now one of the foremost experts on the Seven Day’s battles, writing and leading many tours of the battlefields around Richmond.

This will be a most exciting and important meeting. Bob will talk about the protection of the Glendale Battlefield. As we all know by now a past member of our round table, the late Mr. Karl Lehr, left us a sizable sum of money and we put it to good use by donating it all to battlefield preservation. A good portion of that money was donated to the Richmond Battlefield Association and the Glendale Battlefield.

Join us on Tuesday September 7th to hear how the Glendale battlefield will benefit from the generosity and foresight of Karl Lehr. His gift will benefit Civil War battlefields well into the future.