SOME PAST DEEP DELTA CIVIL WAR SYMPOSIUMS
The Nineteenth Annual Deep Delta Civil War Symposium took place June 10-11, 2005.
The theme of the conference was "War on the Periphery: Commandos, Spies, Sailors, and the Human Cost of War."
The 2005 Symposium speakers and their topics included:
Mr. Terrence J. Winschel (Vicksburg National Military Park):Vicksburg is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River; The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle; Triumph & Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign; Vicksburg: Fall of the Confederate Gibraltar
Dr. William Feis (Buena Vista University, Iowa):The Worst Angels of Our Nature: Guerrilla Warfare in the American Civil War; Grant’s Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox
Mr. Kendall Gott (Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, KS): In Glory’s Shadow: In Service With the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment During the Persian Gulf War; Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign; Red Line in the Sand: The Military History of the Iraqi, 1915-2004
Dr. James Hollandsworth (University of Southern Mississippi):The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War; Pretense of Glory: The Life of General Nathaniel P. Banks; An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
Dr. Gary Joiner (Louisiana State University): Red River Steamboats; Historic Shreveport-Bossier City; One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864
Dr. Timothy Smith (Shiloh National Military Park): This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park; Champion Hill:Decisive Battle for Vicksburg; The Untold Story of Shiloh: Essays on the History of the Battle and Battlefield
Dr. William Still (Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii):"Confederate Naval Operations"
Dr. Jerry Thompson (Texas A&M International University): Civil War to the Bitter End: A Biography of General Samuel Peter “Sourdough” Heintzelman; History; The Civil War in the Southwest: Recollection of the Sibley Brigade
Dr. Brian Steel Wills (University of Virginia at Wise): The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forrest
THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL CIVIL WAR SYMPOSIUM TOOK PLACE JUNE 11-12, 2004 AT THE WAR MEMORIAL STUDENT UNION THEATER ON THE CAMPUS OF SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY IN HAMMOND, LOUISIANA
HERE IS A LIST OF THE FEATURED SPEAKERS AND THEIR TOPICS:
Dr. Stephen V. Ash (University of Tennessee): "Deliverance and Disillusion: Southern
Unionists, Yankee Invaders, and Wartime Reconstruction"
Mr. Stephen Davis (Writer, Blue and Gray Magazine): "Issues Affecting Jefferson Davis' Decision to Fire Joe Johnson"
Dr. Terry Jones (University of Louisiana at Monroe): "Campbell Brown's Civil War: A Staff Officer's View of Confederate Army Politics"
Dr. Craig Symonds (United States Naval Academy): "Cleburne's Memorial: The Issue of
Black Confederate Soldiers"
Dr. Brian Rucker (Pensacola Junior College): "Unionism in West Florida"
Dr. Herman Hattaway (University of Missouri-Kansas City): "Jefferson Davis and Confederate Politics"
Dr. Anne Bailey (Georgia College & State University): "Sherman and the South: Friend or Foe?"
Mr. Terry Winschel (Vicksburg National Military Park): "Unparalleled Significance:
Vicksburg and the Politics of the Civil War"
Mr. Gordon Rhea (Mt. Pleasant, SC): "Presidential Election Politics and the Battle of
Cold Harbor"
THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL DEEP DELTA CIVIL WAR SYMPOSIUM:
TAKING THE WAR TO THE YANKEES: CONFEDERATE OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
TOOK PLACE ON FRIDAY, JUNE 13, AND SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2003
AT THE WAR MEMORIAL STUDENT UNION THEATER
SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY
HAMMOND, LOUISIANA
The Deep Delta Civil War Symposium continued its tradition of bringing together nationally recognized historians for a scholarly discourse on the American Civil War. This year’s symposium featured nine of the nation’s finest Civil War scholars discussing themes, battles and personalities relative to an examination of Taking the War to the Yankees. Speakers and their topics included:
Dr. Gary Joiner (LSU Shreveport): "We Must Move Heaven and Earth:" Dick Taylor and Tom Green in the Red River Campaign of 1864
Stacy Allen (Chief Historian, Shiloh National Military Park): The Cost of Aggression: Confederate Counter-Offensives in the West, 1862
Dr. William Shea (University of Arkansas Monticello): "I Must Have St. Louis–then Huzzah!:" Earl Van Dorn in the Trans-Mississippir.
Dr. William N. Still (University of Hawaii): Grey Sharks, Blue Water: Confederate Commerce Raiders
Dr. Richard Lowe (University of North Texas): Van Dorn Takes the War to Grant: The Cavalry Raid at Holly Springs
Dr. Donald S. Frazier (Grady McWhiney Foundation): The Imperial Confederacy: Extending the Western Borders
Schuyler Kropf (Charleston's The Post and Courier newspaper) : The Submarine H.L. Hunley as an Offensive Weapon
Ted Alexander (Chief Historian, Antietam National Battlefield): Into a Cauldron of Fire: Louisiana Troops at Sharpsburg
Dr. Charles Roland (University of Kentucky): Alan Nolan Considered: Robert E. Lee in Caricature
THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL DEEP DELTA CIVIL WAR SYMPOSIUM
JUNE 7 AND 8, 2002
BLOODBATHS AND BLUNDERS:
THE HUMAN COST OF CHIVALRY AND INEPTITUDE 1861-1865
SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS AND THEIR TOPICS:
Dr. Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. (Leon Ford Chair and Director of the Center for Southeast
Louisiana Studies): "Welcome and Opening Remarks"
Dr. Glenn Robbins (Georgia Southwestern State University): "Bishop of the Old
South: The Civil War Legacy of Leonidas Polk"
Dr. James Hollandsworth (University of Southern Mississippi): "Nathaniel Banks in Two Valleys"
Terrence J. Winschel (Historian, Vicksburg National Military Park): "A Tragedy of Errors: Failures of the Confederate High Command During the Vicksburg Campaign"
Rev. Larry Daniel (Murray, Kentucky): "Bloodbaths and Blunders in the Western Theater"
Dr. Steven E. Woodworth (Texan Christian Universtiy): "Longstreet's Assault on Knoxville"
Dr. Brooks Simpson (Arizona State University): "From Cold Harbor to the Crater: The Frustrations of U.S. Grant"
Dr. Paul Anderson (Clemson University): Dr. William Parrill (Southeastern Louisiana University): "Violence, Memory and Loss in Three Civil War Films of the Silent Period"
Tim Smith (Historian, Shiloh National Military Park) "Literally Shattered to Fragments: The Destruction of the Last Confederate Offensive in Mississippi, October, 1862"
Dr. William Parrill (Southeastern Louisiana University): Professor of Communication and English, founding editor of Louisiana Literature and has published extensively on literature and film.
Charles N. Elliott (Assistant Director, Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies, Southeastern Louisiana University ): "Van Dorn's Comanche Gambit: Strategic and Logistical Blunders in the Baton Rouge Campaign of 1862"
THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL DEEP DELTA CIVIL WAR
SYMPOSIUM
JUNE 8-9, 2001
INTERPRETING THE CIVIL WAR: HISTORICAL
ACCURACY AMID THE CHALLENGE OF POLITICAL
SENSITIVITY
Our Speakers and their topics included:
Dr. Dwight T. Pitcaithley (Chief Historian, National Park Service): "Civil War History in a New Century: The National Park Service as an Educational Institution"
Dr. William Cooper, Jr. (Louisiana State University): "Jefferson Davis and the Nature of the Civil War"
Dr. Charles P. Roland (University of Kentucky): "Why the War Came"
Dr. Gaines Foster (Louisiana State University): "Possibilities and Problems in the Confederate Celebrations, 1865-1913"
Dr. Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. (Southeastern Louisiana University): "The Historical Development of the Myth of Southern Inferiority"
Dr. Edward C. Smith (American University): "Blacks in Blue and Gray"
Dr. Herman Hattaway (Universtity of Missouri at Kansas City): "The First Five Civil War Battlefield Parks"
Terrence J. Winschel (Historian, Vicksburg National Military Park): "Stephen D. Lee and the Making of an American Shrine"
Michael Martinez (Kennesaw State University): "Understanding the Debate over Confederate Symbols: Traditionalism versus Reconstructionists"
Jerry L. Russell (Civil War Round Table Associates; Heritagepac) "Battlefields Are About Honor"