Symposium Schedule Announced
We’re please to announce the schedule for this year’s 11th Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, August 1–3, 2025, in Spotsylvania, Virginia. Our theme this year is “The Cities of War.” Our keynote speaker is Ted Savas, speaking about the Augusta Powder Works.
Aside from our great line-up of speakers, a number of our ECW authors will be on hand to meet folks and sell books. We’ll have our popular used book sale as well as our raffle, plus, we’ll have some new ECW swag available!
A limited number of tickets for the Symposium are still available. The cost is $300 for the full weekend. To register, click here.
Friday, August 1
1:30 p.m. Doors open
2:00 p.m. Welcome
2:15–3:15 p.m. Curt Fields, “Ulysses S. Grant in St. Louis: The Desperate Years”
3:30–4:30 p.m. Phillip Greenwalt, “To Baltimore or Bust: The Battle of Baltimore, April 1861?
4:30–5:15 p.m. Break
5:15–6:15 p.m. Robert Dunkerly, “The Richmond Bread Riot of 1863”
6:30–7:30 p.m. Dave Powell, “The Road to Atlanta”
7:45–8:45 p.m. Mark Maloy, “Suffering, Death, and Destitution: Charleston, South Carolina Burned and Shelled”
Saturday, August 2
8:15 p.m. Doors open
8:45–9:45 p.m. Sean Michael Chick, “Shiloh Comes to New Orleans”
10:00–11:00 p.m. Neil Chatelain, “Confederate Privateering in San Francisco”
11:15–12:15 p.m. Evan Portman, “A Civil War within a Civil War: The New York City Draft Riots of 1863”
12:15–1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. Dwight Hughes In Memoriam
1:30–2:30 p.m. KEYNOTE: Theodore P. Savas: “Handshakes, Gambling, Gunpowder, and Augusta: How George W. Rains and Jefferson Davis Changed the Course of the American Civil War”
2:45 p.m. Awards
3:00–4:00 p.m. Eric Jacobson, “The Battle of Franklin and Reckoning with the Past”
4:15–5:15 p.m. Joe Ricci, “No Place for Liberty: The Battle of Liberty Place”
5:15 p.m. Raffle
Sunday, August 3
8:30 a.m. Walking tour of downtown Fredericksburg with John Hennessey
You’ve got “p.m” on all the Saturday morning times on the schedule.