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	What:	Indiana Generals in the Civil War
	Who:	Dr. Carl E. Kramer
	When:	Monday March 10, 2025 6:45 P.M.
	Where:	MCL Cafeteria - Township Line (2370 West 86th Street)
Based on his book Civil War Generals of Indiana, Dr. Carl Kramer highlights the lives of approximately 125 Hoosier Civil War generals of all ranks. It’s a demographic biography that explores origins, prewar occupations, wartime service, and postwar service. Hoosier generals were a diverse, highly mobile, and generally youthful lot, characteristics that reflected American society at large. A significant number were professional soldiers, but the majority had little or no military experience. As commanders, most acquitted themselves honorably, but were undistinguished, especially at higher commands, as exemplified by Don Carlos Buell and Ambrose E. Burnside. Dr. Carl E. Kramer is founder and vice president of Kramer Associates, Inc., a Jeffersonville public history consulting firm, and taught at Indiana University Southeast for 35 years. He received his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Toledo in 1980. Dr. Kramer is the author of fourteen books, including “Civil War Generals of Indiana.” and has also authored scores of book chapters and articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals, trade publications, and popular magazines. Dr. Kramer has served on the board of directors of the Urban History Association, and the Publications Advisory Boards of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society and the former Filson Historical Quarterly and on award juries for the Urban History Association, the Society for American City and Regional Planning History, the Filson Historical Society, and the Kentucky Historical Society. He is the former historian of the Indiana Planning Association and currently serves on the boards of directors of the Clark County Museum and the Louisville Historical League and on the Indiana Lewis and Clark Expedition Commission. Dr. Kramer His recent professional honors include the Indiana Historical Society’s Dorothy Riker Hoosier Historian Award in 2012, the Louisville Historical League’s Founders Award for 2018, and the Captain Donald T. Wright Award for Maritime Journalism, presented in 2019 by the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library in St. Louis. That award honors Kramer’s book Rivers of Time. He was honored in 2013 as a Sagamore of the Wabash, Indiana’s highest civilian award, by former Governor Michael Pence.

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