Program Schedule Wednesday, May 24 2:00-4:00 pm Check In 4:00 pm Program Introduction 4:15-5:30 pm Grant Versus Lee Continued: A Tactical Overview from the North Anna through the Crater Robert E. L. Krick 5:30-6:45 pm Limitations and Hesitations: Grant, Meade, and Their Generals in June-July 1864 William W. Bergen 6:45-7:45 pm Dinner 8:00-9:00 pm Assessing Grant and Lee: The View from the Home Fronts Gary W. Gallagher 9:00-10:00 pm Evening Snack Break Thursday, May 25 6:00-7:00 am Early Coffee 7:00-8:00 am Breakfast 8:15-9:30 am “Breastworks Are Good Things to Have on Battlefields”: The Evolution of Confederate Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign Keith S. Bohannon 9:30-10:00 am Refreshment Break 10:00-11:15 am Francis Channing Barlow: From Harvard to Petersburg Joan Waugh 11:15-11:30 am Break 11:30am-12:45 pm Sixty-Five New Confederate Generals at Petersburg Robert K. Krick 12:45-2:00 pm Lunch 2:30-4:00 pm Behind the Lines:  The Home Front Experience in Petersburg: Caroline E. Janney 4:00-4:30 pm Refreshment Break 4:30-5:30 pm Recent Representations of the Battle of the Crater Stephen Cushman 6:00-7:00 pm Dinner 8:00-9:00 pm Tour Preview Program Faculty 9:00-10:00 pm Evening Snack Break Friday, May 26 6:00-7:00 am Early Coffee 7:00-7:45 am Breakfast 8:00 am sharp Buses Depart 9:00 am-noon Cold Harbor Battlefield Tour, Part 1 “ Wyoming,” Haw’s Shop, Totopotomoy Creek 12:15-1:15 pm Lunch Cold Harbor 1:30-5:00 pm Cold Harbor Battlefield Tour, Part 2 June 1 Fighting, 18 th Corps Attacks on June 3, 2 nd Corps Attacks on June 3 6:30-7:30 pm Dinner 8:00-9:00 pm Civil War Book Review Program Faculty 9:00-10:00 pm Evening Snack Break Saturday, May 27 6:00-6:45 am Early Coffee 6:45-7:45 am Breakfast 8:00 am sharp Buses Depart 9:00 am-noon Petersburg Battlefield Tour, Part 1 Battery 5, the Dictator, Battery 8, Battery 9, Harrison’s Creek, 1 st Maine Heavy Artillery Assault 12:15-1:15 pm Lunch-Petersburg Battlefield Park 1:30-5:00 pm Petersburg Battlefield Tour, Part 2 The Crater, Taylor Farm, Blandford Church and Cemetery 7:00-8:00 pm Dinner and Band 8:30-10:00 pm Evening Snack Break & Book Drawing Sunday, May 28 6:00-7:00 am Early Coffee 7:00-8:30 am Breakfast 9:00-10:30 am Tour Review and Concluding Thoughts Program Faculty 10:30 am-Noon Check-Out-University of Richmond

8th Annual Civil War Conference

Cold Harbor to the Crater: Grant versus Lee

Richmond, VA
May 24-28, 2006

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Program Information

Join us on the beautiful campus of the University of Richmond for the University of Virginia's eighth annual Civil War conference and explore the confrontation between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee from Cold Harbor through the battle of the Crater. From early June until the end of July 1864, the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia completed the bloody Overland Campaign and probed each other's lines during the initial phase of the siege of Petersburg. Two famous military engagements stood out in this transitional period between operations in the field and what would become the war's most protracted and decisive siege: the powerful but unsuccessful Union assaults at Cold Harbor on June 1-3 and the explosion of The Mine and failed Union attack at Petersburg's battle of the Crater on July 30.

The conference will use a combination of lectures and walking tours to place the action from Cold Harbor through the Crater in the broader perspective of the war, to evaluate military leadership on both sides, to examine in detail the tactical ebb and flow, to explain where and how events might have gone differently, and to assess the campaign's impact on the United States and the Confederacy. The tours will cover much of the battlefield at Cold Harbor, including places that remain in private hands and normally are inaccessible to the public. At Petersburg, we will walk much of the ground over which the initial phase of the siege was played out. We will visit historic "Wyoming," Haw's Shop, Totopotomoy Creek, the scene of the 2nd and 18th Corps attacks at Cold Harbor, batteries 5, 8, and 9 at Petersburg, the scene of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery's doomed attack at Petersburg, the Taylor Farm, the Crater, and Blandford Church. As with all our programs, we will use the battlefield walks to help convey a sense of how terrain influenced the fighting. Four and one-half days of lectures, walking tours, and discussion should give participants a better understanding of this phase of the war, the commanders who shaped it, and the sites at which it was waged.

Program Location
The University of Virginia Civil War Conference will be based at the University of Richmond, in Richmond, Virginia. Richmond is served by Richmond International Airport(airport code: RIC), Greyhound-Trailways BusLine, and Amtrak. The dormitory and classrooms at the University of Richmond are air-conditioned. If you choose to stay in a local hotel, useful information about nearby accommodations, detailed maps, and Richmond directions, distances, and transportation options visit the University of Richmond on-line Visitor’s Center.

Special Needs
There will be several battlefield walking tours during the conference, some of them may be strenuous and all will be held rain or shine. Please notify us when you register if you have any physical or medical conditions which may interfere with walking battlefield terrain at a normal pace, or if you have any dietary restrictions. Every effort to accommodate you will be made.

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Program Faculty

William W. Bergen is an assistant dean at the University of Virginia School of Law with a longtime interest in the Army of the Potomac’s senior generals. He has led many battlefield tours, has lectured widely on the Civil War, and is the author of The Other Hero of Cedar Creek: The ‘Not Specially Ambitious' Horatio G. Wright.

Keith Bohannon is an assistant professor at West Georgia University and the editor of A Georgian with "Old Stonewall" in Virginia: The Letters of Ujanirtus Allen, Company F, 21st Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry (LSU Press, 1998) and the author of numerous published essays.

Stephen Cushman is the Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His books include Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle.

Gary W. Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor in History of the American Civil War in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. His many books include The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862(Editor), Lee and His Army in Confederate History, The Confederate War, and Lee and His Generals in War and Memory.

Caroline E. Janney is a Lecturer in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, where she also received her Ph.D. in History. Her dissertation, If Not for the Ladies: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Making of the Lost Cause was completed last May.

Robert E.L. Krick is a Richmond based historian and author of Staff Officers in Gray: A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, The Fortieth Virginia Infantry, and a number of essays and articles.

Robert K. Krick is a specialist on the military history of the Confederacy. He has written dozens of articles and ten books, the most recent being The Smoothbore Volley that Doomed the Confederacy and Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic.

Joan Waugh is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is currently writing a book on the memorialization of Ulysses S. Grant, which is the foundation for a larger project on the political culture of soldiers during the years 1861-1865.

Program Staff

Jim Baker is the Civil War Conference Program Director and Associate Director of the University Center of the University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Ashleigh Edwards is the Program Administrator for the conference.

Krista Weih is the conference Program Manager.

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Registration

This program sold out.

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Program and single room: $845
Program and double room: $805
Program and double room with private bath: $845
Program only, no lodging: $795

Sponsor Information

Add $500 to your program fee to be a SPONSOR of the UVa Civil War Conference and you will be invited to a private Sponsor's dinner with Gary Gallagher during the program and limited, signed editions of two of Gary's books. Availability is limited to 10 spots. $350 of the fee is tax deductible as a donation to the University of Virginia. $500 sponsors fee is due with registration/deposit. Sponsors fee payable by check only and is due in full at registration.

Register by fax, 434-982-5297, or by telephone, 800-346-3882 or 434-982-5252, using VISA or MasterCard; or by sending us your form by mail with a check or credit card information. Send your completed registration form with credit card information or check to:

The Civil War Conference
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400764
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4764

• If you register prior to April 13, 2006: Please return the registration form with a $300 per person deposit (or full fee if you choose). The balance of your program fee is due by April 13, 2006. For deposits paid by credit card, balance will automatically be charged to account on or after April 13, 2006. Sponsor Level fee is due in full at registration.
• If you register after April 13, 2006: please return the registration form with your full program fee.
• Withdrawal: If you withdraw in writing before April 13, 2006, you will receive a full refund, minus a $150 per person administrative fee. In the event the withdrawal is necessary after April 13, 2006, there will be no refund but you may substitute another person to attend the program in your place. We strongly recommend you purchase travel insurance. Useful travel insurance information can be found at the Trip Insurance Store Web site or  888-407-3854.