“North Carolina Secedes,” the third lecture in a Civil War series, will be held Aug. 13 in Asheville, the home county of North Carolina’s third wartime governor, Zebulon B. Vance.
The lecture, given by Catawba College professor Dr. Gary Freeze, will take place at 3 p.m. Aug. 13 at the Veteran’s Restoration Quarters, 1329 Tunnel Road, Asheville.
The N.C. Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with various activities over the next four years.
Sesquicentennial Chairman Sue Curtis of Salisbury said that the division’s Sesquicentennial Lecture Series consists of eight free lectures throughout the state in each of those years.
Freeze holds all of his college degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar and graduated with a Phi Beta Kappa key. Besides Catawba College, he also has taught at UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Charlotte and N.C. State University.
He is a professor of American History at Catawba. Freeze has authored several books and has been featured in a number of video specials for the Rowan County Public Library. He has spoken previously at a UDC N.C. Division Convention and the Robert F. Hoke Chapter’s Salisbury Confederate Prison Symposium.
The UDC awarded Freeze its Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal.
Freeze presented the first lecture of the series in Salisbury earlier this year. William Trotter, author of N.C. war-period histories such as “Silk Flags and Cold Steel,” “Ironclads and Columbiads” and “Bushwhackers!” spoke at the second lecture July 25 in the Greensboro Historical Museum.