Holland Land Office Museum Guest Speaker Series: Vic Vignola, “The Battle of Seven Pines”

The Holland Land Office Museum welcomed as the next presenter in our Guest Speaker Series, Civil War historian Vic Vignola will be presenting, "The Battle of Seven Pines, May 31, 1862: McClellan Finds a Scapegoat." Using primary sources, Vignola shines a light on the overlooked details. His presentation describes the story of the common soldier, the difficulties they endured, and leadership decisions made by field commanders prior to and during the fighting at Seven Pines. Thank you to Tompkins Community Bank and the Batavia Rotary Club for sponsoring in part the Guest Speaker Series. “This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by GO ART!. “GO ART! acknowledges that the land on which this project takes place is the ancestral territory of the Seneca Nation, one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. GO ART! recognizes the historical and ongoing presence of Indigenous peoples in Western New York and honors their enduring relationship to this land.”