Upcoming seminar

[ericwittenberg]

Fellow Custer fans,

I wanted to take a moment to announce the March 2008 program of the Chambersburg Civil War Seminars, which is a Custer in the Civil War program. The dates are March 27-30, 2008, and will be headquartered at the Four Points Sheraton in Chambersburg. Information about the program can be found here: www.chambersburgcivilwarseminars.org/Custer_Seminar.html

Ed Bearss and I will be leading 3 different tours during this program. The first will focus on Custer during the retreat from Gettysburg, the second will focus on Custer during the Gettysburg Campaign, up to and including East Cavalry Field at Gettysburg, and the third will be a battlefield tour of the Trevilian Station battlefield in Louisa County, Virginia.

Jeff Wert and Greg Urwin will also be presenting at this conference, and it should be an excellent program.

I hope to see some of you there.

Eric

[conz]

That is certainly an incredible line-up. If anyone every wanted to ask questions about the Civil War history of George Custer, that would be the place to do it.

Of course, might have balanced the presenters with a Buford man like Longacre...<g>

Clair

[ericwittenberg]

Clair,

I'm a Buford man, too. I balance it myself.

Eric

[conz]

ericwittenberg said:

Clair,

I'm a Buford man, too. I balance it myself.

Eric

LOL...you know you CANNOT be both a CUSTER man and a BUFORD man...choose your weapons!

Clair

[clw]

conz said:

..you know you CANNOT be both a CUSTER man and a BUFORD man...choose your weapons!

Apologies for butting in, but if I'm not mistaken, Longacre himself is both.

It sounds like an incredible opportunity! Sure wish I could attend.

[TopKick1833]

I just checked out the website for the seminar, very cool subject matter. I am going to try and fit Friday into my schedule.

R/S

TopKick

[ericwittenberg]

TopKick,

I hope you can make it, and if you do, please be sure to introduce yourself to me.

Eric

[TopKick1833]

Eric,

I hope to be there on Thursday afternoon and stay for Friday's seminar. I have committed to doing a presentation on Saturday at Chancellorsville that will preclude me from attending anything past Friday.

I'll be sure to seek you out and say hello.

R/S

TopKick

[ericwittenberg]

I'm home from the program and will post more detail in a day or two, once I get to rest a bit from a chaotic weekend. The program was wildly successful, and all had a great time.

Eric

[ericwittenberg]

For those interested, I posted a couple of times on the conference on my blog, www.civilwarcavalry.com. Please check it out.

Eric

[ericwittenberg]

Here's a link to an article that appeared in the Chambersburg newspaper about the event: www.publicopiniononline.com/ci_8737108?source=most_emailed

Eric

[TopKick1833]

Sounds like the program was a success ;D I would have liked to attended the seminar but vet day at the ranch had priority. It had completely slipped my mind until just a few days prior.

I should do a little better planning on my end when it comes to the conference in Hagerstown. Eric, next time your down this way give me a holler. I'll put you on a McClellan saddle and take you out on a trail ride if your interested.

R/S

TopKick

[ericwittenberg]

gunnygibby said:

Sounds like the program was a success ;D I would have liked to attended the seminar but vet day at the ranch had priority. It had completely slipped my mind until just a few days prior.

I should do a little better planning on my end when it comes to the conference in Hagerstown. Eric, next time your down this way give me a holler. I'll put you on a McClellan saddle and take you out on a trail ride if your interested.

R/S

TopKick

It was, and sorry you couldn't make it.

I will take you up on that offer some time.

Eric