Coming up here is actually author of three books. He started out writing about a subject near and dear to him, the 1864 campaign in the shenandoah valley. The story is called bloody autumn. Most recently, calamity and carolina. Greenwalt started out as an intern. He has since joined the park service, has done a wonderful with George Washingtons birthplace, where he was an interpreter for several years, but most recently, he has decided to go into alligator land and has bowed down at the everglades, where he has been for just a month or so. Usis taking time to talk to about a subject that eric introduced us to just moments ago, and he talked about the foundational document of the lost cause. Talk to usng to about where that goes and how that legacy is with us today. Ladies and gentlemen, phillip greenwalt. [applause] phillip good morning. The good thing about the lost or remembering Southern Confederate history is that has not been in the public eye at all for the last few weeks, months
I see that continuing and most likely flourishing with the advent of our Agricultural Tourism that has evolved here in our local county economy. Find out where sea you are watching American History tv all weekend free weekend on cspan3. Next author of greenwald talks about author Philip Greenwald discusses why the confederacy lost. Writings many of their served as a foundation for lost cost. Lost cause. M at the author of three books. He started out writing about a subject near and dear to him, the 1864 campaign in the shenandoah valley. The book is called bloody autumn. He followed that up with hurricane from the heavens, and most recently, calamity in carolina the battles of bentonville. Greenwalt started out as an intern. He has since joined the park service, has done a wonderful job with George Washingtons birthplace, where he was an interpreter for several years, but most recently, he has decided to go into alligator land and has bowed down at the everglades, where he has been for
He started out writing about a subject near and dear to him, the 1864 campaign in the shenandoah valley. The book is called bloody autumn. He followed that up with hurricane from the heavens, and most recently, calamity in carolina the battles of bentonville. Greenwalt started out as an intern. He has since joined the park service, has done a wonderful job with George Washingtons birthplace, where he was an interpreter for several years, but most recently, he has decided to go into alligator land and has bowed down at the everglades, where he has been for just a month or so. He is taking time to talk to us about a subject that eric introduced us to just moments ago, the the foundational document of the lost cause. Phill is going to talk to us about where that goes and how that legacy remains with us today. Ladies and gentlemen, phill greenwalt. [applause] phillip good morning. Good morning. Phillip the good thing about the lost cause or remembering Southern Confederate history is that
Every night. [laughter] in this photograph, there is no risk of his work falling by the wayside. For freeman was the bag or the biographer and wrote for albums on robert e lee. He did three volumes on the army of Northern Virginia entitled these lieutenants. All good work beautifully written. Tohad froze that is equal british cadence. He did great original research. He was very much enamored with the general. He admitted to this. Every morning as he walked to work, he would salute the statue of robert e lee in richmond. Thats a little odd but nonetheless, he had great admiration for the general. And he was a professional historian. Freeman grew up in virginia. His undergraduate at university of richmond and went on to Johns Hopkins where he got his phd. Did not enter the academy. He decides to work for a living was a journalist with two different papers in richmond. His historical output alone is amazing. This should remind you of our conversation with Gordon Wright yesterday who has a
In the long march of history, we keep moving along, keeping pace with new scholarships. Thats what reality is. Most of our books fall by the wayside. I had that realization at a recent book signing in which i did not have to strain my eyes very much to see the end of the line. As people made their way up, a honey,d to his wife this is the author of the book that i have been reading every evening. She said, the book you falsely to every night. [laughter] the book you fall asleep to every night. [laughter] in this photograph, there is no risk of his work falling by the wayside. For freeman was the bag or the biographer and wrote for albums on robert e lee. He did three volumes on the army of Northern Virginia entitled these lieutenants. All good work beautifully written. Tohad froze that is equal british cadence. He did great original research. He was very much enamored with the general. He admitted to this. Every morning as he walked to work, he would salute the statue of robert e lee i