Oneida Public Library news<\/p>\n
(Oneida, NY \u2013 May 2013) American historian Tom Henry will present at Oneida Public Library on\u00a0Thursday June 6 at\u00a07 p.m.\u00a0\u201cGettysburg: Central New Yorkers Hold the Line,\u201d an illustrated talk on the vital role the Union troops from Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga and Oswego counties played in the Battle of Gettysburg June 1-3, 1863.<\/p>\n
\u201cEight local regiments were all in the field at Gettysburg 150 years ago,\u201d Henry said. \u201cFound in six of the seven Union Corps, local men were in the thick of some of the hardest fighting in the field during all three days of the battle, playing critical parts as the stages of the battle unfolded.\u201d<\/p>\n
At Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, the Confederacy\u2019s Army of Northern Virginia led by Gen. Robert E. Lee collided with Union troops under the command of Gen. George Meade in what many historians consider the pivotal battle of the Civil War. During the three-day battle, some 94,000 Northerners fought 71,700 Southerners. By battle\u2019s end, both sides had suffered a total of 46,286 casualties, the largest number of any single Civil War battle.<\/p>\n
Henry, who retired from teaching social studies at Liverpool High School in 2009, has taught as an adjunct professor of history at S.U.N.Y. at Cortland and at Syracuse University and given courses on U.S. history, the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court at Oasis Senior Living in Syracuse. He was first runner up for the 1999 New York State Teacher of the Year award and was honored as the 2002 N.Y.S. Social Studies Teacher of the Year.<\/p>\n
Henry has been a writer for the education division of Colonial Williamsburg since 1997 and serves as a master teacher in Colonial Williamsburg\u2019s Idea of America program. He has focused his research in U.S. Civil War history on Central New York communities before and during the war, with special interest in local soldier recruitment.<\/p>\n
The program is free and open to the public. For more information, stop by the Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call 363-3050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oneida Public Library news (Oneida, NY \u2013 May 2013) American historian Tom Henry will present at Oneida Public Library on\u00a0Thursday June 6 at\u00a07 p.m.\u00a0\u201cGettysburg: Central New Yorkers Hold the Line,\u201d an illustrated talk on the vital role the Union troops from Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga and Oswego counties played in the Battle of Gettysburg June […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}