Steve Madden of Redlands will present “Shades of Gray: A Southern Perspective on the Civil War” 2 p.m. Oct. 16 in a program for the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table. The free presentation will be in the Assembly Room of the A.K. Smiley Public Library, 125 W. Vine St., Redlands, with social time beginning at 1:30 p.m. The program will also be livestreamed, with the link available by 1:45 p.m. at inlandempirecwrt.org. Madden has been a member of the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table for more than 30 years and is on its board of directors. He has also been a re-enactor for more than 30 years in Company A, 1st Texas Infantry and is a life member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, according to a news release. His great-great-uncle fought in Company K, 44th Tennessee Infantry. Steve Madden of Redlands, a docent at Redlands’ Lincoln Memorial Shrine, in the background, will present “Shades of Gray: A Southern Perspective on the Civil War” Oct. 16, 2024, at a meeting of the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table in Redlands. (Photo by Mike Hoover, Inland Empire Civil War Round Table) Since 2002, Madden has volunteered as a docent at Redlands’ Lincoln Memorial Shrine, which is behind the Smiley Library and overseen by the library. The shrine is a free Civil War museum, research facility and memorial dedicated to Abraham Lincoln, who was the U.S. president from 1861 to 1865, when the war between the United States and the Confederate States of America took place. Madden is a member, at the lieutenant general-level, of the Drum Barracks Garrison and Society, a nonprofit support group for the Drum Barracks Civil War Museum in Wilmington, Calif., and has belonged to the Civil War Trust since its founding as the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites in 1987, according to the news release. He was president about 40 years ago of the now defunct Long Beach Civil War Round Table and is a former member of the Orange County Civil War Round Table. Madden, who has lived in Redlands since 2001, received a bachelor’s degree in communications from Cal State Fullerton in 1981. He retired earlier in 2024 after working 36 years for the Southern California Gas Company. The Inland Empire Civil War Round Table, founded in 1987, hosts in-person programs at the A.K. Smiley Public Library and virtual presentations each month, all open to the public. For information, go to inlandempirecwrt.org.