Oct 3-5: The Art of Command in the Civil War
Friday-Sunday,October 3-5, 2008
Middleburg Community Center, 300 West Washington Street, Middleburg
Join the The Mosby Heritage Area Association for their 11th Annual Conference on the Art of Command in the Civil War, "SEPTEMBER 17, 1862, ANTIETAM." Full Registration is $400. For more information, email or contact MHAA at 540-687-6681.
Seminar Schedule (Subject to change)
Friday, October 3
4:00 - 5:00 pm- Registration, Reception and Book Browsing
5:00 - 6:00 pm- Speaker: Dr. Stephen Potter, "Antietam, The 7th Maine And The Archeology Of Retreat"
6:15 - 7:15 pm- Speaker: Dennis Frye, "Antietam Addressed:Rethinking General McClellan's Performance"
Dinner on your own
Saturday, October 4
8:00 am- Registration, Coffee and Snacks
8:30 am - 9:30 am-Speaker: Gary Ecelbarger "General Nathan Kimball's Gibralter Brigade At Bloody Lane"
9:45 am - 10:45 am-Speaker: Jeffry Wert "Corn Acres Of Hell"
11:00 am - 12 noon- Speaker: Robert K. Krick "Lee's Decision To Fight At Sharpsburg"
12:00 - 12:45 pm-Hot Lunch Served
12:45 - 1:45 pm-Speaker: Dennis Frye "General Burnside Betrayed: Burnside Beyond The Bridge"
2:00 - 3:00 pm-Speaker: Kim Holien "Burnside And His Bridge: A Reconsideration"
3:15 - 4:15 pm- Speaker: Leslie Gordon "We Were Murdered - The 16th Connecticut And The Battle Of Antietam"
4:30 - 5:30 pm-Panel Discussion and Book Signing
6:15 pm-Cash Bar Opens at American Legion Hall
7:00 pm-Banquet Dinner Served at American Legion Hall
8:00 pm- Speaker: Pete Carmichael "'We Don't Know What On Earth To Do With Him' William Nelson Pendleton And The Affair At Shepherdstown, September 19, 1962"
Sunday, October 5
8:00 am- Buses depart behind the Middleburg Community Center for a tour of The Antietam Battlefield. (Box lunches will be served.)
5:00 pm-Buses Return to Middleburg
