Harold good afternoon. The vicechairman of the Lincoln Forum and it is a pleasure to welcome to you what we think will be an illuminating and original session. A session devoted to private lives, not only the private life of the very public president of the United States during the civil war, but the most private lives of his soldiers as well. Speaker amusingly calls it the remarkable nightlife of civil war americans. What he is describing in that subtitle is their dreams. Not their cautious hopes, but their subconscious imaginings. And what they were home to describe in remembering what occurred during the precious hours during which the troops managed to catch the rest in t ents or in the field, drifting into dreams that expressed longing for home, their parents, their sweethearts, siblings, children and others, as you will hear. It is like our service, the other is the most intriguing. We all know how much lincoln loved shakespeare, including hamlet and its most famous a locally to