Civil War Roundtable to meet

WHEELING — The Ohio Valley Civil War Roundtable will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the auditorium of the Ohio County Library in Wheeling. The guest speaker will be Wheeling resident Jon-Erik Gilot, whose topic will be “The Hardest Campaign Ever Inaugurated: Hunter’s Retreat from Lynchburg.”

Gilot will examine Maj. Gen. David Hunter’s raid up the Shenandoah during the summer of 1864, along with its impact on the war and his legacy.

Gilot, who graduated from Bethany College and received his masters of arts degree from Kent State University, has published works such as “John Brown’s Raid,” in 2023. A member of the Emerging Civil War Speakers Bureau, Gilot produces the Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall’s annual spring Civil War symposium in Carnegie,

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