Patrick, is as you know his story, in the courthouse in National Historic park. And hes worked with me one of our other speakers, the third speaker today ron wilson, is the person who helped get this seminar together for the first time in 1999, the e 20 0. And then when ron retired patrick took over with working with longwood on this seminar. Patrick has history degrees from Shepherd College and from virginia tech. Hes worked as a Seasonal Employee and probably, as many of you know patrick has written numerous books related to that campaign and other aspects of the war. Several pamphlets. The 30 millionths about lees surrender, cemetery at aplamatics. Probably his most important work is we came to fight, a history of the fifth new york volunteer infantry. He helped finish the vortex of hell. Thats a great book to have. Both of those. Patricks book and the one he helped brian finish. Hes very heavily involved in battlefield preservation, set up the fund with the preservation trust. His
Seminar together for the first time in 1999, the e 20 0. And then when ron retired patrick took over with working with longwood on this seminar. Patrick has history degrees from Shepherd College and from virginia tech. Hes worked as a Seasonal Employee and probably, as many of you know patrick has written numerous books related to that campaign and other aspects of the war. Several pamphlets. The 30 millionths about lees surrender, cemetery at aplamatics. Probably his most important work is we came to fight, a history of the fifth new york volunteer infantry. He helped finish the vortex of hell. Thats a great book to have. Both of those. Patricks book and the one he helped brian finish. Hes very heavily involved in battlefield preservation, set up the fund with the preservation trust. His talk today is the battle fury and the last to die patrick schroeder. Thavngs, david. I know youre already probably tired of seeing me. We made a high school trip i think it was 10th or 11th grade and
Intangible resources. So this is i i feel where the speakers got really creative and were gonna hear talks on information love and memory so three things that you might not immediately think of as wartime resources, but when you think a little harder, i think its obvious that these are the kinds of things that americans whether theyre soldiers or civilians in the union or the confederacy black and white americans alike needed in order to cope with the tremendous crisis of the civil war. So well have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that well move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. Caroline newhall, my colleague. Shes the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how mu
Intangible resources. So this is i i feel where the speakers got really creative and were gonna hear talks on information love and memory so three things that you might not immediately think of as wartime resources, but when you think a little harder, i think its obvious that these are the kinds of things that americans whether theyre soldiers or civilians in the union or the confederacy black and white americans alike needed in order to cope with the tremendous crisis of the civil war. So well have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that well move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. Caroline newhall, my colleague. Shes the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how mu
Jointly by me and dr. Caroline newhall, my colleague. Shes the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how much we appreciate your responses and questions that come in through the q a box, you know, sometimes people just type a little note saying i really enjoyed this talk and thats great. Of course for the speakers to hear and whatever your response or question. Were really glad to have it and of course especially over zoom if we dont get any questions or responses, it really makes us question whether theres anyone out there at all. So please do keep those. Some responses coming. We really look forward to the conversation after the lectures. So our first speaker is going to be extremely familiar to anyone whos attended Virginia Tech civil war weekend before William C