Visiting Scholars Banquet 2024
Mr. Cooper Wingert: “Approach on Harrisburg: The Gettysburg Campaign’s Northernmost Reaches”
In June, 1863, Harrisburg braced for an invasion as the Confederate troops of Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell steadily moved toward the Pennsylvania capital. Capturing Carlisle en route, Ewell sent forth a brigade of cavalry under Brigadier General Albert Gallatn Jenkins to scout the defenses near Harrisburg. Historian Cooper Wingert, our 2024 Visiting Scholar, will trace the Confederates to the gates of Harrisburg in these northernmost actions of the Gettysburg Campaign.
Your ticket includes the lecture and buffet in the Dobbin House ballroom. Cash bar opens at 5:30, dinner served at 6:30 with the scholar’s presentation following dinner.
Cooper Wingert is a historian and the author of ten books about the Civil War and the Underground Railroad. His book, The Confederate Approach on Harrisburg won the James I Robertson, Jr. Award in 2012. He is currently taking his PhD in History at Georgetown University. For the 2023-2024 academic year, Wingert is a Predoctoral Fellow at the Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University. Wingert also serves as Assistant Director of the National Park Service project Slave Stampedes on the Southern Borderlands.
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