Thank you. Its indeed a pleasure to be here. I think this is the 16th seminar. I think we owe a debt of gratitude to Longwood University and to dr. Coles and Patrick Schroder and you ought to give them all a round of applause. [ applause ] how many of you, and there are quite a few of you, have been to the mcclain house at appomattox courthouse . That makes things rather easy for me. Its time for lunch i believe. One thing thats probably not generally known is that the first offer of surrender didnt come from a letter from general grant. It came from a group of officers that have gathered april 7th and these officers concluded that because the circumstances facing the army that it might be best to suggest to general lee that he opened negotiations with general grant. They selected him as their spokesman. William nelson for episcopalian. He approached general lee that day. He would not hear that suggestion. He said there were too many brave and good men. General grant and most of the fe
Our next speaker Elizabeth Brown pryor burst onto the scene in 2007 with the publication of reading the man, a portrait of robert e. Lee through his private lettersle. The book received eventually every prize in the world i think elizabeth, the lincoln prize, our Jefferson Davis award, the richard b. Harwell book award and the Richard Slatten award for excellence in virginia biography. I personally had the opportunity to read aloud an expert from an uncorrected proof of that book standing at this podium during the introduction of our 2007 simple pose yum about robert e. Lee. A sanchez often true, there is a story behind elizabeths emergence as a major civil war historian. She earned an m. A. In history from the university of pennsylvania studying withdrew gilpin faust, the now the president of Harvard University and i must tell a story about drew. When she was made the president of harvard people were sayingment is this an unbelievable, she is the first female to be the president of ha
Through his private letters. The book received eventually every prize in the world, i think elizabeth, the lincoln prize, our Jefferson Davis award, the richard b. Harwell book award and the Richard Slatten award for excellence in virginia biography. I personally had the opportunity to read aloud an expert from an uncorrected proof of that book standing at this podium during the introduction of our 2007 symposium about robert e. Lee. As is often true, there is a story behind elizabeths emergence as a major civil war historian. She earned an m. A. In history from the university of pennsylvania studying withdrew gilpin faust, the now the president of Harvard University and i must tell a story about drew. When she was made the president of harvard, people were saying isnt this an unbelievable, she is the first female to be the president of harvard. And i commented to her, i thought it was more remarkable that she was the first friend of the museum of the confederacy to be the first presid
Pennsylvania studying with the now president of Harvard University and i must tell a story about drew. When she was made the president of harvard, people were saying, isnt this unbelievable, she is the first female to be the president of harvard. And i commented to her, i thought it was more remarkable that she was the first friend of the museum of the confederacy to be the first president of harvard. [laughter] elizabeth embarked on a career as a historian for the National Parks service, working at the Clara Barton House and arlington house. In 1988, she published clara barton, professional angel are comeanwhile, her career took off in a different direction when she entered the u. S. Foreign service and served 20 years, now this is typical back ground for a civil war historian, elizabeth served 20 years as a highly decorated senior diplomat and conventional arms negotiator for the state department. She has spoken all over the world on American History. And american diplomacy. And appe
Attorneys office will use the full force of the law to make sure justice is served in this matter. Reporter prosecutors say that when Police Arrested wint late last night overnight, they say he had 10,000 in the same kind of denominations as those 40,000 that were delivered to the mansion. Most important, they have wints dna on a medium pepperoni Dominos Pizza at the scene inside the mansion with those three dead adults. So far wint is just charged with the murder of Savvas Savopoulos, but prosecutors expect to bring more charges soon. Reporting live at d. C. Superior court, bruce leshan, wusa9. As we know, we saw it unfold last night, police did track wint to new york but missed him by a day. They caught up with him late in the evening. Our ellison barber was at the scene of the arrest late last night and she is back there now. Tell us more. Reporter the arrest happened just behind me on rhode island avenue, but this isnt really where it began. Police followed wint to new york and mar