By Jim Campi on 10 May 2010
[ 31 August 2010; ] Deadline to enter is 31 August 2010.
Posted in Calendar, Feature | Tagged Center for Civil War Photography, Civil War, Civil War Preservation Trust, Flickr, History
By admin on 31 March 2010
[ 8 April 2010 to 12 April 2010. 17 April 2010 to 18 April 2010. ] Learn what’s being offered at Appomattox Court House this month.
Posted in Calendar, Feature | Tagged Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Civil War
By Staff Reports on 13 January 2010
This symposium will be held in the Library of Virginia Lecture Hall.
Posted in Conferences, Events | Tagged Civil War, Library of Virginia, Museum of the Confederacy
By Staff Reports on 27 October 2009
[ 21 November 2009; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] The classic motion picture Shenandoah, starring Jimmy Stewart, is planned.
Posted in Calendar, Events | Tagged Byrd Theatre Foundation, Civil War, film, Museum of the Confederacy
By Staff Reports on 28 September 2009
[ 10 October 2009; 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. 11 October 2009 8:30 am to 12 October 2009 5:00 pm. ] On October 10-11, Appomattox Court House NHP will host the Palmetto Battalion from South Carolina.
Posted in Calendar, Events | Tagged Civil War, Michael Zucchero, South Carolina
By Staff Reports on 19 September 2009
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission $950,000 to support its efforts to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. The Commission, in partnership with the Virginia Historical Society (VHS), will use the funding to execute An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia, a four-part, multi-year educational resource for the nation. The Commission is only the third organization to receive the NEH Chairman’s Special Award since its inception in 2006.
Posted in News, Things | Tagged Civil War, Virginia Historical Society, Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission
By Staff Reports on 28 August 2009
[ 24 October 2009; 8:00 am to 6:00 pm. ] The Mariners’ Museum is offering a guided tour focusing on Civil War Petersburg on Saturday, October 24, 2009. Led by historian A. Wilson Greene, participants will visit the streets of the wartime city, and the battlefields that determined its fate, during the longest sustained military campaign of the Civil War from 1864 to 1865. The itinerary includes Pamplin Historical Park, the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier, Blandford Church and Cemetery, and the infamous Crater, a section of Petersburg National Battlefield.
Posted in Calendar, Places | Tagged Civil War, Pamplin, Petersburg
By Staff Reports on 17 June 2009
[ 20 June 2009; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] On Saturday, June 20, at 11 a.m. the Taylor-Wilson Camp #10 and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will dedicate a monument in honor of the young private who won the Congressional Medal for valor and to the memory of the 12 men who died on ground which would become the Lynchburg College campus.
Posted in Calendar, Events, People, Places | Tagged Civil War, Lynchburg College, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Union Army
By Staff Reports on 8 June 2009
[ 11 July 2009; 7:00 pm; 14 July 2009; 7:00 pm; 18 July 2009; 7:00 pm; 21 July 2009; 7:00 pm; 25 July 2009; 7:00 pm; 28 July 2009; 7:00 pm; 8 August 2009; 7:00 pm; 1 July 2011; 7:00 pm; ] Appomattox Court House National Historical Park will host its 13th annual Civil War summer day camps. This year there are two different themes offered. First, the traditional Civil War day camp will be held on July 11, 14, 25, 28, and August 1 (Saturdays and Tuesdays).
Posted in Calendar, Events | Tagged Appomattox Court House National Park, Civil War, summer day camp
By Staff Reports on 5 May 2009
The Museum of the Confederacy is pleased to announce that Joseph T. Glatthaar’s General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse, published by Free Press, and Charles W. Mitchell’s Maryland Voices of the Civil War, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, are the recipients of its 39th annual Book Awards competition.
Posted in Things | Tagged Civil War, General Lee, Jefferson Davis Award, Museum of the Confederacy
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