"CELEBRATING OUR AMERICAN HERITAGE" SERIES CONTINUES - The Battle of First Manassas:
Ledbetter Auditorium
6:30 PM
Columbia State Community College will host Celebrating Our American Heritage XXV. This fall marks the 25th anniversary of the series which will be held on Thursday evenings throughout October from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Ledbetter Auditorium located in the Frank G. Clement building on the Columbia campus. This year, the series will focus on historical milestones from the Sesquicentennial of the beginning of the Civil War to the 200th anniversary of what many consider to be the first battle of the War of 1812. The series is free and open to the public.
The Battle of First Manassas will be presented on Thursday, October 20 by Dr. William X. Andrews, recently retired professor of history at Columbia State. This lecture will focus on personalities, strategy and tactics attending the first major military confrontation of the American Civil War. It will also include a discussion of the consequences of the battle, how it altered public perceptions about glory, how it influenced Lincoln's views on sacrifice and how it helped to transform the struggle into what would ultimately become a nineteenth-century version of total war.