CIvil War Exhibit and Discussion Series at UWG

The public is invited to a reception and performance by the Cowtown String Band on Friday, Dec. 9 at 6:00 p.m. on the newly-renovated main floor of Ingram Library at the University of West Georgia. The Cowtown String Band will explore the influence of the Civil War on America’s musical heritage as a prelude to a series of events the library will host to recognize the sesquicentennial of the Civil War and emancipation.

The Ingram Library is one of 65 libraries nationwide, and one of four in Georgia, receiving grants to host the series which will encourage participants to consider the legacy of the Civil War and emancipation.

A new exhibit featuring Civil War artifacts and materials from the library’s Special Collections is on display in the ground floor atrium of Ingram Library through March 2012.

The Fannie Hargrave collection features letters and daguerreotypes of a Carroll County bride whose Confederate officer husband was killed in a raid in Cedartown. Another letter from a Coweta County soldier informs a Villa Rica woman with seven children how her Confederate soldier husband died of dysentery and measles in Mississippi.

The exhibit is held in conjunction with the five-part reading and discussion series. “Let’s Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War,” which will begin on Sunday, January 15, with subsequent discussions on alternate Sunday afternoons through March 11.

UWG history professor Keith Bohanan, leads the discussion. 

Registration is open to members of the community, as well as to university affiliates.