Profession, you need to get men to want to do the job because the payee inevitably will go up. [laughter] if you want to explore our nations past, every weekend on cspan3. Next on the civil war, Kristen Pawlak talked about the battle of Wilsons Creek, fought between union and Confederate Forces in southwest missouri in august 1861. She explained that the conflict, while not widely known, is significant because it was the first major battle west of the mississippi river. This talk was a part of a symposium on forgotten battles of the civil war hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Our next speaker will be speaking on the battle of Wilsons Creek. Pawlak. Kristen graduated from Gettysburg College with a bachelor of arts degrees in civil war studies. She has worked for the misery Civil War Museum in st. Louis, the American Battlefield trust, and the Gettysburg College special collections. She currently serves on the board of directors for the marine scholarship foundation. She is working
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