Gettysburg: Civilians in the Crossfire w/ Bill Hallett

The Civil War Roundtable of New Hampshire concludes its 2024-2025 season on Friday, June 20, 2025, at 7:15 pm at the Harvey-Mitchell Library, 151 Main St, Epping, NH. Doors open 6:45pm.

This month, historian and Roundtable member Bill Hallett presents: “Gettysburg: Citizens in the Crossfire.”

Although the Battle of Gettysburg continues to be the subject of books, lectures, and study, as it has for over 8-score years, a dimmer spotlight is placed on the residents of the Pennsylvania town, who lived through three days of hell with mortal dangers and the uncertainty of what would be left of their town.

“Gettysburg: Citizens in the Crossfire,” will focus on about a dozen or so of these stories, like the man who had Rebel soldiers by his backdoor shooting through his house at Yankees on his front porch, as he huddled in his cellar; a 10 year-old boy whose family owned a large store in town and witnessed much of the battle on the roof along with Union General Oliver O. Howard, until the boy’s uncle Henry Fahnestock called him down for safety; and then there’s the story of James and Elizabeth Warfield, free African-Americans who fled with their family from their modestly successful farm for fear of capture and being sent into slavery by the Confederates.

For more details, visit www.cwrt-nh.org or call 978-994-4717.

All are welcome!

The Civil War Roundtable of New Hampshire was founded in May of 1991, and is dedicated to all aspects of the Civil War: Education, Preservation and Restoration. The CWRTNH is a group of men and women who share a common interest in the Civil War and that period in American History that defined our nation, as we know it today.

Monthly meetings take place each month except July, August and December.