{"id":4899,"date":"2011-01-24T11:48:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2011-01-24T11:48:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T17:48:12","slug":"maryville-college-students-visit-apsu-to-learn-about-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/01\/24\/maryville-college-students-visit-apsu-to-learn-about-the-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryville College Students Visit APSU to Learn About the Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – On a cold afternoon earlier this month, a van drove through the melting snow in Clarksville and stopped at Austin Peay State University. A group of Maryville College students, bundled in jackets, quickly got out and went into the Morgan University Center. They\u2019d spent much of the morning outside at Fort Donelson, and they were looking forward to a few hours in the warm indoors, learning about one of this city\u2019s famous historical figures \u2013 Nannie Haskins Williams.<\/p>\n

\u201cNannie is an important figure because she started keeping a diary when she was 16 years old in Clarksville, a year after Fort Donelson fell,\u201d Dr. Minoa Uffelman, associate professor of history at APSU, said. \u201cShe kept it through the Civil War and after.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams\u2019 name became prominent among historians and Civil War enthusiasts in the early 1990s when excerpts of her diary were used in Ken Burns\u2019 award-winning PBS documentary \u201cThe Civil War.\u201d For the last several years, Uffelman and three other women \u2013 APSU communication professor Ellen Kanervo, Montgomery County Historian Eleanor Williams and Phyllis Smith, president of the Friends of Fort Defiance \u2013 have worked to transcribe the important historical document and get it published.<\/p>\n

The students from Maryville College came to APSU that night specifically to hear about Williams and gain a better understanding what life was like in this area during the 1860s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a travel course on the Civil War in Tennessee,\u201d Aaron Astor, assistant professor of history at Maryville College, said. \u201cWe\u2019re going all across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

The students traveled to sites such as the Stones River Battlefield in Murfreesboro and the Battle of Franklin Battlefield in Williamson County. They also stopped by Fort Donelson, in nearby Stewart County. When Uffelman heard about Astor\u2019s trip a few years ago, she had an idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cAaron and I got to know each other through Southern Historical Association conferences,\u201d she said, \u201cand in one of those conferences I told him, \u2018if you\u2019re going to go to Fort Donelson, stop by Clarksville and I\u2019ll give you a talk on Nannie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year marked the first time Maryville\u2019s students visited APSU during their school\u2019s abbreviated J-term (January Term) before the beginning of the spring semester. Uffelman gave a lecture on Williams during that visit, but this year, she opted to do something a little different. Sarah Kanervo, an APSU adjunct speech professor and local filmmaker, recently completed a short documentary on Williams. Rather than lecturing the students, Uffelman decided to show Kanervo\u2019s film.<\/p>\n

The screening went well and was followed by a question-and-answer period with Uffelman, Kanervo and the students. Dr. Dewey Browder, chair of the APSU Department of History, also took the opportunity to pitch the University\u2019s growing Master of Arts in military history degree program to the Maryville students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve developed a good relationship,\u201d Astor said.<\/p>\n

For more information on this visit or the documentary on Nannie Haskins Williams, contact Uffelman at 931-221-7704.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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