Please note: Optional Dinner will start at 6:00 PM. The Lecture will start at 7:00 PM. To make dinner reservations, email CvilleCWRT@gmail.com and indicate your entree choice: beef, salmon or chicken. Dinner includes salad and dessert. Cost is $24 for members and $30 for non-members.

LECTURE TOPIC:  The New Mexico campaign was a military operation from February to April 1862 in which Confederate Brig. Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley invaded the northern New Mexico Territory in an attempt to gain control of the Southwest, including the gold fields of Colorado and the ports of California. Historians regard the campaign as the most ambitious Confederate attempt to establish control of the American West and to open an additional theater in the war. 

SPEAKER: Phill Greenwalt  is currently the Program Manager for Interpretation and Education at Catoctin Mountain Park, a national park outside Frederick, Maryland. Prior to his current park, he spent six years as a Supervisory Park Ranger at Everglades National Park. He has also spent seven years as a historian with the National Park Service at George Washington Birthplace National Monument and Thomas Stone National Historic Site. He is a full-time contributor to Emerging Civil War and a co-founder of Emerging Revolutionary War.