'King Cotton' Topic of Civil War Roundtable

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Perhaps it was separation anxiety coupled with a slight case of homesickness, or perhaps simply a matter of "now it's time," but Zac Cowsert, California University of Pennsylvania's Civil War Roundtable featured speaker Thursday, referred to it as "like having an itch that (he) needed to scratch."

During his five-month stay in Denmark during his junior year at Centenary College of Louisiana, Cowsert, 22, a lifelong Civil War enthusiast who referred to his long-standing interest in the conflict as a hobby, said, "Being in Europe got me thinking. I was jonesing for the Civil War."

Whatever the reason, Cowsert, currently a graduate student at West Virginia …