Chambersburg Civil War Seminars are excited to announce a lecture featuring Stephen “Sam” Hood on November 15 at 7 p.m. Sam’s talk is called “Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building of America after the Civil War.” Cost is $5 per session. After registering, Zoom login information will be provided..
The talk will delve into former Confederates” integration in the reunified USA. Many attained positions of prominence in the federal government, the U.S. military, higher education, medicine, law, science, industry and commerce, the arts, and philanthropy. Ten postwar U.S. presidents beginning with Ulysses S. Grant appointed former Confederates to positions including supreme court justices, U.S. attorney generals, U.S. Navy secretaries, diplomats, and U.S. Army generals during the Spanish-American War. Former Confederates were elected mayors of such unlikely cities as Los Angeles and Minneapolis. Confederates became presidents of the American Medical Association, American Medical Association, the American Chemical Society, the American Surgical Association, the Sierra Club, and others. Former Confederates founded many colleges and universities–some for African-Americans and women–and served as presidents of universities such as Cal-Berkeley.
Presenter Stephen M. “Sam” Hood is a collateral descendent of Confederate General John Bell Hood. Sam is a retired industrial construction company owner, and lives in Myrtle Beach SC with his wife of 43 years, the former Martha Ann Hager. He is a 1970 graduate of Kentucky Military Institute, and earned a BBA in Marketing from Marshall University in 1976. Sam served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and has had a lifelong interest in Civil War history and the sport of soccer, of which he is a member of the West Virginia Soccer Association Hall of Fame. His book John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General won the 2013 Albert Castel Civil War History Book of the Year Award and the 2014 Walt Whitman Civil War History Book of the Year Award. Sam’s 2015 books The Lost Papers of Confederate General John Bell Hood was awarded the Bonnie Blue Book Award by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. His latest book is Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building of America after the Civil War.
Chambersburg Civil War Seminars & Tours has been hosting Civil War Tours for more than 30 years. History Talks sessions are held monthly and virtually on the 15th and 30th of the month. For upcoming sessions, check here.