25th Annual Deep Delta Civil War Symposium Conflict, Consensus and the Civil War: 150 Years of Controversy!

Dedicated to Professor Roman J. Heleniak

Saturday, June 4, War Memorial Student Union Southeastern University, Hammond

Featuring Gregory Biggs, Charles Grear, Earl Hess, Lawrence Hewitt, Richard McMurry, Paul Paskoff, and Thomas Schott

Sponsored by Department of History and Political Science

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Added Bonus!

Camp Moore Confederate Cemetery and Museum 150th Anniversary Commemoration

Sunday, June 5, Tangipahoa, Louisiana

Open House 1:00-4:00 PM, Lecture by Charles Elliott 2:00 PM, Memorial Service to Follow NEW FORMAT AND FEE In order to continue offering a high-quality program at affordable prices during a time of rising costs and budget cuts to higher education, the Deep Delta Civil War Symposium shifted to a one-day format in 2010. The admission fee includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the evening social hour.

PROGRAM 8:00 Registration and Breakfast

8:30 “The Myth and Reality of the Rifle-Musket in Civil War Combat”—Earl Hess, author of Banners to the Breeze: The Campaign, Corinth, and Stone’s River; Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns 1861-1864; In the Trenches at Petersburg; Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg; Lee’s Tar Heels; Pickett’s Charge; The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat; Trench Warfare Under Grant and Lee; The Union Soldier in Battle; and Wilson’s Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield Guide.

9:45 “Rich Man’s Fight: Wealth, Privilege, and Military Service in Confederate ”—Paul Paskoff, LSU, author of The Cause of the South: Selections from De Bow’s Review 1846-1867; Industrial Evolution: Organization, Structure and Growth of the Pennsylvania Iron Industry 1750-1860; Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy 1821-1860; and “Measures of War: A Quantitative Examination of the Civil War’s Physical Destructiveness in the Confederacy,” Civil War History (2008), among others.

11:00 “From Secession to War: The Confederate Flags of 1861”—Greg Biggs, author of a forthcoming book on Volunteer Banners: The Civil War Flags of and Civil War articles and essays in Blue & Gray Magazine, Citizen’s Companion, Civil War Regiments, and North-South Trader, among others; former associate editor of Blue & Gray Magazine; president of the Clarksville, Tennessee Civil War Roundtable; program chair of the Nashville Civil War Roundtable; and past president of the Friends of Fort Donelson Campaign.

12:00 Lunch

1:00 “In Defense of My Native State: Why Texans Fought in the Civil War”—Charles Grear, author of Beyond Myths and Legends: A Narrative History of Texas; The Fate of Texas: The Civil War and the Lone Star State; The House Divided: America in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction; Texas and War: New Interpretations of the Military History of the Lone Star State (forthcoming 2012); Why Texans Fought in the Civil War; Civil War articles and essays; and co-editor of The Civil War in the Heartland series for Southern Illinois University Press.

2:15 “Braxton Bragg Reconsidered”—Lawrence L. Hewitt, Independent Scholar: Chicago, author of Port Hudson: Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi River; The Confederate High Command and Related Topics; Two Hundred Years A Nation; Leadership During the Civil War; Louisianians in the Civil War; Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State; Classical Essays on Confederate Generals in the Western Theater; and Confederate Generals in the Western Theater: Volume 1, among others.

3:30 “Alexander Stephens and : A Marriage Made in Hell”—Thomas E. Schott, Independent Scholar, former Deputy Command Historian, U.S. Special Operations Command Headquarters, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, and author of Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography; forthcoming biographies of Admiral David Farragut (co-authored with Lawrence Hewitt) and baseball player Hack Wilson; numerous Civil War articles and essays; and Buried Above Ground: Poems for Here, There, and In Between.

4:45 “150 Years of Splendid Controversy”—Roundtable Discussion

6:00 Dinner

7:00 “A Georgian Looks at Sherman”—Richard McMurry, author of An Uncompromising Secessionist: The Civil War of George Knox Miller; Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy; The Fourth Battle of Winchester: Toward a New Civil War Paradigm; John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence; Rank and File: Civil War Essays in Honor of Bell Irvin Wiley; The Road Past Kennesaw: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864; Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History; Wilderness of War: Civil War Letters.

8:00 Social Hour 2011 HONOREE: PROFESSOR ROMAN J. HELENIAK Roman J. Heleniak (PhD, Mississippi State University) served on the Southeastern Louisiana University faculty for over forty years and, as Head of the Department of History and Political Science for almost two decades, helped to bring the Deep Delta Civil War Symposium to Southeastern. He is co- editor of The Confederate High Command and Related Topics and Leadership During the Civil War; co-author of Back Door to the Gulf: An American Paradise Lost—The Pass Manchac Region 1699-2000; and author of numerous articles, essays, and a weekly column for The Hammond Daily Star. ------REGISTRATION FORM

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Register on-line with a credit card at http://www.selu.edu/acad_research/depts/hist_ps/civil_war_symposium/index.html. Or register by mail—make checks payable to SLU Controller’s Office and mail to Department of History and Political Science, Southeastern Louisiana University, SLU 10895, Hammond, LA 70402. Teaching American History Grant participants should e-mail [email protected] about eligibility for the grant to pay their Symposium fees. For more information call 985-549-2109 or e-mail [email protected]. Faculty contributions and student fees help make the Symposium possible. Reduced rates for SLU IDs are not subsidized with other participants’ fees.