Schedule: 2018

Jarman Auditorium
Longwood University
Farmville, VA 23909

Saturday, February 3

8:30 a.m.          Doors open

9:00 a.m.          Introduction by Dr. David Coles

9:10 a.m.          John W. Mountcastle

The Military Leadership of Grant and Lee during the 1864 Overland Campaign

 10:15 a.m.        Ralph Peters

Leaders Known, Leaders Forgotten: Command and Character in the Civil War

11:30 a.m.    Edwin C. Bearss

Recollections of Appomattox

12:30                 Lunch

1:45 p.m.          Judith Giesberg

Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality 

2:45 p.m.      John W. Mountcastle

When War Came This Way: The Women’s War  

 No reservations are necessary.  Signs will be posted on the Longwood University Campus.  For directions to the campus go to www.longwood.edu.  For more information contact Dr. David Coles at 434-395-2220 or Patrick Schroeder at 434-352-8987, Ext. 232.

Sponsored by the Longwood Dept. of History, Political Science, and Philosophy, and the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park