The period from 1861 to 1865 was America’s most intense national experience. The brutal war between the Confederate States of America and the United States of America continues to be one of the most researched, analyzed, and studied topics in American history.

The Atlanta Campaign was crucial to the Union’s success during the Civil War, and the Battle of Jonesboro effectively marked the end of the Atlanta Campaign. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s troops held the city for two and a half months before his famous march to the sea.

Distinguished historian Dr. Eugene Hatfield will discuss the Atlanta Campaign and the Battle of Jonesboro in a lecture at the National Archives at Atlanta on Saturday, June 27, 2009, at 2:00.

Dr. Hatfield’s lecture is a featured part of a program on the Civil War offered by The National Archives at Atlanta, in partnership with the Friends of the National Archives Southeast Region. In addition to Dr. Hatfield’s lecture, there will be workshops on resources for the study of the Civil War, and a lecture by Alan Huffman, author of Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the worst Maritime Disaster in American History. Workshops are from 10:00 – 12:00; Huffman’s lecture is at 1:00; and Hatfield’s lecture is at 2:00.

Dr. Hatfield, long-time chairman of the Social Sciences Department at Clayton State University, taught an extremely popular course on the Civil War for many years. He is a former president of the Georgia Civil War Commission, the Georgia Association of Historians, and the Friends of the Georgia Archives. He holds the Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

For more details and to register, please call 770-968-2100.

http://www.archives.gov/southeast/