You why he was chosen to enter richmond 150 years ago today. You may remember his name when you walk out of here. The book is actually on sale upstairs in the gift shop. I will be doing a book signing upstairs. If you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. Richmond was captured april 3, 1865. What an understatement that is, to capture the historic event that happened 150 years ago today. I got interested in this project 12 years ago when i was going through my grandfathers Family Archive and memoirs and came across this entry. My fathers uncle was a general in the civil war. My grandfather george weitzel. He was born in the United States in ohio. His parents were immigrants. His parents died at a young age when george was 18 months old. He was adopted, and the family name was changed to quatman. Im a blood weitzel. We have weitzels in the Confederate White House. We have some weitzels here today. Probably more than in 150 years. Welcome. This is Major General Godfrey Weitzel
I will be doing a book signing upstairs. If you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. If you do not have a copy, there is still time to get one. Richmond was captured april 3, 1865. What antzel understatement that is, to capture the historic event that happened 150 years ago today. I got interested in this project 12 years ago when i was going through my grandfathers Family Archive and memoirs and came across this entry. My fathers uncle was a general in the civil war. My grandfather was born in the United States in ohio. His parents were immigrants. Jacob lew is weitzel was his father and his parents died at a young age when george was 18 months old. He was adopted, and the family name was changed. Im a blood weitzel. So the title of my talk is im a is weitzeltalk returns. We have weitzels in the Confederate White House. We have some weitzels here today. Probably more than in 150 years. Welcome. This is Major General Godfrey Weitzel. Age 1835, died in 1884 at 49. He was bo
I am going to introduce our speaker, warren perry. He is originally from memphis, tennessee. He has a graduate degree in medieval literature and from the catholic university. His oneman play, walt whitman and the civil war. And he cowrote elvis, which received the bronze award from forward magazine in 2010. In his 12 years at the National Portrait gallery, he wrote over 200 articles for print and the web. More than 40 on the American Civil War. He received one of the secretary Research Prizes for 2013 for the Smithsonian Congress of scholars. We are very proud of him. He is founder and director of the Perry Library of theater. I would like to introduce amy bracewell, the site manager and she is going to make a few remarks and then well have warren come up here. Thank you. Thank you. I would like to thank you so much for coming out. Cedar creek and belle grove historical park was excited to partner with the smithsonian for this lecture. Thank you for agreeing to speak on this great hist
Speaker, warren perry. From memphis,ly tennessee. He has a graduate degree in medieval literature and from the catholic university. , while women walt whitman and the civil war. Elvis,cowrote office which received the bronze award from forward magazine in 2010. In his 12 years at the National Portrait gallery, he wrote over 200 articles for print and the web. More than 40 on the American Civil War. Here he received one of tims secretary Research Prizes for 2013 for the Smithsonian Congress of scholars. We are very proud of him. He is founder and director of library of perry theater. I would like to introduce amy well, the site manager and she is going to make a few remarks and then well have one come up here. Warr come up here. Thank you. E thank you. I would like to thank you so much for coming out. Creek and belle grove historical park was excited to partner with the smithsonian for this lecture. Thank you for agreeing to speak on this great history. We think it is such a perfect the
September 12th. He a has been described as a selftaught survival wrist with a grudge against law enforcement. Those living in the the area have been told to stay vigilant. I think the the whole county will be relieved, the the whole country probably, because we cannot have people like this running around . In other news tonight in camden a mother and her teenage son were seriously injured after a man slash her throat this happened just before 5 00 a. M. At a home on the 2900 block of yorkship road. Investigators say jose flores used a box cut tore cut would the man. Her 19 yearold son heard his mothers cries for help. Flores then slashed him as well. Two other children were in the home at the time. Neither one was injured. Well, teenager from south jersey is in custody for allegedly trying to force his way in the barricaded entry way to the white house earlier today. Obviously this is wrong video here. Second such incident in as many days, secret service says 19 yearold kevin car drove