2002 TARELTON SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE-Camden, SC
Friday, April 26
9:00AM-1:00 PM: Registration, Kershaw County Health Resources Center
Conference Room.
1:00-1:15 PM: Welcoming Remarks, Charles Baxley and Joanna Craig
1:15-1:45 PM: Dr. Anthony J. Scotti, Jr. "The Myths of Bloody Tarleton."
2:00-2:45 PM: James Piecuch, "A New Look at the Waxhaws Massacre."
3:00-3:45 PM: Dr. Mark Danley, "Tarleton's Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 and
the Military-Literary World of Eighteenth-Century Britain." .
4:00--4:45 PM: Captain Thomas Rider, "British Depredations in the South."
4:45-5:00 PM: Comments, John Maass
7:00-9:00 Reception, Kershaw-Cornwallis House, Historic Camden
Revolutionary War Site.
Saturday, April 27
8:45-9:00 AM: Welcome and Opening remarks:
9:00-9:45 AM: Christopher T. George: "Banastre Tarleton's Liverpool
Background and His Parliamentary Career."
10:00-10:45 AM: Todd W. Braisted, "'All Spirited Young Men.' The
composition of the British Legion, 1778-1783."
11:00-11:45 AM: Dr. Lawrence E. Babits, "Continentals in the British
Legion."
12:00-1:00 PM: Lunch (and Battlefield Preservation update by George Fields,
Palmetto Conservation)
1:00-1:45 PM: Dr. Robert Olwell. "`Spectre of Albion!': Banastre Tarleton
and the Strange Career of British Slavery, 1760-1810."
2:00-2:45 PM: Dr. Gregory J. W. Urwin, "Cornwallis and the Slaves of
Virginia: A New Look at the Yorktown Campaign."
3:00-3:30 PM: Presentation by British Legion reenactors of uniforms,
equipment, weapons, camp (also available throughout the day.)
3:45-4:30 PM: Dr. John Moncure, "Tarleton in Context: Cavalry in the 18th
Century."
4:30-4:45 PM: Closing comments/wrap up
6:00 PM: Dinner
8:00-9:00 PM: Howard Burnham, "Tarleton Looks Back"
Sunday, April 28
8:30 AM-2:00 PM: Guided Tour of Camden area Revolutionary War Sites
John Maass, 155 Valley Oak Ct., Clemmons, NC 27012
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