His wife and two cats and he enjoys eating oysters, some liquor and peace and quite. Drew gruber. [ applause ] so at this time i will introduce my coauthor Doug Crenshaw who will come up and lecture about williamsburg today. Okay. I sat down last night to review my notes and i couldnt help, but think about how ryan ended his presentation yesterday and it caused me to rewrite the whole thing. Thanks, ryan. I was going open with a really cool quote and i thought about it, we have this morbid fascination with body count and only big, bloody battles are important and Richard Lewis said something last night where he said the guy who falls from dysentery, thats his forgotten battle and the one guy thats out on picket by himself on a cold day, thats probably his most important battle. So im going to open with a quote from not a historian, just a guy who fought at the battle of williamsburg. This guy gets hit in the shoulder with a 6pound ball. His friend next to him says its just a flesher an
Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac we actually did not announce until relatively recently that this discovery had been made. Thank you. Sure. Anymore . Last chance here. I got an observation and maybe you can comment on it. When you showed and mentioned that the guy the soldier was hit with. 69 caliber buck shot, to me that says smooth bore, which you mentioned, but it also says to me close range. Otherwise that buck shot is going to go all over the place. If he has three different buck shots hitting him, thats pretty close combat there. That is an element that i would be happy to talk about for a second. The first soldier with the infield muscat, it was sighted up to a hundred yards. It was plausible that that soldier could have been shot from a few hundred yards away. The smooth bores this would have been a. 65 caliber round ball. They had a front sight. They were generally considered to be accurate for hitting a mansized target at about 65 yards or less. In terms
Mr. Orrison good afternoon. I get the privilege of introducing a really good friend. Drew and i have been arguing over the past two days, what i should do in this introduction. I will just read what you sent me. [laughter] mr. Orrison it is kind of funny, actually. Drew gruber as the executive director of civil war trails, lives in williamsburg with his wife kate, their two cats, he enjoys reading, oysters, brown liquor and peace and quiet. Drew gruber. [applause] time, i am at this going to introduce my coauthor, doug crenshaw, who is going to lecture about williamsburg today. [laughter] mr. Gruber i sat down last night to review notes, and i couldnt help but think about how ryan ended his presentation yesterday. It caused me to rewrite the whole thing. Thanks, ryan. Forgotten battles is a cool thing and i was going to open with a quote and then i thought about it, we have a morbid fascination with body count, only big, bloody battles are important. Then Richard Lewis yesterday said s
Host good afternoon. I get the privilege of introducing a good friend. Drew and i have been arguing over the past two days, what i should do in this introduction. I will just read what you sent me. It is best [laughter] it is kind of funny, actually. Gruber as the executive director of civil war trails, lives in williamsburg with his wife kate, their two cats, he enjoys reading, oysters, brown liquor and peace and quiet. Drew gruber. [applause] going tor i am introduce my coauthor, doug crenshaw, who is going to lecture about williamsburg today. [laughter] i sat down last night to review notes, and i couldnt think couldnt help but think about how ryan ended his presentation yesterday. It caused me to rewrite the whole thing. Thanks, ryan. Forgotten battles is a cool thing and i was going to open with a quote and then i thought about it, we have a morbid fascination with body count, only big, bloody battles are important. Then Richard Lewis said last from, the guy who falls dysentery, t
You tell us about the Jewish Community there well i mean the Jewish Community are actually quite active and this is an important scene there is an important center of jewish life in germany and has been for many years we dont really know yet i mean how many people were in the synagogue but at least youll get bored as you mention and these are the High Holy Days so i mean it can be assumed that there were quite a few people being in the middle of the day chances are. You know chances are the break is in effect so this is something that we will essentially have to wait to see what the situation was and as we mentioned young cupola today how important explain to us how important this is actually the sort of the High Holy Days its actually sort of they come together with new years who are true and he were scald russia nonkosher a young are known to gather a High Holy Days or you know i mean the days the terrible days are actually so these are the time this is the time in which not only the