Symposium: Why Did War Come to Petersburg? & PBF Annual Meeting

Join the Petersburg Battlefields Foundation (PBF) at Petersburg's historic Union Station for our first symposium in honor of our 10th anniversary! Petersburg was a supply and industrial center resting on the south bank of the Appomattox River at the fall line. It was a very strategic location for the armies in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

The Symposium will feature five presentations covering topics of Revolutionary War Petersburg; Petersburg as a center of supply, industry, and transportation; the defense of Petersburg during the Civil War; and unique artifacts from the collections of the Petersburg National Battlefield and local historians.

PRESENTERS: Martha Mann Atkinson, Kenny Bage, James Blankenship, Jr., John Horn, William M. Welsch.

PBF will hold its annual meeting during lunch, which will be catered by Firehouse Subs. We will present an Award for Preservation and Scholarship to Chris Calkins, historian, author, former Chief of Interpretation at Petersburg National Battlefield, and first Superintendent of Sailor’s Creek Battlefield State Park.

The venue is ADA accessible and there is free on-site parking. Space is limited. NO WALK-INS, NO TICKETS SOLD AT THE DOOR! Tickets must be purchased ahead of time BY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5.

[Illustration is from the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. (1880). Petersburg, Va., from Duns Hill]

Host or Publisher Petersburg Battlefields Foundation