Symposium: "A Day With Mosby"

10/02/2010

Where: Winchester/Frederick County Conservation Club, The Arnold Building (500 Siler Rd., Winchester)
When: 10am - 5pm, Saturday, October 2, 2010
Cost:  $8 per person (symposium only), or $20 per person (includes meal of BBQ chicken half, potato salad, baked beans, roll and drink).

This Mosby Symposium Fund Raiser is co-sponsored by Turner Ashby Chapter 184 UDC and Turner Ashby Camp 1567 Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Featured guest speakers include Eric Buckland, Dave Goetz, Chuck Mauro, and Don Hakenson.

Eric Buckland, author of Mosby’s Keydet Rangers.
Featured Topic: “Biographical Sketches of Some of Mosby’s Men”

Dave Goetz, author of The Postwar Relationship Between John Singleton Mosby and Ulysses S. Grant and owner of Mosby’s Confederacy Tours.
Featured Topic: “The Postwar Relationship Between John Singleton Mosby and Ulysses S. Grant”

Chuck Mauro, speaker, producer, and director of Mosby’s Combat Operations in Fairfax County.
Featured Topic: “Laura Ratcliffe, Confederate Spy and Her Relationship with John S. Mosby”

Don Hakenson, published author of several books and articles pertaining to the war and Mosby.
Featured Topic: “Little Known Stories of Mosby’s Rangers”

Also featuring period music, prize drawings, book signing, and special presentations.

Proceeds to benefit an Arkansas state monument for the twenty Confederate soldiers of the 3rd Arkansas buried at Stonewall Cemetery, within Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia, to be dedicated June 6th, 2011, our Sesquicentennial ceremony. Presently Arkansas is the largest of two sections without a state monument or state flag representation.

More information can be obtained at our website: http://www.turnerashby184.com