Date and Time
Friday Apr 30, 2021
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
Location
Zoom.
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Fees/Admission
Cost is $5 per person. Zoom Login details will be sent with your email registration confirmation.
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Contact Information
Lark Kennedy
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Description
Please join us for a Chambersburg Civil War Seminars & Tours Lecture Series!
Our next lecture will be: "The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War" given by Ken Noe.
Cost is $5 per person. Zoom Login details will be sent with your email registration confirmation.
Talk Synopsis:
Thanks to the El Nino phenomenon, the Civil War years were hardly typical when it came to the weather. Ken Noe will explain how that unusual weather decisively shaped both life on the home front and the outcomes of battles and campaigns.
Biography:
Ken Noe is a native Virginian who received his doctorate from the University of Illinois, and currently is the Draughon Professor of Southern History at Auburn University. He is the author or editor of eight books on the American Civil War, including Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle and most recently The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War.