Civil War Monitor

The Week Ahead...October 17th - 23rd

• Ongoing through November 2nd – “The Art of War: Exhibit depicts news images from Civil War”- a collection of more than 70 wood engravings at the Mandeville Gallery, Union College (Schenectady, NY). Joshua Brown, director of the American Social History Project and author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life and the Crisis of Gilded Age America, will discuss the exhibit in the Nott Memorial (Union College) at 7:30 p.m. October 18th (Schenectady, NY).

• October 18th @7pm – The Chattanooga Civil War Round discusses Guerrilla War. The meeting will be held in the Millis-Evans Room of Caldwell Hall on the campus of the McCallie School on Historic Missionary Ridge (TN).

• October 18th @7pm – “Imagining War; Reading: March by Geraldine Brooks and a selection from the anthology America's War” part of a five-part reading and discussion series led by Newbury College Professor of History Dan Breen at the Thomas Crane Public Library  (Quincy, MA).  

• October 19th @1-4pm – Cedar Creek Anniversary tour @ the Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation Headquarters (Middletown, VA).

• October 19th @7pm – “First Ladies of the Civil War" at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (Petersburg, VA).

• October 19th @7pm – “Kirby Smith’s Invasion of Kentucky and the Battle of Richmond,” a Clarksville (TN) Civil War Roundtable event at the Bone & Joint Center.

• October 19th @7:30 pm – "Rear Admiral Henry A. Walke: Chillicothe's Famed Civil War Naval Commander and Artist," a Ross County Historical Society Fall Speakers Series. The program will be held at the Ross County Heritage Center (Chillicothe, OH). 

• October 19th @7:30pm – “A Special Sword.” The Nassau County Civil War Round Table will meet at the Bellmore American Legion Post 948 (NY).

• October 19th @8pm – “Stories and Songs of a Civil War Hospital," a candlelight program at Christ Church (Gettysburg, PA).

• October 20th @6:30pm – Ball's Bluff Kickoff Event at the Mansion at Morven Park (Leesburg, VA). Ken Fleming will be with his Civil War artifact collection that is on display. A lecture/panel discussion will begin with noted authors: Stevan F. Meserve, Jim A. Morgan III, Robert B. Greenwalt and George Tabb, Jr.

• October 20th @7pm – “‘Bloody Bill’ Anderson’s Raids on the Lafayette County Germans," at the Missouri State Archives (Jefferson City, MO).

• October 20th @7:30pm – The Providence Brigade Band presents a concert of Civil War era music, including songs from the New England home front at the Thomas Crane Public Library (Quincy, MA).

• October 21st @12pm – "Ball’s Bluff: A Small Battle with Enormous Consequences," a brown-bag lunch talk at the Museum of the Confederacy (Richmond, VA).

• October 21st and 22nd – "Causes, Conduct and Consequences of the Civil War," at the PAC Restaurant at the University of Illinois (Fri) an the Old State Capitol Historic Site (Sat) in Jefferson City (IL).

• October 21st and 22nd @7pm – “Ghost Walk," living history tours at the Exchange Hotel in Gordonsville (VA).

• October 21st and 22nd – “Civil War Lives,” co-convened by Joan Waugh (UCLA) and Gary Gallagher (UVA) at the the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA). Speakers include an all-star line up of the some of the country’s best historians including James McPherson, David Blight, Joan Waugh, Caroline Janney, Brenda Stevenson, Brooks Simpson, Alice Fahs, Stephen Cushman, and Gary Gallagher.

• October 21st–23rd – “Along the Potomac: 150th Anniversary of the Battles of Ball’s Bluff and Dranesville” (Leesburg, VA). The event will feature the action at Balls Bluff, for the first time held on the ACTUAL original battlefield, and the Battle of Dranesville.

• October 21st–23rd – “Image of War," at the Center for Civil War Photography (Chattanooga, TN).

• October 22nd @11am-5pm – “McLean Remembers the Civil War.” McLean & Great Falls (VA) celebrate the area’s participation in the American Civil War, with Keynote Speaker Roger Mudd, a living history camp and medical unit, re-enactors, a Yankee Schoolmarm, secession voting, music of the era, and displays.

• October 22nd @1pm – "Ericssons Battery — 100 Days," at the Mariners' Museum (Newport News, VA).

• October 22nd @1:30pm – “My Old Kentucky Home: The Army of Mississippi and What is to Come," a discussion of the 1862 move into Kentucky, at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center (Fort Oglethorpe, GA).

• October 22nd @7pm – “Civil War Ghosts and Legends" at the Reddick Mansion (Otawa, IL).

• October 22nd – “Hidden Beneath the Sand: Fort Fisher Archaeology," at Fort Fisher State Historical Site (Kure Beach, NC).

• October 22nd @8:30am  – The Mitchelville Preservation Project (SC) will host an inaugural forum discussing stories of the nation's first freedmen's village established on Hilton Head in 1862.

• October 23rd @2pm – "War, Peace and Memory," at the Sailor’s Creek Battlefield Historical State Park (between Amelia and Farmville, VA).

• October 23rd @2pm – “Lincoln Bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon" (Leesburg, VA).

• October 23rd @2pm – “Kiss My Little Girls, 1861," based on the letters of a Confederate cavalryman at Arts on Main (Gloucester, VA).

• October 23rd @3pm – Newnan's Masterworks Chorale is dedicating its fall concert to the Newnan-Coweta sesquicentennial observation of the Civil War. The concert will include spirituals, folk tunes, a Stephen Foster medley, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," and an evocative rendition of "Dixie." The concert will be held at the Centre for the Performing and Visual Arts (Newnan, GA).

Those are the highlighted events for the week. If you would like to add your event to The Week Ahead, please email us.

Have a Great Week!
Laura June Davis, Blog & Social Media Editor