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 .
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
Emerging civil war blog. I am pleased to introduce our esteemed panel tonight. I have asked a variety of purposes, some of whom are some of whom are from a variety of perspectives some of whom we will hear from this weekend and some of those who are here exclusively tonight. The idea is to talk about great defenses. For those of you who come to the symposium in previous years this conversation is apt to wobble in all sorts of interesting and fun and cool ways. I am going to pitch a couple of softballs to the panel, let them talk a little bit, and then we will open things up to the floor because we want this to be a conversation, for you to have the opportunity to pick the brains of some of the finest historians we have working with us here at emerging civil war. I am going to start to my immediate right with my great polish brother. People are like chris. Which one . The polish one. That still does not narrow it down. [laughter] chris is the director of the memorial town in norfolk. If
Up next from a centennial symposium held at the Buffalo Bill Center in wyoming, historians talk about how he has been interpreted in museums, his relationship with the tribes that performed with him in europe, and his art collection. This is 90 minutes. It is a pleasure to introduce our first session. The group of scholars are well respected and wellknown. They dont need much of an introduction. Their names appear on their own publications. About the history of the American West and the ability of acknowledgments, more than likely you will run across these three names. He is a resident scholar where he lives in cody because he is our go to guy where we have questions about buffalo bill. Sometime for two is the opposition here. We get along very well. We collaborate with one another. We noticed a few mistakes that the directoror him of the Buffalo Bill Center in the west. And learned all about art thel consider Buffalo Bills life and legacy in the past, as well as touching on his histor
You have a commanding view for miles. On the other side, we have the ocean and over here we have everythingstery of came intoil the earth play. We can see ships moving back and forth. Runnersven see blockade that are too close to fort fisher so we can actually protect. Rom here, men can stand on top and where these trees are now, they have been clearcut for half a mile. You can see the United States Army Soldiers massing to get ready for your attack that would actually come in here. From this vantage point, you have to understand how attractive psychologically this fort actually was. Largest earthwork fortification in the confederacy in the american civil war. It started in 1861. Never truly completed the union forces launched an captureus operation to fort fisher. We have what remains of the fortification, only about 10 from this fort, a mile and a half long, and had 44 differing cannons and was fairly impressive to the point that it was almost psychologically as tough to think about