A few Health Issues and not able to travel right now. One of the great collectors, folks connected with the Shenandoah Valley battlefields. Two people who are very important to me, sarah has made all of this work behind the scenes. She is constantly making sure that something needs to be done and it gets done. You need someone like that. Last but not least, my wife elizabeth. Elizabeth has come down from virginia to join us. What i will do is move into my part of the presentation. We are going to talk about the leadership. We focused in the past about various aspects of leadership that included areas outside the late unpleasantness, as we like to say so we do not step on any toes. One of the issues we wanted to deal with was the civil war leadership we first talked to coach about setting this up, he said i do not mind you talking about anything else but i want something on the civil war. Today, we will pretty much focus on that. We have done different figures and we will do different f
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Wow, along with these television companies, support c span2 as a public service. I want to welcome you to the 2023 american benefiel trust annual conference here in frankly, tennessee. We really appreciate you all coming out of being a part of this event. The next speaker is going to talk specifically about the battle here at franklin, which is one of the most famous, or infamous, battles of the American Civil War that took place in november 1864. Many of you will travel out to franklin to check out the battlefield site the next couple of days. We will have great historians, as well as aaron jacobson, part of the battle of franklin trust. He wants the carter house, which was the epicenter of the battle at franklin. We are excited to get you out to the battlefield. We know some of you are out here for the first time. We have done a lot of work with our partners out here. To hit that 56,000 acre mark, we had to do a lot of work in places like franklin, nashville, and beyond. The next spe