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2012 Schedule

Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
June 22 - 26, 2012
Friday, June 22 CWI 2011
2:00 - 4:00pm Registration in College Union Building Room 126  
4:00 - 4:15 Welcome, Peter Carmichael, Director (Gettysburg College)  
4:15 - 5:30
 Images in Blue and Gray: George B. McClellan and Robert E. Lee in Popular Prints, Harold Holzer (Metropolitan Museum of Art)  
5:45 - 6:45
 Dinner    
7:00 - 8:15
 Race and the American Military Tradition, Mark Grimsley (Ohio State University)  
Saturday, June 23  
7:45 am Breakfast  
8:30 - 9:45
 The Emergence of Ulysses S. Grant, Brooks Simpson (Arizona State University)  
9:45 - 10:00
 Break  
10:00 - 11:15
 River Operations in the Western Theater in 1862, Craig Symonds (U.S. Naval Academy)  
11:15 - 11:30
 Break  
11:30 - 12:30pm
 Looking at the Dead at Antietam, Megan Kate Nelson (Harvard)  
12:30 - 2:00
 Lunch  
2:00 - 3:30
 Concurrent Sessions:  [participants attend one; no reservations or assignments]  

(1) The Confederacy's Survival Seemed Bleak: An Overview of 1862 Military Campaigns in the Civil War's Western Theater, Keith Bohannon (University of West Georgia) [Masters Hall - Mara Auditorium]

  

(2) And So The Murderous Work Went On: 1862 Frontal Assaults, Jennifer Murray (University of Virginia at Wise) [Breidenbaugh Hall - Joseph Theater]
  

(3) The Peninsula Campaign, "Black Confederates," Military Intelligence, and the Necessity of Emancipation, Glenn David Brasher (University of Alabama) [College Union Building Room 260]
  
3:30 - 4:00
 Break  
4:00 - 5:00
 Executing Stonewall Jackson's Foot Soldiers in 1862, Peter S. Carmichael  
5:00 - 5:30 Book Signing  
5:30 - 7:00 Dinner  
7:00 - 8:00
 Panel: Debating Emancipation  

Moderator: Peter Carmichael, Harold Holzer, Craig Symonds, Anne Marshall (Mississippi State University), Glenn David Brasher    
8:15
 Ice Cream Social [Bullet Hole Patio]
  
Sunday, June 24  
7:45 - 10:30am Breakfast and Free Time  
10:30 - 11:30 Fredericksburg's Civilians, John Hennessy (Fredericksburg National Military Park)  
11:30 - 12:30pm "A Manifest Aversion to the Union Cause" in post-Civil War Kentucky, Anne Marshall (Mississippi State University)  
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch  
2:00 - 3:15
Concurrent Sessions: [participants attend one; no reservations or assignments]  

(1)  Rise and Fall of Hood's Texas Brigade:  From Gaines' Mill to Antietam, Susannah Ural (University of Southern Mississippi) [Masters Hall - Mara Auditorium]
  

(2)  Civil War Blogging, Kevin Levin (Civil War Memory), Brooks Simpson (Arizona State University), and Keith Harris (Cosmic America) [Breidenbaugh Hall - Joseph Theater]
  

(3)  Lost Then Found: The Evolution, Reclamation, and Interpretation of Fredericksburg's Sunken Road, Eric Mink (Fredericksburg National Military Park) [College Union Building Room 260]
  
3:15 - 3:45 Break  
3:45 - 5:00 The Root of Sectional Bitterness:  Slavery, Emancipation, and Civil War Memory, Caroline Janney (Purdue University)  
5:00 - 5:30 Book Signing  
5:30 - 6:45 Dinner  
7:00 - 8:15 Panel:  Hard Hand of War by Mark Grimsley  

Brooks Simpson, Susannah Ural, Keith Bohannon, Megan Kate Nelson, and Mark Grimsley  
Monday, June 25
7:15am Breakfast  
8:00 - 8:00pm Battlefield Tours [participants select one tour] CWI 2011

  • Second Manassas, John Hennessy and Jennifer Murray
  • Confederate Counterattacks at Antietam, Keith Bohannon, Susannah Ural, Caroline Janney, and Megan Kate Nelson
  • 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.  [This staff ride is 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.]
  
Tuesday, June 26
7:30am Breakfast  
8:30 -12:00 Gettysburg Battlefield Tours [participants select one tour]  

  • Visions of Victory:  Gettysburg and Strategic Leadership, July 2 in the Peach Orchard, the Wheatfield and the Lower Cemetery Ridge Area, Mark Grimsley
  • The Little Round Top (Almost) Nobody Knows, Brooks Simpson
  • The Final Confederate Assault Against the Wheatfield: The Charge of Wofford's Georgia, Keith Bohannon
  • Hood's Texans at Gettysburg, Susannah Ural and Jeff Prushankin (Millersville)
  • July 1, the 11th Corps and the Fight for Blocher's Knoll, Brian Jordan
  • Alabamians Attack Little Round Top, Jennifer Murray
  • "Nothing Less Than Murder":  The Attacks by Colgrove's and Steuart's Brigades on July 3, Chuck Teague
  
12:15 - 1:30pm Lunch  

Breakout Sessions [participants attend three; all assigned]
  
 2:00 - 2:45
 Session I  
 3:00 - 3:45
 Session II  
 4:00 - 4:45
 Session III  

  • Soldier Self Care in the 1862 Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns, Kathryn S. Meier (University of Scranton)
  • Morale and Motivation on the Home Front, 1862, Caroline Janney
  • Northern Racism on the Eve of Emancipation, Kevin Levin
  • 1862 - A Year of Turning Points, Keith Harris
  • Emancipation's Effect on Unionism in Kentucky, Anne Marshall
  • What They Talked About When They Talked About Ruins, Megan Kate Nelson
  • African American Religion and the Meaning of Freedom, Jackie Robinson (Gettysburg College)
  • 1862 in Song and Story, Kent Gramm (Gettysburg College)
  • Will the Real Angel of Marye's Heights Stand Up?, Elizabeth Parnicza
  • Kingdom Coming: Emancipation in Northern Civil War Music, Christian McWhirter
  • Antietam Photography in 4D, Garry Adelman
  
5:30 p.m.
 Barbeque [North side of Penn Hall]
  
7:00 - 7:30 Reflecting on the Work of Historian Brian Pohanka   

  • "Pohanka's Scholarship," Pete Carmichael
  • "Pohanka as a Living Historian," Patrick Schroeder (Appomattox Court House)
  • "Pohanka as a Battlefield Preservationist," Budd Hall (Middleburg, VA)

 
7:30 Panel: The War in 1862

Caroline Janney, Keith Bohannon, Megan Kate Nelson, Anne Marshall, Keith Harris, and Brooks Simpson
Wednesday, June 27
7:00 am Check out, CUB 126
7:30 am
 Breakfast  
9:00 am
 Check out deadline - any participants not checked out by this time will be charged a late fee.
  
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