On June 22nd-26th, 2012 Gettysburg College will host the annual Civil War Institute conference. Cosmic America will be there…keeping you up to date. Below is the schedule – if you have any questions for any of the speakers, send them along. I’ll be sure to ask.
Tentative Schedule June 22-26, 2012
Friday June 22
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Registration in CUB Ballroom
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Welcome
Peter Carmichael, Director (Gettysburg College)
3:15 – 4:15 p.m.
“And in his Simple Show he Harbors Treason”: General McClellan’s Coup
Allen Guelzo (Gettysburg College)
4:15 – 4:30 p.m. Snack Break
4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Images in Blue and Gray: George B. McClellan and Robert E. Lee in Popular Prints
Harold Holzer (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
5:45 – 6:15 p.m. Group Photo, north steps of Penn Hall
6:15 – 7:30 p.m. Picnic
7:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Race and the American Military Tradition
Mark Grimsley (Ohio State University)
Saturday June 23
7:45 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 – 9:45 a.m.
The Emergence of Ulysses S. Grant
Brooks Simpson (Arizona State University)
9:45 – 10:00 a.m. Break
10:00 – 11:15 a.m.
River Operations in the Western Theater in 1862
Craig Symonds (U.S. Naval Academy)
11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 – 12:30 p.m.
Contraband Camps and Emancipation
Amy Murrell Taylor (University of Albany)
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions: [participants attend one; no reservations]
The Confederacy’s Survival Seemed Bleak: An Overview of 1862 Military Campaigns in the Civil War’s Western Theater
Keith Bohannon (Georgia State University)
And So The Murderous Work Went On: 1862 Frontal Assaults
Jennifer Murray (Office of the Secretary of Defense)
The Peninsula Campaign, “Black Confederates,” Military Intelligence, and the Necessity of Emancipation
Glenn David Brasher (University of Alabama)
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Snack Break
4:00 – 5:00p.m.
Executing Stonewall Jackson’s Foot Soldiers in 1862
Peter S. Carmichael
5:00 – 5:30 p.m. Book Signing
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Panel: Debating Emancipation
Harold Holzer, Amy Murrell Taylor, Craig Symonds, Anne Marshall, Allen Guelzo, Glenn David Brasher
8:15 p.m. Ice Cream Social
Sunday June 24
7:45 – 10:30 a.m. Breakfast and Free Time
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Fredericksburg’s Civilians
John Hennessy (Fredericksburg National Military Park)
11:30 – 12:30 p.m.
“A Manifest Aversion to the Union Cause” in post-Civil War Kentucky
Anne Marshall (Mississippi State University)
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 – 3:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions: [participants attend one; no reservations]
Rise and Fall of Hood’s Texas Brigade: From Gaines’ Mill to Antietam
Susannah Ural (University of Southern Mississippi)
Civil War Blogging
Kevin Levin, Brooks Simpson and Keith Harris
Restoring and Interpreting Fredericksburg’s Sunken Road
Eric Mink (Fredericksburg National Military Park)
3:15 – 3:45 p.m. Snack Break
3:45 – 5:00 p.m.
The Root of Sectional Bitterness: Slavery, Emancipation, and Civil War Memory,
Caroline Janney (Purdue University)
5:00 – 5:30 p.m. Book Signing
5:30 – 6:45 p.m. Dinner
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Panel: Hard Hand of War
Mark Grimsley, Brooks Simpson, Susannah Ural, Keith Bohannon, Mark Snell (Shepherd University) and Mark Grimsley
Monday June 25
7:15 a.m. Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Battlefield Tours
Second Manassas, John Hennessy and Jennifer Murray
Confederate Counterattacks at Antietam, Keith Bohannon, Susannah Ural and Carrie Janney
Antietam Union High Command, Tom Clemens
Antietam Overview, Mark Grimsley and Brooks Simpson
Maryland Campaign, Dennis Frye
Fredericksburg, Mark Snell and Ed Bearss
Antietam: War College Staff Ride – Christian Keller [for those who have a firm understanding of the battle and have visited the site several times, this focused tour offers attendees advanced readings and a separate classroom experience on Sunday afternoon. The War College approach emphasizes command decisions as they relate to current strategic thinking. A minimum of 25 attendees are required.]
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:30 p.m.
Recent books on Antietam
Scott Hartwig (Gettysburg NMP)
Dennis Frye (Harpers Ferry)
Tom Clemens (Hagerstown Community College)
Brian Jordan (Yale)
Moderator: Peter Carmichael
Tuesday June 26
7:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 12:00
Gettysburg Battlefield Tours
Mark Grimsley, Brooks Simpson, Keith Bohannon, Susannah Ural, Brian Jordan, and Jennifer Murray
12:15 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
2:00 – 4:45 p.m.
Break out Session Discussion Leaders:
Kathryn S. Meier (University of Scranton), Soldier Health and Environment in the 1862 Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns
Caroline Janney, Morale and Motivation on the Home Front, 1862
Kevin Levin, Northern Racism on the Eve of Emancipation
Keith Harris, 1862 – a Year of Turning Points
Anne Marshall, Emancipation’s Effect on Unionism in Kentucky
Amy Murrel Taylor, The Union’s Contraband Labor Problem of 1862
Jackie Robinson (Gettysburg College)
5:30 p.m. BBQ and Concert
7:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Open Forum: Mark Grimsley, Brooks Simpson, Keith Bohannon, Caroline Janney,
Amy Murrell Taylor, Kevin Levin, Keith Harris, and Kathryn S. Meier
Wednesday, June 27
7:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. All participants check out of dorms
