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2013-2014 Lecture Series

The Civil War and Its Aftermath in North Carolina and Franklin County

Williamson

Thursday, September 26, 2013
"North Carolina Militia, Home Guard, and Reserves during the American Civil War"
William H. Brown, Registrar, State Archives of North Carolina

Monday, December 2, 2013
"The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War"
Dr. David Cecelski, Independent Historian, Durham

"From Slave to Legislator: John H. Williamson"
Students in HIS 221 (North Carolina History), Louisburg College

Thursday, April 3, 2014
"Heroines and Farm Women in Civil War Era North Carolina"
Dr. Jane Censer, Associate Professor of History, George Mason University

"Aunt Abby House: A Biographical Sketch"
Students in HIS 221 (North Carolina History), Louisburg College

Thursday, May 1, 2014
Dedication of Civil War Trails marker on the campus of Louisburg College

Full of Blue Coats: Sherman's Army in Franklin County"
Mike Hill, Research Supervisor, North Carolina Office of Archives and History

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Lectures are free and open to the public.
Lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Norris Theatre on the Louisburg College campus.
The dedication of the Civil War Trails marker on May 1, 2014, will take place at 7 p.m.
For more information, call the Tar River Center for History and Culture at (919) 497-3252 or send an e-mail message to myork@louisburg.edu.

Louisburg College gratefully acknowledges the support of the North Caroliniana Society, Inc., and the North Carolina Office of Archives and History for this series.

Illustration credit: I. Garland Penn, The Afro-American Press, and Its Editors (Springfield, Mass.: Willey & Co., 1891)