Civil War Weekend 2026 schedule

Friday, March 27

6:00 p.m. Reception

7:00 p.m. Dinner

8:00 p.m. Welcome; Paul Quigley, “The Land Grant Revolution in U.S. Higher Education.” 

Saturday, March 28

7:30 a.m. Breakfast Buffet

9:00 a.m. Dawn Chitty, “Forging Freedom: Innovation and Impact of the USCT.”

10:00 a.m. Margaret Humphreys, “One Vast Medical School.”

11:00 a.m. Break

11:30 a.m. Stuart Marshall, "Rebellions in Indian Country: Innovations in Indigenous Governance." 

12:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m. Book signing

2:00 p.m. Sarah Kay Bierle, "The Winchester Accord: An Innovation of Humanity."

3:00 p.m. Sesquicentennial Finale Concert

6:00 p.m. Reception

7:00 p.m. Dinner

8:00 p.m. General U.S. Grant (portrayed by Dr. Curt Fields), “Grant’s Strategic Innovations.”

Sunday, March 29

7:30 a.m. Breakfast Buffet

9:00 a.m. Kurt Luther, “The Technology of Civil War Photography: Then and Now.”

10:00 a.m. Jonathan White, "Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War."