Bicentennial celebration to feature Confederacy events
The Warren County Bicentennial Celebration is well under way with a number of exciting events in the works to celebrate Warren County?s 200th birthday. Three events, all sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy Col. John H. Savage Chapter No. 2227, are scheduled for this month.
According to information provided by the organization these programs will include:
? Friday, April 20 ? Beginning at 7 p.m. at the Chamber of Commerce building on 110 S. Court Square there will be a talk by Dr. Michael R. Bradley. Dr. Bradley taught U.S. history at Motlow State Community college in Tullahoma for 36 years. He earned undergraduate degrees at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., and the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and a master?s degree and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. He has written extensively on the Civil War, including five books and numerous articles, book reviews and papers relating to church and civil society. In 1994, he was awarded the Jefferson Davis Medal in Southern History.
? Tuesday, April 24 ? Beginning at 7 p.m. at the Chamber of Commerce building there will be a program on noted Warren Countian Lucy Virginia French. A poet and novelist, French was born in 1825 to a family of wealth and culture. Married to Col. French of McMinnville, she kept diaries during the Civil War, which are now housed at the Tennessee State Library and Archives. These diaries give detailed accounts of her family?s wartime experiences, both at the plantation in McMinnville and at nearby Beersheba Springs, where the family resided during 1863 and 1864.
? Saturday, April 28 ? Beginning at 2 p.m. in the Central Church of Christ Annex Building there will be an afternoon tea given by the United Daughters of the Confederacy Col. John H. Savage Chapter No. 2227 to honor the 200th birthday of Warren County. Space is limited, so organizers ask those interested in attending to please contact Kay Merriman at 473-3682 or Reba Prater at 668-8298 to make reservations. Leave name, phone number and the number attending. Reservations must be made by April 20.
All of these events are free and open to the public. Donations to the Laura Dunn Memorial Scholarship Fund will be accepted.