The National Park service until his retirement in 1995. Has published many books primarily related to the western fear of war and his three volume Campaign History of vicksburg which is viewed as a classic. In 2015 legislation was introduced to award him a congressional gold medal for his contributions to Civil War Preservation and history. So his talk today is recovering the uss cairo, right. Not cairo i always his frounds from from the yazoo. Mr. Bears. Thank you so much. [ applause ] always a pleasure being down to where we are today. Down to Longwood University to talk about the raising of the cairo. Now, if you want to find out how to raise a vestal you will not do it the way we do it. When i arrive at vicksburg on a in 1966 i entered on duty at vicksburg. And after i had been there about a year the superintendent called me in, mr. Mcconhi. And say, ed, i want you to see if you can find the gun boat cairo. It was one of 7 casemented city series ironclads built by the United States
Our first speaker of the afternoon is dr. Caroline jenny. Dr. Jeannie is the john l noll, and i pronouncing it correctly . Professor of American Civil War and director of the john l now, i will get it right, silver personal history and university of virginia. She is a graduate from uaa, worked at the National Park service as a historian, an active lecture as you might imagine, winner of a number of different teaching awards. She is coeditor of the university of, and oppresses American Civil War series, past president of the Society Civil war historians, published five books, have them listed on your program, civil war reunion and the limits of reconciliation. She edited petersburg appomattox to work in virginia, and another one on the list is during the debt but not the past, it is memorial associations and the lost cause. Her talk today is we were not surrendered, parole and lees army after appomattox. Good afternoon. It is nice to see so many familiar faces in the audience. I know th
Prof. Garcia the professor has welcome him back, my good friend and colleague. Professor montejano is one of the most distinguished scholars and historians in the country. It is an honor to have him as the keynote speaker for the conference. Histive texan, he received phd in social of the from yale. He also chairs the center for social change at uc berkeley. Prior to teaching at berkeley, he was associate professor at texas, also a director for the center of mexicanamerican studies. His research on borderlands history, comparative history, and recent ethnic relations. Inhas been published widely and books. He won numerous awards, including the Frederick Jackson turner prize in american history. His book on the Chicano Movement includes a local history of the Chicano Movement 19661981, which also won numerous awards. He was awarded the best book association. It was followed by another book, exploring the political edge with the brown berets. Both work published by the university of texa