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2013 Archaeology Speaker Series - Mysteries and Secrets of the Civil War
Released: Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Jefferson Patterson Park & Museums
2013 Archaeology Speaker Series
Mysteries and Secrets of the Civil War
Speaker series sponsored by the MARPAT Foundation in memory of Thomas W. Richards
Title: Rose Greenhow: A First-Person Portrayal
Date: May 9, 2013
Venue: Calvert Library Prince Frederick
Start Time: 7:15 PM
Presented by: Emily Lapisardi, Historical Impersonator
Rose ONeale Greenhow was a lady of society living in D.C. during the Civil War who developed a network of Confederate agents which secured and passed information. She was imprisoned in her home and the Old Capitol Prison for nine months before being released to the South in June 1862. She drowned off the coast of North Carolina while attempting to run the blockade on her return from an unofficial Confederate diplomatic mission This dynamic first-person portrayal, drawn from Mrs. Greenhow's published memoirs and personal correspondence, describes her espionage work and subsequent imprisonment.
Title: War Between the Sheets
Date: June 20, 2013
Venue: MAC Lab, JPPM
Start Time: 7:00 PM
Presented by: Art Candenquist, civil War Historian
It may seem America in the 1860s was a rather sterile society, strictly adhering to
Victorian morals. But, if one reads
between the lines the researcher will find that the years of the War Between the States were just as passionate and human as in recent decades. This presentation, will look behind the closed doors and the closed tent flies to examine the little known episodes involving legalized prostitution, venereal diseases, homosexuality, the dalliances of some well-known wartime personalities; and we will look at surely what must be the most incredible medical story to come out of the War. Fact or fiction? You decide.
Title: CSS Alabama and the Seagoing Confederate Navy
Date: July 18, 2013
Venue: MAC Lab, JPPM
Start Time: 7:00 PM
Presented by: Simon Spalding,
Maritime and Civil War Historian
This program explores the seagoing
Confederate Navy of 1861-1865-foreign-built vessels purchased for the Confederate governmentthat raided Federal merchant shipping and drove up insurance rates on American-flag vessels. The talk will cover the careers of such famous commerce raiders as the CSS Alabama (one of whose guns is on display at the lab), the CSS Florida, the CSS Shenandoah, and others. The lecture will be illustrated with contemporary songs about the CSS Alabama, including a song composed by a crew member of the CSS Florida, and other music familiar to US and CS sailors of the Civil War.
Title: Civil War Photography:
The Intersection of Private Life and National Crisis
Date: August 15, 2013
Venue: MAC Lab, JPPM
Start Time: 7:00 PM
Presented by: Shannon Thomas Perich,
Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Photography served an important role in recording the effects of the Civil War on the American landscape, but also played an integral role in the private lives of
citizens sending loved ones off to war. This conversation explores the types of
photography available during the Civil War and how it mattered on the home front. Perich's research across the history of photography often explores the intersections of the art, technology and history of photography.