McCormick Civil War Institute Spring Conference

Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA

Registration fee of $30 covers cost of all presentations, refreshments, and lunch in Shenandoah University’s “Family Kitchen” in Allen Dining Hall.

A limited number of scholarships are available for educators and students. For more information on obtaining a scholarship please email jnoyalas01@su.edu

Draft Schedule

8:30-9:30 a.m.: Check-in Shenandoah University (1460 University Drive, Winchester, Virginia). If you are unfamiliar with the campus please follow this link to the campus map

9:30-9:40 a.m.: Welcome

9:40-10:40 a.m.: ““The Country was Jubilant… but did not Know… the Sufferings”: The Press & the Shenandoah in 1864  (Jonathan A. Noyalas, Shenandoah University)

10:40-10:55 a.m.: Break

10:55-11:55 a.m.: Remembering “That Dark Episode”: Union and Confederate Ex-Prisoners of War and their Memories of Imprisonment  (Angela Riotto, Brigadier General Charles Young Research, Analysis, and Lessons Learned Institute within the Defense Security Cooperation University in Washington D.C.)

11:55 a.m.-1:15 p.m.: Lunch, Family Kitchen at Allen Dining Hall

1:15-2:15 p.m.: “Gut Busters”: The Development of Ambulances and Ambulance Corps during the Civil War   (Dana Shoaf, National Museum of Civil War Medicine)

2:15-2:30 p.m.: Break & book raffle

2:30-3:30 p.m.: Grant’s Last Battle: The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (Chris Mackowski, Emerging Civil War/St. Bonaventure University)

3:30-4 p.m.: Concluding remarks and book signing

For more info see: https://www.su.edu/mcwi/