Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Eastern National Bookstore, The Department of History, Political Science, & Philosophy and the Center for Southside Virginia History at Longwood University will host the 19th annual free Civil War Seminar at Jarman Auditorium on the Longwood University campus in Farmville on Saturday, Feb. 3, a news release regarding the event cited.

This year’s program will feature a number of speakers that will focus on “some of the ways that the war impacted the home front,” the release cited.

No registration is required and parking is available on campus. Doors open at 8:30 a.m. with introduction and seminars beginning at 9 a.m. The seminar will conclude at 4 p.m., the release cited.

Speakers to include Dr. David Coles, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy, Longwood University; Gary W. Gallagher – Robert E. Lee’s Generalship: Politics, Public Morale, and Confederate Prospects for Victory, Ralph Peters – Leaders Known, Leaders Forgotten: Command and Character in the Civil War; Edwin C. Bearss – Recollections of Appomattox, Judith Giesberg – Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography and the Making of American Morality and John W. Mountcastle – When War Came This Way: The Women’s War.

Parking available on Longwood University campus.

Lunch is available for purchase at the Longwood University Dining Hall. For more information about the programs being presented, visit www.nps.gov/apco or for questions contact Dr. David Coles at (434) 395-2220 or Patrick Schroeder at (434) 352-8987 Ext. 232.