Author and Civil War re-enactor Robert E. Eberly, Jr., will visit West Virginia University Tuesday, April 18, to speak with community members, students and faculty about his historical research and writing.

Eberly, a native of Uniontown , Pa. , is a member of the Board of Directors of the Eberly Foundation, which has supported the higher education efforts of various schools in western Pennsylvania . WVU and the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences have also been benefactors of the Foundation’s charitable giving.

Eberly will begin his visit by meeting with history students over lunch in the Mountainlair.

Students in the College’s cultural resource management program will also take him on a tour of WVU ’s historic buildings on the Downtown Campus.

He will also be available at the WVU Bookstore at 2:30 p.m. to sign copies of his book,Bouquets from the Cannon’s Mouth: Soldiering with the Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserves.A limited number will be available for sale there.

That evening, Eberly will be the featured speaker at the Mason-Dixon Civil War Roundtable meeting at 7 p.m. at The Village at Heritage Point Retirement Community, One Heritage Point in Morgantown . He will speak about his book during the lecture, which is free and open to the public.

An attorney by profession, Eberly retired from the Navy General Counsel’s Office in 1996. Since then, he has been active as a re-enactor and living historian with the 101st Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. A founder and first president of the Lowcountry Civil War Roundtable, Eberly has published an award-winning short story on the Confederate military prison at Salisbury , N.C. He is also active in battlefield preservation efforts, and serves on the board of directors of the Friends of the National Parks at Gettysburg .

For more information, please contact Rudolph Almasy at 304-293-4611.