And the spotsville military park, he is now working as an interpreter in military programs at the colonialsburg foundation. He lives in williamsburg with his wife johanna, and please welcome we join me in welcoming ryan quint. Well, thank you. How is everyone doing . Yeah. Everybody excited to be here . Yeah. Good. It would not be a great answer if you said no, because we are five minutes into the program. Awesome to see you and great to see some not so familiar faces. I was so excited when the program was announced with the forgotten battles of the civil war. And so my book was in 2017 and then the question was whats next . At the time i worked at the s s slosingberg park. And so when you look into some of the battles the smaller they are, the easier they are to be forgott forgotten, and i then found dranesville that i have been working on and hope the make a book out of it. So, polling the audience. Has anyone heard of the battle of dranesville . Okay. Second question, do you know wh
Controlling this area meant access to charleston, South Carolina, an important confederate port city. This was part of the emerging civil war blog symposium. Its 50 minutes. Its my honor to present our next speaker who currently serves as a primary and secondary educator with the Public School district in northeast ohio. Previously dan was the Education Programs coordinator for the Gettysburg Foundation and also continues to serve as a seasonal park ranger at Gettysburg National military park. Dan received his bachelor of arts from Youngstown State University where he studied instrumental music education, particularly in the french horn, which i understand is pretty much means learning how to play on the upbeat for anything that souza has composed. Dan provides a valuable service here for emergence civil war, something you receive every month. He solicits all the news and notes for the merging civil war newsletter. And its certainly a tasking, thankless job. For as much as we love to w
His wife and two cats and he enjoys eating oysters, some liquor and peace and quite. Drew gruber. [ applause ] so at this time i will introduce my coauthor Doug Crenshaw who will come up and lecture about williamsburg today. Okay. I sat down last night to review my notes and i couldnt help, but think about how ryan ended his presentation yesterday and it caused me to rewrite the whole thing. Thanks, ryan. I was going open with a really cool quote and i thought about it, we have this morbid fascination with body count and only big, bloody battles are important and Richard Lewis said something last night where he said the guy who falls from dysentery, thats his forgotten battle and the one guy thats out on picket by himself on a cold day, thats probably his most important battle. So im going to open with a quote from not a historian, just a guy who fought at the battle of williamsburg. This guy gets hit in the shoulder with a 6pound ball. His friend next to him says its just a flesher an
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Host good afternoon. I get the privilege of introducing a good friend. Drew and i have been arguing over the past two days, what i should do in this introduction. I will just read what you sent me. It is best [laughter] it is kind of funny, actually. Gruber as the executive director of civil war trails, lives in williamsburg with his wife kate, their two cats, he enjoys reading, oysters, brown liquor and peace and quiet. Drew gruber. [applause] going tor i am introduce my coauthor, doug crenshaw, who is going to lecture about williamsburg today. [laughter] i sat down last night to review notes, and i couldnt think couldnt help but think about how ryan ended his presentation yesterday. It caused me to rewrite the whole thing. Thanks, ryan. Forgotten battles is a cool thing and i was going to open with a quote and then i thought about it, we have a morbid fascination with body count, only big, bloody battles are important. Then Richard Lewis said last from, the guy who falls dysentery, t