Virginia Tech's Nationally Popular Civil War Event Celebrates 25th Anniversary

"Campaigning with Lee," the oldest summer Civil War seminar in the country, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week as 139 Civil War enthusiasts from 24 states gather at Virginia Tech's Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center to hear a phalanx of Civil War historians interspersed with tours of regional Civil War sites. The event is sponsored annually by the university's Virginia Center for Civil War Studies.