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DATE: TUESDAY, March 27, 1990                   TAG: 9003271986
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STONEWALL JACKSON SYMPOSIUM

The weekend program will begin Friday evening with a keynote lecture by Emory Thomas, author and professor of history at the University of Georgia. Thomas will discuss "Mighty Stonewall and Mortal Southerners."

Saturday, Dennis E. Frye, author and staff historian at Harpers Ferry National Park, and Gary W. Gallgagher, author and professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, will speak.

The morning session will conclude with a lecture by Katharine L. Brown, director of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace in Staunton and former director of the Stonewall Jackson House. Charles Royster, professor of American History at Louisiana State University, will address "Special Providences and Physics: Stonewall Jackson and W.T. Sherman on Combat." The afternoon program will conclude with a lecture by Robert K. Krick. The closing session for the symposium will be given by James I. Robertson Jr., professor of history at Virginia Tech, who will discuss "The Abiding Faith of Stonewall Jackson."

Pre-registration for the conference is required by April 12. For more information, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Jackson Symposium, Stonewall Jackson House, 8 East Washington St., Lexington, Va. 24450.