"Glimpses into Those Lurid Interiors of the Period: Fighting, Writing and Refighting the Civil War"

COST:  $30, which includes Lunch

A decade after the Civil War’s end poet Walt Whitman published Memoranda during the War in an attempt to help future generations gain “a few stray glimpses… into those lurid interiors of the period” based on his experiences in hospitals in the nation’s capital and battlefields near Washington. Whitman believed that without his book future generations would never understand the Civil War’s “interior history… its practicality, minutia of deeds and passions.” Inspired by Whitman’s perspective the McCormick Civil War Institute’s spring 2025 conference will look behind the veil and explore aspects of the conflict’s “lurid interiors” from the perspective of soldiers and newspaper correspondents, examine how veterans remembered and shaped elements of the conflict’s history, and highlight some of the conflict’s important legacies.

8:30 - 9:30AM - Check in at Shenandoah University, 1460 University DR, Winchester, VA

9:30 - 9:40AM - WELCOME

9:40 - 10:40AM - Jonathan Noyalas - "The Country Was Jubilant but Did Not Know the Sufferings: The Press and the Shenandoah in 1864"

10:40 - 10:55AM - BREAK

10:55 - 11:55AM - Angela Riotto - "Remembering that Dark Episode: Union and Confederate Ex-Prisoners of War and Their Memories of Imprisonment"

11:55AM - 1:15PM - LUNCH, Family Kitchen in Allen Dining Hall

1:15 - 2:15PM - Dana Shoaf - "Gut Busters: The Development of Ambulances and Ambulance Corps during the Civil War

2:15 - 2:30PM - BREAK & BOOK RAFFLE

2:30 - 3:30PM - Chris Mackowski - "Grant's Last Battle: The Story behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant"

3:30 - 4:00PM - Concluding Remarks & Book Signing

TO REGISTER - Copy and paste this link into your browser: https://shenandoah.shopsite.com/conferences/McCormick_SP25.html