2023: The Passage of the Armies: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Enslaved in the Civil War and Reconstruction

The Passage of the Armies: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Enslaved in the Civil War and Reconstruction

A Porter L. Fortune Symposium in conjunction with the University of Mississippi Department of History

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Schedule
2023
Thursday, October 12th
1:30 PM

Campus Tour on the History of Slavery at the University

University of Mississippi. Slavery Research Group

(meet at Lyceum steps facing the Circle)

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

3:00 PM

Panel 1: Shifting Loyalties

Daniel Farrell, University of Cincinnati
James Fuller, University of Indianapolis
John Sacher, University of Central Florida

Butler Auditorium. Triplett Alumni Center

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM

4:30 PM

Special Roundtable: New Directions in the History of Civil War Civilian-Military Interactions

Amy Murrell Taylor, University of Kentucky
Andrew Lang, Mississippi State University
Barton Myers, Washington and Lee University

Butler Auditorium. Triplett Alumni Center

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

6:30 PM

Welcome Reception

Conference Participants

Farrington Gallery. Bryant Hall

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Friday, October 13th
9:00 AM

Panel 2: Reconstruction

Travis Patterson, University of Mississippi
Christopher Rein, Air University Press
Brianna Taylor, University of Mississippi
Derek Wood, Tulane University

Butler Auditorium. Triplett Alumni Center

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:45 AM

Panel 3: Confronting Freedom

Heath Anderson, Mississippi State University
Wyatt Erchak, Carnegie Mellon University
Ashley Towle, University of Southern Maine

Butler Auditorium. Triplett Alumni Center

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

2:45 PM

Panel 4: Soldiers and Civilians

Noah Crawford, Texas A&M University
Lisa Tendrich Frank
Chuck Welsko, Kentucky Historical Society

Butler Auditorium. Triplett Alumni Center

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

5:00 PM

Keynote Address

William Blair, Pennsylvania State University

Auditorium 124, Student Union

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

7:00 PM

Dinner at Taylor Grocery

Conference Participants

4A Depot St., Taylor, MS 38673

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Saturday, October 14th
9:00 AM

Panel 5: Wartime Emancipation

Anne Brinton, Northwest Florida State College
Robert Gudmestad, Colorado State University
Cooper Wingert, Georgetown University

Butler Auditorium. Triplett Alumni Center

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

10:30 AM

Panel 6: Imagined Futures

Francesco Asano, New York University
Andy Donnelly, University of Mississippi
Marcy Sacks, Albion College
Maddie Setiawan, Texas A&M University

Butler Auditorium. Triplett Alumni Center

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM