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Wartime civil liberties to be topic of Civil War Round Table dinner Dr. Marshall P. (Mark) Waters will be the speaker for the meeting of the Washington-Wilkes Historical Foundation on Sunday, November 12, in the meeting room at the Mary Willis Library. The meeting will begin at 2:30 p.m. Dr. Waters' topic for discussion will be "Civil Liberties in Wartime," a history and use of military tribunals from 1845 to the present, Amendment 6 (Right of Trial by Jury) of the Constitution, and the landmark Supreme Court case of Lambdin P. Milligan, September 17, 1964. There will also be a discussion of other restrictions placed on citizens during wartime, including the trial of the Lincoln conspirators by a military commission in 1865. Anyone interested in attending the meeting is invited to do so. The speaker was born in Miami, Fla. His grandfather and father were both born in Wilkes County and Dr. Waters and his family lived in Washington Wilkes in 1953-1955 where he attended Washington High School. He attended Duke University and the University of Georgia. He received his bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees from the University of Georgia. He worked as a mathematician and meteorologist with the Federal Government of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), retiring in June 2001 from the National Weather Service after a career of over 39 years. Waters had a parallel Navy Reserve career as well. He enlisted in the Navy in 1957 and was commissioned a Meteorology Officer in 1965. He retired as a Navy captain in 1996 after a career of over 39 years. During his Navy career, Waters served on the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga and was recalled to active duty in 1986. He served four years at the U.S. Naval Academy as an Associate Professor of Meteorology in the Division of Math and Science. He is married to Emilie Claire Johnson of Washington. They have three grown daughters and six grandchildren. They live on East Robert Toombs Avenue in Washington.
Waters is a member of the Georgia Historical Society's Speakers Bureau; past-president of the Kiwanis Club of Washington; past vicepresident of the Washington-Wilkes Historical Foundation; co-founder of the Civil War Round Table of Washington; member of the Civil War Round Table of Augusta; chairman of the Planning and Development Commission for the City of Washington; and likes Civil War history.
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