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2014 Illinois History SymposiumThe Civil War ,Part III:“Copperheads, Contraband, and the Rebirth of Freedom"March 27-28, 2014Booth LibraryEastern Illinois UniversitySponsored byThe Illinois State HistoricalSociety,Booth Library,the History Department at EIU,the Coles County HistoricalSociety,andThe Illinois State GenealogicalSociety.Register online at http://www.eiu.edu/adulted/ISHS.phpor call 217-581-5114 for more information
2014 Illinois History SymposiumThe Civil War , Part III:“Copperheads, Contraband, and the Rebirth of Freedom"March 27-28, 2014Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IllinoisREGISTRATION FORMTWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM (All meals extra)(If registered by February 15. After February 16, add 10)ISHS MembersNon-membersEIU StudentsEIU Alumni (With ID) 40 ( 45 after February 16, etc.) 45 ( 50 after February 16Free 40ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM (All meals extra)(Thursday or Friday)If registered by February 15. After February 16, add 10)ISHS MembersNon-membersEIU StudentsEIU Alumni (With ID) 30 (After February 16, add 5) 35Free 30MEALS (Extra)LUNCH THURSDAY . 20 MEMBERSLUNCH FRIDAY. 15 MEMBERSFor meal rates (including banquet) you must be registeredby March 1; Walk-ins and late registration add 5 per each meal)BANQUET THURSDAY EVENING . 50TOTAL WITH MEALS ADDED A BLOCK OF ROOMS HAS BEEN SET ASIDE AT UNIQUESUITES, CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS, FOR ISHS SYMPOSIUMPARTICIPANTS. Call 217-348-8161 TO MAKE YOURRESERVATIONS.Number of registrantsWhich Day(s)? ThursdaySUBTOTAL FridayThanks to our Symposium SponsorsEastern Illinois UniversityEIU History DepartmentBooth LibraryIllinois State Genealogical SocietyUniversity of Illinois PressThe Coles County Historical SocietyThe Illinois State Historical Society
2014 Illinois History Symposium ProgramThursday, March 27thRegistration/Vendors Open (7:45-8:30)Session I (8:30-10:15) Edgar RoomContentious Repertoires: Resistance on the Civil WarHome Front‘The Movements of the Copperheads in Egypt’:The Army and Dissent in Civil War Illinois-Keith Altavilla, Rowan Postdoctoral Fellow, United StatesMilitary AcademyFor Cause, Community, and Kin: ContextualizingFurloughed Soldiers’ Violence on the CentralIllinois Home Front-Jason Miller, MetriTech, Inc., Champaign, ILSoldiers of Long Odds: Confederate OperativesCombat the United States from Within- Stephen A.Thompson, Intrepid Consulting Services, Mattoon, ILChair:Comment: Dan Monroe, Associate Professor, Department ofHistory, Millikin UniversitySession II (8:30-10:15)Library Conference Room:Contentious Repertoires: Partisan Politics in the PrairieState“‘Illinois is Rotten with Traitors!’: The 1862Election in Illinois”-Bruce Allardice, Professor, Department of History, SouthSuburban College“Pivotal Presidential Elections in Civil RightsHistory: Comparing 1864 and 1964”-Nicole L. Anslover, Assistant Professor, Department of History,Indiana University Northwest“Illinois and the 13th and 14th Amendments to theConstitution,”-Philip A. Grant, Jr., Professor of History Emeritus, PACEUniversity, Bronxville, New YorkChair:Comment: Christopher Olsen, Professor, Department ofHistory, Indiana State UniversitySession III (8:30-10:15)Northwest Reading RoomSpotlight on TeachingIllinois Agricultural History, 1860s to the Present:Existing Sources, New Delivery Methods, andFuture Research- Deb Reid, Professor, Department of History, Eastern IllinoisUniversity- Robert Warren, Curator of Anthropology, Illinois State MuseumChairComment: Laura Milsk Fowler, Associate Professor,Department of History, Southern Illinois University EdwardsvilleCoffee Break & Exhibit Viewing(10:15-10:30)Session IV (10:30-12:00)Library Conference RoomSpotlight on TeachingDigital Humanities and Illinois History: DigitizedDatabases of Primary Sources- James Willaert, M.A. Candidate, Historical AdministrationProgram, Department of History, EIU- Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska, Assistant Professor,Department of History, EIU- Aaron M. Lisec, Research Specialist, Special CollectionsResearch Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois UniversityCarbondaleChair:Comment: Newton Key, Professor, Department of History, EIUSession V (10:30-12:00) Edgar RoomSpotlight on TeachingThe Global Civil War:Teaching the American CivilWar From a Transoceanic Perspective- Amy Powers, Assistant Professor,Waubonsee CommunityCollege- Timothy Dean Draper, Associate Professor,WaubonseeCommunity CollegeChair:Comment: Charles Titus, Professor, Department of History,Eastern Illinois University
Lunch 12:00-1:45** State of Illinois Museums LuncheonSession VI (1:45-3:15)Northwest Reading Room:Lincoln’s Copperhead Opponents: BiographicalExplorations“The Rev. Rumsey Smithson’s Civil War: OneCopperhead Preacher’s Illinois Experience”- Bryon Andreasen, Curator of Church History, LDS Church, SaltLake City, UT“A Copperhead in Quincy Goes to Washington:Senator William A. Richardson”- Shawn Hale, M.A. Candidate, Department of History, EasternIllinois UniversityCoffee Break and Exhibit Viewing(3:15-3:30)Session VIII: Plenary (3:30-5:15)Rethinking Civil War Dissent in the MidwestOliver P. Morton and the Northwest Conspiracy- A. James Fuller, Professor, Department of History, University ofIndianapolisDetectives and Secret Agents: Military IntelligenceOperations in Illinois during the Civil War- Stephen E.Towne, Associate University Archivist, IndianaUniversity-Purdue University IndianapolisThe Loyalty Issue in Illinois and the Midwest: PastInterpretations and New Directions“Wilbur F. Storey: How One Man ImpactedChicago News, the Civil War and the FirstAmendment”- Nancy Schumm, Schumm Consulting LLC, Lake Barrington, IL- Thomas E. Rodgers, Instructor of History, Department ofHistory, University of Southern IndianaChair:Comment: Erik B. Alexander, Assistant Professor, Departmentof History, Southern Illinois University EdwardsvilleChair/Comment: Nicole Etcheson, Alexander M. BrackenProfessor, Department of History, Ball State UniversitySession VII (1:45-3:15)Library Conference Room:The Private/Public Civil War: Representing Illinois’s War inLetters and in Art“‘Keep It Secret’: Privacy, the Sanctity of the Mail,and Networks of Information as Seen in theLetters of Civil War Soldiers”- Bao Bui, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University ofIllinois Urbana-Champaign“Juliette Kinzie’s Civil War”- Ann Durkin Keating, Professor, Department of History, NorthCentral College“Roosters in the Henhouse: Suspicion and Shamein David Gilmour Blythe’s Civil War –Era Art”- Dana Ostrander, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History,University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignChairComment: Margaret Storey, Associate Professor, Departmentof History, DePaul UniversitySymposium Banquet6:00 Social hour, 7:00 Banquet, 8:00Guest Speaker: Dr. Brian DolinarDr. Brian Dolinar is a scholar ofAfrican-American literature andculture from the Depression era.He is the author of The BlackCultural Front: Black Writers andArtists of the Depression Generation(University Press of Mississippi,2012) and editor of The Negro inIllinois:The WPA Papers (Universityof Illinois Press, 2013). He completed his Ph.D. in CulturalStudies at Claremont Graduate University in 2005. Hecurrently teaches in the Department of History at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taughta variety of classes in ethnic studies, education, U.S. history, composition, and literature. His writings haveappeared in African American Review, Langston HughesReview, Southern Quarterly, and Studies in American Humor.
Fr iday, March 28Registration & Vendor Opening(8:00-8:45 a.m.)Booth LibrarySession IX (8:45-10:30)Northwest Reading RoomFive Score and Fifty Years Ago Today – Remembering andRemixing the Charleston Copperhead RiotIndividual and Collective Memory and theCharleston Riot, 1870s-present- Alex Gillespie, M.A. Candidate, Department of History,EIU- Michael Ludwinski, M.A. Candidate, Department ofHistory, EIU- Alex Scalise, undergraduate student, Department ofHistory, EIU- Amy Wywialowski, undergraduate student, Departmentof History, EIUThe Chicago Light Artillery at Vicksburg- Bjorn Skaptason, Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Chicago"A Regiment of Coppersheads? The 128th IllinoisVolunteer Infantry Goes to War,"-Gillum Ferguson, J.D., Retired lawyer, author, and independentscholar, Naperville, Illinois.ChairComment: Robert I. Girardi, Board of Editors, Journal of theIllinois State Historical Society, Chicago; Chicago Civil WarRoundtableSession XII (10:45-12:15)Northwest Reading RoomLegacies of Freedom: Race and Society in post-Civil WarIllinoisWhite Agrarian Writers and the Construction ofBlackness in Rural Illinois, 1870s-1900s- Philip Mohr, Curator of Collections and Interpretation, DesPlaines History CenterChairComment: Robert D. Sampson, Department of History, MillikinUniversity“Is Your Neighbor A Kluxer?”: Race, RuralMigrants, and the Ku Klux Klanin 1920s Chicago- Mike Swinford, Ph.D Candidate, Department of History,University of Illinois ChicagoSession X: (8:45-10:30)Library Conference RoomChair:Comment: Matthew Holden, Jr.,Wepner DistinguishedSpotlight on Genealogy and the Civil WarFollowing the 10th Illinois Infantry- Jane C. Haldeman, President, Illinois State GenealogicalSocietyCivil War Military Records- Janice A. Fritsch, PLCGS, Sandwich, ILResearching Contraband Camps- Tony Burroughs, CEO, Center for Black GenealogyProfessor in Political Science, University of IllinoisSpringfieldSession XIII (10:45-12:15)Library Conference RoomLegacies of Freedom: “Pray for the Dead and Fight LikeHell for the Living”: Preserving the History of IllinoisLaborChair:Comment:The Mother Jones Memorial, Mt. Olive, IL- Rosemary Feurer, Professor, Department of History, NorthernIllinois UniversityCoffee Break and Exhibit Viewing(10:30-10:45)The Illinois Labor History Society- Thomas Suhrbur, Illinois Education AssociationSession XI (10:45-12:15)Edgar Room:Fighting for Freedom & Union: The Soldiers’ War“Defending Lincoln and Emancipation: ReverendFrancis Springer Presents his Case to Soldiers ofthe First Arkansas Infantry (Union)”- William Furry, Executive Director, Illinois State HistoricalSociety, SpringfieldOral History and Illinois Workers- Michael Matejka, Laborers Local 362Chair: Edmund Wehrle, Professor, Department of History,Eastern Illinois UniversityComment: Nora Pat Small, Professor, Department of History,Eastern Illinois University
Lunch 12:15-1:45Getting Published in IllinoisHeritage and Journal of the IllinoisState Historical Society LuncheonSession XIV (1:45-3:30)Library Conference RoomThe Political Culture of Antebellum Free Blacks in Illinois‘A Strong Deep Commitment to Resist’: AfricanAmerican Church and School Formation inAntebellum Illinois- Jennifer Harbour, Assistant Professor, Department of BlackStudies, University of Nebraska OmahaSession XVI (3:45-5:15) PlenaryReconciling and Reuniting the Nation: HowAmericans Have Remembered the Civil WarCaroline Janney, Associate Professor, Department of History,Purdue UniversityChair: Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz, Assistant Professor,Department of History, EIUComment: TBAHarold HolzerCharleston Riot Keynote SpeakerMissing Voices: Blacks at the Charleston LincolnDouglas Debate- Charles R. Foy, Assistant Professor, Department of History, EIUChairComment: John R. McKivigan, Professor, Department ofHistory, IUPUICoffee Break and Exhibit Viewing(3:15-3:30)Session XV (1:45-3:30) Edgar RoomThe Politics of Slavery and War in IllinoisGood Government and Universal Liberty:TheStruggle over Slavery in Eastern Illinois- Richard Chrisman, Bloomington, ILElijah P. Lovejoy, Anti-Catholic Abolitionist- John Duerk, Assistant Professor, Department of PoliticalScience, Lone Star College – CyFair CampusPolitically Divided, Patriotically United: Quincy,Illinois Views the “Ninety-Days” War- Kara Batts, M.A. Candidate, Department of History, EasternIllinois UniversityChair:Comment: Donovan Weight, Department of History, Universityof Southern IndianaWorld-renowned Lincoln scholar HaroldHolzer will be the guest speaker for theCharleston Riot Commemoration banquet onSaturday evening, March 29 from 5-10 p.m. atthe Charleston Moose Lodge. Tickets are 30each. The Illinois State Historical Society hasreserved two tables at this event (10 seats pertable) and the tickets are first-come, first-serveto those who make reservations on or beforeMarch 1. After March 1st you must makereservations through the RecreationDepartment in City Hall, 520 East Jackson Ave,Charleston, Illinois.“Mattoon's Union Agriculture Fairgrounds and Civil War Camp Grant.”Illinois State Historical Marker dedication, Saturday, March 28, 2 p.m.Mattoon's former Union Agriculture Fairgrounds.Please join us in commemorating a significant landmark in Coles County history.
Charleston Riot 150th Anniversary(These events will be held in conjunction with the 2014 Illinois History Symposium,but are sponsored by the 150th Anniversary of the Charleston Riot Committee.For specific information on these events go to: www.charlestonillinoisriot.org)Friday- March 28, 20143:00 pmEvent kick off, with wreath laying at the site ofthe Charleston Riot marker on the square bydescendants of participants. If you are a descendant, please contact us and let us know if youwill be present (annewc615@aol.com)Civil War Encampment begins.*7:30 pmOriginal Play, “A Question of Loyalty”written for the event by Earl HalbeCharleston Christian Church, 411 Jackson Ave.GeocachingSaturday- March 29, 20148:00 am9:00 amUnion Soldiers begin march from Sarah BushLincoln North parking lot to the Coles CountyFairgrounds.Square activities beginFood and Craft vendors open on the square.Shuttle bus service begins from Fairgrounds to sitesOld Time Medicine Show throughout the day:Sandford Lee presents Professor FarquarHistorical Tours of the Charleston SquareCharleston Courthouse and TunnelPeriod Music throughout the day, at the Gazeboon the NW corner of 6th and MonroeTin Type PhotographyHistorical Tours of Old City and MoundCemeteries, where participants are buried.Illinois State Genealogical Society will be thereto answer the question for you, “was my ancestorin the Civil War?”9:30 am5K and 2 Mile Fun Walk “Reflections of the Riot”Register Online or Print a registration form.10:00 am4:00 pmHistoric House Tour821 Monroe, built in 1836 by Charles Morton106 Harrison, built in 1864 by Robert Hodgen.200 Harrison, built in 1870’s948 Sixth Street, built in 1863 by Colonel J.A.Connelly. Connelly was a member of the honorguard at the funeral of President Lincoln. Helater was elected to the Illinois State Legislatorand was appointed U.S. District Attorney forSouthern IL895 Seventh Street, built in 1892 by Charles D.Mitchell, well known Charleston architect. TheQueen Anne style home is on the NationalRegister of Historic Places11:00 amTroops arrival at the Coles County Fairgroundsgreeted by 33rd Illinois Volunteer RegimentBand, “President Lincoln” Joe Woodard andCongressman John Shimkus12:00 pm “A Visit With Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln” Forchildren at the Charleston Public LibraryMr. and Mrs. B.F. McClerren present12:304:30 pmSpeakers series at the Coles County Courthouse
Entertainment by The 33rd Illinois VolunteerRegimental Band; Introductions by PresidentLincoln (Joe Woodard)Sunday March 30, 20149:00 am12:002:45 pm3:00 pmSeveral activities with the Charleston Riot re-enactment will be staged on the grounds of the ColesCounty Courthouse. Photo by Joey Phoenix.12:30 pm Courtroom #1 Room #296Guy Fraker author of “Lincoln’s Ladder to thePresidency” Presents: “Lincoln, Linder andFicklin:Law and Politics”1:30-2:30 Courtroom #3 Room #242Michael Kleen author of “Tales of Coles County”2:30-3:30 Courtroom #1 Room #296R. Eden Martin author and descendant ofCongressman John R. Eden3:30-4:30 Courtroom #3 Room #242Trial and Tribulations the Matsen Slave TrialsBook signings by Lincoln/Coles County History authorsthroughout the day at Pensees Bookshop on the square1:002:30 pm33rd Illinois Volunteer Regiment Band performsat the Gazebo corner of 6th and MonroeCivil War Encampment continues5:00 pmActivities on the square close5:0010:00 pm Charleston Riot Dinner 30.00The Charleston Moose LodgeKeynote Speaker: Harold Holzer, Lincoln ScholarGet your tickets online or at the RecreationDepartment in City Hall, 520 Jackson Ave,Charleston, IL.Cemetery and Square Tours continueVendors around the squarePeriod MusicSandford Lee presents, Professor Farquar andPole Cat AnnieSpeakers series at Charleston Public Libraryprior to Charleston Riot ReenactmentSpeakers:Dr. Bob Sampson, Author and HistorianDr. John Scott Parkinson, Assistant Professor ofHistory, Ball State UniversityDr. Robert Sterling, Retired Professor of History,Eastern Ilinois UniversityHarold Holzer, Senior VP of External Affairs forthe Metropolitan Museum of Art New York,Lincoln Scholar and author of “How AbrahamLincoln Ended Slavery in America”Live Reenactment of The Charleston Illinois Riot*Are you interested in joiningThe Civil War Encampment?Contact Western Federal BluesEncampment Schedule March 29-30, 2014Visitors welcome to view activitiesSaturday:0600 Revelry0700 Depart for trip to Mattoon0900 Step off from Mattoon Armory for march toCharleston1100 Arrival at Coles County Fairgrounds1200 Mess Call1300 Battalion Drill- company drill1430 Guard Mounts1700 Dress Parade1830 Supper Call2030 TatooSunday:0700 Revelry0800 Breakfast Call1030 Church Service1200 Mess Call1300 Nap sack inspection1500 Charleston IL Riot on Courthouse SquareIf you are a descendant of a participant, we would like tohear from you. Please contactAnn Winkler Hinrichs @ Annewc615@aol.comPlease join our Facebook PageThe Charleston Riot
Session I (8:30-10:15) Edgar Room Contentious Repertoires: Resistance on the Civil War Home Front ‘The Movements of the Copperheads in Egypt’: The Army and Dissent in Civil War Illinois-Keith Altavilla, Rowan Postdoctoral Fellow, United States Milita
