WHERE:  Missouri Athletic Club, 401 Washington Avenue, St. Louis.

WHEN:  April 13, 2011, 5:30 p.m.

The Missouri Athletic Club is hosting a dinner and book signing to commemorate the beginning of the Civil War sesquicentennial.  Highlights of the evening include a menu based upon the old Planter’s House Hotel and an appearance by U. S. Grant impersonator Scott Whitney.  A copy of Friend and Foe Alike will be supplied to all attendees, and the author will autograph books before the dinner begins at 6:30 p.m.  Cost, including dinner, gratuity, entertainment and book, is $50.  Proceeds benefit Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation.