He graduated from west point in 1844 commissioned into the first u. S. Jeb stewart drove his oum. He had ambition and there were tests coming if for him in the next weeks to see if he might be able to, umm, past those tests and seek more of the command, promotion, and fame he might have been seeking. And, finally, we come to the officer in the center, james brown stewart. Better known as jeb stewart. Hes the guy who kind of instigates and will carry it out. Quick overview on his life up to that point. He was born on february 6th, 1833. He attempted to enlist in the u. S. Military but was told he was too young. He spent two years at emory and henry college. In 1850 he received his appointment. During stewarts time there, robert e. Lee arrived in 1852 and served as the military academys superintendent. At the same time fitz lee arrived. Stewart was honored for his cavalry skill during his time at west point. He graduated 13th in a class of 46. He served in the u. S. Regular meant in texa
Us in person and online. Before i introduce our next speaker a shout out to folks who made today possible. Our technical director chris white, thank you so much for your work behind the camera, chris. Thank you to our symposium coordinators kevin pollack and dan welch. Unfortunately, because of the covid pandemic we had to postpone this years inperson symposium and all the work kevin and dan did to get ready for that weve postponed to next year. Tickets are available at this time but theyre the ones who stepped up to help make todays virtual symposium possible. Thank you for your work. I would like to introduce our next speaker, sarah kay bierle, the managing editor of emerging civil war, the one working behindthescenes to keep the blog up and going and make sure that all that free content is coming to you every day. Her work is absolutely invaluable to our organization. Sarah is the author of the emerging civil war series call out the cadet from the emerging civil war series, the batt
A number of other states. Broughtwsuits will be starting on monday. The first time it was discovered was here in pennsylvania just a couple of days ago. The people you see behind me are i would say 5060 poll watchers who will all testify that they were uniformly we will wait. That they were deprived of the part to inspect any single of the mailin ballots. As you know from the beginning, those ballots where the source of some degree of skepticism, not a lot if not a lot is being prone to frog fraud. The New York Times written that 10 years ago under different circumstances but then changed their mind once it was a situation involving President Trump. Herresswoman jordan and voter of various forms of fraud cited mailin ballots as the most prone to fraud. With all of that you would have expected that the decree of security and high degree of inspection that would be provided for mailin ballots, instead and the wisdom of the officials, Democrat Officials here in the city that has been demo
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