ISSUED: 16 November 2022
MEDIA CONTACT: Dana Costa
SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV — In March 1863, the worst home front disaster in the Confederacy killed 50 civilians at Brown’s Island in Richmond, most of them teenage girls.
Historian Robert M. “Bert” Dunkerly will discuss events surrounding the Brown’s Island explosion and the ongoing search to find the victims’ burial sites. on Tuesday, November 29, at 7 p.m. in Shepherd University’s George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War, 136 W. German St., Shepherdstown. The event is free and open to the public.
Dunkerly, who is currently a park ranger at Richmond National Battlefield Park, is an award-winning author and speaker who is actively involved in historic preservation and research. He has worked at 14 historic sites and written more than a dozen books and numerous scholarly articles. His research includes archaeology, colonial life, military history, and historic commemoration. He is a past President of the Richmond Civil War Roundtable and serves on the Preservation Commission for the American Revolution Roundtable-Richmond.
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