| Maryland
and the Civil
War: A Regional Perspective Saturday, March 27, 2010 |
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| Join the Historical Society and Carroll Community College
for the 13th annual Maryland and the Civil War: A
Regional Perspective conference. The event focuses on various aspects of the Civil War and its
impact on the region. The 2010 program includes some new speakers and
all new topics. The expanded exhibit hall allows participants to visit with representatives from several Civil War sites and museums, re-enactors and vendors. Registration includes all sessions, continental breakfast and box lunch. On-site registration is available the day of the conference, however, lunch cannot be guaranteed for those registering the day of the event. Advance registration is strongly recommended. Maryland and the Civil War: A Regional Perspective is sponsored by the Historical Society of Carroll County and Carroll Community College. The conference is held at Carroll Community College, 1601 Washington Road, Westminster, MD. Directions. |
2010 Maryland and the Civil War program:
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Registration begins
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| 9:30 – 10:30 | General Session Lincoln's Webfeet: The Naval Forces of the Civil War |
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Lawrence
Bopp
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| 10:45 – 11:45 | Concurrent Sessions |
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Securing the Potomac: Colonel Charles P. Stone and the
Rockville Expedition, June-July 1861
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Flags of the 1st
Maryland Cavalry Battalion, CSA
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| 11:45 – 12:30 | Lunch |
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Exhibit Hall
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| 12:45 – 1:45 | Concurrent Sessions |
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Maryland Soldiers
North and South
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Agents &
Activities of the Confederate Secret & Signal Services in Maryland 1861-1865
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| 2:00 - 3:00 | General Session |
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Harriet Tubman:
Meet the Woman This session is open to the public at no charge. Registration for the conference is not required to attend only this session.
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| The presenters at the 2010 conference: | |
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Lawrence Bopp is the author of Sailing Life on USS Constellation and co-author of USS Constellation: An Illustrated History and Showing the Flag: The Civil War Naval Diary of Moses Safford, USS Constellation. He is a retired history and English teacher; long-time Maryland living history personage; and chief living history interpreter and editor for the USMC Historical Company.
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Gwendolyn Briley-Strand has been delighting audiences on stage, television, and in movie theatres for over twenty years. She is known for her portrayals of Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Rosa Parks. In 1991 and 1992 Ms. Briley-Strand was invited to bring Harriet Tubman to the White House for the Fourth of July Celebration. She has also portrayed Harriet Tubman at the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center, and museums and cultural organizations. She received her B.A. in theater from Fordham University and is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, Actors Equity Association, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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Jeff Goodson is a retired Counterintelligence Special Agent and a military history buff. He is Adjunct Professor of History at Carroll Community College and the Community College of Baltimore County. He is a member of the Baltimore Civil War Roundtable and the Company of Military Historians.
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James McGlincy, Colonel of the 1st Maryland Cavalry Battalion, Battery B, Companies A, E & H CSA, Inc., is a member of the National Registry of Living Historians His work on the flags project has been endorsed by the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Maryland Sons of Confederate Veterans Color Guard, and the State Archives in Annapolis.
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Tim Synder holds an M.A. in history and is a free-lance historian who has written extensively about the Civil War. His articles on the Session Crisis and the early days of the Civil War have appeared in the Maryland Historical Magazine. He is currently working on an article for publication in Catoctin History and is completing a book about the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal during the Civil War.
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Daniel Carroll Toomey is a seventh generation Marylander. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland and the author of several books including The Civil War in Maryland, The Johnson-Gilmor Raid, and The Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers’ Home. He is the co-author of Baltimore During the Civil War and Marylanders in Blue. Toomey serves on the Maryland Military Monuments Commission and on the board of directors of the Maryland Military Historical Society. He was the project historian and wrote the inscription for the Maryland Memorial erected at Gettysburg in 1984. Toomey was the recipient of the Gettysburg National Battlefield Award in 1985 and in 2001 received the Peterkin Award from the National Park Service at Fort McHenry for his contributions in the fields of research and preservation.
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