The National Civil War Museum announces the 13th annual Blue & Gray Gala to be held on Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 6:00pm. Gala Attendees will tour the Museum galleries as they journey through food and beverage pairings and see the extensive collection of artifacts on display in the Museum. Raffle drawing and silent auction will be conducted.
Tickets: $75.00 per person or (2) for $125.00
National Civil War Museum Member Ticket - $50.00
To make reservations CLICK HERE or by calling (717) 260-1861.
The National Civil war Museum will offer the tenth program in our 2018 Series of 12 free lectures to the public with Dr. David C. Willard: "Ruined Hopes and Broken Pride: Confederate Veterans and Their Worlds."
David C. Williard is a historian of the United States. He specializes in the transformative effects of war on the meaning of citizenship, with a particular interest in the Civil War and Reconstruction. He is at work on a book titled Confederate Legacy: The Problem of Soldierhood in the Post-Civil War South, and has a chapter titled "An Ideology Beyond Defeat" in Paul Quigley, ed, The Civil War and the Transformation of American Citizenship, currently under review at Louisiana State University Press. He teaches courses in modern United States history, the Civil War era, United States military history, slavery, emancipation, and civil rights, and violence in American history.
The 2018 Lessons in History program is free to the public. Regular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries.
“The Fate of a Confederate Deserter after Gettysburg” On August 20, 1863, thirteen veteran soldiers from the 3rd North Carolina decided that they’d had enough of war. That evening, in the blackness of night, they picked up their rifles, slung on their cartridge belts, and escaped into the woods. From that point on there was no turning back.
Join Professor Pete Carmichael of Gettysburg College and learn why these soldiers deserted and what happened to them during their journey. This lecture will focus on the words of John Futch, one of the thirteen deserters. Though he was illiterate, Futch left a remarkable set of letters that he dictated to his comrades. Futch’s powerful story puts us in the shoes of a deserter, enabling us to see his world after the devastating defeat in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This speech is part of Dr. Carmichael’s newest book entitled, The War for The Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought and Survived in Civil War Armies. Dr. Carmichael will be on hand to sign books after his presentation.
Admission to this special program is FREE to the public.
The National Civil war Museum announces our eleventh program in our 2018 Series of 12 free lectures to the public with Col. Doug Douds, USMC (RET): "United States Marines in the Civil War."
Colonel Douds, of Stroudsburg, PA, is a faculty member at the U.S. Army War College teaching the Carlisle Scholars Program seminar. He has served as a strategist and senior speechwriter in the Chairman's Action Group on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He commanded a Marine fighter attack squadron in Iraq prior to earning his master's degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College in June 2010. As an F/A-18 pilot, he has deployed multiple times, including two carrier deployments to the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf and a western Pacific deployment. He has completed the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Instructor's course, the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun), was the top honor graduate from the Amphibious Warfare School, and received two bachelor of arts degrees, in political science and history, from Wake Forest University. Doug is an avid historian and enjoys hosting educational tours of Gettysburg, PA, where he resides.
The 2018 Lessons in History program is free to the public. Regular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries.
The Museum board and staff wish to commend all those who preserve our Nation. Veterans, active-duty military service members as well as military retirees will receive FREE ADMISSION on Saturday, November 11, 2018 in honor of Veteran's Day.
The National Civil war Museum will offer the last program in our 2018 Series of 12 free lectures to the public with Patrick Shroeder, who will present: Zouaves: America's Forgotten Soldiers. This unique Civil War subject will have a slide show of more than 100 photographs of Zouaves, both North and South. Patrick will discuss the origins of Zouaves in North Africa, the French Zouaves distinguished exploits in the Crimean War and in Italy, and Elmer Ellsworth and the "Zouave craze" in America. Slides will demonstrate various styles of American Zouave uniforms as well as brief capsule histories on several famous Zouave units. there will be reproduction uniforms brought for display and details of this unique uniform explained.
Civil War Author/Historian - In the spring of 1990, Patrick A. Schroeder graduated Cum Laude with a B.S. in Historical Park Administration from Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV. He has a M.A. in Civil War History from Virginia Tech. Patrick has written, edited and/or contributed to more than twenty-five Civil War titles. Patrick resides in Lynchburg, VA, and has worked as an independent researcher, author, historian, and tour guide. In an effort to protect sites relevant to the Appomattox Campaign, Patrick has set up the "Appomattox Fund" with the Civil War Trust, to save land important to the climatic events of April 1865.
The 2018 Lessons in History program is free to the public. Regular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries.
