Gettysburg won the james j. Roberts award for best civil war book that year and his book on confederate goliath earned the prestigious award on Civil War History given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [applause] thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned that i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate that. Before i begin, if you dont mind, id like to tell you the story about the young history major what decided after he got a bachelors degree in history, he probably ought to get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. So he was accepted, enrolled in a distant Prestigious School of business and wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his first exam and so did everyone in the class. Now, the professor was notoriously irrascable, he came in
Crestcom bank center for military studies. Graggs work on battle of gettysburg won an award for best civil war book that year and his history of fort fisher earned a prestigious fletcher pride award for Civil War History is thats given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned, i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate that. Before i begin, if you dont mind i would like to tell you the story about the young history major who decided after he got a bachelors degree in history that probably ought to go get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. [ laughter ] so he was accepted and enrolled in a distant Prestigious School of business. And wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his f
Going to evaluate the facts and the evidence that came out from the case. We are going to take into account discussions that any jurors might have had with our trial lawyers. We will evaluate that and go forward. Reporter the next Court Hearing is on october 4. That is when the prosecution has to come up with some kind of answer. Do they want to retry Derick Almena . We will get a better answer by next month but in the meantime he continues he remains locked up santa rita jail. As for his codefendant he wont be release from santa rita jail sometime this evening. He will be released. Now lets go to kristin eris. She has been getting reaction from family members of those victims. Reporter incredibly emotional day in court today. For those families. They came slowly out of the courtroom. Some had mixed feelings. Overall there was an overriding feeling of anger. These of course other family members of the 36 people who died in that fire. Many of them have been here in the court room every
Of several and a first taste of deteriorating conditions as a reenergized Hurricane Dorian marched northeastward, setting its sights on the coastal carolinas. This ominous scene at frying pan tower, 32 miles off cape fear, North Carolina. Unlike north florida, whose concave coastlines skirted major damage, the carolinas are exposed and vulnerable. The Barrier Islands jet out towards the warm gulfstream, an area known to sailors as the graveyard of the atlantic. 1 Million People in two states are under a mandatory evacuation. The bahamas death toll now stands at 20 and is expected to rise. The u. N. World food program has purchased 8 tons of ready to eat meals and is organizing a longterm air lift. The task is overwhelming with 70,000 people in need of immediate help. And now, new evacuation orders near Virginia Beach as dorian spins northward, new england, a distant target. Lou, were standing on the banks of the Cape Fear River here in downtown wilmington, North Carolina. You might be
Deteriorating conditions as a reenergized Hurricane Dorian marched northeastward, setting its sights on the coastal carolinas. This ominous scene at frying pan tower, 32 miles off cape fear, North Carolina. Unlike north florida, whose concave coastlines skirted major damage, the carolinas are exposed and vulnerable. The Barrier Islands jet out towards the warm gulfstream, an area known to sailors as the graveyard of the atlantic. 1 Million People in two states are under a mandatory evacuation. The bahamas death toll now stands at 20 and is expected to rise. The u. N. World food program has purchased 8 tons of ready to eat meals and is organizing a longterm air lift. The task is overwhelming with 70,000 people in need of immediate help. And now, new evacuation orders near Virginia Beach as dorian spins northward, new england, a distant target. Lou, were standing on the banks of the Cape Fear River here in downtown wilmington, North Carolina. You might be able to make out the battleship