Alex Rossino on “Lee's Army in Maryland: A New Perspective on the Campaign of September 1862”
Schedule
Thu Oct 09 2025 at 07:15 pm to 08:45 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Camden Co. College, William G. Rohrer Center, 1889 Marlton Pike East, Cherry Hill, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08003 | Cherry Hill, NJ
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Free and open to the public. In-person and simulcast on Zoom. Please email [email protected] at least 24 hrs prior to request Zoom access.Most students of the Civil War believe the story of Robert E. Lee’s 1862 Maryland Campaign is complete, and that new studies must rely on interpretations long since accepted and understood. But what if this is not the case? What if the histories previously written about the first major Confederate operation north of the Potomac River missed key sources, proceeded from mistaken readings of the evidence, or were influenced by Lost Cause ideology? Dr. Alexander Rossino demonstrates that these types of distortions continue to shape modern understanding of the campaign and offers suggestions for how to correct them, developing in the process a new understanding of what General Lee hoped to accomplish in September 1862.
Dr. Alexander Rossino is an independent historian. He earned Master’s and Doctoral degrees in History at Syracuse University, where he taught for two years, before working as a historian at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. He is an expert on the 1862 Maryland Campaign and the author of Their Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia from the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862; The Tale Untwisted: General George B. McClellan, The Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee's Lost Orders (with Gene Thorp); and Calamity at Frederick: Robert E. Lee, Special Orders No. 191, and Confederate Misfortune on the Road to Antietam.
Funding provided by the Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission at Camden County College, the officially designated county history agency of the New Jersey Historical Commission.
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Camden Co. College, William G. Rohrer Center, 1889 Marlton Pike East, Cherry Hill, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08003Event Location & Nearby Stays:
