My book is an exploit edition of the history of the battlefield. The National Park service manages 70 sites that are civil warrelated. The battlefields from gettysburg to antietam to vicksburg to sites time, significantly. If you look at the photograph on the top right, that is an aerial view. The mostne of commercialized areas in the 1940s and 1950s. The image on the left should be familiar to many of you. Perhaps you have the opportunity to go up and the old tower that 1970s. Up in the how the battlefield has been commercialized and how it has changed over time. One of the questions i try to reconcile is what makes gettysburg different . This battlefield is different and antietam. Its different than chickamauga. Its different than perryville. Its different than shiloh. 51,000ttle, producing casualties in three days, is the bloodiest conflict in american history. The man in the slide is a soldier from the fifth massachusetts who was wounded in the fight at gettysburg. His name is john
Thank you for coming. And thank you to all of you for being here, and thank you to our speaker for making it here. We had planned for him to come to a Different Event some time ago and the weather got in the way. This time, the weather did not prevent him from arriving and we are so excited to have Steve Woodworth. He taught for eight years at toccoa, so he has some good georgia roots in that area, and he went on to texas christian university, where he is the powerhouse. The people who say, who should i study with . He is one of the first names to come up for them and for me. One of my first books of steves was Jefferson Davis as general. It was an area that did not have his name associated with it. I picked of volume that had a thomas connection, the chickamauga campaign. Steve has coedited many more than that. I asked him, i said have you continued to produce looks at the same level that you produce children, as he has a huge family. The absolute nicest people in the world, just a ge
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War places, and the atlanta campaign. Up first this morning, Oklahoma State University Professor Jennifer Murray on the Gettysburg National park. She is, as you know, an expert on the civil war and in expert in military history in general. She has a full publication resume. Her most important book and most recent is entitled on a great battlefield the making, making, management, and memory of Gettysburg National park. It was published in 2013 at the university of tennessee press. She is currently working on a biography of general george which wille, hopefully be published by the university of North Carolina in the civil war series. A faculty member in her. Many of you have been on her battlefield tours which are outstanding, hardly because she cut her teeth as a young torian seasonal here for nine years . Nine years. Nine years. I am pleased to welcome jan murray to talk about her book on murray toon of jen talk about her book on the creation of the Gettysburg National park. Go get em.
20 books. I have a long list here. One of my favorite books is girls. Is earls. Is one of the first books to explore soldier motivation and ideology. It is an outstanding book. He has done any others that charge, ackets book on field fortifications. A lot of people dont love braxton bragg. Im not sure you will love him after you read earls book, but it is a fair and well researched , deeply analytical look. He has won a number of awards. I should note, this book fighting for atlanta, is published by the university of North Carolina press. Let me welcome earl hess. [applause] pete, veryhank you, much. Fighting for atlanta, tactics, is the and the civil war topic. The purpose is to understand one of the more important elements that influence the course of operations in the Atlantic Campaign. It is a followup to a trilogy that i did several years ago on field fortifications in the eastern campaigns. That was volume two of that trilogy coverage. Atlanta campaign was one of four that heavil