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Event Description |
Admission |
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08/17/08 -
08/23/08 |
5th
Annual Civil War week at Lakeside Ohio
Full week's schedule at Lakeside website
| MON |
10:30 a.m. |
The Civil
War and Its Aftermath
Lesley Gordon, PhD, Assoc Professor of History,
Univ of Akron |
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1:30
p.m. |
Civil War
Military Commanders and Their Wives
Lesley Gordon, PhD, Assoc Professor of History,
Univ of Akron |
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8:15
p.m. |
Hoover
Film: JOHNNY (Johnny Clem, boy soldier from Newark Ohio)
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| TUE |
10:30 a.m. |
Boy
Soldiers of the Union Army
Dennis Keesee, Civil War author & speaker,
New Albany OH |
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1:30
p.m. |
Through the
Eyes of Soldiers: Battle of Wyse Fork, NC
Tom Edwards, South Carolina author |
| WED |
10:30 a.m. |
The
Confederate Secret Service & Assassination of A. Lincoln
John Fazio, former President, Cleveland Civil War
Roundtable |
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1:30
p.m. |
General
Sherman and the Georgia Belles
Cathy Kaemmerlen, author & historical interpreter,
Marietta GA |
| THU |
10:30 a.m. |
Abraham
Lincoln Portrayal
Pete Raymond, Re-enactor, Wooster OH |
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1:30
p.m. |
Musical
History of the Civil War
The 5th Michigan Regiment Band, Novi MI |
| FRI |
10:30 a.m. |
Life of
POWs at the Johnson’s Island Confederate Prison
David Bush, PhD, Professor of Anthropology,
Heidelberg College |
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1:30
p.m. |
Tour of
Johnson’s Island Prison Area
Led by David Bush, PhD, Heidelberg College |
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Ticket info |
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09/10/08
@ 7pm |
Cleveland Civil War Roundtable -
Meeting 1
Judson Manor
1890 E. 107th Street
Cleveland, OH
Dr. Joan Cashin speaks on "Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederacy"
Dr. Joan Cashin is an associate
professor of history at Ohio State University. She received her
Bachelor's and Master's Degree from the American University and her
PhD. from Harvard University. A historian of the United States,
Professor Cashin specializes in social history, including the
antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras. She has published
A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier, 1991,
as well as many articles on social and cultural history. In 1996 she
published Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women in the Old South.
Her recent biography First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina
Davis's Civil War was published in 2006 and won the prestigious
Fletcher Pratt Award for Civil War nonfiction. Dr. Cashin joins the
ranks of Shelby Foote, James Robertson, and Bruce Catton, all
previous Pratt Award winners who have addressed the Cleveland Civil
War Roundtable.
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Paid
annual dues
+ $25 for dinner
216-861-5588
for reservations |
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09/25/08 -
09/28/08 |
Roundtable Annual Field Trip to
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Join us on this exciting journey to
Gettysburg. In the past two years over 200 acres of non-historic trees have
been removed, opening up startling vistas over the fields. Our trip will
include over 15 hours of battlefield exploration under the tutelage of
licensed battlefield guides. We'll visit the newly opened Visitor Center and
view the newly restored Cyclorama painting. Our trip will even include a
Ghosts of Gettysburg tour. Contact Jon Thompson to register. (Tentative
schedule)
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10/03/08 -
10/05/08 |
The 11th Annual Conference on the Art of Command in
the Civil War
sponsored by The Mosby Heritage Area Association
Middleburg, Virginia
Conference title: "September 17, 1862: Antietam"
The conference features 9 lectures
on Friday evening and Saturday and a bus tour of the Antietam
Battlefield on Sunday. Nationally-known authors and historians who
will be presenting include Peter Carmichael, Dennis Frye, Leslie
Gordon, Kim Holien, Robert K. Krick, Stephen Potter, and Jeffrey
Wert.
Included in the conference package
is a reception on Friday, a continental breakfast, lunch and dinner
on Saturday, and lunch on Sunday. We have contracted with area
hotels for special rates on accommodations for attendees.
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$400 for all activities
$190 for Saturday lectures only
Info:
540-687-6681
Brochure |
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10/08/08
@ 7pm |
Cleveland Civil War Roundtable -
Meeting 2
Judson Manor
1890 E. 107th Street
Cleveland, OH
Chris Fortunato speaks on "The Supreme Court During the Civil War"
Chris Fortunato is a Cleveland
attorney, amateur thespian, and long-time member of the Cleveland
Civil War Roundtable. He has spoken before the Roundtable
several times in the past.
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Paid
annual dues
+ $25 for dinner
216-861-5588
for reservations |
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11/01/08 -
11/02/08
9 am to
5 pm |
Civil
War Days
Washington State Park
Washington, ARWashington
was Arkansas' Confederate state Capital from 1863-1865. During
Historic Washington's Civil War Weekend, you will be exposed to
the beginning days of the conflict as it unfolded in southwest
Arkansas. Reenactors from all over the region will present
living history demonstrations throughout the weekend. Programs
are free. Tours of the many historical homes and buildings of
Washington, and surrey rides, are available for a fee. Web:
www.historicwashingtonstatepark.com |
Admission: $5
More info
(870) 983-2684 |
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11/07/08 -
11/08/08 |
The Town that Started the Civil War
Oberlin College holds a 2-day symposium on the 1858
Oberlin-Wellington rescue of escaped slaves. |
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11/12/08
@ 7pm |
Cleveland Civil War Roundtable -
Meeting 3
Judson Manor
1890 E. 107th Street
Cleveland, OH
Dr. James Bissland speaks on "Blood, Tears, and Glory, How Ohioans Won the Civil War"
Dr. James Bissland was born in New
England and moved to the Midwest in 1976, settling in Bowling Green
in 1976. Dr. Bissland is a graduate of Cornell University,
University of Massachusetts - Amherst, and the University of Iowa.
He is currently a writer and associate professor of journalism
emeritus at Bowling Green State University. For years his primary
focus as a journalist was as a human interest feature writer. In
addition to Blood, Tears, and Glory: How Ohioans Won the Civil War
(2007), he also has written Long River Winding: Life, Love, and
Death Along the Connecticut (2003) and co-authored Bountiful Ohio:
Good Food and Stories from Where the Heartland Begins (1993)
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Paid
annual dues
+ $25 for dinner
216-861-5588
for reservations |
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11/22/08 |
Remembrance Day at Gettysburg
Events will take place all weekend
at the Gift Center and a parade through the town at 1:00 p.m.
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12/10/08
@ 7pm |
Cleveland Civil War Roundtable -
Meeting 4
Judson Manor
1890 E. 107th Street
Cleveland, OH
Dr. Sean Brossia speaks on "Restoring the USS
Monitor"
Dr. Sean Brossia is the Director of
Research for C.C. Technologies Laboratories, Inc., the company which
is attempting to save the metal artifacts from
the USS
Monitor. Dr. Brossia has over thirteen years experience in
investigating the corrosion behavior of iron and other metals in
both aqueous and non-aqueous systems. He has co-authored nearly
fifty technical publications and has filed six patent applications.
He holds a Master's Degree and Ph.D degree in Materials Science and
Engineering from the University of Virginia.
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Paid
annual dues
+ $25 for dinner
216-861-5588
for reservations |
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