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- Timothy Orr
- Assistant Professor
- History
- 8000 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-3949
- torr@odu.edu
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Education
- Pennsylvania State University,
2010
- Major: Civil War History
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Pennsylvania State University ,
2003
- Major: History
- Degree: M.A.
- Gettysburg College,
2001
- Major: History
- Degree: B.A.
- Gettysburg College,
2001
- Major: Biology
- Degree: B.S.
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Books
- (2010). "Last to Leave the Field": The Life and Letters of First Sergeant Ambrose Henry Hayward, Company D, 28th. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press.
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Book Chapters
- (2010). "'Sharpshooters Made a Grand Record This Day': Combat on the Skirmish Line at Gettysburg on July Third," in The Fate of a
Nation: The Third Day at Gettysburg.. Gettysburg National Military Park.
- (2008). "'On Such Slender Threads does the Fate of Nations Depend': The Second United States Sharpshooters Defend the Union Left on
July Second," in "The Most Shocking Battle 1 Ever Witnessed": The Second Day at Gettysburg.. Gettysburg National Military Park:
- (2006). " 'A Viler Enemy in Our Rear': Pennsylvania Soldiers Confront the North's Antiwar Movement" in The View From the Ground: The
Experiences of Civil War Soldiers.. Jackson, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
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Presentations
- "Lee's Retreat from Gettysburg," Spring 2006; program title: Combat on the Skirmish Line
- Conference Name: Pennsylvania State University
- Sponsoring Organization: Pennsylvania State University
- Authors/Presenters:
- I Could Tell You a Thousand Stories: Teaching Gettysburg- From the Classroom to the Battlefield
- Conference Name: Pennsylvania Historical Association
- Sponsoring Organization: Pennsylvania Historical Association
- Location: Chester, PA
- Date: October, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
- "A Revengeful and Vindictive Spirit": Baltimore City Clashes with the Middle Department.
- Conference Name:
- Location: Murfreesboro, Tennessee)
- Date: April, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
- The Civil War Era in Global Perspective
- Conference Name:
- Location: University Park, PA
- Date: February, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
- The Utmost Confusion Prevailed": New York City fights the Civil War in 1863
- Conference Name:
- Date: November, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
- • "The Utmost Confusion Prevailed": New York City fights the Civil War in 1863.
- Conference Name: Pennsylvania State University
- Sponsoring Organization: Pennsylvania State University
- Date: October, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
- • "We Are No Grumblers": The Mutiny and Muster Out of the Pennsylvania Reserve Division
- Conference Name:
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
- Date: June, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
- 'The Fate of a Nation': The Third Day at Gettysburg
- Conference Name:
- Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- Date: April, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
- • A Viler Enemy in Our Rear": Pennsylvania Soldiers and the Copperheads
- Conference Name: Pennsylvania State University
- Sponsoring Organization: Pennsylvania State University
- Date: April, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
- Liberty and Freedom in the Civil War
- Conference Name: University Park
- Sponsoring Organization: University Park
- Location: PA
- Date: February, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
- • "A Viler Enemy in Our Rear": Pennsylvania Soldiers and the Copperheads
- Conference Name:
- Date: January, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
- "The Greatest Terror to the Enemy" Berdan's Sharpshooters during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign
- Conference Name:
- Location: University Park, PA
- Date: October, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Approved by Our Brave Soldiers ": Politics and Promotions in a Pennsylvania Regiment
- Conference Name:
- Location: Frederick, Maryland
- Date: April, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
- "With Liberal Hands and Cheerful Hearts": Philadelphia Mobilizes to fight the American Civil War
- Conference Name:
- Location: University Park, PA
- Date: March, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
- New Perspectives in the Civil War Era
- Conference Name:
- Location: University Park, PA
- Date: February, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Philadelphia Has Led the Van": Philadelphia Mobilizes to Fight the Civil War.
- Conference Name:
- Date: October, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
- "On Such Slender Threads does the Fate of Nations Depend": The Second United States Sharpshooters Defend the Union Left on
July Second
- Conference Name:
- Location: Gettysburg, PA
- Date: April, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
- "A Viler Enemy in Our Rear": Pennsylvania Soldiers Confront the North's Antiwar Movement
- Conference Name:
- Location: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Date: October, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
- • The Face of Battle: The 2nd New Hampshire Infantry defends the Peach Orchard.
- Conference Name:
- Date: 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
- The Soldiers' Battle: The Experience of the 14th Tennessee and 14th Connecticut at Pickett's Charge
- Conference Name: Gettysburg College
- Sponsoring Organization: Gettysburg College
- Date: 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
- 2009: Russell L. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grant, Society for Military History
- 2008: George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center's Lewis and Karen Gold Graduate Fellowship , Pennsylvania State University
- 2007: ABC-Clio Research Grant, Society for Military History
- 2007: Edwin ErIe Sparks Fellowship , Pennsylvania State University
- 2007: George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center's Lewis and Karen Gold Graduate Fellowship , Pennsylvania State University
- 2007: Larry J. Hackman supplemental award , New York State Archives
- 2007: Twenty-Second Annual Graduate Exhibition Second Place: Liberal Arts Category, Penn State University
- 2006: George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center's Lewis and Karen Gold Graduate Fellowship and the Lawrence and Gretchen McCabe
Program Fund , Pennsylvania State University
- 2006: James Hamilton Hartzell and Lucretia Irvine Boyd Hartzell Pennsylvania History Award, Pennsylvania State University
- 2006: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship , Pennsylvania State Archives
- 2006: The Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program , New York State Archives
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Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research