Civil War writer, editor to speak at Cal U roundtable

By Matt Petras

For the MV Independent

About 20 years ago, Chris Mackowski, vacationing with his family in Washington, D.C., needed to find something to do with his daughter. Figuring she would enjoy running around the Civil War battlefield in Manassas, Va., he took her there. 

There she became enamored with a statue of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. 

“That got her hooked. She became a Stonewall Jackson groupie,” he said. “So on subsequent vacations, we went to other places where Stonewall Jackson had been, and began to learn more about him. … I sort of got drawn in just as a writer myself and someone interested in good stories.”

Mackowski, a Virginia- based writer and editor of works about the Civil War, will talk about the legacy of the Battle of Chancellorsville at a civil war roundtable at 7 p.m. Thursday at California University of Pennsylvania’s Kara Alumni House. 

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