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Thursday, November 8, 2007 - Revolutionary War Sites Bus Tour - ticketed only

[Departing from the Marriott Conference Hotel at Renaissance Park

299 N. Church Street, Spartanburg at 8:30 am. Lunch included, bring good walking shoes and appropriate weather gear.]

Friday, November 9, 2007 - Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC

Friday, November 9, 2007 - Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC

11:00 am to 5:30 pm - Registration & Information Desks Open - Papadopolous Building at Wofford College: Displays, registration and vendors.

11:00 am - 1:00 pm - Conference Registration - Papadopolous Building - Displays & Vendors open

1:00 - 1:10 pm - Welcome & Opening Remarks - Olin Building Teaching Theatre, Room 101

Your Hosts: Kathy McKay - Charlie Gray - Charles Baxley

1:15 - 1:40 pm - First Concurrent Presentation

Olin Building Teaching Theatre, Room 101
Scott Miskimon - "Col. Anthony Walton White and his Defeat at Lenud's Ferry."

Olin Building, Room 213
Michael Scoggins - "Mounted troops in the Southern backcountry."

1:40 - 1:50 pm - Questions & Answers

1:50 - 2:10 pm - Break - Refreshments - walk time - Displays and vendors in the Papadopolous Building

2:10 - 3:20 pm - First Panel - Olin Building Teaching Theatre, Room 101

Moderator Patrick O'Kelley: Mark Danley - "The role of cavalry forces in eighteenth-century British strategic thought and operational art." & Lee F. McGee - "Beyond a 'Horse properly caparisoned': European influences on Continental Cavalry."

3:20 - 3:40 pm - Break - Refreshments - walk time - Displays and vendors in the Papadopolous Building

3:40 - 4:50 pm - Second Panel - Olin Building Teaching Theatre, Room 101

Moderator Rory Cornish: Jim Piecuch - "The British Black Dragoons" & Todd Braisted - "Lt. Col. John Graves Simcoe and the Queens American Rangers."

5:00 - 5:30 pm - book signings in the Papadopolous Building

6:30 - 7:15 pm - Reception [included] - The Piedmont Club - 361 East Main Street - Spartanburg - with period music by Ken Bloom - cash bar [coat and tie or period attire]

7:15 - 8:15 pm - Dinner [included] - The Piedmont Club - with period music by Ken Bloom

8:15 - 8:30 pm - SCAR presentations - The Piedmont Club

8:30 - 9:20 pm - Keynote Presentation - The Piedmont Club - "'There Is No Carrying on the War without Them': The Continental Light Dragoons, 1776-83" by Prof. Gregory J. W. Urwin

Saturday, November 10, 2007 - Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC

8:00 am to noon - Registration & Information Desk Open - Papadopolous Building at Wofford College: Displays, registration table and vendors.

8:00 - 9:00 am - Registration - Papadopolous Building - Displays & Vendors open

9:00 - 9:10 am - Welcome & Opening Remarks - Olin Building Teaching Theatre, Room 101

9:10 - 9:35 am - First Presentation - Olin Building Teaching Theatre, Room 101

Robert A. Selig - "Lauzun's Legion/Battle of the Hook at Gloucester."

9:35 - 9:45 am - Questions & Answers

9:45 - 10:10 am - Second Presentation - Olin Building Teaching Theatre, Room 101

Charles F. Price - "Cavalry Operations at Eutaw Springs: A Novelist's View."

10:10 - 10:20 am - Questions & Answers

10:20 - 10:40 am - Break - Refreshments - walk time - Displays and vendors in the Papadopolous Building

10:40 - 10:50 am - Third Presentation - Olin Building Teaching Theatre, Room 101

Eugene Hough – First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry

10:50 - 11:15 am - Fourth Presentation - Olin Building Teaching Theatre, Room 101

John M. Hutchins - "Fight at Poundridge."

11:15 - 11:25 am - Questions & Answers

11:30 - 12:15 pm - Carpool to Cowpens National Battlefield - Refreshments provided by CNB [Bring your folding chair, good walking shoes and appropriate weather gear.]

12:15 - 1:00 - Lunch at Cowpens National Battlefield [included] Cowpens Battlefield picnic area.
Cavalry demonstrations - Daniel Murphy, Ron Crawley, Stuart Lillie, and mounted troopers - Cowpens picnic area.

1:00 - 1:25 pm - "Horsemen of Cowpens"
1:35 - 2:00 pm - "Horses and logistics"
2:10 - 2:45 pm - "Tactics and mounted demonstration"

2:45 - 3:00 am - Break - Refreshments

3:00 - 3:35 pm - Presentation by Prof. Larry Babits on the Cowpens Battlefield

3:35 - 5:00 pm - Battlefield Tours by Prof. Larry Babits and Cowpens staff on the Cowpens National Battlefield

6:30 - 8:00 pm - Music by the Cane Creek Bluegrass Band & BBQ [included] - Cleveland Park Events Center, 141 North Cleveland Park Drive, Spartanburg, SC [casual]

8:00 - 9:00 pm - Theatrical Presentation by Howard Burnham [included] - "The old rake himself, Ban Tarleton" - Cleveland Park Events Center

Sunday, November 11, 2007 - Revolutionary War Sites Bus Tour - ticketed only [Departing from the Marriott Conference Hotel at Renaissance Park

299 N. Church Street, Spartanburg at 9:00 am. Lunch included, bring good walking shoes and appropriate weather gear.]

All presentations are subject to presenter availability and to schedule change.

11-09-07