My name is tammy myers, i am president of the gettysburg heritage center, and i have drilled to have you here in attendance. He is a retired executive a licensed battlefield guide here at Gettysburg National military park. Joe is the past president of the association of licensed battlefield guides and the gettysburg civil war roundtable. In addition, he is on the faculty of the prestigious lincoln leadership institute. He has three books to his credit including after gettysburg, lee retreats and another. He lives with his wife, chris. Thank you. [applause] my wife kris is here in the audience tonight. Welcome, everybody to the book talk about my latest book called after gettysburg. The great radio commentator always talked about the rest of the story, so this is kind of the rest of the story. A lot of people come here to learn about the threeday battle of gettysburg. We talked about that battle, but this book attempts to answer the question what happens after the three days are over .
Most of us know google as a search engine. It actually derives its name from the mathematical term. A one followed by a million zeros. Google is also the number of books that Eric Wittenberg has written. Eric is a nationally renowned speaker and the authority on Union Calvary. Particularly calvary operations in the east. What i like about erics overall has beenbooks is he boldly exploring all sorts of cool things and taking his explorations in meat directions. Work on aonly at manuscript of george meade and has conflict with the joint committee on the war and how that impacted him. Which does not seem like a calvary operation, to me. Yet it makes eric one of the most interesting historians working in the field. Coming from columbus, ohio to talk about his awardwinning book on john buford, Eric Wittenberg. It is always a pleasure to be here and i appreciate the opportunity to visit with you. Nobody wants to be the guy to go right after lunch. It fell upon me. If anybody falls asleep bec
State instructor, discusses a different account of women during the gettysburg and how the residents, mainly women and children, were affected and shaped by the battle. The journey through Hallowed Ground partnership hosted the program. Shawn welcome, everybody. My name is shawn butcher. I am the director of journey through Hallowed Ground partnership. Welcome to the afternoon session. We are pleased that this session is being taped and aired on cspan so welcome our cspan viewers. For those in the audience, you can follow along or learn more on twitter. I am pleased to introduce our speaker, jared frederick. Jared has been highly involved in the world of public history conducting oral history interviews, writing grants, in interpreting sites. Receiving a masters from west virginia, he is served as a seasonal park ranger at Gettysburg National park and her first Harpers Ferry national park. An artist as well, he has completed projects and been recognized by organizations such as the smi
He has three books to his credit including after gettysburg, lee retreats and another. He lives with his wife, chris. Thank you. [applause] my wife kris is here in the audience tonight. Welcome, everybody to the book talk about my latest book called after gettysburg. The great radio commentator always talked about the rest of the story, so this is kind of the rest of the story. A lot of people come here to learn about the threeday battle of gettysburg. We talked about that battle, but this book attempts to answer the question what happens after the three days are over . The story is pretty well known. The story after is not as wellknown. You might remember the battle was a threeday battle on july 1, 2, and 3 just outside this building. 160,000 soldiers for three hot days, then there would 151,000 or missing. Unded, it was a bloodbath. It was a turning point in the civil war, and this is where Ibrahim Lincoln gave the most important speech in his Abraham Lincoln gave the most important
Was so upset by the whole affair that he wrote a letter to his uncle, and in the letter he we went to bed Old Fashioned, conservative, compromised union wigs, and waked up start raving mad abolitionists. Plus, spencer crew on the great migration of africanamericans from the south to the midwest, after world war i. Workers to a lack of help prepare the mediations and supplies needed for the war effort. Began to do was figure out, where else can we find people to hold these jobs . And for the first time ever, positions for africanamericans in northern industry began to become available. There is no reason to move to the north. Because there are jobs. Tv, allcan history weekend, every weekend. Only on cspan3. Civil war authors discuss how they started writing about their topics, their process of researching, and at some of the unexpected information they have discovered. The Gettysburg Heritage Center hosted this hourlong talk. My name is tammy myers, welcome everybody. I am pleased to we