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UPCOMING VCCWS EVENTS

Civil War Weekend

March 12-14, 2010
The Hotel Roanoke
Roanoke, Va.
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Campaigning with Lee

June 20-26, 2010
Clarion Hotel
Hagerstown, Md.
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Signature Conference

"Military Strategy in the American Civil War"
co-sponsored with Virginia's Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission

May 21, 2011 . Cassell Coliseum, Virginia Tech
free admission

Civil War lecture series established
Atlanta, 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy by Richard M. McMurry

Virginia Tech alumnus William C. Latham, former member and vice rector of the university's board of visitors, has established the William C. Latham Lecture Series in Civil War History, which will bring outstanding Civil War historians to campus. Each speaker will deliver three public lectures, open to the public at no charge, during the course of an academic year.

To learn more about the series and the first lecture by the 2009-10 William C. Latham Scholar Richard McMurry, go here.

To learn more about McMurry's second lecture on Feb. 18, 2010, go here.

John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence by Richard M. McMurry
Department of History
431 Major Williams Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540.231.5331
Virginia Tech
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