Conference Schedule

 

Friday 10/12/2018

8:00 AM – Open/Registration

9:45 AM – Welcoming Remarks

10:00 AM – The Confederate Surgeons General presented by Guy R. Hasegawa, Pharm.D.

11:00 AM – Vaccination Pure and Spurious: The Confederate Vaccination Crisis of the Civil War presented by Dr. Robert Hicks

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM – Lunch

1:15 PM – The Army of Northern Virginia’s Medical Corps in the Gettysburg Campaign presented by Kevin Pawlak

2:15 PM – Revealing the Chaos and Carnage of the Hospitals of First Manassas presented by Paige Gibbons Backus

3:15 PM – Break

3:30 PM – Modern-Day Military Medicine presented by CAPT Frank K. Butler, MD, US Navy (Ret.) – Winner of the 10^th Annual Jonathan Letterman Award

4:30 PM – Trying to Cure Cowardice presented by Dr. Peter Carmichael

5:30 PM – End of Day 1

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM – Happy House with Staff

 

Saturday, 10/13/2018

7:30 AM – Open

8:30 AM – After Letterman: The Army of the Potomac’s Medical Department in the Overland Campaign presented by Jake Wynn

9:30 AM – Flowers to Pharmaceuticals: Lessons from a 19th Century Medicinal Garden presented by Greg Susla, Pharm.D.

10:30 AM – Break

10:45 AM – “The Suffering We Get Used To:” Sensory History and Civil War Nurses presented by Melissa DeVelvis

11:45 AM – Break & Box Lunch

12:30 PM – Load Bus at Gettysburg Hotel

1:00 PM – Arrive at Seminary Ridge Museum

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM – Guided Tour of the Seminary Ridge Museum

5:00 PM – Optional Walking/Pub Tour

Sunday, 10/14/2018

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM – Meet and load bus

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM – Travel to Gettysburg Battlefield

9:00 AM – 1:00 PM – Battlefield Tour with Wayne Motts of the National Civil War Museum

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM – Travel back to Gettysburg Hotel

1:30 PM – Thank yous and good-byes