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
Confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on something. Its a symposium on the warren east, hosted by the emergency bill war blog. Welcome back to the emergence of a war symposium, great to have you with us my name is chris mackowski. Our next speaker today comes to us, actually from our sister site emerging revolutionary war. Mark maloy its a historian with a National Park service and hes like what can i do thats revolutionary war . And i said, mark know this is a civil war. So we decided we would let him come talk about fort sumter because its the closest we can get to the war to the revolutionary era. Mark is a delightful historian, a wonderful guy, i wish i could get him to laugh on cue. The most distinctive feature that we are like is his laugh. But we are delighted to have him, and he came here today to speak about the first shots of the civil war act fort sumter. Mark. Thank you very much for that introduction, chris. And its a pleasure to be able to speak out this symposiu
The revolutionary war era. Mark is a delightful historian. I wish i could get him to laugh on q. His most on cue. His most distinctive feature is is left. Were delighted to have him speak on the first shots of the civil war at fort sumter. Mark . 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 would 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. But yeah, as chris mentioned, my main passion is the American Revolutionary war. But i worked for the National Park service, and we take care of a lot of important civil war sites. I actually started my career with the National Park service as an intern down at fort sumter in charleston, South Carolina. I worked there for about a year, in charleston, South Carolina, if youve never been, its a beautiful town. Theres a lot of history, revolutionary war history, but most people associate
Revolutionary war. Mark malloy is a historian with the National Park service and he is like, what can i do this revolutionary war . I said, this is the civil war. We decided we would let him talk about fort sumter because it is as close as we can get to the revolutionary war era. Asay that because mark is delightful historian, wonderful guy, wish i could get him to laugh on cue. [laughter] his most distinctive feature is his laugh. We are delighted to have him come here today to speak about the first shots of the civil war at fort sumter. Mark . Mark thank you so much for that introduction, chris. It is a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. We would love to have done in person, but being able to do it digitally is a wonderful way to do it as well. Mentioned my main passion is the American Revolutionary war. Work for the National Park service and we take care of a lot of important civil war sites. I started my career with the National Park service
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