Presentations on the 154th New York by Mark H. Dunkelman

(Other than talks at the annual reunions of regimental descendants)



June 28, 1990: Buffalo (NY) Civil War Round Table: The Hardtack Regiment.

April 20, 1991: Third Annual Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of Civil War Round Tables, Philadelphia, PA: The 154th New York at Chancellorsville. 

July 3, 1993: Dedication of the Monument to Sgt. Amos Humiston, Gettysburg, PA: Main Address. 

September 22, 1994: Olde Colony Civil War Round Table Annual Dinner Meeting, Plainville, MA: The Mercy Shown to Pvt. Oscar Wilber, Sgt. Amos Humiston, and Cpl. Martin Bushnell. 

August 17, 1995: Twin Tier Civil War Round Table, St. Bonaventure University: The 154th New York at Chancellorsville. 

May 19, 1999: Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Providence, RI: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

June 12, 1999: Lincoln Group of D.C. Annual Picnic, Gettysburg, PA: The Coster Avenue Mural and the Amos Humiston Monument. 

June 24, 1999: Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Round Table, Brunswick, ME: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

July 22, 1999: Buffalo (NY) Civil War Round Table: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

November 13, 1999: 90th Anniversary Bivouac, Elisha Dyer Camp No. 7, Sons of Unions Veterans of the Civil War, Warwick, RI: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

April 20, 2000: Olde Colony Civil War Round Table, Dedham, MA: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

June 23, 2000: The Legacy of the Civil War Seminar, George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV: A Regiment Remembered: Commemoration of the 154th New York Volunteers. 

January 10, 2001: Kiwanis Club of Greater Providence, RI: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

August 7, 2001: Cattaraugus County Genealogical Society, Salamanca, NY: The Hardtack Regiment. 

July 11, 2002: Twin Tier Civil War Round Table and Olean (NY) Public Library: Thirty Years of Researching and Writing the History of the 154th New York. 

November 18, 2002: Short Story Club, Seekonk, MA: Writing About a Regiment. 

April 23, 2003: Civil War Round Table of Central Massachusetts, Worcester, MA: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

October 28, 2004: Books on the Square, Providence, RI: Brothers One and All. 

February 16, 2005: Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI: Brothers One and All. 

April 16, 2005: Gettysburg National Military Park Visitor Center Book Store: Brothers One and All. 

April 16, 2005: Gallery 30, Gettysburg, PA: Brothers One and All. 

May 19, 2005: Olde Colony Civil War Round Table, Dedham, MA: Brothers One and All. 

January 19, 2006: Providence (RI) Public Library: Lincoln Through the Eyes of a Civil War Regiment. 

April 26, 2006: North Kingstown (RI) Free Library: Pvt. Milton H. Bush, from War’s Relentless Hand. 

May 24, 2006: Civil War Round Table of Central Massachusetts, Worcester, MA: War’s Relentless Hand. 

July 18, 2006: Fenton History Center, Jamestown, NY: Camp James M. Brown. 

July 18, 2006: Chautauqua County Genealogical Society, Fredonia, NY: The Hardtack Regiment. 

October 12, 2006: Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Round Table, Brunswick, ME: War’s Relentless Hand. 

January 18, 2007: Historic Preservation Society of Social Circle (GA): Marching with Sherman. 

January 23, 2007: Old State Capitol, Milledgeville, GA: Marching with Sherman. 

January 26, 2007: Bartow (GA) Community Club: Marching with Sherman. 

February 10, 2007: Winnsboro (SC) Women’s Club: Marching with Sherman. 

February 11, 2007: Chesterfield (SC) Visitors Center: Marching with Sherman. 

February 13, 2007: Matheson Library, Cheraw, SC: Marching with Sherman. 

February 17, 2007: Greene County Museum, Snow Hill, NC: Marching with Sherman. 

April 4, 2007: East Lyme (CT) High School History Club: Forty Years (Plus) of Studying a Civil War Regiment. 

April 20-21, 2007: Southern Kentucky Book Fest, Bowling Green, KY: War’s Relentless Hand. 

September 19, 2007: Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI: War’s Relentless Hand. 

March 18, 2008: Cranston (RI) Historical Society: Lincoln Through the Eyes of a Civil War Regiment. 

September 23, 2008: Civil War Round Table of Kansas City, Prairie Village, KS: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

January 10, 2009: Lafayette Lodge, Cumberland, RI: Lincoln Through the Eyes of a Civil War Regiment. 

March 13, 2009: Scituate (RI) High School: Forty Years (Plus) of Studying a Civil War Regiment. 

April 15, 2009: Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI: Lincoln Through the Eyes of a Civil War Regiment. 

June 23, 2009: Attleboro (MA) Council on Aging: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

September 17, 2009: Olde Colony Civil War Round Table, Dedham, MA: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

February 8, 2010: Epoch Assisted Living, Providence, RI: President Lincoln Meets the Boys. 

March 17, 2010: Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI: Patrick Henry Jones, Forgotten Irish Hero. 

August 11, 2010: Olean (NY) Public Library: Adventures of a Civil War Historian. 

September 16, 2010: Olde Colony Civil War Round Table, Dedham, MA: Adventures of a Civil War Historian. 

March 16, 2011: Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI: Adventures of a Civil War Historian. 

May 9, 2011: Varnum Continentals, Varnum Memorial Armory, East Greenwich, RI: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

July 13, 2011: Randolph (NY) Historical Society: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

July 14, 2011: Ellicottville (NY) Historical Society: Patrick Henry Jones. 

September 3, 2011: Elisha Dyer Camp No. 7, Sons of Unions Veterans of the Civil War, Governor Sprague Mansion, Cranston, RI: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

October 5, 2011: Attleboro (MA) Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

November 1, 2011: Shoreline Civil War Discussion Group, Old Saybrook, CT: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

June 12, 2012: Buffalo Civil War Round Table, Lancaster (NY) Opera House: Marching with Sherman. 

June 29, 2012: Cattaraugus County Historical Museum, Machias, NY: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

June 30, 2012: Allegany (NY) Cemetery, Dedication of Monument to Pvt. Devillo Wheeler, Main Address. 

September 14, 2012: Narragansett Bay Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America, Warwick, RI: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

September 25, 2012: Greater New Bedford (MA) Civil War Round Table: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

October 2, 2012: Shoreline Civil War Discussion Group, Old Saybrook, CT: Marching with Sherman. 

October 12, 2012: Capital District Civil War Round Table, Watervliet, NY: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

October 21, 2012: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States 127th Congress, Cranston, RI: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

May 4, 2013: Burrillville (RI) Historical and Preservation Society Civil War Expo: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

May 9, 2013: Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Round Table, Brunswick, ME: Marching with Sherman. 

July 4, 2013: Glenn H. Curtiss Museum, Hammondsport, NY: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. 

July 17, 2013: Jimmy Carter Presidential Museum and Library, Atlanta, GA: Marching with Sherman. 

July 18, 2013: Historic Preservation Society of Social Circle (GA): Marching with Sherman. 

July 19, 2013: Old Governor’s Mansion, Milledgeville, GA: Marching with Sherman. 

July 20, 2013: Washington County Historical Society, Sandersville, GA: Marching with Sherman. 

October 17, 2013: Rhode Island College, Providence, RI: 50th Annual Department of History Symposium, Gettysburg Resurrected, Keynote Address: From Frank Leslie to Errol Morris: The Saga of an Oft-Told Gettysburg Tale.

October 22, 2013: Greater New Bedford (MA) Civil War Round Table: Marching with Sherman.

December 12, 2013: Providence (RI) Public Library: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier.

May 15, 2014: Olde Colony Civil War Round Table, Dedham, MA: Marching with Sherman.

October 3, 2014: North-South Skirmish Association 130th National Skirmish, Fort Shenandoah, Winchester, Virginia: Marching with Sherman.

April 8, 2015: State University of New York at Fredonia: Lincoln Through the Eyes of a Civil War Regiment.

August 2, 2015: Allegany Area (NY) Historical Association: Patrick Henry Jones.

August 5, 2015: Ellicottville (NY) Historical Society: Patrick Henry Jones.

October 6, 2015: Shoreline Civil War Round Table, Old Saybrook, CT: Patrick Henry Jones.

October 27, 2015: Greater New Bedford (MA) Civil War Round Table: Patrick Henry Jones.

November 19, 2015: Olde Colony Civil War Round Table, Dedham, MA: Patrick Henry Jones.

January 12, 2016: American Irish Historical Society, New York, NY: Patrick Henry Jones.

June 15, 2016: Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI: Patrick Henry Jones.

July 28, 2016: Cattaraugus County Museum, Machias, NY: Patrick Henry Jones.

July 29, 2016: Echoes through Time Civil War Museum and Learning Center, Springville, NY: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier.

September 20, 2016: Historic Gettysburg Adams County, Gettysburg, PA: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier, and the Coster Avenue Mural.

November 15, 2016: Cranston (RI) Historical Society: The Coster Avenue Mural.

April 17, 2018: Historic Gettysburg Adams County, Gettysburg, PA: Gettysburg’s Coster Avenue: The Brickyard Fight and the Mural.

May 16, 2018: Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI: Gettysburg’s Coster Avenue: The Brickyard Fight and the Mural.

July 1, 2018: Gettysburg Heritage Center, Gettysburg, PA: Gettysburg’s Coster Avenue: The Brickyard Fight and the Mural.

November 5, 2018: Capitol Hill Civil War Round Table, Washington, DC: Patrick Henry Jones.

November 8, 2018: Bull Run Civil War Round Table, Centreville, VA: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier.

May 23, 2019: Olde Colony Civil War Round Table, Dedham, MA: Gettysburg’s Coster Avenue: The Brickyard Fight and the Mural.

May 28, 2019: New Bedford (MA) Civil War Round Table: Gettysburg’s Coster Avenue: The Brickyard Fight and the Mural.

Civil War Institute Summer Conference Tour Group, June 15, 2019

June 15, 2019: Summer Conference of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, Bus Tour, “The Brickyard Fight, the Coster Avenue Mural, and the Humiston Family Story” (pictured above).

September 12, 2019: Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Round Table, Brunswick, ME: Gettysburg’s Coster Avenue: The Brickyard Fight and the Mural.

October 1, 2019: Shoreline Civil War Round Table, Old Saybrook, CT: Gettysburg’s Coster Avenue: The Brickyard Fight and the Mural.

February 26, 2020: Central Massachusetts Civil War Round Table, Holden, MA: Gettysburg’s Coster Avenue: The Brickyard Fight and the Mural.

October 15, 2020: Olde Colony Civil War Round Table, Dedham, MA (Zoom, PowerPoint): Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier.

January 6, 2021: Civil War Round Table Congress (Zoom, PowerPoint): Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. Watch here on YouTube.

March 18, 2021: Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation Civil War Roundtable (Zoom, PowerPoint): Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier. Watch here on YouTube.

March 23, 2021: “Unknown Stories of Western New York,” Pete Gallivan, anchor, WGRZ-TV, Channel 2, Buffalo, NY: The Humiston Story.

June 23, 2021: Civil War Round Table Congress (Zoom, PowerPoint): Adventures of a Civil War Historian. Watch here on YouTube.

July 14, 2021: Ellicottville (NY) Historical Society: Gettysburg’s Coster Avenue: The Brickyard Fight and the Mural.

July 18, 2021: Portville (NY) Historical and Preservation Society, Bedford Corners Historic District: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier.

August 8, 2021: 137th Hotchkiss Family Association Reunion, Gettysburg, PA (Zoom, PowerPoint) Arthur and Ephriam Holbrook Hotchkiss.

October 2, 2021: Center for Civil War Photography Image of War Seminar, Gettysburg, PA: Tour of Coster Avenue and the Amos Humiston monument. 

October 25, 2021: Addressing Gettysburg podcast: An overview of my work and the regiment’s history from organization to Gettysburg.

December 10, 2021: Tucson (AZ) Civil War Round Table (Zoom, PowerPoint): Gettysburg’s Coster Avenue: The Brickyard Fight and the Mural. Watch here on YouTube.

May 10, 2022: Atlanta (GA) Civil War Round Table: Marching with Sherman.

June 25, 2022: One Hundred Nights of Taps, Gettysburg National Cemetery: The Humiston Story. 

October 4, 2022: Shoreline Civil War Round Table, Old Saybrook, CT: Adventures of a Civil War Historian.

October 7, 2022: Tucson (AZ) Civil War Round Table (Zoom, PowerPoint): Adventures of a Civil War Historian. 

October 25, 2022: New Bedford (MA) Civil War Round Table: Adventures of a Civil War Historian. Watch here on You Tube.

January 18, 2023: Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI: Marching with Sherman.

August 18, 2023: Adams County Historical Society, Gettysburg, PA: Gettysburg’s Coster Avenue: The Brickyard Fight and the Mural.

August 19, 2023: Gettysburg Heritage Center, Gettysburg, PA: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston.

August 20, 2023: Gettysburg Publishing tour of Coster Avenue and the Humiston monument, Gettysburg.

May 14. 2024: The Civil War Regiments Podcast hosted by Stephen Lunsford, “A Conversation with Mark Dunkelman.” Watch here on YouTube. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPfZQlup4iQ

June 19, 2024: Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI: The Regiment and African Americans.

November 21, 2024: Olde Colony Civil War Round Table, Dedham, MA: Lincoln Through the Eyes of a Civil War Regiment.

March 19, 2025: Rhode Island Civil War Round Table, Cranston, RI: Lincoln Through the Eyes of a Civil War Regiment.

September 21, 2025: Fort Taber-Fort Rodman Military Museum and Veterans Memorial, New Bedford, MA: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier.

October 5, 2025: Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast: America’s Most Notorious Grave Robbery: Patrick Jones and the A. T. Stewart Case. Listen to the podcast here.