Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, March 12, 1993 TAG: 9303120188
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B3 EDITION: METRO
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CIVIL WAR SEMINAR TO BE HELD AT E&H
Two nationally known Civil War scholars and eight regional speakers will talk about "The Civil War: Southwest Virginia - and Beyond" at a free seminar at Emory and Henry College on March 24-27.Eric Foner, history professor at Columbia University in New York City and author of "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution," will speak March 25 at 8 p.m.
James I. Robertson, Miles Professor of History at Virginia Tech and a widely known author and speaker, will discuss the Civil War in the Appalachian region on March 24 at 8 p.m.
The other speakers and their subjects are:
Edwin T. Hardison, dean of Virginia Highlands Community College, on the secession crisis of 1861 in Southwest Virginia.
Glen McMullen of Iowa University and former head of special collections at the Virginia Tech library, on camp conditions during the Civil War.
Howard McManus, member of the Roanoke Civil War Roundtable, on the 1864 New River expedition and railroad destruction by Union troops.
Michael Holmes, Blue Ridge Job Corps instructor, on the battles of Saltville in 1864.
Amanda DeHart, archivist and author of a history, on Christiansburg Institute, on the Freedmen's Bureau school.
Eugene L. Rasor, Emory & Henry history professor, on the controversial slavery study, "Time on the Cross".
Walton H. Owen II, curator at the National Archives, a slide lecture on Civil War photography.
Brian Wills, of Clinch Valley College, on Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and William Brownlow, a Union parson.
The seminar will start on March 24 at 8:30 a.m. and extend through noon on March 27 in the college's Wiley Hall auditorium. On March 25, Robertson will travel to Clinch Valley College at Wise for an informal session on the war from 10 a.m. to noon.
A tour of the Saltville battleground will be offered on March 27. The Civil War television documentary by Ken Burns will be presented.
Information on the seminar may be obtained from Rasor at Emory & Henry, 703-944-4121.