University. Keith has long experience in the historical profession. He started off as a seasonal historian, actually as a volunteer at kennesaw National Military park when he was a teenager. A teenager. And during that time, he also did Extensive Research in georgia archives. There simply is not another person who knows more about georgia during the civil war than keith bohannon. He finished his ph. D. At penn state, started under Gary Gallagher, who then moved on to the university of West Virginia and then mark nealy was keiths adviser. To the right of keith is katy meier. She is an assistant professor she just received her promotion excuse me, i just said assistant, i meant to say associate professor at virginia commonwealth university. Katy is a graduate or i should say a student of Gary Gallagher at the university of virginia, where she completed her dissertation, became a book called natures civil war and its published by university of North Carolina press. If any of you have any
In the United States army and traveling home. Going away. Going back to where you came from. John julie was one of the soldiers who did not surrender. He went with the confederate government when Jefferson Davis evacuated richmond and headed west. Along the way, as he escaped into the carolinas, he was seeing a lot of signs the war was coming to a horrific conclusion. , abandonedong fences muskets of struggling soldiers. Some were broken, that other barrels of others, bent, and choked with mud. The cartridges landsat confusion along the road. Heart seemed slow, for here lies unmistakable evidence of a set of determination. A shameless indifference as to whether the world knows it or not. Professor miller the lecture today will examine particularly the transition that confederate veterans will go through as they go from soldier back to civilian. We will look at a few particular things. The hardships they pay they faced. The limited assistance they found, particularly as they were dealin
Their money towards large monuments and proconfederate. Propaganda his class is about 50 minutes. Professor miller april the 12th, 1865, was the surrender date. Robert e. Lee, Ulysses Grant had signed the official document a few days earlier. On that day, the confederate Soldiers Left in the army in Northern Virginia went on this long process of walking up, turning over the regimental flag. Packing their guns. You can imagine that gun was part of your identity for the last few years of the war, now being turned over to the victors in the United States army and traveling home. Going away. Going back to where you came from. John julie was one of the soldiers who did not surrender. He went with the confederate government when Jefferson Davis evacuated richmond and headed west. Along the way, as he escaped into the carolinas, he was seeing a lot of signs the war was coming to a horrific conclusion. He wrote along fences, abandoned muskets of struggling soldiers. Some were broken, that othe
Coming up here is actually author of three books. He started out writing about a subject near and dear to him, the 1864 campaign in the shenandoah valley. The story is called bloody autumn. Most recently, calamity and carolina. Greenwalt started out as an intern. He has since joined the park service, has done a wonderful with George Washingtons birthplace, where he was an interpreter for several years, but most recently, he has decided to go into alligator land and has bowed down at the everglades, where he has been for just a month or so. Usis taking time to talk to about a subject that eric introduced us to just moments ago, and he talked about the foundational document of the lost cause. Talk to usng to about where that goes and how that legacy is with us today. Ladies and gentlemen, phillip greenwalt. [applause] phillip good morning. The good thing about the lost or remembering Southern Confederate history is that has not been in the public eye at all for the last few weeks, months
I see that continuing and most likely flourishing with the advent of our Agricultural Tourism that has evolved here in our local county economy. Find out where sea you are watching American History tv all weekend free weekend on cspan3. Next author of greenwald talks about author Philip Greenwald discusses why the confederacy lost. Writings many of their served as a foundation for lost cost. Lost cause. M at the author of three books. He started out writing about a subject near and dear to him, the 1864 campaign in the shenandoah valley. The book is called bloody autumn. He followed that up with hurricane from the heavens, and most recently, calamity in carolina the battles of bentonville. Greenwalt started out as an intern. He has since joined the park service, has done a wonderful job with George Washingtons birthplace, where he was an interpreter for several years, but most recently, he has decided to go into alligator land and has bowed down at the everglades, where he has been for