6th Annual Jefferson County Civil War Seminar
The Sixth Annual Jefferson County Civil War Seminar will be held on June 21, 22, and 23, 2016. Sponsored jointly by the Charles Town Library Civil War Roundtable, the Harpers Ferry Historical Association, the Historic Shepherdstown Commission, the Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society, and the Jefferson County Historical Society, the seminar is free of charge to the public. Seating for this popular event is limited, so plan to arrive early. The location for each day and a summary schedule follows:
Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
Allies For Freedom Exhibit on the 2nd floor of the John Brown Museum (corner of Shenandoah & Potomac Streets) in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. Pay the entrance fee and ride the park shuttle to the Lower Town.
9:20 AM: Don Watts: “In My Backyard? Yankees?”
10:45 AM: Jim Glymph: “Wearing of the Gray, Brown…! Uniforms in the Confederate Army 1861-1865”
1:15 PM: Bill Berry: Civil War Railroads
2:40 PM: Doug Perks: The County Seat Controversy
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
Entler Hotel, 129 East German Street, Shepherdstown WV
9:20 AM” Dave Collins: Civil War 101
10:45 AM: Steve French: “Belle Boyd: Myth and Reality”
1:15 PM: Dave Collins: Topography 202:
2:40 PM: John Kavaliunas: Far Away Dixieland?
Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
Fisherman’s Hall, southwest corner South West and West Academy Streets, Charles Town WV
9:30 – 11:30 a.m.: James Taylor, George Rutherford, and James Tolbert: “Post-Civil War Advances in Education, Self-Help Fraternal and Religious Organizations, and Civil Rights in Jefferson County”
1 to 2:20 p.m.: James Broomall: “After Appomattox: Reconstructing the American South, 1865-1877”
2:30 to 4 p.m.: Donna Northouse: “Building a Better America: Catalysts Frederick Douglass, Clara Barton, and Walt Whitman at Work in Post-Civil War Washington, D.C.”
