Mar 14, 2025

Dr. Chris Mackowski, professor in the Jandoli School, spoke in Mobile, Alabama, earlier this month for the American Battlefield Trust, where he discussed the surrenders of the Confederacy in a program titled “From Appomattox to Citronelle and Beyond.”

Citronelle is a small town just north of Mobile where Confederate Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor surrendered to Union Maj. Gen. Edward Canby several days after Robert E. Lee’s famous surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865.

On Feb. 12, Mackowski celebrated the 600th meeting of the Cleveland Civil War Roundtable, where he gave a talk titled “Stonewall Jackson at Gettysburg.” 
Mackowski also made the social media rounds in February:

• He joined "The Tattooed Historian," John Heckman, to discuss their “Top 3 Underrated Moments of the Civil War.” Watch the program.
• Kevin Levin hosted Mackowski for a live chat on "Civil War Memory" to talk about Mackowski's book "A Tempest of Iron and Lead: Spotsylvania Court House, May 8–21, 1864." Watch the program.
• Mackowski also joined Charlie Watts’ "History with Waffles" YouTube page to talk about "Tempest." Watch the program.