best generals that each side had. i think this campaign has been more misunderstood, more misinterpreted than maybe any other campaign in the civil war. i think the reason is because of expectations. today in politics you would see, a presidential campaign or primary campaign going on. several candidates are seeking the nomination of one of the parties. they. or coming up on one of the nominating primaries the state primaries typically you ll hear some politicians say, if i finish in the top three than that will be a win. if i could finish in the top three than i would be happy or something like that. of course trying to manage expectations. if he does that successfully and of people in the press so forth by it, top three finishes a win for him. if you finishes number two, and that s great! he exceeded expectations. but, on the other hand, if he doesn t bother to manage expectations or if he is not successful at it, people don t buy it, then he finishes second then oh wow,
dr. jeff kinard. you may have a class with him. he is the chair of our history and political science program here at guilford technical community college. what you may not know about dr. kinard is that he is a military historian, an expert in military history. he has published at least four books on anything from weaponry, weaponry from the civil war, revolutionary war. he collects a host of artifacts which he has brought and will share with us today. he is a phd, earned his doctorate from texas christian university in fort worth. what year? it was a while ago. but he is an expert. if you get an opportunity take a class with him, take a class. we are going to continue to discuss the civil war. thankfully for dr. kinard, we get to look at the aspect of weaponry and its impacts on the war. without further ado, i will hand the class over to dr. kinard. dr. kinard: thank you. the theme for today s lecture is going to be about technology of warfare. a lot of our classes we deal wi
Defended the reputation. As well as the inability of soldiers to defend themselves against germs and infection. This hour and 15 minute talk was art of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog. I am pleased to introduce our esteemed panel tonight. I have asked a variety of voices, some of those who are a emerging from a variety of perspectives some of whom we will hear from this weekend and some of those who are here exclusively tonight. The idea is to talk about great defense. For those of you who have come in previous years this conversation is apt to wobble in all sorts of interesting and fun ways. I am going to pitch a couple of softballs, lets talk a little bit and then we will open things up to the floor because we want this to be a conversation for you to have the opportunity to pick the brains of some of the finest historians we have here. I am going to start to my immediate right with my great polish brother. People like chris, that still does not narrow it down. Chri
On happy to introduce our next speaker. John jay hennessy is an author serving as the chief historian and chief of interpretation at fredericksburg at the military park. He is the author of a great book, the first battle of manassas. As well as the definitive book on second manassas, returned to pull run. Lets welcome john hennessy. [applause] mr. Hennessy i have to start with this. This is not a gratuitous praising of my team that i have loved since i was 11 years old. The pittsburg penguins play hockey. You may remember they won the stanley cup. I offer this is context for some of what you have heard this week. Does anybody recall who was defeated in the final . [booing] mr. Hennessy do you remember . Do you remember . Nashville is in the state of tennessee. Who lives in the state of tennessee . Will green. [laughter] mr. Hennessy after the stanley cup finals, he called me or i called him. I cannot remember which. He told me how great it was. I told him, you know the penguins won. He
Want to run. It is like saying, with all due respect [laughter] grimm in my courtroom. We do have some great scholars with us this morning. Aephen angle, the author of great book about lincoln and the nations governors. Ofathan white, author midnight in america. Soon to be with us a book called a little monitor. Catherine clinton is no stranger to us, author of many books. He told me, and i hope i am not revealing any confidence, he has. Glint in his eye good luck with that. Abouture we will hear secretary of the treasury salmon chase from professor clinton. Let me start with this. John barr, one of our members, wrote a great book but it is a door stopper, it is huge. Lincoln. Ed lonely he says in his introduction that William F Buckley junior once said americans shall not remember why lincoln was locked until we come to understand why he was hated. Until lincoln was loved we come to understand why he was hated. , as williamho whorsen said, even those commemorated or tried to memoriali