Introduce the matt atkinson. Matt is a native of houston, mississippi, and received a ba in history from the university of mississippi. He has worked at Petersburg National battlefield, National Historical park, Manassas National battlefield and Vicksburg National military park. Hes currently employed as a ranger slash historian at gettysburg National Military park. And he will be presenting to you about the fallen leader Earl Van Dorn. [applause] this is the adjustment period, right . Where you find out what the mic is like. Or like Hank Williams said, one time, in 1952, my good friend down in georgia, his daddy saw him and Hank Williams stepped up to the microphone and he blew in it. And he says, well, boys, this works. Lets see if i do. [laughs]. I appreciate you all having me again. Its good to be back in i have an impossible task, i will go ahead and tell you, ive got 13 pages of single spaced notes on Earl Van Dorn and ive got 45 minutes. And ive got a man standing in the back. T
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good morning. my name is holt merchant. i teach history next door in washington lee university. and i am enormously pleased to have this opportunity [ applause ] i am still enormously pleased to have this opportunity to introduce you to two of my long standing friends. robert k. krick who will speak first and carol reardon. the first thing to be said about bob crick is he is unemployed. actually, retired from the national park service after 35 years. chief historian, the last 32 of those years at the fredericksburg, spotsylvania, national military park. before he came to virginia, he was the historian at fort necessity, national battlefield and fort mchenry, national monument, a total of 35 years of service. many of us also know bob crick as a hero of the effort to preserve civil war battlefields from the assaults of generations of commercial developers of parking lots and strip malls. [ applause ] and for that, we owe him a great deal. we also know bob as an author, lect
our local content vehicles recently visited wichita to learn about its rich history. learn more at c-span.o c-span.org-localcontent. this week on the civil war, two historians discuss robert e. lee s leadership during the civil war. they consider his education, work as a general and his ability to maintain troop morale under challenging circumstances. this is the second in a series of sessions we are airing from a conference organized by the virginia civil war ses question centennial convention. this portion is about an hour and ten minutes. good morning. my name is holt merchant. i teach history next door in washington lee university. and i am enormously pleased to have this opportunity [ applause ] i am still enormously pleased to have this opportunity to introduce you to two of my long standing friends. robert k. krick who will speak first and carol reardon. the first thing to be said about bob crick is he is unemployed. actually, retired from the national park service
civil war. they consider lee s education, his work as a general, and his ability to maintain troop morale under challenging circumstances. this is the second in the series of sessions we re airing from a conference organized by the virginia commission. the theme was leadership and generalship in the civil war. the virginia military institute in lexington, virginia, hosted the conference and this portion is about 1:10. good morning. my name is holt merchant. i teach history next door in washington lee university. and i am enormously pleased to have this opportunity [ applause ] i am still enormously pleased to have this opportunity to introduce you to you, two of my long standing friends. robert k.crick who will speak first and carol reardon. the first thing to be said about bob crick is he is unemployed. actually, retired. from the national park service after 35 years. chief historian, the last 32 of those years. at the fredericksburg, spotsylvania, national military park
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