The 2013 Civil War Institute begins
Friday at Gettysburg College and this year’s conference will be very special.
This year’s CWI begins less than two weeks before the beginning of the 150th
anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg.
This year’s CWI will cover the entire
year of 1863 but it will include a special concentration on the fight at
Gettysburg.
Some of the top Civil War scholars of
the day will speak at the 2013 CWI. They
include Gary Gallagher, Peter
Carmichael and Carol Reardon. Conference attendees have the opportunity for US
Army Staff Rides on the battlefield at Gettysburg and at Chancellorsville.
There are guided walks of Pickett’s Charge and other locations at Gettysburg.
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| Right flank marker for the 16th Michigan regiment on Little Round Top. |
Attending the CWI is an extraordinary
experience. You can meet and interact with the foremost experts on the subject.
You are thrown together with attendees who share your interest in the war and
the war’s era and you end up making friends with folks from all walks of life.
I typically fill a legal-sized
notebook with notes and thoughts gathered during the CWI. While I spend much of
the year doing my own research, the CWI is a chance to gather a lot of
information in a short time. If you came to your interest in the War late, the
CWI represents a chance to accelerate your learning curve.
The Civil War is a very complex
subject. Learning what happened and why is an amazing journey through time and
the CWI is one of the best parts of the journey. I recommend attending the
event to anyone interested in history.
Where else can you gather lots of
different viewpoints from the top people in the field in a short period of
time?
You might consider getting ahead of
the pack for next year’s conference and look at the CWI website online. The
topic, I think, will be the war in 1864. If history is your interest, you’ll
want to be there.
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