Meeting to focus on Confederate surrenders

The Harrisburg Civil War Round Table will meet on Saturday, June 10, at the Central Penn College Conference Center, 600 Valley Road, Summerdale. Doors will open at 6 p.m., and a buffet dinner of espresso and black pepper-rubbed sliced beef, potato-crusted salmon fillet, olive oil roasted potatoes, green beans with mushrooms, mixed field greens, soup du jour, cookies, rolls and butter, and drinks will be served at 6:45 p.m. Anyone who wishes to attend the lecture only should arrive by 7:30 p.m. The lecture will also be broadcast via Zoom.

Caroline E. Janney will discuss "Lee's Army After Appomattox." Her presentation will be based on her book "Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army After Appomattox," winner of the 2022 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize.

Janney is the John L. Nau III professor of the American Civil War and director of the John L. Nau Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. A graduate of the University of Virginia, she worked as a historian for the National Park Service and taught at Purdue University before returning to Virginia in 2018. She is a speaker with the Organization of American Historians' Distinguished Lectureship program and has appeared on History Channel programs on Grant and Lincoln. She serves as a co-editor of the University of North Carolina Press' Civil War America Series and is the past president of the Society of Civil War Historians. She has published seven books.

There is a fee for dinner, payable at the door; reservations for the dinner are required by Sunday, June 4, by contacting Brian Foster at hcwrt.membership@gmail.com or 717-962-6122. For more information, including the Zoom link, visit https://harrisburgcwrt.org or contact Stephen Smith, program chair, at 717-433-0209.

Founded in 1959, the Harrisburg Civil War Round Table offers a forum for study and discussion of the American Civil War.

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