| Maryland
and the Civil
War: A Regional Perspective Saturday, March 23, 2013 |
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| Join the Historical Society and Carroll Community College
for the 16th 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 2013 program includes some new speakers,
some old friends, 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. |
2012 Maryland and the Civil War program:
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Registration begins
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| 9:15
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Welcome
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| 9:30 – 10:30 | General Session |
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One Continuous Fight - Lee’s Retreat from
Gettysburg
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| 10:45 – 11:45 | Concurrent Sessions |
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“I thank God that the Hour has come”:
Imboden’s Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign
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Pastime:
Life & Love on the Home Front During the Civil War, 1861-1865 Helen Drury Macsherry Pastime, a project of the Union Mills Homestead Foundation commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, shifts the focus from the battlefield to the home front through first-person accounts presented in the diaries and letters of the Shriver family of Union Mills, Maryland. Helen Macsherry, a Shriver descendent, takes us back in time through the thoughts and feelings expressed by a family torn by a nation in crisis and brings to light new archival material in the interest of education and historic preservation.
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| 11:45 – 12:30 | Lunch |
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Exhibit Hall
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| 1:00 – 2:00 | Concurrent Sessions |
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The Civil War Parole Camps of Annapolis, MD
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Maryland Railroads During the Gettysburg Campaign
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| 2:15 - 3:15 | General Session |
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Clara Barton: Red Cross Angel
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| The presenters at the 2013 conference: | |
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Steve French teaches history at Martinsburg South Middle School and is a member of a number of historical organizations including the Harpers Ferry Civil War Round Table and the Stuart-Mosby Historical Society. He is the author of Imboden’s Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign, which received the 2008 Bachelder-Coddington Award and the 2009 Round Table of Gettysburg Book Award. He is also the author of Rebel Chronicles: Raiders, Scouts, and Train Robbers of the Upper-Potomac, The Jones-Imboden Raid on the B&O Railroad at Rowlesburg, Virginia, and edited Four Years Along the Tilhance, the Civil War Dairy of Elisha Manor. French’s articles and book reviews have appeared in such publications as The Washington Times, Gettysburg Magazine, North & South Magazine, Crossfire: The Magazine of the American Civil War Round Table U.K., and The Southern Cavalry Review.
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Mary Ann Jung has been a lead actress and Director of Renaissance History and Shakespearean Language at the Maryland Renaissance Festival for over 25 years. She is a Smithsonian scholar/performer and has appeared on CNN, the Today Show, and Good Morning America. Jung's living history performances include Julia Child, Clara Barton, Mistress Margaret Brent, Rosalie of Riversdale, Amelia Earhart, and Good Queen Bess. She has a B.A. in British History from the University of Maryland.
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Helen Drury Macsherry, a Shriver descendant, is a freelance writer and editor with a 34-year career in communications, together with numerous awards for publications and website content and design. She served as acting director of the United Nations’ public information office in Washington, DC, and director of communications at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda. She received a bachelor’s degree in English and political science from Wells College, with a year’s study abroad at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK. She is a certified field producer at Montgomery Community Television, Inc., a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Maryland Historical Society, and the National Press Club, and is on the Curator Committee at the Union Mills Homestead.
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Rebecca Morris
is a resident of Annapolis with a life-long interest in local history
particularly that of the Civil War era. She has served on the Board of
Directors of the Ann Arrundell County Historical Society for the past five
years and is currently the Treasurer of that organization. She is the author
of A Low, Dirty Place - The Parole Camps of Annapolis, MD 1862 -1865
and is a frequent speaker at local civic and historical society meetings.
Ms. Morris is a 1971 graduate of the University of Maryland.
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J. David Petruzzi is one of the leading experts on the campaign and battle of Gettysburg, as well as the cavalry service of the Civil War. He is the author of the bestsellers Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg and One Continuous Fight: The Retreat From Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863. His book (with cartographer Steven Stanley) The Complete Gettysburg Guide won the Army Historical Foundation’s award for Distinguished Writing in the Reference Category for 2009. J.D. is a regular contributor to America’s Civil War magazine, and has had numerous articles published in various periodicals such as Gettysburg magazine, Civil War Times, Blue & Gray, and Zouave magazine. He has appeared in Civil War documentaries that have aired on PBS and History channel, and is the Historical and Technical Advisor for a Civil War miniseries called “To Appomattox” that will air on Reelz Channel.
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| Daniel Carroll Toomey 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 was project historian for the Maryland Memorial erected at Gettysburg in 1994. Dan 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. He is currently the guest curator at Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum for their five-year project The War Came by Train commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. | |
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