• The village of Appomattox Court House from the west, the McLean House is on the right.

    Appomattox Court House

    National Historical Park Virginia

13th Annual Civil War Seminar

 
Jarman Auditorium at Longwood University

Jarman Auditorium at Longwood University proved to be an excellent location for last year's seminar and will be this year.

Longwood University




Schedule


Jarman Auditorium

Longwood University

Farmville, Virginia

March 3, 2012


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8:45 a.m. Doors open 9:10 a.m. Introduction by Dr. David Coles, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy, Longwood University

9:15 a.m. John QuarsteinRichmond Saved: The1862Peninsula Campaign

10:15 a.m. John HennessySecond Manassas: Revisiting Return to Bull Run

11:15 a.m. Thomas ClemensGeneral EzraCarman and the Maryland Campaign of 1862

12:30 Lunch

1:45 p.m.Thomas McGrath Shepherdstown: Last Clash of the Maryland Campaign, September 19-20, 1862

2:45 p.m.Frank O'Rielly Fredericksburg: Winter War on the Rappahannock

No reservations necessary.Signs will be posted on the Longwood University Campus. For directions to the campus go to www.longwood.edu. For more information contact Dr. David Coles at 434.395.2220 or Patrick Schroeder at 434.352.8987, Ext. 32.

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Did You Know?

Theodore Lyman (left) Centipede - Harvard Collection (right)

Theodore Lyman of General Meade's staff collected this centipede while at Appomattox in April 1865. Lyman, a student of Natural History was fourth in the class of 1855 at Harvard University. (Centipede image courtesy of Harvard University.)