Bryan Cheeseboro is a historian of the American Civil War. His activities include being a reenactor with Company B, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He has been featured on American Battlefield Trust’s Zoom Goes the History series and Antietam Live! programs. He has also written for the Emerging Civil War blog. 

Mr. Cheeseboro's presentations to the Rock Creek and DC Civil War Round Tables have included the programs: (1) The Early Days of the Civil War Defenses of Washington; (2) The Grand Reviews of the Civil War; and (3) The 1st United States Colored Infantry. In March of 2019, Mr. Cheesboro was asked to speak to memorabilia collectors at the first-ever presentation of Civil War Photo Talks, part of the Civil War Faces Photo Show & Sale, presented by Military Images magazine. 

Mr. Cheeseboro was the featured in the article “The Hands-On Historian” in the Spring 2021 issue of Civil War Monitor magazine. In February 2022, he was the guest of John R. Heckman’s (The Tattooed Historian) YouTube channel to discuss his presentation Volunteers, Substitutes, & Drafted Men: Enlisting in the Civil War. 

Mr. Cheesboro is currently a Park Ranger with the National Park Service, and his site is the Civil War Defenses of Washington.  He is also a former board member of the Alliance to Preserve the Civil War Defenses of Washington.

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UPCOMING MEETING

IN-PERSON AND VIA ZOOM

A Panel Presentation With

Jessica Barnes, Frank Leone, 

Kristopher D. White, and Dr. Terence Walz

Thursday, October 30, 2025

6:00 - 8:00 PM ET

at the

DACOR Bacon House

1801 F Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20006

Please note that this is a hybrid event:  you have the option to attend in-person or virtually. Registrations are required for all attendees. For in-person attendees, the event will run from 6 - 8:30 pm and will include dinner. The live stream will begin around 7:15 pm (virtual attendees will be sent a link for the event via email.

In-person: DACOR or CWRTDC member $55; non-member $65. Virtual: $10. 

For further information and to register, visit the DACOR Event Calendar: https://tinyurl.com/bd9swhj4

About the Topic:

The Civil War affected every ward of the District of Columbia, including that part of the ward that became known as "Foggy Bottom."  Thousands of men volunteered to fight to preserve the Union. Almost every family was affected, not the least the family of William T. Carroll, Clerk of the Supreme Court, his wife Sally Sprigg Carroll, and their two sons and four daughters, who lived on F Street at the corner of 18th in Foggy Bottom and near the Executive Mansion. 

Much of their street was requisitioned by the military. At one end, the Winder Building served as a nerve center of the war; at the other end, Camp Fry was constructed on either side of 23rd from Washington Circle down to the waterfront. 

Speakers at this evening’s event will focus on the camp, the Street, the Winder Building, and the Carroll family as each played its part in the war effort.

About the Speakers:

Join our distinguished panel to dissect the many moving parts of a divisive conflict in or Nation’s capital city: 

Frank Leone, Historian of Foggy Bottom; 

Dr. Terence Walz, Historian, DACOR Bacon House; 

Jessica Barnes, Curator, F Street House; and

Kristopher D. White, Dir. of Education and Events, American Battlefield Trust 

A Bicentennial Evening Event at DACOR Bacon House in Partnership with 

The Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia 

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