Naval Historian to Discuss Union Navy and the Civil War at GCC

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Author Chuck Veit in Civil War garb.

BATAVIA, NY (05/23/2012)(readMedia)-- The president of the Navy and Marine Living History Association and lieutenant of the Naval Landing Party living history group will share his expertise in naval history and his passion for the Civil War during a lecture at Genesee Community College next month.

Chuck Veit, whose most recent work, A Dog Before a Soldier, has been described as "a tremendous contribution" to naval literature and the understanding of the Navy during the Civil War, will discuss "How the Union Navy Won the Civil War" on June 6, 2012 at 7pm in the Conable Technology Building on the Batavia campus.

The lecture continues GCC's wide-ranging look at the Civil War as the nation marks the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States and kicks off the summer lecture series. Veit's latest book is heavily researched, using information from official records, personal diaries and journals, memoirs, periodicals, newspapers, and the actual logbooks of the gunboats that took part. It's a collection of unusual, unknown, "almost lost" episodes from the U.S. Navy's Civil War, including Navy spies, cattle drives, deep inland recons and shore raids, with a focus on the history that took place between the major naval battles such as Mobile Bay and the Battle of Vicksburg.

Mr. Veit's lecture is free and open to the public. Copies of his book will be available for purchase and signing by the author. For further information please contact Marketing Communications Associate Director Donna Rae Sutherland at (585) 343-0055 ext. 6616, or via email: dsutherland@genesee.edu.

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