Lexington, Kentucky
Thursday, June 3 - Sunday, June 6, 2010
What is Included | Registration | Schedule | Tours
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What is Included in the Annual Conference
Join CWPT members and staff, along with some of the nation's elite historians for four days of camaraderie and Civil War touring at some of America's great Civil War battlefields. Feel free to invite friends and family to attend, anyone is welcome to register.
Conference Registration Fee for Battle in the Bluegrass: The Fight for Kentucky Includes:
Tours
Tour guides
Coaches
Conference program
Name tags
breakfast, lunch, a reception, and a Saturday banquet
... And more!
Fee does not include hotel registration; attendees must make their own reservations. See hotel information »
Tentative Schedule of Events
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
6 to 9 pm Registration open
Thursday, June 3, 2010
6:30 am to 8:00 am - Breakfast buffet
7:30 am to 2:00 pm - Registration Open
8:00 am to Noon - History Talks
8:00 am to 12:30 pm - Tour off site for Color Bearers
8:00 am to 6:00 pm - Exhibits open
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm - Opening lunch
2:30 pm to 5:00 pm - Panel discussions/Lectures
5:00 pm to 5:45 pm - Book signing
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm - Author Dinner for Color Bearers
Friday, June 4, 2010
6:30 am to 8:00 am - Breakfast buffet
7:00 am to 9:00 am - Exhibits open
8:00 am to 5:00 pm - Off-site touring
5:00 pm to 9:00 pm - Exhibits open
Saturday, June 5, 2010
6:30 am to 8:00 am - Breakfast buffet
7:00 am to 9:00 am - Exhibits open
7:30 am to 5:00 pm - Off-site touring
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm - Exhibits open
6:30 pm to 10:30 pm - Reception, Banquet and Awards Ceremony
Sunday, June 6, 2010
8:00 am to 9:00 am - Civil War History Talk
8:00 am to 11:00 am - Exhibits open
9:00 am to 10:30 am - Closing Breakfast buffet; Question and Answer Session with CWPT President, Jim Lighthizer
Tours & Speakers
Tours to Include:
Battle of Perryville Bus Tour (offered on Friday AND Saturday)
Historians: Kurt Holman and John Walsh
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Perryville is the largest and bloodiest battle ever fought in Kentucky, and ended the last serious Confederate invasion of the state. Your tour will discuss the battle's major movements and locations, including the Perryville Battlefield Visitor Center, the Open Knob/Starkweather Hill area, Sinkhole Valley, the Bottom Farm, and the Dixville Crossroads, the High Water Mark of the Confederacy in the West. As a bonus, this tour will include a special wagon tour of the Overstreet Property, where several key movements and actions occurred during the battle.
Battle of Perryville Hiking Tour (offered on Friday AND Saturday)
Historian: Chris Kolakowski
Special Note: This is an all day strenuous hiking tour. Please be advised that there will be no time on the bus once our group is dropped off at the beginning of the tour.
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Perryville is the largest and bloodiest battle ever fought in Kentucky, and ended the last serious Confederate invasion of the state. Your tour will hike the field and examine in detail the movements and actions that determined the outcome of the battle. After a stop at the visitor center, we will hike the Open Knob/Starkweather Hill part of the field, followed by an excursion southward through Sinkhole Valley and the Bottom Farm. We will end up at the Dixville Crossroads, the High Water Mark of the Confederacy in the West. Time permitting, we will drive to downtown Perryville and examine the first street fighting of the Civil War.
Battle of Mill Springs (offered on Friday AND Saturday)
Historian: Richard McMurry
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The Union victory here in January 1862 secured Eastern Kentucky for the Union and started the Civil War career of George Thomas. Much of the battlefield is preserved today. Your tour will take you to the new Mill Springs Battlefield Visitor Center, the Mill Springs National Cemetery, the site of Felix Zollicoffer's death, the Confederate winter quarters and fortified camp, and end at the Cumberland River where the steamship Noble Ellis evacuated the Confederates after the battle.
Battle of Richmond (offered on Friday AND Saturday)
Historian: Phil Seyfrit
Special Note: Photo ID may need to be available to attend this tour.
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Experience the route in which Major General Edmund Kirby Smith's veteran Confederates approached the Bluegrass, virtually annihilating Major General William “Bull” Nelson's Federal Army of Kentucky in the process. Tour Stops will include, but are not limited to, the brand new Battle of Richmond Visitors Center, housed in the 1811 Rogers House, the Pleasant View House and Farm, and the historic Mt. Zion Church, which served as both a Union and Confederate hospital during and after the battle.
Morgan's Raids: Part 1 (Friday only)
Historian: Kent Brown
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A full day field tour encompassing John Hunt Morgan's first (July 1862) and last (June 1864) Kentucky raids, as well as his operations during the invasion of Kentucky (Fall 1862). We will travel through some of the most exquisite countryside in Kentucky, from Versailles to Midway, Georgetown, Cynthiana and Augusta on the Ohio River, tracing the paths of Morgan's commands, the four battles at Cynthiana and the engagements at Augusta and the Henry Clay Estate in Lexington. Lunch will be served at the historic Beehive Inn (circa 1796) overlooking the Ohio River at Augusta, Kentucky.
Morgan's Raids: Part 2 (Saturday only)
Historian: Kent Brown
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A full day field tour encompassing John Hunt Morgan's Christmas Raid (December 1862) and his Great Raid (July 1863). We will travel all the way to the site of the battle at Tebb's Bend (July 4, 1863) on the Green River, the first engagement of Morgan's Great Raid, then to Lebanon, the site of the bloody engagement on July 5. From Lebanon, we will journey to historic Bardstown for lunch at the Talbot Tavern (circa 1795) and then travel to Brandenburg, Kentucky on the Ohio River where Morgan's division crossed the Ohio on its Great Raid through Indiana and Ohio. We will then return by way of the sites of the trestles of the L&N Railroad that Morgan burned during his Christmas Raid and the wounding of Colonel Basil W. Duke.
Kentucky Today (Friday only)
Tour Leader: Kim Davenport
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Enjoy a day of discovering the beauty that is Kentucky today. Highlights of this tour include a tour at a Bourbon Distillery, a Winery, and finishing up with the majestic Kentucky Horse Park, which will be the location of the 2010 Equestrian Games in September 2010.
Battle and Siege of Mundfordville/Battle of Rowlett's Station
Historian: Tres Seymore
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Long hidden in the bloody shadows of Antietam and Perryville, discover the place some have begun calling the "high water mark of the Confederacy in the West". Arrive at the historic Anthony Woodson House to begin an extensive tour of the 220-acre Batle for the Bridge Historic Preserve, site of the overlapping battlefields of two nationally significant Civil War battles, the training grounds of the notorious John Hunt Morgan, a war-long Union occupation ... and one of the most bizarre stories of the entire Civil War. Walking level: Easy to moderate.
Historic Kentucky
Tour Leader: Kim Davenport
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This tour will tour two historic homes, and then spending the afternoon at historic Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill. Lunch will be served on the Dixie Belle Paddle Wheeler, which runs down the Kentucky River.
Color Bearer Tours
Camp Nelson and Lexington Cemetery
Historian: Kent Brown
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The Lexington Cemetery is one of America's most magnificent and historic rural cemeteries. Buried there are among the luminaries of Kentucky's role in the Civil War, including Confederate Generals John C. Breckinridge, Randall E. Gibson, John Hunt Morgan, Basil W. Duke, Abraham Buford and Roger W. Hanson and Union General Gordon Granger. Confederate Colonels Richard Morgan, Roy S. Cluke, Hart Gibson, W.C.P. Breckinridge, Dabney H. Smith, J. Warren Grigsby, Thomas Hunt, John C. Wickliffe and Willis Field Jones, and Union Colonels Sanders Bruce and Hubbard K. Milward and his brother, W.R. Milward, are buried there, along with noted political figures Henry Clay, Robert J. Breckinridge and even Thomas Jefferson's Attorney General and author of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, John Breckinridge. Also buried there are the family members of Mary Todd Lincoln, including her three half-brothers who were Confederate officers and her half-sisters who married Confederate officers, one of whom was a brigadier general.
Civil War Frankfort Walking Tour
Historian: Russ Hatter
Invited Speakers and Scholars Include:
Kent Masterson Brown, Christopher Kolakowski, Richard McMurry and Richard Sommers.
Hotel
Hilton Lexington Downtown Hotel and Conference Center
369 West Vine Street
Lexington, KY 40507
Hotel Cost: $129/night
For reservations
Call 1-877-539-1648 for reservations. You must give them the group name "Civil War Preservation Trust" to get the special rate.
For online reservations, please go to http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/LEXDTHF-CIVWAR-20100528/index.jhtml. The Group/Convention code is CIVWAR. Reservations must be made by Tuesday, May 11, 2010 to ensure the CWPT rate.
Transportation
Lexington Blue Grass Airport (LEX) is the closest airport, located approximately 6 miles from the hotel. Get directions from airport to hotel »
The hotel has a free shuttle service from the Lexington Airport to the hotel. It runs every half hour. No reservations are required. For more information, call the Lexington Hilton at 1-877-539-1648.
Cancellation
Before February 1, 2010: $75 cancellation fee
February 1 - May 1, 2010: $100 cancellation fee
After May 1, 2010: We apologize, but no refunds after May 1
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