Glover To Address Camp Ford Group Monday
Dr. Robert W. Glover will address the Camp Ford Historical Association at 7 p.m. Monday in the Genecov Room of the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce Building, 315 N. Broadway Ave., Tyler, CFHA executive secretary Maxine Herbst said.
Glover will be introduced by Charles Hayes, CFHA vice president in charge of programs.
Glover's presentation, "Howdy Martin, a Texan in Search of a Fight," will feature the career of William Harrison "Howdy" Martin (1823-1898), lawyer, Confederate officer, and congressman.
Glover is a graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University, with a master's degree in history, and North Texas State University, where he earned a Ph.D. in Confederate history. He taught at Lon Morris College and was instruction and program coordinator at Tyler Junior College from 1962 until his retirement, Mrs. Herbst said.
Glover is the author of several historical articles about Camp Ford, and is co-author, with F. Lee Lawrence, of "Camp Ford, CSA," "the definitive book on the subject," she said.
Monday's meeting is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
The CFHA is organized to build and maintain a museum dedicated to educating the public about Camp Ford, the largest prisoner of war internment center west of the Mississippi run by the Confederacy during the War Between the States. The museum will be part of a visitor's center to be built on U. S. Highway 271 immediately across from the Camp Ford Park, which is managed by the Smith County Historical Society, not affiliated with the CFHA. For information about the CFHA, visit the Web site, http://www.campfordhistoricalcenter.org/.
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