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Video
2026 Summer Lecture Series
This year each talk will be live streamed to our YouTube Channel, just click on the link below.
June 1 -Jim McLean 14th New York State Militia in the Civil War https://youtube.com/live/SOEVvuQsgCg?feature=share
June 8 – Keith Snyder The Marines Land in Sharpsburg https://youtube.com/live/yOYEgO8GIhM?feature=share
June 15 – Michael Hardy “we were almost starved” The Confederate Soldier, Food, and the Maryland Campaign https://youtube.com/live/mIOGPYm_l9o?feature=share
June 22 – Darin Wipperman “A Brain the Size of a Hickory Nut:” Joe Hooker’s views about Ambrose Burnside https://youtube.com/live/IPtE1iArfM8?feature=share
June 29 – Dr. Brad Gottfried Grant and Meade: An uneasy Alliance https://youtube.com/live/3vTQbsU0LPM?feature=share
July 6 – Cory M. Pfarr Full View of the Enemy’s Lines: Reassessing Intelligence, Command, and the Federal Signal Service at Antietam https://youtube.com/live/gao8golfQqo?feature=share
July 13 -Jen Murray “Your Golden Opportunity Is Gone?” General Meade & The Pursuit From Gettysburg https://youtube.com/live/x9hUv4vmzeI?feature=share
July 20 – Jim Hessler Custer in the Maryland Campaign https://youtube.com/live/6-njYe6rHrE?feature=share
July 27 – Timothy R. Snyder The Most Terrible Experience during the War: Stonewall Jackson’s Winter Campaign to Bath, Hancock, and Romney https://youtube.com/live/QuAELDcoNKc?feature=share
Aug 3 – Benjamin L. Cwayna Slaughter along a Stone Wall: Gregg’s South Carolina Brigade during the Maryland Campaign https://youtube.com/live/Z0hOgD41YfU?feature=share
Aug 10 – Jack Dempsey “No Further Record” — POWs of the 7th Michigan Infantry https://youtube.com/live/gwWa-x6FJE4?feature=share
Aug 17 – Steven Eden Battlefield Calculus: Tactics, Technology, and the Battle of Antietam https://youtube.com/live/dRghH3GXzyo?feature=share
Aug 24 – Jim Rosebrock and Aaron Holley “Make me a Map” The Creation of the Artillery Atlas of Antietam https://youtube.com/live/N4WaudcgplQ?feature=share
Aug 31 – John Schildt A Farmer, a Physician, and a General: Henry Rohrbach, Nathan Mayer, and Isaac P. Rodman https://youtube.com/live/i2sZh7ytPk8?feature=share
2026 Spring Symposium
Dr. Carol Reardon “The Art and Science of Building Civil War Armies: Perspectives from Antietam and Gettysburg” – [48 min: 45 sec] play on YouTube
Dr. Jim Broomall “Fatal Illusions: A Comparison between National and International Politics” – [51 min: 55 sec] play on YouTube
Col. (Ret.) Doug Douds “We Cannot Afford to be Idle”: The Military Contexts of the Antietam and Gettysburg Campaigns – [48 min: 09 sec] play on YouTube
Dr. Jennifer M. Murray “We Ought to Be Satisfied With Driving Them Out of Maryland”: The Leadership of the Army of the Potomac in the Antietam and Gettysburg Campaigns – [50 min: 16 sec] play on YouTube
D. Scott Hartwig “There is something in a charge”: G. T. Anderson’s BDE at Sharpsburg and Gettysburg – [67 min: 29 sec] play on YouTube
Dan Welch – “”From Smoketown to Letterman: A Comparative Look at Two US Army General Hospitals” – [65 min: 32 sec] play on YouTube
Hikes
Handout for “Paul Semmes, Willis Gorman, and a Farmstead Too Far” – Jim Buchanan