Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sever 11 was filled to overflowing last night with one of the largest audiences that have ever assembled in the room. The occasion was the first of the series of nine lectures on the "Campaigns of the Civil War," its special subject being the second battle of Bull Run. This battle grew out of Gen. Pope's failure to occupy the Confederate armies under Gen. Jackson and Gen. Longstreet, until the army of the Potomac, then operating about Richmond, could meet Lee's army. Gen. Gordon began his lecture by describing the strategic movement of "Stonewall" Jackson from his position...
...lectures on the campaigns of the Civil War under the auspices of the Historical Society, the first of which is to be given this evening in Sever 11, will be nine in number and will be given on successive Tuesday evenings. The subjects and lectures are as follows...
...Historical Society is to be congratulated upon its enterprise in planning and securing the course of lectures on the battles of the Civil War, the first of which is to be delivered this evening. The course as marked out is unique and ought to be highly popular. The majority of the lectures are to be given by gentlemen who were engaged in the operations described and who in addition have given particular study to the subjects of which they treat. Two or three of the lectures, however, will be given by civilians, but by gentlemen none the less competent...
...course does not undertake to describe completely the entire course of the campaigns of the Civil War in their endless detail. An attempt will rather be made to give a vivid impression of the war by describing graphically the more important battles, thus illustrating the more significant phases of the war and bringing out the bearing upon the general result of the particular events described. The lectures are to be illustrated by large special maps. Nearly all the lectures have been prepared with special reference to this course. Some difficulty has been experienced in filling out the list, as military...
...above is the first of a course of lectures on the campaigns of the Civil...