EPPING — The Civil War Roundtable of New Hampshire welcomes Portsmouth historian, Dick Adams, who will present “Portsmouth in the Civil War.”
The event starts at 7:15 p.m. Friday, April 19, at the Harvey-Mitchell Library, 151 Main St. Doors open at 6:45 p.m.
Among the segments Adams will discuss are the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Belle Boyd’s Portsmouth-born husband, a local draft riot, the U.S.S. Kearsarge (built at the shipyard) which had a famous naval battle against the C.S.S. Alabama, and more.
Adams is a Portsmouth Native and a Marine veteran of 28 years, six of those years in Vietnam. He attended Harvard College on a Navy scholarship.
In 2000 he mounted an exhibition for the Portsmouth Athenaeum, titled, “Portsmouth and the Civil War,” featuring stories of spies, traitors, heroes, the navy yard, the Kearsarge, and more.
A non-profit 501© group, the Civil War Roundtable of New Hampshire was founded in May 1991, and meets nine times a year. For more information, visit www.cwrt-nh.org or call Bill 978-994-4717. Meetings are open to the public.