Young-Sanders Center

Red River Campaign Symposium

Young-Sanders Center will present to its members and the general public the Red River Campaign Symposium on September 22, 2007. Pre-registration for this one day event is $30.00 per person. Registration at the door will be $40.00 per person. Lunch is included in the registration fee. Your attendance and support will be greatly appreciated.

Importance of the Red River Campaign: Gary D. Joiner, Ph.D., (Louisiana State University; Shreveport-Bossier) He is the director of the Red River Regional Studies on the LSU-S campus. Mr. Joiner teaches Louisiana history, Civil War and Reconstruction, modern Middle East, ancient Greek history, Louisiana geography, remote sensing, and independent studies in history and geography.

Henry Gray’s Louisiana brigade at Mansfield: Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., Ph.D (United States Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.) Bergeron is a reference Historian with the United States Army Military Institute at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, where he has worked since February 2004.

Archaeology & History of the Union ironclad USS Eastport: Charles Pearson, Ph.D. is a senior Archaeologist with Coastal Environments, Inc., an environmental consulting firm headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A native of Georgia, he now resides in Appomattox, Virginia.

History of Fort DeRussy: Steve Mayeux is the President of the Friends of Fort DeRussy, Inc. He graduated from LSU in 1972; Masters Degree from LSU in 1975. He presently works as an agriculture consultant in Central Louisiana. Steve is particularly interested in the War in the Red River Valley. He is in possession of a nearly complete set of gunboat logbooks for CW Naval activity on the Red River.

Schedule

9:00                Registration, Coffee, Doughnuts

9:30                Importance of the Red River Campaign:
                           Gary D. Joiner, Ph.D., Historian, LSU Shreveport

10:30           History of Fort DeRussy:
                           Steven Mayeux, Historian, Cottonport, La.

1:30               Lunch included in registration fee

1:00                Archaeology & History of the USS Eastport:
                            Charles Pearson, Ph.D., Archaeologist/Historian,
                            Appomattox, Va.

2:00                Henry Gray’s Louisiana Brigade at Mansfield
                            Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., Ph.D., Historian, Shippensburg, Pa

3:00                Roundtable Discussion

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Registration

Name________________________________________________________

Address______________________________________________________

City__________________________________State___________________

Phone Number_____________________E-Mail______________________

Pre-Registration Fee:         ( ) $30.00                Payable to:
Walk on Registration         ( ) $40.00                  Young-Sanders Center
1 (337) 413-1861 Office                                      P. O. Box 595
                                                                            Franklin, Louisiana 70538

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Young-Sanders Center
For the Study of the War Between the States in Louisiana
701 Teche Drive
Franklin, Louisiana 70538