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Welcome to The Longstreet Society
Longstreet Society Seminar . 2026
One Bloody Day
Friday evening and all day Saturday . September 18 & 19, 2026
Featuring Cory Pfarr and Tom Clemens
Schedule
Friday Evening:
-7 pm. Informal meet and greet at the hotel. Refreshments. Relax.
Saturday All Day:
-Breakfast at the hotel. All day bus tour featuring Thomas Clemens. Lunch at Bonnie's at the Byrd. Fried chicken supper at the hotel.
-Presentation by Cory M. Pfarr focusing on the Signal Corps at Antietam and Gettysburg. Q & A to follow.
Registration fee per person is $195. and includes Saturday lunch and supper. Breakfasts are included with your hotel reservation.
Headquartered in the Hampton Inn and Suites in Charles Town WV.
157 Pimlico Drive. Charles Town WV 25414. (304) 725-2200
Special discounted semilar room rate will apply.
Thomas Clemens: "I have been obsessed with the Civil War since I was a pre-teen. About 30 years ago I began volunteering at Antietam National Battlefield, doing everything from cannon firing programs to scenic restoration projects. Living a stone's throw from the battlefield allowed me to immerse myself in the quiet but compelling story of America's titanic struggle with itself. That started my quest to understand what happened there. I thought I had a good handle on it until I met Dr. Joseph Harsh, who in his gentle way showed me how little I had thought about the campaign. It was he who urged me to tackle the fascinating riddle of Ezra Carman and his definitive manuscript of the Maryland Campaign. That was in 1990 when I was pursuing a doctorate at George Mason University. Now I have completed that degree, Volume I is published, Vol. II released just before the 150th anniversary last year, and my only regret is that he did not live to see the second volume. I will always treasure his excitement when I gave him a copy of Volume I, and the wonderful afternoon we had together. Both Dr. Harsh and Ezra Carman were true scholars, and both amaze me still. Carman was able to ferret out sources to understand the battle that even in today's technologically-advanced world are not easy to find. He sorted through mountains of letters, memoirs, and "old soldier stories" to arrive at what is still today the most complete telling of America's bloodiest day. I hope you enjoy his book as much I have enjoyed annotating and editing it for publication."
Cory Pfarr: Pfarr works for the Department of War (formerly Defense). He is the award-winning author of Longstreet at Gettysburg:A Critical Reassessment (2019), Righting the Longstreet Record at Gettysburg: Six Matters of Controversy and Confusion (2023), and the forthcoming The Federal Signal Service at Antietam: Stations, Officers and Battlefield Intelligence on America’s Bloodiest Day (2026), all published by McFarland. His essays and scholarship have appeared in Gettysburg Magazine, North & South Magazine, Emerging Civil War, Studies in Intelligence, and The Massachusetts Historical Review. His work has been featured on the Pennsylvania Cable Network and C-SPAN’s American History TV, and he has presented his research at the U.S. Army War College.