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 http://bantarletonsymposium.homestead.com/index.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html