Gettysburg National Military Park offers Winter Lecture Series

The 1st Minnesota Infantry, colorful and controversial Union General Dan Sickles, Abraham Lincoln, Confederate General Richard Ewell, and the July 1 battle for Herbst Woods are among the topics of a new National Park Service series of free winter lectures, Key Moments and Commanders of the Gettysburg Campaign at Gettysburg National Military Park.

National Park Rangers will offer the programs on weekends beginning Saturday, January 10 and running through Sunday, March 15. They are free of charge and will be held at the new Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center, in the Ford Motor Company Fund Education Center.

Programs begin at 1:30 p.m. and last approximately one hour. For more information, visit the Gettysburg National Military Park�s website at www.nps.gov/gett or call (717) 334-1124, ext. 8023.

Key Moments and Commanders of the Gettysburg Campaign

Gettysburg National Military Park Winter Series 2009

Saturdays and Sundays, 1:30 p.m.

Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center,

In the Ford Motor Company Fund Education Center

Week 1

Saturday, January 10

Key Moments: Longstreet Tries to Flank the Round Tops on July 3 � Troy Harman

Sunday, January 11

Commanders: General Alexander Hays and the Repulse of Longstreet's Assault - Karlton Smith

Week 2

Saturday, January 17

Commanders: Alexander Webb, Norman Hall, & Alonzo Cushing: Profiles of Successful Leaders � D. Scott Hartwig

Week 3

Saturday, January 24

Commanders: Daniel Sickles: The Colorful and Controversial Commander of Gettysburg - Matt Atkinson

Sunday, January 25

Key Moments: "A Final Resting Place:" The Establishment of the Soldiers� National Cemetery - Eric A. Campbell

Week 4

Saturday, January 31

Commanders: Strong Vincent and the Battle for Little Round Top � Tom Holbrook

Week 5

Saturday, February 7

Key Moments: Crisis at the Union Center � The Second Corps Front on July 2 - John Heiser

Sunday, February 8

Key Moments: "We drop a comrade�s tears" The 2nd New Hampshire at the Peach Orchard � Karlton Smith

Key Moments and Commanders of the Gettysburg Campaign

Week 6

Saturday, February 14

Commanders: Opportunity, Possibility, and Liability: Lee, E. P. Alexander, William Pendleton and the Great Cannonade of July 3 � Bert Barnett

Sunday, February 15

Commanders: "Day was now breaking and it was too late for any change of place;" Richard Ewell, Cemetery Hill & Memory - Angie Atkinson

Week 7

Saturday, February 21

Key Moments: "Take that hill if practicable" � Cemetery Hill and the End of the First Day�s Battle - Tom Holbrook

Sunday, February 22

Commanders: July 1, 1863 � Surprise or Surmise � Bill Hewitt

Week 8

Saturday, February 28

Key Moments: The 1st Minnesota Infantry on July 2 � Matt Atkinson

Sunday, March 1

Commanders: From �Forever Free� to �A New Birth of Freedom:� Abraham Lincoln in 1863" � Eric A. Campbell

Week 9

Saturday, March 7

Key Moments: �I Have Never Seen the Like Before� - The July 1 Battle for Herbst Woods - D. Scott Hartwig

Sunday, March 8

Commanders: "Much oppressed with a sense of responsibility:" George G. Meade Takes Command of the Army of the Potomac � Charles Teague

Week 10

Saturday, March 14

Commanders: Did Meade Begin a Counteroffensive after Pickett's Charge? - Troy Harman

Sunday, March 15

Key Moments: Hancock Takes Command � July 1 � Angie Atkinson