Charleston Museum Civil War Week 1996
3rd. Annual Civil War Week at the Charleston Museum.
April 11 - 14, 1996
Drawing- C.S.S H. L. Hunley Submarine
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Introduction, Tickets, Visitor's Information
The Charleston Museum is pleased to announce the schedule for the third annual Civil War Week. Unless otherwise noted, events will be held at the museum, 360 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC 29403.
Charleston visitors information is available online.
For specific questions about Civil War Week or the museum telephone (803) 722-2996 or fax (803) 722-1784. Faxes should include name, address and phone number. A form for advance ticket orders is available on request.
Schedule for Civil War Week
Thursday, April 11
6:00 pm Opening Reception and...
7:00 pm Keynote Address: The Challenge of the Hunley $20.00
by Senator Glenn McConnell
Friday, April 12
9:30 am Bus Tour: The James Island Defenses by Willis Keith $35.00
10:00 am Civil War Walking Tour (For starting location & fee call Charleston Walks 577-3800)
10:00 am Harbor Tour: Keeping the Yankees at Bay by Dr. Charles Peery $35.00
11:00 am Film: The Hunley FREE
2:00 pm Lecture: Discovering the Hunley by Dr. Charles Peery $ 5.00
4:00 pm A Conversation with James Kloeppel,
Author of Danger Beneath the Waves a book on the Hunley (Limited to 40 participants) $10.00
7:00 pm Lecture: The Conservation of Holland I - the Royal Navy's first Submarine by Commander J.J. Tall #6 $ 5.00
Saturday, April 13th
(Today Only - Museum Admission is Half-Price!)
9:30 am Bus Tour: The James Island Defenses by Willis Keith $35.00
10:00 am Civil War Walking Tour (For starting location and fee call Charleston Walks 577-3800)
10:00 am Harbor Tour: Keeping the Yankees at Bay by Dr. Charles Peery $35.00
10 am - 2 pm 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Encampment & Living History Demonstrations (Museum Admission) $ 3.00
11:00 am Film: The Hunley FREE
2:00 pm Lecture: South Carolina and the Confederate Congress
by Dr. Kenneth Martis $ 5.00
4:00 pm Civil War Walking Tour (For starting location & fee call Charleston Walks 577-3800)
4:00 pm Film: The Hunley FREE
7:00 pm Lecture: The Blue, the Gray & the Pink: The Sexual Side of the Civil War by Dr. Thomas Lowry $ 5.00
Sunday, April 14th
10:00 am Civil War Walking Tour (For starting location & fee call Charleston Walks 577-3800)
10:00-4:00 pm 10th. SC Volunteer Infantry Reenactors Encampment & Living History Demonstrations (Museum Admission) $ 6.00
2:00 pm Lecture: The Effects of the War on the Pringle Family by Richard Cote $ 5.00
4:00 pm Civil War Walking Tour (For starting location & fee call Charleston Walks 577-3800)
7:00 p.m. Lecture - How Hollywood Treats History by Ronald Maxwell
Events & Tours
Special Civil War Exhibit
This special exhibit at The Charleston Museum includes the original Ordinance of Secession and the Declaration of the Causes of Secession (on loan from the SC Department of Archives and History).
Living History Demonstrations
Small encampments and demonstrations of period activities will take place in The Charleston Museum courtyard. Historian Gary Remy, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment Reenactors and the 10th South Carolina Regiment Reenactors will recreate daily activities and military procedures.
Keeping the Yankees at Bay
Board the schooner Pride for a two-hour narrated tour of Charleston Harbor. See Morris Island (1865), Ft. Ripley, Castle Pinckney (the first fort captured by the South) and, of course, Ft. Sumter. A tour of Ft. Sumter is not included. The boat leaves from the Ripley Light Marina (Take Albemarle Road / Marina is located next to California Dreaming Restaurant).
The James Island Defenses
A guided tour by bus will provide a special insight into the defense of Charleston. The first stop is McLeod Plantation, owned by Historic Charleston Foundation. This site was used as a Confederate unit headquarters, commissary and hospital and also as Federal officers quarters and a hospital. The tour will then proceed to the Dill Sanctuary, owned by The Charleston Museum, and includes a walk to Battery Pringle. Both sites are open to conference participants only.
Civil War Walking Tour
A leisurely stroll through the citys French quarter and along its mansion-lined waterfront (in 1865) to the historic Battery will show not only the political and military strategy involved in the siege of Charleston, but also how Charlestonians endured this tragic era.
The Age of Great Possessions
A special exhibit currently on display presents artifacts of life in Victorian Charleston, including the war period. Portions of the museum's estensive collection of Civil War artifacts will also be on display including weapons, uniforms, photographs and period silver.
Civil War Week Featured Speakers
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Sen. Glenn F. McConnell
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A graduate of the College of Charleston, Senator McConnell received his law degree from the University of South Carolina Law School. He was first elected to the S.C. State Senate in 1980 and is the recipient of numerous awards. In addition to serving on seventeen legislative committees, Senator McConnell is chair of the Hunley Commission.
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Mr. Willis J. Keith
- A Charleston native and graduate of Wofford college, Mr. Keith is a board member of the S.C. Battleground Preservation Trust and also a member of the Charleston Civil War Round Table. He is employed by the Fisheries Management Division of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.
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Dr. Charles V. Peery
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A graduate of Duke Medical School, Dr. Peery is a native of Kenston, N.C., the home of the ram Neuse. In 1956 he participated in the recovery of a Brooke gun from the Neuse and in 1968 co-founded a non-profit organization for underwater archaeology and blockade running research. He has taught classes in underwater archaeology and has been a featured speaker at the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Pennsylvania, the Merseyside Museum at Liverpool, and The Charleston Museums Civil War Week 1995.
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Mr. James E. Kloeppel
- After receiving his degree from Morningside College, Mr. Kloeppel worked as a technician at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. It was here that he gathered much of the historical information for his first book, Realm of the Long Eyes. Kloeppel is currently employed as a science writer at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Cmdr. J.J. Tall
A submariner for 28 years, Tall retired from the Royal Navy in 1994 to accept the position of Director of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum. He has commanded four submarines and is a recipient of the Order of the British Empire.
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Dr. Kenneth C. Martis
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Since receiving his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Michigan, Dr. Martis has received national recognition and awards for his series of historical atlases on U.S. Congressional Districts and political parties. His most recent book is entitled, The Historical Atlas of the Congresses of the Confederate States of America:1861-1865. Dr. Martis is a Professor of Geography at West Virginia University.
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Dr. Thomas P. Lowry
- A graduate of Stanford Medical School, Dr. Lowry is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War (1994) , The Attack on Taranto: Blueprint for Pearl Harbor (1995) and is presently at work on Tarnished Eagles:the Court Martials of Forty Union Colonels.
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Mr. Richard N. Cote
- A graduate of Butler College in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he majored in history and political science, Cote writes for both scholarly and commercial markets. He currently writes, ghostwrites or edits several books each year. His latest book, Rice and Ruin (excerpt) will be published later this year.
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Mr. Ronald F. Maxwell
After receiving his masters degree from New York Universitys Institute of Film and Television, Maxwell wrote, directed and produced numerous plays for the Theater in America series. His film credits include The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, Parent Trap II, and Gettysburg which he wrote and directed. He is currently in pre-production for Joan of Arc.
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