On September 18, 2024 Scott Mingus will present "Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863"

This program will be in person and on-line (on Zoom and Facebook).

In Person registration

For Zoom link

Please note that all registrations are now run through the History Center website. If you have any questions, please contract Nicole Smith at nsmith@yorkhistorycenter.org.

In late June 1863, two powerful columns of Confederate troops approached the Susquehanna River in south-central Pennsylvania. One, under Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell, marched northeasterly from Franklin County through Carlisle toward Harrisburg and the other, under Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early, headed eastward through Gettysburg and York towards Wrightsville/Columbia. This PowerPoint talk covers Early’s expedition as his division seized control of Gettysburg after a series of skirmishes on June 26 and then two days later occupied York, the largest Northern town to fall to the Confederates during the entire war. Early ransomed York for $100,000 and supplies and surrounded the town with artillery and troops. Hastily organized state militia defended the river crossing at Wrightsville against John Gordon’s Georgia brigade and then burned the world’s longest covered bridge to prevent the Confederates from passing into Lancaster County, from which Jubal Early had hoped to threaten Harrisburg.

The York Civil War Round Table is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote, interpret, preserve, and protect the Civil War heritage of York County, Pennsylvania, through the education and exchange of information with its members and the general public. Membership is free and open to anyone interested in learning more about the American Civil War.

Founded as the White Rose Civil War Round Table, the York CWRT holds monthly meetings the third Wednesday of every month except December at 7:00 p.m. in the Meeting Hall of the York County History Center’s Historical Society Museum at 250 East Market Street in York, Pennsylvania. Each meeting features a guest speaker talking about a Civil War topic of local or national interest. Meetings are FREE and open to the public.  For upcoming programs, please visit the Cannonball webpage http://www.yorkblog.com/cannonball/york-cwrt/.

Spirits of the Past: Historic Mixology classes will be held quarterly.  Each class will include at least one cocktail that participants will make themselves with guided instructions, light refreshments, and a brief presentation on how, when, and where the cocktails would have been imbibed.

Ages 21+.

Our next program will be on September 20, 2024

The theme will be Civil War Era Cocktails

Tickets will go on sale beginning on August 15