Central PA Civil War Round Table public talk with William C. Davis, “Looking for Loreta Velasquez—the Fantasy Life of a Confederate Heroine,” Wednesday, September 19, 7:00 pm, Pennsylvania Military Museum, Boalsburg.

William C. Davis, formerly Director of Virginia Tech’s Center for Civil War Studies, spent 31 years in editorial management in the publishing industry, consulted for numerous film and television productions, and was senior advisor for the A&E and History Channel series “Civil War Journal.” Davis is the author of more than 50 books, most recently Crucible of Command and Inventing Loreta Velasquez. He is the only four-time winner of the Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy for works on the Civil War and Confederacy.

Talk is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) We The People Challenge Grant.