The San Joaquin Valley Civil War Round Table, American Legion Post 147 of Clovis, the       Central California Chapter of the Association of the United States Army, and Civil War Round Table Associates of Little Rock, Arkansas, in memory of Jerry Russell, invite you to the

24th Annual West Coast 
Civil War Round Table Conference
November 7-9, 2008
Clovis, California
(adjacent to and northeast of Fresno)
“Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley”
Featuring:
Robert K. Krick, Jeffry Wert, Jim Stanbery, Peter Cozzens, Evan Jones, Don and Bill Bennett,  and Emily and Olivia Moats, in a one-act play based on the Civil War diaries of Laura Lee, Secessionist, and Julia Chase, a Unionist, residents of Winchester, Virigina. 

		The Brass Band of the Central California Chapter of the Association of the United States
	Army will regale registrants with music of the period on Friday the 7th before dinner. 

		A special showing of Shenandoah with Jimmy Stewart will be presented in the barely a
	year old theater/auditorium of the Veterans Memorial Building on Friday the 7th at 9 pm.

	An optional tour on Saturday the 8th from 9 am to noon features a tour of the Fresno home of Dr. Meux (portrayed by Charles Baley), an assistant surgeon in the 9th Tennessee Vol. Inf. (C.S.A.) who moved to Fresno after losing his slaves and other valuables as a result of the war, and a tour to the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial and internments of Union Veterans of the War at Fresno’s Mountain View Cemetery, led by G.A.R. historian Fred Bohmfalk of Elk Grove.

		Bloody Shenandoah, narrated by Burgess Meredith, will be shown	at approximately 9 p.m. following the Keynote Address after dinner on Saturday the 8th.  	
	
	Hundreds of books will be for sale, information about a tour of the Shenandoah Valley
	in 2009 will be available, and civil war artifacts and weaponry will be displayed.
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	Comfort Suites (143 Clovis Ave, 559-299-9992) and Best Western Clovis Cole (415 Clovis Ave, 559-299-1547) hotels in Old Town Clovis have reserved blocks of rooms for us at only $109.00 for a double room.  Ask for the Civil War Conference Rate.  The meeting will be held at the Veteran’s Memorial Building at Hughes and 6th less than two blocks from the two hotels.  The registration fee of $175.00, includes six meals (Dinner Friday the 7th, breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Saturday the 8th, and breakfast and lunch on Sunday the 9th).

The Program:
Friday, November 7th
	2 p.m. to 7 p.m.  	Registration.  Foyer of the Veterans Memorial Building, Clovis, CA.
	4 p.m. to 6 p.m.  	Pre-dinner socializing.  Book tables open, tour information available.
	6 p.m. to 6:45   	Performance, the Military Band of the Central California Chapter of
				the Association of the U.S. Army.
	6:55 p.m.		Presentation of the Colors, Civil War Re-enactment Society.
	7 p.m. to 8 p.m.      Dinner, prepared by American Legion Post 147
	8 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. Keynote Address: Jim Stanbery, Los Angeles Harbor College
				“The Importance of the Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, 1860 - 65.”
	9 p.m. to 11 p.m.	“Shenandoah”, a movie staring Jimmy Stewart, in the theater.

Saturday, November 8th
7:30 a.m. to 9 am   Breakfast, prepared by a local Boy Scout Troop.
	9 a.m. to 9:40	“The Lethality of Civil War Weapons”, Don and Bill Bennett.
	10 am to 10:40	“Two Women of Winchester,”a one-act play by David Paul Davenport, featuring the Moats sisters, Emily and Olivia, as
				Laura Lee and Julia Chase, residents of Winchester who kept diaries.
	11 am to 11:40	“Jackson before Cross Keys and Port Repuiblic,” Peter Cozzens.
	12 noon		Lunch, prepared by American Legion Post 147.
	1 p.m. to 1:40	Keynote Address: Robert K. Krick.  “Who could not conquer with
				such troops as these?”: Cross Keys and Port Republic.
	2 p.m. to 3:15	“A Season of Politics, Blunders and Scorched Earth - The Union Renews the Valley War”, Peter Cozzens.
	3:30  to  4:45	“From Lynchburg to Washington: Jubal Early takes Command,” Jeffry Wert.
	5 p.m. to 5:15	Jack Tacchino, “Visiting Civil War Sites, 2009.”
	5:15 p.m. to 7 	Socializing, Book tables open, etc.
	7 p.m. to 8 p.m.	Dinner
	8 p.m. to 8:45	Keynote Address: Jeffry Wert:  “The Last Great Gamble,” from 3rd Winchester to Cedar Creek.
	9 p.m.		Bloody Shenandoah, a movie, in the Theater.

Sunday, November 9th	
	7:30 to 8:45		Breakfast, prepared by local Boy Scout Troop.
	9 a.m. to 9:40	“Unruly, Unreliable, and	Unsuccessful: Confederate Cavalry in the Shenandoah Valley,” Robert K. Krick.
	10 a.m. to 10:40	“The Valley War in Modern Memory,” Evan Jones.
	11 a.m. to Noon	“Preservation in the Shenandoah Valley,” Robert K. Krick.
	Noon			Lunch.
	1 p.m.		Wrapping - up
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Speaker’s bios:
    PETER COZZENS is a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State and the author or editor of sixteen books on the American Civil War and the Indian Wars of the American West. His This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga and The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga were Main Selections of the History Book Club and were selected by Civil War Magazine as two of the 100 greatest books ever written on the war.  The History Book Club called his five-volume Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars the definitive work on the subject.  Cozzens has also written several dozen articles as well as two National Park Service publications on the Civil War.  He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Lincoln Prize.	
      ROBERT K. KRICK grew up in Northern California.  For the past four decades he has lived and worked on east coast battlefields.  For thirty years he was Chief Historian of the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park. Krick is the author of sixteen books and more than two hundred published articles. His Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain (University of North Carolina Press, 1990) won three national awards, including the Douglas Southall Freeman Prize for Best Book in Southern History. Krick's Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic (William Morrow & Co., 1996) was a main selection of the History Book Club and a selection of the Book of the Month Club. His latest book, from the University of Alabama Press (2007), is Civil War Weather in Virginia.  During 2003‑2006, Krick worked under contract on the National Museum of the Marine Corps, writing most of the words on the walls of that new museum.
     JEFFRY WERT is a retired from Penns Valley High School in Spring Mills, Pennsylvania, having spent 33 years there as a history teacher. In 1999 he was named Pennsylvania’s American History Teacher of the Year.   When he was a 5th grader, he had a teacher‑‑this in the 1950s‑‑who had heard local Union Civil War veterans tell their stories.  He related some of them to young Mr. Wert who was transformed into a Civil War buff.  He is the author of many books including Mosby’s Rangers, From Winchester to Cedar Creek: the Shen- andoah Valley Campaign of 1864 and Gettysburg Day Three. His biography of J.E.B. Stuart will be out in 2008.
     JIM STANBERY is a professor of history and political science at Los Angeles Harbor College well-known on the Pacific Coast for his brilliant and entertaining lectures about numerous civil war topics.  Jim will open the conference with a talk describing the importance of the Shenandoah Valley before and during the war.
     EVAN JONES is a recent graduate of the University of Virginia where he studied under Gary Gallagher.  He has spoken to Round Tables in several states on a variety of topics.  The SJVCWRT is proud to note that his first presentation was more than a decade ago at the age of 13 when he spoke to us about Antietam.
   DON and BILL BENNETT are father and son collectors of Civil War memorabilia.  They will discuss their firearm collection and how weaponry evolved during the conflict.
   EMILY and OLIVIA MOATS are the grand-daughters of Ken and Barbara Moats, charter members of the San Joaquin Valley Civil War Round Table.  Both young women are quite knowledgeable about the War.
Please use the coupon below to register for the conference.  Registrants should make hotel res- ervations by directly contacting the conference hotels.  See SJVCWRT.ORG for further info.
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