VIRTUAL (Zoom) Guerrillas, Garrisons, and Historic Records Lost: Tales of the American Civil War

VIRTUAL (Zoom) Guerrillas, Garrisons, and Historic Records Lost: Tales of the American Civil War. For genealogists and history enthusiasts alike, Dr. Christopher Phillips from the University of Cincinnati will be presenting an unvarnished look at the motivations, actions, and outcomes of the guerrillas, partisan raiders, and Confederate cavalrymen who thrilled and bedeviled white and black people in home front Kentucky and the border states during the Civil War. Genealogists will be especially interested in the presentation's emphasis upon the destruction of public records as well as well as efforts made by troops to preserve these materials. His presentation should be an appealing event for anyone interested in primary source recollections of the Civil War.

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Christopher Phillips, Ph.D., is the John and Dorothy Hermanies of American History and University Distinguished Professor in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Phillips focuses most of his research and teaching on 19th century American history, with a particular emphasis on the border states during the American Civil War. His most recent book, The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border (Oxford University Press, 2016), won the Tom Watson Brown Prize (2017) for the best published book on the Civil War from the Society of Civil War Historians and Distinguished Book Award (2018) from the Society of Military Historians.