He is a National Renowned speaker and the authority on union calvary, particularly operations in the east. What i like about his canon of books, he has been boldly exploring all sorts of things and taking his expiration in neat directions. He is working on a mini script about George Gordon meade. It does not necessarily seem like a cavalry operation to me and it makes him one of the most interesting historians working in the field today. Coming to us from columbus, ohio, to talk about his Award Winning book on john buford, eric wittenberg. [applause] wittenberg it is always up pleasure to be here and i appreciate the opportunity to be here today. It is also always nobody wants to be the guy who goes right after lunch. If anybody falls asleep because of the good food, i promise i wont be offended. And bear with me, im not good at standing still. Chris was talking about the fact that i have written a lot of books, i have a bad case of adult add, which also means i have a trouble standing
Civil war, but the most private lives of his soldiers as well. As our first speaker amusingly calls it, the remarkable nightlife of civil war americans. What he is describing in that subtitle is their dreams. Not there conscious hopes, but their subconscious imaginings. And what they wrote home to describe in remembering what occurred during the precious hours during which the troops aged to catch the rest their rest in tents or in the field, drifting into dreams that expressed longing for home, their parents, their sweethearts, siblings, children and others, as you will hear. It is like our surveys. The other is the most intriguing. We all know how much lincoln loved shakespeare, including hamlet and its most famous be,oquy to be or not to even if he confided that he liked another soliloquy better. Within the poetry of course is this gorgeous and a telling phrase, to sleep perchance to dream. There is the rub, for in the dreams mayath, what come when we have shuffled off this mortal c
Harold good afternoon. The vicechairman of the Lincoln Forum and it is a pleasure to welcome to you what we think will be an illuminating and original session. A session devoted to private lives, not only the private life of the very public president of the United States during the civil war, but the most private lives of his soldiers as well. Speaker amusingly calls it the remarkable nightlife of civil war americans. What he is describing in that subtitle is their dreams. Not their cautious hopes, but their subconscious imaginings. And what they were home to describe in remembering what occurred during the precious hours during which the troops managed to catch the rest in t ents or in the field, drifting into dreams that expressed longing for home, their parents, their sweethearts, siblings, children and others, as you will hear. It is like our service, the other is the most intriguing. We all know how much lincoln loved shakespeare, including hamlet and its most famous a locally to
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