We're looking forward to Michael K. Shaffer speaking at both Appomattox and Richmond later this month. Make plans to come out on October 26^th in Richmond and October 27^th in Appomattox. Dr.

Ahead of our annual Elizabeth Roller Bottimore lecture, we asked our two speakers - Dr. Edward Ayers and Dr. Gary Gallagher - to answer two questions. The lecture is currently sold out, but you can sign up for the waiting list now. 

Have the intense public discussion about the Civil War in the wake of Charleston and Charlottesville affected your own approaches to the study of the Civil War?

Make plans to join us for a book talk this Saturday with John Reeves. In his book, The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee, Reeves tells the story of the forgotten legal and moral case that was made against the Confederate general after the Civil War. The actual indictment went missing for 72 years. Over the past 150 years, the indictment against Lee after the War has both literally and figuratively disappeared from our national consciousness. The talk is included with Museum admission. Mr.

Join us this Saturday for a Book Talk with Michael Hardy. Mr. Hardy was kind enough to answer a couple questions ahead of this Saturday's talk. 

How did you become interested in your topic and what about your work still fascinates you?

Plan to come out for this Thursday's Foundry Series, The 14th Amendment and Birthright Citizenship, with Dr. Martha Jones of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Jones was kind enough to answer a couple questions to get you thinking before the event on Thursday night.

By Guest Blogger Brig. Gen. John Mountcastle 

On April 3, 1865, Federal troops prepared to march into Richmond. A cavalry detachment under Majors Stevens and Graves moved up the Osborne Turnpike, east of Richmond. Here they met Richmond Mayor Joseph Mayo and a small party moving toward them in a carriage flying a white flag.  The Mayor passed a note to Stevens advising him that Confederate forces had withdrawn from Richmond and asking that Federal troops occupy the city, some parts of which were on fire.

Tonight's Foundry Series event, Women Soldiers in the Civil War, features DeAnne Blanton, archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration. After the lecture, DeAnne Blanton will participate in a panel discussion with Claire Gastanaga, ACLU of Virginia; Dr. Leisa Meyer, Diversity Richmond; and Dr. Francoise Bonnell, Director of the Army Women's Museum. We were fortunate enough to get to ask several questions of DeAnne and Leisa before tonight's event.

By Dr. Lauranett Lee
University of Richmond