Shepherd's Civil War Center to host seminar

ISSUED: 17 March 2008
MEDIA CONTACT: Valerie Owens
(Shepherd's Civil War Center to host seminar)

Shepherdstown, WV--The George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War at Shepherd University will host the seminar "Gettysburg: Retreat and Pursuit" June 26-29.

The seminar will focus on campaign analysis. Why did Lee move on Pennsylvania? What effect did the new leadership of General George Meade have on the Army of the Potomac and the outcome of the battle? Kent Masterson Brown, author of Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign, will be the scholar-in-residence and keynote speaker.

Other speakers include Ted Alexander, Antietam National Battlefield park historian; Tom Clemens, Hagerstown Community College professor; Mark A. Snell, George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War director and associate professor of history at Shepherd; and Eric J. Wittenberg, author of One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863.

Cost is $525 per person for a double occupancy room and includes tuition, double-occupancy accommodations, meals, and transportation for tours in air conditioned coach. Single occupancy rate includes everything listed above and a single room for $650 per person. Commuter rate is $295 and includes tuition and transportation in air-conditioned coach. Meal plans are available for an additional fee.

A $50 deposit is required to register and reserve a space. For more information, contact the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War at 304/876-5429.

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