Our March 30, 2026 Meeting

Our February meeting will be on Monday, March 30, 2026, at 6:30 pm at the lower level of the Farmington Library, on the corner of Grand River and Farmington Road. Larry Hathcock, long-time member, and our expert on the Union Navy, will speak on “Victory at Sea and Waterways: The Union Navy in the Civil War.”

The Roundtable welcomes Jack Dempsey as our February 2026 speaker, presenting “Radical of Radicals: Austin Blair—Civil War Governor in His Own Words.

The Roundtable welcomes long-time member Larry Hathcock as our March 2026 speaker, presenting “Victory at Sea and on the Waterways: The Union Navy in the Civil War”. At the beginning of the Civil War, the U.S. Navy was given numerous difficult tasks to accomplish. These included: Establish the 3,500-mile blockade of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Control coastal harbors and sounds. Secure the vast Mississippi River. Defend against the Confederate naval activity. Acquire and build ships. Recruit and train thousands of men. Larry will describe how these objectives were accomplished. Picture, left, is Admiral David Farragut – “Damm the torpedoes” at the Battle of Mobile Bay. Larry Hathcock is a retired upper elementary school teacher and a six-year veteran of the U.S. Naval Reserve with three years of active duty. Larry is a past president of the Roundtable and has given numerous talks over the years on various naval topics. This will be an outstanding presentation on Monday evening, March 30, 2026! We look forward to seeing you.

The latest edition of our 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.

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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.