Our Nov. 24 Meeting

Our next Meeting will be Monday, November 24 at the Farmington Branch of the Farmington Community Library. Our guest speaker, Austin Ingall, a senior at Bedford High School and son of our long-time friend David Ingall, will begin around 7:00 pm, after our 6:30 pm business meeting.

Our November speaker, Austin Ingall, will speak on “Aaron Bromley, Monroe County, and the 102 United States Colored Troops”. The 102nd was the only recruited African American regiment from Michigan.
Austin is a Senior at Bedford High School in Temprence, MI. He is applying to attend the University of Michigan. For 2024-2025 he is a member of the American Battlefield Trust Youth Leadership Program, one of only ten students from across the USA. Congratulations, Austin! He was also a tour guide intern at the River Raisin National Battlefield in Monroe. Yes, his father is Dave Ingall, who has spoken to our group several times over the years. This will be a great presentation on the 102nd United States Colored Troops!

Our November, 2025 Newsletter is available here

MRRT: Who We Are

When & Where We Meet

We meet on the last Monday of the month (except in October, when we go on our Annual Field Trip, and December, when we traditionally do not meet) at the Farmington Community Library, Farmington Branch, 23500 Liberty St. Farmington, MI 48335. (248) 553•0300 Meetings start at 6:30 p.m.

• Get Driving Directions to the Farmington Branch from MapQuest.
  
  
• Farmington Branch Library Location on Google Maps

What We Do

We meet monthly to hear from our members on the latest books, issues of preservation, and other items of Civil War interest. At each meeting, a keynote speaker provides a presentation on a Civil War topic. A monthly newsletter is send by email and also snail-mailed to members.

In addition, each October we take our Annual Field Trip, in which MRRT members travel to a Civil War battlefield for a weekend tour. Though the COVID-19 Pandemic has put a damper on our 2020 and 2021r Field Trips, we resumed in 2022.

Join Us—Become A Member

The monthly program is open to all, but only members receive the monthly newsletter and can participate in the MRRT annual field trip. Annual membership dues are $5 for students and $25 for all others. The dues are used to cover expenses for speakers, facilities, preservation and administrative costs. Checks should be made out to Jeanie Graham and can be mailed to her home at 29835 Northbrook, Farmington Hills, MI 48334-2326. The bank does NOT like checks made out to the Roundtable. Our checks may also be brought to our monthly meeting and given to Jeanie. Cash is always welcome.

For information on how to join the MRRT, come visit us at our monthly meeting, or email Jim Burroughs.

Past CWRT Online Lectures / Speakers

Did you know that all of the videos the Civil War Round Table Congress (CWRT) has recorded are available to you on our website? In all, there are well over 200 lectures by authors and historians, living history presentations, interviews with key Civil War community leaders, online classroom discussions and more. These lectures are pre-recorded YouTube-type videos made from the original Zoom presentations. You can browse them here. Be sure to click on the blue links that are in all caps serving as the title for each lecture.