The CWRT's 2013 Sesquecentennial Symposium

1863: Turning Points of the Civil War

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Registration 8:30 AM; Opening remarks 9:00; 1st Speaker 9:15; 2nd Speaker 10:30; Lunch break 11:30 to 1:00 PM; 3rd Speaker 1:00; 4th Speaker 2:15; Concluding remarks 3:15 PM

HILTON of Lisle/Naperville, IL, 3003 Corporate West Drive (Warrenville Road); Lisle/Naperville, IL; 630-505-0900; toll-free 800-552-2599; www.hiltonlislenaperville.com (1-mile east of the intersection of Naperville Rd/Naper Blvd and Warrenville Road)

$75 per person…includes four speakers, light continental breakfast, a great lunch, raffle, silent auction, and book sales!

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The Speakers

Garry Adelman has degrees from Michigan State University and Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. Garry is the author, co-author or editor of more than thirty books concerning the Civil War, including the Gettysburg, Manassas, and Antietam Battlefields. Garry has also published numerous articles for Civil War magazines. He is the vice president of the Center for Civil War Photography and has been a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg for 16 years. Garry works full time as Director of History and Education at the Civil War Trust. Mr. Adelman will speak on Gettysburg.

Terry Winschel holds degrees from Pennsylvania State University and Mississippi College. He has published five books on various aspects of the Vicksburg Campaign, written fifty Civil War related articles, and one hundred book reviews. Terry was named National Park Service Preservationist of the Year in 2007 by the Civil War Trust. Terry is a thirty-five year veteran of the National Park Service and has served at Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Valley Forge, and is currently Historian at Vicksburg National Military Park. Mr. Winschel will speak on Vicksburg.

Jim Ogden holds a degree in Civil War History from Frostburg State College, where he also worked summers for the Maryland Park Service at Point Lookout State Park. Starting with the National Park Service in 1982, Jim was stationed at Chickamauga-Chattanooga, Russell Cave, and Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania. He has been an instructor for over four hundred groups of U.S. Army officers, conducting Staff Rides—in-depth analyses of an historical military event. In 1988, Jim returned to Chickamauga-Chattanooga as the Historian, a position which he holds at present. Mr. Ogden will speak on Chickamauga.

Michael Burlingame studied under David Herbert Donald at Princeton University and received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He then taught at Connecticut College and joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Springfield in 2009. Michael has edited several volumes of Lincoln primary source materials and has received a number of prizes for his contribution to Lincoln studies. His 2-volume Abraham Lincoln: A Life recently won the 2010 Lincoln Prize, sponsored by the Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History and Gettysburg College, for the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln. He was a co-winner of a prize awarded by the Abraham Lincoln Institute of Washington, D.C., and won the Russell P. Strange award given by the Illinois State Historical Society for the best book on Illinois history. Professor Burlingame currently lives in Springfield, Illinois, where he is working on several Lincoln-related projects. He will speak on The Getysburg Address.