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2012 Cwsflyerb FRIDAY, JUNE 1 11:15 ‘P.G.T. Beauregard and the Petersburg Campaign’ – A. Wilson Green, Pamplin Historical Park and National Museum of the Civil War Soldier, author of Whatever You 2:00 Registration Resolve to Be: Essays on Stonewall Jackson; Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War; The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign: Breaking the Backbone of 3:15 ‘T. Harry Williams: Pragmatic Historian’ – Frank J. Wetta, Kean Univ. author of the Rebellion; and other works. Celluloid Wars: A Guide to Film and the American Experience of War; ‘Romantic isn’t it, Miss Dandridge? Sources and Meanings of John Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy,’ in American 12:30 Lunch Nineteenth Century History ‘Battle Histories: Reflections on Civil War Military Studies,’ in Civil War History; and other works. Special Lunch Guest Speaker To Be Announced 4:30 ‘Stonewall Jackson: The Christian Soldier in Life, Death, and Defeat’ – George C. Rable, Univ. of Alabama, author of Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!; The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics; Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism; But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction; God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War; and other works. 2:00 ‘The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intention: James Longstreet in War and Peace’ – William L. Richter, retired businessmen turned historian and author of eleven volumes, 6:00 Dinner including The Army in Texas during Reconstruction, 1865–1870 and Sic Semper Tyrannis: Why John Wilkes Booth Shot Abraham Lincoln; dozens of articles and reviews about the 7:30 ‘The Generalship of Robert E. Lee’ – Charles P. Roland, University of Kentucky Old South, the Civil War, and Reconstruction (especially in Texas); and other works. (retired), recipient of the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service and the Purple Heart Medal for wounds sustained in action in World War II, and author of The 3:15 ‘Jubal Early: Confederate in the Attic’ – Thomas E. Schott, historian (retired) for the Confederacy; Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics; An American Iliad: The U.S. Air Force, author of Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography and written Story of the Civil War; History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and numerous articles and reviews on subjects ranging from the Civil War to baseball to Southern History; and many other works. theology, including “Major General Gustavus Woodson Smith” in Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State. 9:00 Social Hour 4:30 ‘John B. Gordon and the Gospel of Reconciliation’ – Ralph L. Eckert, Penn State-Erie, SATURDAY, JUNE 2 Behrend College, author of John Brown Gordon: Soldier, Southern, American; articles in McGill’s Guide to Military History; and numerous other publications in the Civil War 8:00 Breakfast and military history fields. 8:45 ‘Lee’s Most Maligned General: Fighting Dick Anderson’ – Lawrence Lee Hewitt, author 6:00 Dinner of Port Hudson: Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi; The Confederate High Command and Related Topics; Leadership During the Civil War; Louisianians in the Civil War; 7:30 ‘A Confusion of Tongues: The Ebb and Flow of Robert E. Lee’s Reputation Since 1964’ Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State; – Brian Holden-Reid, King’s College–London, author of J. F. C. Fuller: Military Thinker; Confederate Generals in the Western Theater, volumes 1-3; and other works. The Origins of the American Civil War; Studies in British Military Thought; Robert E. Lee: Icon for a Nation; America’s Civil War: The Operational Battlefield, 1861–1863; and 10:00 ‘Jeb Stuart, R.E. Lee, and Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg – Joseph G. Dawson III, fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal United Texas A&M, author of Army Generals and Reconstruction: Louisiana, 1862–1877; Services Institute, and the Royal Society for Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures Doniphan’ s Epic March: The 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War; articles in the and Commerce. Journal of Military History, Civil War History, and other journals; and book chapters, including “The First of the Modern Wars?” in Themes in the American Civil War. 9:00 Social Hour ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM (FEES INCLUDE ALL MEALS, COFFEE, AND SOCIAL HOURS) Name Address City State Zip Email Regular Add Spouse Add Child Faculty/Staff w/ID Southeastern Student w/ID In Advance [ ] $150.00 [ ] $100.00 [ ] $25.00 [ ] $25.00 [ ] $10.00 At the Door [ ] $175.00 [ ] $125.00 [ ] $50.00 [ ] $50.00 [ ] $20.00 Use a credit card at http://www.selu.edu/acad_research/depts/hist_ps/civil_war_symposium/index.html or mail check payable to SLU Controller’s Office to HIPS/CWS, SLU 10895, Hammond, LA 70402. 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