I can speak anywhere in the TX Division. All I ask is a little help with expenses.
I usually speak on the status of the SCV, on all levels, and the problems we have faced and those we are still dealing with.
Confederation States Acculturation Under Duress
(1) Sabine Pass; (2) Brigadier General Micah Jenkins; (3) Brigadier General Randall Lee Gibson (founder of Tulane University)
General Civil War history and discussion – www.waltercoffey.com
(1) Various Jefferson Davis topics; (2) The Plot to Burn New York City
(1) A Confederate Infantryman’s Travels through the Western AND Eastern Theaters; (2) Introduction to Confederate Sharpshooters
Why African origin chattel slavery rather than another form of agricultural labor?
Lee’s Legacy of Faith and Chivalry
(1 )Leaders and Leadership; (2) Strategy and Tactics; (3) Artillery; (4) Chaplains; (5) Battles of Gettysburg, Sharpsburg, Manassas (1 & 2) (6) My relative, Major Roberdeau Chatham Wheat, Commander of 1st Louisiana Special Battalion (“Wheat’s Tigers”)
(1) The Black Confederate (2) The Confederate Chaplain (3) The Culture of the Confederate States (4) Another Look at Six Myths of the Lost Cause (5) The Enlisted Confederate Soldier (6) Martyrs For The Confederate Cause (7) The Confederate Military Cadet (8) Abraham Lincoln: His Religion & Views On Race (9) Flags Of The Confederacy (10) Union Soldiers & Their Yankee Atrocities (11) The Hard Hand Of War (12) Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Robert E. Lee at War series
Author of 28 published works on Napoleonic and American military history and winner of 11 literary awards. All presentations are in PowerPoint, including the following:
(1) many Robert E. Lee topics during The War that are developed within the multi-volume “Robert E. Lee at War” book series, including various aspects encompassing Lee’s tenure as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia (his campaigns, battles and art of art). Among the topics within this genre include the specific presentations titled “Fearless Under Fire: How Robert E. Lee Commanded the Army of Northern Virginia,” as well as “Lee and Jackson: A Study in Command Relationship—April 1861 to May 1863,” “Lee and the Great Captains: How Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick the Great, Napoleon and Others Directly Influenced Lee’s Generalship,” and “Robert E. Lee’s Art of War” as presented in 2017 at Arlington House for the National Park Service; (2) many topics covering Lee before The War and the first year of the conflict encompassing the “Jefferson Davis-Winfield Scott-Robert E. Lee Feud” as well as the “Robert E. Lee In Texas” discussions; (3) specific topics related to the book, Last Chance for Victory: Robert E. Lee and the Gettysburg Campaign (Winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman American History Award and other literary awards), including talks on each day of the battle and command relationships at the battle; (4) topics covering Lee after The War, including the presentation “You Only Have to Blow the Bugle” given at the SD Lee Institute in Dallas in 2015 and for the National Park Service in 2017 at Arlington House; (5) non-battle-related talks, including “A Soldier’s Heart, You Know, Is Divided Between Love and Glory: Why Women Loved Robert E. Lee.” (6) Lone Star Flag to the Top: Robert E. Lee and the Texas Brigade