Past Symposia

Presenters:

• John Hennessy: “Overland Whirlwind: A Reflection on the Overland Campaign, May 1864”
• Zachery Fry: “Politics in a Time of War: The 1864 Election”
• Derek Maxfield: “Point Lookout, Elmira and the Union Prisoner of War Machine in 1864?
• Keynote: Brian Steel Wills: “The Devil Take the Hindmost:” Why Nathan Bedford Forrest Could Not Save Atlanta”
• Panel Discussion: “1864: The War in the Balance”
• Brian Matthew Jordan: “The War in 1864”
• Daniel T. Davis: “Hurricane from the Heavens”: The Battle of Cold Harbor”
• Keynote: Jonathan Noyalas: “To Appreciate the Relation”: Lincoln, Sheridan, and the Shenandoah Valley in 1864”
• Neil P. Chatelain: “Unpacking Mobile Bay’s Criticality”
• Tim Talbott: “We Fight for Our Rights, Liberty, Justice, and Union”: The Battle of New Market Heights, September 29, 1864”
• Joseph D. Ricci: “Open Road to Appomattox”: The Tennessee Campaign, the Battles of Spring Hill and Franklin, and the End of the War in the West”

Presenters:

• Cecily Nelson Zander: “From Stones River to Chattanooga: Braxton Bragg & The Struggle for Tennessee in 1863”
• Neil P. Chatelain: “Charleston 1863: Evaluating Command, Control & Technology”
• Timothy B. Smith: “The Vicksburg Campaign” (Keynote)
• 1863 Panel Discussion
• Sarah Kay Bierle: “Chancellorsville: From the Place of Blood and Wrath His Soul Changed”
• Kevin Pawlak: “John Mosby & The Gettysburg Campaign”
• Jon Tracey: “Barlow’s Knoll Reconsidered”
• James Hessler: “1863: The Summer of Dan Sickles”
• Zachery Fry: “A Year of Transformation: The Army of the Potomac in 1863”
• Chris Kolakowski: “The Battle of Missionary Ridge”
• Battlefield Tour: Bristoe Station Tour with Rob Orrison and Kevin Pawlak
• Battlefield Tour: First Day at Chancellorsville with Daniel T. Davis and Sarah Kay Bierle

Presenters:

• Brian Matthew Jordan: ” The Concept of What If”
• Neil Chatelain: “Ambitions & Challenges of a Confederate Navy European Ironclad Squadron”
• Garry Adelman: “Speculation Run Amok: Fun with Gettysburg’s ‘What Ifs” (Keynote)
• Maryland Campaign “What If” Panel Discussion
• Phill Greenwalt: “What If: A Confederate Western Empire”
• Sarah Kay Bierle: “What if Rienzi Stumbled at Cedar Creek?”
• Jon Tracey: “The Realities of Civil War Medicine (What if it wasn’t as bad as we think it is?)”
• Gordon Rhea: “Six Great What If’s of the Overland Campaign”
• Zachery A. Fry: “What if Meade Had Attacked Lee at the Potomac River after Gettysburg?”
• Kris White: “What if Stonewall Jackson Had Not Been Shot?”
• “What If” Panel Discussion
• Battlefield Tour: Slaughter Pen Farm at Wilderness Battlefield with Chris Mackowski and Kris White

(Note: C-Span did not record the 2022 ECW Symposium)

Presenters:

• Dan Welch: “The Reluctant Rise and Unavoidable Fall of General John Pope”
• Doug Crenshaw & Bert Dunkerly: “Not For Rank or Fame: Joseph E. Johnston”
• Gordon Rhea: “J.E.B. Stuart’s Mortal Wounding at Yellow Tavern” (Keynote)
• Sean Chick: “Dreams of Victory: P.G.T. Beauregard”
• Sarah Kay Bierle: “John Pelham at Kelly’s Ford”
• Chris Mackowski: “Fearless of All Danger: Brig. Gen. Thomas G. Stevenson”
• Matt Atkinson: “Chasing Glory: The Life and Times of the Gallant Earl Van Dorn”
• Kevin Pawlak: “A Seared Soul: The Fall of Fitz John Porter”
• Dave Powell: “Death of a General: Leonidas Polk”
• Tom McMillan: “Armistead & Hancock at Gettysburg”
• Battlefield Tour: Payne’s Farm with Theodore P. Savas; Longstreet’s Wounding at the Wilderness with Greg Mertz

Presenters:

• Jon Tracey: “Union Soldier John Rankin, Antietam, & Gettysburg”
• Doug Crenshaw: “1864 Battle of Fort Harrison”
• Kristopher White: “Robert E. Lee and the Battle of Chancellorsville”
• Steward Henderson: “U.S. Colored Troops”
• Sarah Kay Bierle: “1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaigns & Medical Care”
• Chris Mackowski: “Ulysses S. Grant’s Post-Presidency Life and Memoirs”

Presenters:

• Paige Gibbons Backus: “Carnage in the Medical Field During the Civil War”
• Sarah Kay Bierle: “The Chambersburg Raid of 1862”
• Mark Maloy: “The First Shots of the War in Charleston Harbor”
• Derek Maxfield: “Hellmira Prison Camp”
• Kevin Pawlak: “The Loudoun Valley Campaign of 1862”
• Dan Welch: “George Greene’s Brigade at Gettysburg”

Presenters:

• A. Wilson Greene: “Ulysses S. Grant’s Second Petersburg Offensive” (Keynote)
• Sarah Kay Bierle: “1864 New Market Campaign”
• Jon-Erik Gilot: “1861 Battle of Philippi”
• Phillip Greenwalt: “The Battle of Olustee” [Not recorded]
• Drew Gruber: “1862 Battle of Williamsburg”
• Dwight Hughes: “The Burnside Expedition” [Not recorded]
• Christopher Kolakowski: “1863 Tullahoma Campaign”
• Chris Mackowski: “1863 Battle of Mine Run”
• Kristen Pawlak: “1861 Battle of Wilson’s Creek”
• Steven Phan: “1864 Battle of Fort Stevens”
• Ryan Quint: “1861 Battle of Dranesville”
• Dan Welch: “1862 Battle of Secessionville”
• Battlefield Tour: North Anna with tour guide Bert Dunkerly

Presenters:

• D. Scott Hartwig: “Battle of Antietam, Lincoln, & Emancipation” (Keynote)
• Panel Discussion: “Civil War Turning Points”
• Ed Alexander: “General Grant Crosses the James River in 1864”
• Matt Atkinson: “Gettysburg and Vicksburg as Turning Points”
• Robert Dunkerly: “Civil War Turning Points Overview”
• Christopher Kolakowski: “Ulysses S. Grant as Union Army General-in-Chief”
• Greg Mertz: “The Death of Albert Sidney Johnston”
• Rea Redd: “1864 Presidential Election”
• Battlefield Tour: Jackson at Chancellorsville with tour guide Chris Mackowski

Presenters:

• Brian Matthew Jordan: “The Battle of South Mountain” (Keynote)
• Panel Discussion: “Civil War Defenses”
• Matt Atkinson: “Siege of Vicksburg and Confederate Defense”
• Christopher Kolakowski: “Army of the Cumberland’s Defense at Stones River”
• Chris Mackowski: “General Robert E. Lee’s North Anna River Defense”
• Kelley Mezurek: “U.S. Colored Troops as Prison Guards”
• Kevin Pawlak: “General Robert E. Lee’s Antietam Defense”
• David Powell: “Battle of Chickamauga & Horseshoe Ridge Defense”
• Ryan Quint: “Union General Lew Wallace’s Monocacy Defense”
• Dan Welch: “General Stonewall Jackson’s Stand at Second Manassas”
• Kristopher D. White: “Civil War Defenses”
• Eric Wittenberg: “Union General John Buford’s Gettysburg Defense”
• Battlefield Tour: Brandy Station with tour guides Eric Wittenberg and Daniel T. Davis

Presenters:

• James Ogden: “General James Longstreet’s Assault at Chickamauga” (Keynote)
• Panel Discussion: “Great Attacks of the Civil War”
• Ed Alexander: “Federal Breakthrough at Petersburg”
• Stephen Davis: “John Bell Hood’s Assault at Atlanta”
• Christopher Kolakowski: “The Naval Attack on New Orleans” [Not recorded]
• Chris Mackowski: “Battle of Spotsylvania Court House”
• David Powell: “Civil War Battle Tactics”
• Ryan Quint: “The Fighting in Antietam’s Cornfield” [Not recorded]
• Kristopher D. White: “Battle of the Wilderness and Longstreet’s Counterattack”
• Lee White: “Army of Tennessee’s Assault at Franklin”
• Battlefield Tour: Second Fredericksburg – Marye’s Heights Sector with tour guides Kristopher D. White & Chris Mackowski

Presenters:

• Dana Shoaf: “Bayonet Usage During the Civil War” (Keynote)
• Panel Discussion: “Evaluating the Civil War Sesquicentennial”
• Emmanuel Dabney: “The Freedmen’s Bureau”
• Phillip Greenwalt: “Formation of the Lost Cause”
• Christopher Kolakowski: “The Fall of Richmond and Appomattox”
• Eric J. Wittenberg: “Joshua L. Chamberlain & Wade Hampton: Parallel Lives” [Not recorded]
• Battlefield Tour: Stonewall Jackson’s Flank Attack at Chancellorsville

Presenters:

• Eric J. Wittenberg: “Battle of Trevilian Station” (Keynote)
• Dan Davis: “Ulysses S. Grant & the Overland Campaign” [Not recorded]
• Phillip Greenwalt: “A Study of the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia” [Not recorded]
• Meg Groeling: “The 1864 Presidential Election”
• Christopher Kolakowski: “The Fall of the Confederate Navy”
• Kristopher D. White: “Changing Military Strategy in 1864”
• Lee White: “Patrick Cleburne & the Tennessee Campaign of 1864” [Not recorded]
• Battlefield Tour: Wilderness & Spotsylvania with tour guides Kristopher D. White & Chris Mackowski.