Also north american slavery more generally. Her riding has appeared in and civilmonitor war history journal and she is working to compile her phd dissertation into a book. That will be well worth looking into. You can see the powerpoint under the rubble lash, black prisoners of war in the confederate south. She will speak for about 25 minutes, which will give us plenty of time for discussion. You can type in your questions q ag vq and a using the feature. You will not be up to use the chat. In anytimepe those during the talk. We may not be able to get to all of the questions. We will wrap things up by about 8 15. Ok, that is all for me. Please join me in what ever the round of applause may be maybe it is a round of laws. Dr. Newhall . Thank you, paul. Thank you to everybody for being here tonight. Its such a pleasure to share my research with you and go through the details, my findings. This has been a labor of love. I am excited to have and just really try to understand what this time
Its clear she will bring an awful lot to Virginia Tech with teaching, research, and outreach programs as well. She specializes in 19thcentury u. S. History, including, of course, the civil war era, but also north american slavery more generally. Warfare more generally as well. Appeared inhas civil war monitor and Civil War History journal, among other publications. Her big project at the moment is converting her phd dissertation into a book. That will be well worth looking out for a few years down the line. It is on the very same topic. You can see the powerpoint is already up there. Under the rebel lash black prisoners of war in the confederate south. She will speak for about 25 to 35 minutes, which will give us plenty of time for discussion. And i think a big advantage of the zoom format is you will be able to type in your questions using the q a feature. You will not be able to use the chat in the webinar, but you can use the q a button if you have a question, and you can type those
From elmira, new york, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, derek maxfield. Derek thank you very much. Im very pleased to be here and talk about my latest project. Hellmira and prisoner over cams prisoner of war camps in general have been quite a surprise to me. I have studied the civil war since i was quite young and new the length of the tragedy during the civil war. But it was eyeopening to me the extent of the home and italian crisis that unfolded over the course of those for bloody years. The extent of the humanitarian crisis that unfolded over the course of those four bloody years. 500,000 incarcerated in total. And, although we understand that this is a small number of casualties considering the total number of casualties during the civil war, over 750,000 now we believe, when we consider that we could have done better. Both north and south. When you consider that this was in our power to make lives for those who were incarcerated better. It is really quite disappointing. And i
Of the sinking of the Black Diamond down at Saint Clements river down on the potomac in maryland. I was invited by my colleague here karen stone who has done an amazing job of continuing to tell the story and to bring the story out from the darkness and into the light. A little bit about karen. She is the director of she oversees redistinct sites and that county for strategic planning, fundraising, creating strategic partnerships, overseeing Museum Partnerships and more. This is especially exciting. I love this article she recently published an article about this disaster in American Civil War magazine entitled peril on the potomac. Thank you for joining us on zoom this afternoon. Dir. Stone this is very exciting, jake. I am excited to be here. This actually took place today, dir. Wynn this is a really important event that has been overshadowed by many of the other events happening in april 1865, including other maritime disasters. A bad timing event for news coverage. Were other thing
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