Winter Lecture Series: Patrick A. Schroader, "The 160th Anniversary of the Appomattox Campaign."

Join the National Park Service (NPS) for the 4th Annual Winter Lecture Series at Camp Nelson National Monument! This event features 5 programs on select Saturdays beginning in January 2025. The programs take place at the Reconstructed Barracks and are free and open to the public.

Saturday, March 8, 2025: Patrick A. Schroeder, "The Appomattox Campaign," & "Myth's About Lee's Surrender."

Join Patrick A. Schroeder, Historian at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, as he delivers 2 presentations to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the campaign that sparked the end of the Civil War.

The Appomattox Campaign: Although relatively under-studied and largely forgotten, the campaign was the most decisive of the war. Revisit those battles from Five Forks and the fall of Petersburg to Sailor's Creek, and the battles of Appomattox. Personalities and incidents covered. This program will include the movements and actions of the 109th and 116th US Colored Troops organized in Louisville and at Camp Nelson.

Myths about Lee's Surrender: An hour-long talk covering some of the most interesting aspects from the books Thirty Myths about Lee's Surrender and More Myths about Lee's Surrender. An enlightening lecture telling what really happened at Appomattox—separating myth from fact.