The Norwich University Peace and War Center will present "The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns: Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare, 1864-1865," a presentation by 2018 William E. Colby Award Winner and Vermont author Steven E. Sodergren on Thursday, Oct. 4, at 7:00 p.m. in the new Mack Hall auditorium in Northfield.
This lecture is free and open to the public. Parking is available in Lot F on Central Street; Accessible parking is available in front of Mack Hall on Harmon Drive. This lecture will be streamed live online via ORCA Media. Link available on Colby.norwich.edu
Sodergren's evening lecture is the keynote in a full day of guest historians, presentations, and book signings on the Norwich campus, all free and open to the public and centered around the Civil War and presented in partnership with the Saint Albans Museum.
At 2:00 p.m. in the Kreitzberg Library, undergraduate Thaddeus Booth Trudo'20 will present his research on Vermont sharpshooters in the Civil War.
At 3:00 p.m., a book signing will take place in the Kreitzberg Library featuring guest authors Howard Coffin, author of "The Battered Stars," "Full Duty, Guns Over the Champlain Valley," and "Nine Months to Gettysburg;" Brian Matthew Jordan, author of "Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War;" Kevin M. Levin, author of "Remembering The Battle of the Crater: War as Murder," and Colby Award winner Steven E. Sodergren. Books will be available for sale on site.
For more information, visit Colby.norwich.edu
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