Peter i am going to go ahead and turn it over to john. I want to start with something i read in the introduction. Just absolutely fascinated by. And it is about your father. It is really a lovely story. Irwin silber. Book, published a songs of the civil war. He was not like a diehard civil war buff. He was not that kind nina he did like to sing the songs. Peter i have a question about your father. This is what you wrote. This book is not about my father civil war. It is partly about the people who created the civil war my father came to love as well as those who created the kind of civil war that he despised. So tell us, what did you mean by that . How can that help us sort of frame your book . Then we will turn it over to john. Nina so i think come in terms of the kind of the civil war that he came to love, i guess i would say that was the civil war i am going to say it was the civil war created by the popular front. By that, i mean this sort of loose coalition of civil rights organiz
American history offer. His word john adams, john republicanism an obstacle to stand before us was published by a Massachusetts Historical Society in 2014. His his book length study on the general james long straight performances battle of gettysburg was public this year but Macfarlane Press currently he lives in marilyn with his wife and children without any further introduction, i would like you to present you to mr. Cory pfarr thank you very much. Thanks to the Gettysburg Heritage Center for having me here. We will get right into it just after janes longstreet nine new york we will begin regarded by future generations it asserted quote that we dont think that history will sustain conventions of mr. Janes longstreet critics he will be seen as an ablest who fought on the the reason we can look back today the reason this bolton is because it was written after a group of ex confederate officers, including John B Gordon and others had wade had seen fit waging a post war camping of allega
George wouldve gone to england to school but for his fathers death, instead mary hatch together tutors and schools for george and betty and the younger boys and provided them with enough polish despite a real essence of any cash to help the mingle with frederick best society. She could only afford to lend george the money to pay for his dancing lessons. In his first little tiny eye q writes about paying his mother back for his dancing lessons, which taught of not just dancing but also correct posture and they cared of a well bred man. George had is, like marys devotional books, he got the famous book on rules of civility to learn how to be a gentleman at a young age. Mary bought betty a a temblor k which allowed her to do needlework that put her in sort of things gentry class girls would learn. She kept her sons wigs here there were four wigs. She kept them all extremely well taken care of, and they found an unbelievable stash of weak curlers, ceramic wig curlers that are still there a
This 45minute talk was part of a daylong conference hosted by the university of virginias center for Civil War History. So we will begin this mornings lecture with gary w. Gallagher. As many of you know, we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to professor gallagher. He was the founding director of the nau center, retired just last spring from uva where he held the john l. Nau chair in Civil War History from 1999 to 2018. He is the author or editor of at least 39 books, including the union war, the american war and most recently civil war places which, too, is in the back, beautiful book, his son will took the photographs and this is an absolute treasure if you havent had a chance to see it yet. So with that id like to welcome gary gallagher. It yet. So with that id like to welcome gary gallagher. Thank you, carrie. We are on a very tight schedule today which carrie has made clear to all of us in the front row, especially steve. Steve asked me to say that he will be signing 8 by 10 gloss
shenandoah valley campaign, may 18 1864, which was published in 2010 and tonight. he s here to talk about his newest book from arlington to appomattox. robert e. lee s civil war day by 1861 to 1865. and so with that i m going to turn the screen over to our guest author. great. thank you, kelly. and see him there we go. all right, and good evening everybody and it s my pleasure to be here with y all and like kelly said tonight. i m gonna be talking to you a little bit about my newest book from arlington to appomattox, which is kind of a an almanac or reference book if you will about excuse me about lee during the civil war. and make my brady box thing or brady bunch thing over here go away so i can actually see my slides. there we go. okay. i think the the best way to talk about what this book is is really to talk about what it s not. it s not your basic lead biography. i m sure many of you are familiar with eb longs. book the civil war day by day. this is kind of like the sam