EVENT DETAILS:
Brian Matthew Jordan — Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
New Location – Bavarian Bierhaus (700 W. Lexington Blvd, Glendale, WI)
5:30 p.m. – Registration/Social Hour
6:30 p.m. – Dinner
7:30 p.m. – Program
Cost: $35 by reservation, please
(Note: Jackets required for the dining room)
RSVP:
Please contact Paul Eilbes at 262.376.0568 or peilbes@gmail.com to RSVP. We hope to see you there!
ABOUT THE EVENT:
This month’s program examines the unprecedented violence of the Civil War and how it marked the bodies and minds of the nearly two million men who served in Union blue. It explores how these veterans made sense of their physical, psychological, and emotional wounds as the nation entered Reconstruction, and how the politics of the postwar years complicated both their reintegration into civilian life and their personal healing. The program also considers why so many veterans were unwilling to relinquish the war and its legacy—and what urgent messages those ex-soldiers offer us today.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Brian Matthew Jordan is Associate Professor of U.S. Civil War History, Co-Director of the SHSU Civil War Consortium, and Chair of the History Department at Sam Houston State University. A graduate of Gettysburg College and Yale University, he is the Pulitzer Prize–finalist author of Marching Home and has written or edited several major works on Civil War soldiers, veterans, and memory. He has appeared in HISTORY Channel programming, delivered lectures in more than thirty states, and continues to shape the field through his scholarship and editorial work.
