‘Civil War scholars to visit Tennessee and Georgia’

    

Time to focus on Civil War Lodge of Research 1865’s meeting scheduled for next month. Celebrating its thirtieth year, the lodge keeps a busy itinerary, and the brethren will get together in Tennessee and Georgia during the weekend of July 11.

Some details are subject to change, but here’s the plan thus far:

Thursday, July 10: Brethren will begin arriving. Arrangements have been made at Hampton Inn Ringgold-Ft. Oglethorpe (6875 Battlefield Parkway) in Ringgold, Georgia.

Friday, July 11: A morning tour of Chickamauga Battlefield. Lunch at noon, possibly at Tompkins Lodge 466 in Ft. Oglethorpe. The battlefield tour will resume at 1 p.m., and at four o’clock, there may be a visit (they’re still working it out) to Gordon-Lee Mansion. Dinner (details to come) at 6:30, and then, while there’s still daylight, a trip to the Ringgold Gap Battlefield.

That sounds like a weekend itself, but then there’s…

Courtesy Brent Moore

Saturday, July 12: Arrive at 8 a.m. at Quitman Lodge 106 in Chattanooga, Tennessee Ringgold, Georgia. Civil War Lodge of Research 1865 will tyle at 10 a.m. Lunch at noon. At two o’clock, everyone will gather at Lookout Mountain for a tour. Dinner at 6:30 (details to come) before capping off the weekend with a visit to Cigars International in East Ridge, Tennessee.

I wish I had freedom to travel more. I’d really love to make this trip. But if your cabletow permits, you should join in.

I’ll say one thing though: When the research lodge conference in Kentucky opens in September, I’m going to speak to the virtues of research lodges traveling and touring relevant sites. My research lodge in New York City meets on weeknights, and so is limited in what it can do. My research lodge in New Jersey meets on Saturday mornings, and so is limited in different ways in what it can do. CWLR 1865 is my other research lodge and, as you can see, it has plans for weekends. The lodge meeting is a pretty minor part of it all, time-wise. Many of the brethren are accompanied by their ladies, making these weekends more than just Masonic activities.

CWLR 1865 will meet next in October in Richmond, Virginia, and I do expect to attend that one. Hope to see you there.