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OUR June 27, 2025 PROGRAM
Lower Level, LOWA Clubhouse, 10:30 AM
SPEAKER: Dr. Rob Havers, Pres. of American Civil War Museum
“The American Civil War Museum and the American Civil War: Reflections on The Past, Present and Future”
Dr. Rob Havers is a military historian who currently serves as the President & CEO of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, VA. Prior to this, he served as the President & CEO of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library, President & CEO of the George C. Marshall Foundation, Director of the National Churchill Museum at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, and as a Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Havers graduated from Queen Mary University of London with a bachelor’s degree in history and politics; London School of Economics and Political Science with a master’s degree in later modern British history; and Pembroke College, Cambridge with a Ph.D. He is the author of several articles and books. His Ph.D. thesis, “Reassessing the Japanese POW Experience: The Changi POW Camp, 1942-45,” was published as a book in 2003 and subsequently reissued in paperback in 2013.
OUR May 23, 2025 PROGRAM
SPEAKER: Beth Parnicza, NPS
“Going Back: Returning to Fields of Glory”
In the days and years following the end of the Civil War, veterans returned to visit and walk the grounds of our four local battlefields for many reasons. Some sought to pay tribute to fallen friends, while others revisited sites of their own wounding. Almost all worked to create their own meanings from the sites they revisited. What called them back, and what can we learn by examining their visits? VIEW RECORDING: CLICK HERE
OUR April 25, 2025 PROGRAM
Speaker: Jane Conner
“Alfred Waud”
Alfred Waud, artist and illustrator, was assigned to the Army of the Potomac to capture events of the American Civil War. His drawings and sketches were placed in newspapers throughout the nation. VIEW RECORDING: CLICK HERE
2025 Fourth Grader History Poster Reception
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“… the Battle of the Wilderness: …arguably, … the most important battle in the Civil War.
- Edwin C. Bearss, National Park Service Chief Historian Emeritus
May 9, 2014 at Hanover Tavern, VA
Let us introduce ourselves:
The Civil War Study Group at Lake of the Woods, Virginia, is dedicated to historical research, preservation, and education of the public on historic events in Orange County, Virginia and the surrounding area during the American Civil War. We have no dues, no membership roster, no requirements to attend meetings or volunteer for any of our projects. We hope you’ll join us in our mission to tell the story of the May 1864 Battle of the Wilderness, as well as other tales of the Civil War here in the historic Piedmont of Virginia.
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