After months of touring to promote Man of Fire, which debuted this past March, Derek Maxfield took to the road in a tour dedicated to the promotion of his first book, Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY.
The first evening’s book talk was hosted by the Roanoke Civil War Roundtable. Maxfield delivered the same talk to the Lynchburg Civil War Roundtable the following night. Both talks were followed a book signing and Q&A.
On the third night of the Hellmira tour, Maxfield was invited to speak at The American Civil War Musuem in Appomattox, a prestigous honor for any Civil War historian. The speaker was met with lively and enthusiastic audiences on all three nights and was honored to meet audience members who came forward to share information about their own family members with connections to the Elmira Prison Camp.
Maxfield hopes to return to Virginia next year to speak about his second book Man of Fire, a biography of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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