Bandy Heritage Center to host 2017 Civil War Colloquium
January 18, 2017
On Saturday, February 4, 2017, from 9:00am to 12:30pm, the Bandy Heritage Center for Northwest Georgia, will present the 2017 Civil War in the Western Theater Colloquium “Written in Blood and Carved in Stone: Remembering the Civil War at Chickamauga, Shiloh, and Vicksburg.” Three prominent scholars will discuss how the nation’s earliest military parks came into existence, how each contributed to the memory of the war, and how their commemoration of the historic landscape changed over time. This program is free and open to the public and will be held in the Lecture Hall of the Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center in Dalton, Georgia, in conjunction with the Chickamauga Civil War Show.
Jim Ogden, Chief Historian of the Chattanooga and Chickamauga National Park will begin the program at 9:15 with his presentation “Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military Park.” At 10:00am, Dr. Tim Smith of the University of Tennessee at Martin will present “This Great Battlefield of Shiloh. The third speaker, Michael Panhorst, will speak at 11:00am on ‘“Vicksburg National Military Park:’ The Art Park of the South.” The lectures will be followed by a discussion panel at 11:45am to 12:30pm.