At the Community College in new york. Derek has recently earned fame for his brand new book as part of the emerging civil war series. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome derek maxfield. Thank you very much. Im very pleased to be here and talk about my latest project. You know, elmira is, and prisoner war camps in general, have been a surprise me. Ive studied the civil war since, umm, since i was quite young, and, umm, you know, knew the lengths of the tragedy during the civil war, umm, but it was eyeopening to me the extent of the humanitarian crisis that unfolded over the course of those four bloody years. Umm, over 56,000, umm, died, umm, in prisoner of war camps over that time. Just over 500,000 incarcerated in total. And all though we understand, you know, the that this is just a small number of casualties considered the total number of casualties during the civil war, over 750,000 now, we believe, umm when you consider we could have done better both north and south. You consider
Emerging revolutionary war, mark maloy is a historian with the National Parks service, and hes like what can i do thats revolutionary war and its like, mark, no, this is the civil war. Hes like, whoa so we decided we would let him come talk about fort sumter, its as close as we can get in the war to the revolutionary war era. I say all that because mark is a delightful historian, wonderful guy, i wish i could get him to laugh on cue, his most distinctive feature is his laugh. We like to get him pumped up and going. Were delighted to have him come here today to speak the first shots of the civil war at fort sumter. Mark . Thank you very much for that introduction, chris. And its a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. Wed love to have done it in person but being able to do it digitally like this is a wonderful way to do it as well. So but yeah, as chris mentioned, you know, my main passion is the American Revolutionary war. But, you know, i work for
He is the coauthor of the book the last road north a guide to the Gettysburg Campaign and he works as a historian at Gettysburg National park. Hes here to talk to us about one of the worlds lesser known but vital actions of the battle on corpse hill. Ladies and gentlemen, dan walsh. I want to begin by thanking all my friends and colleagues in the emerging civil war, chris monkowski, chris white at the American Battlefield trust tore having me today to present you this often forgotten story of the battle of gettysburg. Over the last 157 years, so many of us are familiar with the stories of Joshua Chamberlain and Little Round Top, pickets charge, Seminary Ridge, but often what gets lost is some of the stories that would occur on the union armys right flank on july 2nd and july 3rd known as corpse hill. As a monument to honor george green after the battle of gettysburg, illuminary dan sickles would give a dedication speech to this monument that had been dedicated in honor of green and his
Up next, mark maloy describes the events of 1861 when federal guns opened fire on ft. Sumpter. Welcome back to the emerging civilian virtual symposium. Our next speaker today comes to us from our sister site, emerging revolutionary war. Mark is a historian with the National Park service and hes, like, what can i do thats revolutionary war . Im like, this is the civil war. Hes like whoa. We decided we would let him talk about ft. Sumpter because its as close we can get to the war. Mark is a delightful historian. I wish i could get him to laugh on queue. His most distinctive feature is his laugh. Were delighted to have him to come here today to speak about the first shots of the civil war at ft. Sumpter. Mark . Thank you very much for that introduction, chris. And its a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. We love to have had done it in person, but being able to do it digitally like this is a wonderful way to do it, as well. But yeah, as chris mentio
Gettysburg national park. Hes here to talk to us about one of the worlds lesser known but vital actions of the battle on culps hill. Ladies and gentlemen, dan walsh. I want to begin by thanking all my friends and colleagues in the emerging civil war, chris monkowski, kevin pollock, chris white at the American Battlefield trust for having me today to present you this often forgotten story of the battle of gettysburg. Over the last 157 years, so many of us are familiar with the stories of Joshua Chamberlain and Little Round Top, pickets charge, cemetary ridge, Seminary Ridge, but often what gets lost is some of the stories that would occur on the union armys right flank on july 2nd and july 3rd known as culps hill. At the dedication for the monument to honor George Greene after the battle of gettysburg, illuminary dan sickles would give a dedication speech to this monument that had been dedicated in honor of greene and his performance at gettysburg on july 2, 1863. Sickles said, quote, t