Our May 19, 2025 Meeting

The Roundtable will meet a week early on Monday evening, May 19 at 6:30 pm in the lower level Auditorium of the Farmington Branch Library due to the Memorial Day Holiday falling on Monday, May 26. which would be our normal meeting date.

The Roundtable is happy to introduce our May speaker, Robert Elliott, who will speak on “Tecumseh MI Hometown Heroes in the Civil War.”

Robert’s presentation is based on a book that he wrote on the heroic Tecumseh men who fought in the Civil War. He will discuss the fund-raising effort to restore the Tecumseh Civil War monument. He is a graduate of Eastern Michigan and =has spent 40 years traveling the world in the commercial aviation business. Robert is the long-time historian for the City of Tecumseh and is the manager of the city’s Historical Museum.

His Sons of Union Veterans group will be doing a ceremony in Monroe and adding a gravestone for a Black soldier in the 102nd.Infantry. This will be a great presentation! .

Our May, 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.