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War blog. Its an hour. Our next speaker will be speaking on the battle of Wilsons Creek. Shes a native of missouri and specializes in the trans mississippi west. Kristen received her master of arts from Webster University in Nonprofit Leadership in may of 2018. Previously she has worked for the Missouri Civil War Museum in st. Louis and the Gettysburg College special collections. Kristen is working on her first book as part of the emerging civil war series. Please join me in welcoming kristen pollack. [ applause ] all right. First of all, thank you to everyone here. Thank you to emerging civil war for having me out this evening. This is an honor to be able to speak to you all about the battle of Wilsons Creek which was fought on august the 10 sou of missouri, which is my native state. Tonights presentation is actually entitled this means war, the forgotten battle of Wilsons Creek. I want to start off kind of setting the stage and also talking a little bit about what we mean by this mea
Directors for the marine scholarship foundation. She is working on her first book in the emerging civil war series on the battle of wills and creek. Please join me wilson creek. Please join me in welcoming kristen pawlak. All right. Thank you to all of you. Thank you to emerging civil war. It is such an honor to speak to you all about the battle of Wilsons Creek which was fought in 1861 in a corner of southeastern southwestern missouri, my home state. The subtitle of this presentation is called this means war the battle of Wilsons Creek. I want to take us back to june 11 of 1861 in st. Louis, missouri to the hotel which is just downtown at one of the Nicest Hotels in the 20th century. Six of the most important early world early World Leaders met there. You have Nathaniel Lyon, his aid e, francis p. Blair, and for the secessionist leaders, you have major Clayborn Jackson, governor jacksons aide. They come to keep the peace if possible. They are there to prevent the outbreak of war in mi
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