Civil War music and storytelling by John Golden; Hatteras Village Civic Center

Dinner, Hatteras Village Civic Center

Master of Ceremonies: Joseph Schwarzer, Director, N.C. Maritime Museums

This session underwritten by the Friends of the Outer Banks History Center

Welcome: Doug Stover, Chairman

Welcome: Michael Murray, Superintendent, National Park Service, Outer Banks Group

Speaker Introduction: Bob Sutton, Chief Historian, National Park Service

Keynote Speaker: Edwin Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus, National Park Service
General Butler: A Political Bull in a China Shop, April thru December 1861

  8:30–9:00

Registration; Meet & Greet; Hatteras Village Civic Center

  9:00–9:15

Welcome: Joseph Schwarzer, Director of N.C. Maritime Museums
Drew Pullen, Chairman, Flags Over Hatteras Committee
Danny Couch, Chairman, Friends of the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
Lee Nettles, Managing Director, Outer Banks Visitors Bureau

  9:15–9:45

 
  9:45–10:00

Drew Pullen, Chairman, Flags Over Hatteras Committee; local historian and author of
The Civil War On Hatteras Island

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10:00–10:30

Danny Couch, Chairman, Friends of the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum; Flags Over Hatteras Committee member; local historian and owner, Hatteras Tours
John Rollinson: Hatterasman, Family Man, Confederate Outlaw

10:30–10:45

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10:45–11:15

11:15–11:30

KaeLi Schurr, Curator, Outer Banks History Center; Flags Over Hatteras Committee member
Images and Accounts of the Hatteras Engagement in Letters and Documents from the Collections at the Outer Banks History Center

Q&A with morning presenters

11:30–1:00

Visit exhibits, living history programs and book signings; Lunch on your own.

1:00–1:45

1:45–2:00

Welcome: KaeLi Schurr, Curator, Outer Banks History Center; Flags Over Hatteras Committee

Dr. Patricia Click, Writer/Consultant, Associate Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and Society, University of Virginia
The Germ of a Larger Cultivation and a Higher Civilization: The Hatteras Freedmen in Historical Context                                            

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2:00–2:45

Harry “Hari” Jones, Curator, African American Civil War Memorial & Museum
For Light and Liberty: African Descent Spies of the Rebellion

This session underwritten by the Roanoke Island Freedmen’s Colony Preservation Assn.
Welcome: Virginia Tillett, Chairman

2:45–3:00

3:00–6:30

Q&A with afternoon presenters

Visit exhibits, living history programs, book signings

6:30–7:00

7:00–9:00

Friday Evening - April 27th
Hatteras Village Civic Center


Civil War music and storytelling by John Golden, Hatteras Village Civic Center
                                                                                                                                                                                  
Dinner, Hatteras Village Civic Center

Master of Ceremonies: Joseph Schwarzer, Director, N.C. Maritime Museums

Keynote Speaker, Dr. James McPherson, Professor Emeritus of U.S. History at Princeton University, The Forgotten War: Coastal North Carolina, 1861—1865

8:30 - 9:00

Registration; Meet & Greet; Hatteras Village Civic Center

9:00 – 9:15

                       9:15 - 9:45

Welcome: Dennis C. Schurr, Flags Over Hatteras Committee member; researcher and collector

Drew Pullen, Chairman, Flags Over Hatteras Committee
Danny Couch, Chairman, Friends of the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum

USN Commander Gerald Roxbury, Civil War Confederate cutlasses authority
Confederate cutlasses

9:45 – 10:00

10:00 - 10:30

10:30 – 10:45

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Col. Gary Riggs, Civil War re-enactor and Colonel of the First NC Field Hospital
A Surgeon’s Duty in the Confederate Army

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10:45 - 11:15

                      11:15 – 11:30

Lee Oxford, research historian and genealogist
Camp Live Oak; Capture of the “Fanny” and Subseqent Chicamacomico Affair,
October1-5,1861

Q&A with morning presenters

11:30 - 2:00

Visit exhibits, encampments and Civil War Fashion Show; Lunch on your own.
Free and open to the public
Guided Tour, Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, Joseph Schwarzer, Director of N.C. Maritime Museums

2:00 - 3:00

Welcome: Joseph Schwarzer, Executive Director of N.C. Maritime Museums
Panel Discussion with keynote speakers, Dr. James McPherson & Dr. Craig Symonds and conference presenters Hari Jones and Drew Pullen

3:00 - 5:00

Visit exhibits, encampments, book signings and other local programs
Free and open to the public

5:00 - 6:30

“Ole’ Time” Civil War Auction
Hatteras Village Civic Center
Dennis Schurr, Flags Over Hatteras Committee, Marketing & Promotions Specialist

Jason Humphries, Humphries Auctioneering, Kill Devil Hills, N.C. will visit us from the 19th century to call out the bids. FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC.

Proceeds of the auction will help the Friends of the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum defray Flags Over Hatteras expenses and go towards the restoration of the USS Monticello silk and cotton Ensign Flag that flew during the Bombardment of Hatteras Inlet, N.C., Aug. 28-29, 1861 and during the Chicamacomico Races Oct.5, 1861.

Come early to get your bid number and a front row seat. Reserves on all items are set at 50% of the estimated retail value.

7:00 - 9:00

Dinner, Hatteras Village Civic Center

Master of Ceremonies: Joseph Schwarzer, Director, N.C. Maritime Museums

Welcome: Drew Pullen, Chairman, Flags Over Hatteras Committee|
Danny Couch, Chairman, Friends of the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
Lee Nettles, Managing Director, Outer Banks Visitors Bureau

Keynote Speaker, Dr. Craig Symonds, currently the Class of 1957 Distinguished Professor of American Naval History at the U.S. Naval Academy.
All That Could Be Wished For by the Most Hopeful: Silas Stringham and the Hatteras Expedition in 1861