Learn about The Forgotten Division at next CWRT
The next Wayne County Civil War Round Table program, which is free to attend, will be June 17 at 6:30 p.m. at the Wayne County Historical Society schoolhouse, located on the Wayne County Historical Society campus at 546 E. Bowman St. in Wooster.
The program will feature Justin Mays, who will present The Forgotten Division, which is part of Civil War history. The Kanawha Division saw action in Western Virginia, fighting from 1861-64 in Western Virginia, Virginia and Maryland. Their biggest battles were South Mountain and Antietam. Many regiments would form this division including the 1st Zouaves, 34th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 2nd German regiment, 28th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was the most famous because of the two soldiers who would become governor and president of the United States: Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley.
Mays is a Civil War historian at the Veterans Memorial Museum Foundation in Germantown, Ohio. Mays has been studying the American Civil War since he was a child with his family, traveling to many battlefields and historical places to learn about the war and history. He has been a living historian about the American Civil War, has been in documentaries and movies, and has spoken in uniform on different topics.