Author and Civil War scholar
to speak at WVU April 18

Morgantown, WV, April 13, 2006: Author and Civil War re-enactor Robert E. Eberly, Jr., will visit Morgantown on April 18 to speak with community members, students and faculty about his historical research and writing.

Eberly, a native of Uniontown, Pa., is a member of the Board of Directors of the Eberly Foundation which has supported the higher education efforts of various schools in western Pennsylvania. West Virginia University and the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences have also been benefactors of the Foundation’s charitable giving.

Mr. Eberly will begin his visit meeting with history students over lunch in the Mountainlair. Students in the College’s Cultural Resource Management Program will conduct a tour of WVU’s historic buildings on the downtown campus for Eberly. Eberly will also be available at the WVU Bookstore beginning at 2:30 p.m. to sign copies of his new book. A limited number of books will be available for purchase at the bookstore.

He will also be the featured speaker at the Mason-Dixon Civil War Roundtable meeting, to be held at 7 p.m. at The Village at Heritage Point Retirement Community, One Heritage Point, Morgantown. Eberly will speak about his latest book, Bouquets from the Cannon’s Mouth: Soldiering with the Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserves. The lecture is free and open to the public.

An attorney by profession, Eberly retired from the Navy General Counsel’s Office in 1996. Since then, he has been active as a re-enactor and living historian with the 101st Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. A founder and first president of the Lowcountry Civil War Roundtable, Eberly has published an award-winning short story on the Confederate military prison at Salisbury, N.C. He is also active in battlefield preservation efforts, and he serves on the board of directors of the Friends of the National Parks at Gettysburg.

For more information, please contact Dean Rudolph Almasy at 304-293-4611.

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