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Houston Museum of Natural Science

The Gettysburg Event by Brian Matthew Jordan and Ed W. Clark

Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2016

06:30 PM
US/Central

Recognized as having the most casualties of any other engagement, the Battle of Gettysburg is noted as the turning point of Civil War in 1863. Traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, now Dr. Brian Jordan has mined previously untapped archives—soldiers' anguished letters and diaries, and gruesome medical reports—to trace a Union regiment's shocking transition from the battlefield to the home front.

Instead of being welcomed home as heroes, these veterans—tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions—tragically realized that they stood as unwelcome reminders to a new America eager to heal, forget and embrace the freewheeling bounty of the Gilded Age.

About the Lecture

Also speaking this evening, will be Ed W. Clark, Superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park, who will address the current state of affairs at Gettysburg. A book signing of Dr. Jordan's Pulitzer Prize-nominated book "Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War" will follow the lecture.

This program is co-sponsored by the Gettysburg Foundation.

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