In American History with 23,000 casualties between two size and ended in the unions strategic victory. This 40 minute talk was part of a symposium on great defenses of the civil war hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Our next speaker is one of the great emerging voices and the entire field. Ien i first met kevin pollack thought, this is one of those guys that is going to be a rock star. I hear when i travel across the country, we have to get more young people involved. If we need a poster child for getting young folks and involved with the civil war, kevin pollak is it. He is getting married in just a couple weeks. As you know, that will be a major life shift for him. Kevin is the license battlefield guide at the Antietam Battlefield. He is coauthor of an upcoming book or the emerging civil war. About the maryland campaign. Us aboutng to talk to what he considers to be a great defense, robert e. Lee at 8 p. M. It is my pleasure to introduce kevin pollak. [applause] kevin good morni
She anchoreds works center and eventually down the stretch, the first weekly Horse Racing Program on Cable Television. She anchored rod casts of Kentucky Derby day, preakness the the breeders crown, and hamiltonian. She is the author of several books on racing, horse training, and the civil war. Why are you writing looks if you know so much about betting on horses . The connecticut civil war, a guide for travelers. Most recently, Stonewall Jacksons little sorrel. Please join me in welcoming sharon smith. [applause] sharon smith my main license to keep your money in your pocket. Dont do it. I do own horses and ive been distributed interested in the civil war for many years. Its a challenge to write a book about a single horse. They tend to not write their memoirs. , hehe case of little sorrel was owned by a man who did not live to write his memoirs. I doubt he would have if he had lived area to be did not write letters either. They were so celebrated, there was a remarkable amount of in
That lament goes Something Like this. Young people are not interested in the civil war anymore. Civil war military history is on lifesupport. Nobody cares about the civil war after the sesquicentennial. Every time i hear that i have to politely push back. And the reason i do so in large part is because of the emerging civil war. It is a great honor and privilege for me to be here to support your work to support emerging civil war and all it has done in a remarkable space of five or six years. Truly incredible. I hope this weekend can be a real celebration of those efforts. First, a copy spine of marylands South Mountain. Sunday, september 14, 1862. Woefully outnumbered soldiers saw to stem the tide of a federal offensive. If successful it would defeat an already divided Confederate Army and curtailed and finish off robert e. Lees first invasion of the north. And three mountain passes almost unrivaled in its ferocity at , least in this point of the war, ensued. Breathless union and conf
Expenses get paid out of a different bucket. Reporter but some moderates say that would allow Insurance Companies to raise rates on people who need insurance the the most. I just cant help but think if they took it now, they would end up having the votes they need. Reporter cbs news confirmed 20 House Republicans oppose the bill as it is now. With more undecided. Three more no votes would kill the bill. Meg oliver cbs news capitol hill. Meeting between President Trump and Russias Vladimir Putin could be in the works were told. Today the two leaders shared a phone call the white house described as very good. According to the kremlin, they spoke about holding a face to face meeting during an International Summit in germany. Baseball also covered the civil war in syria. President trump agreed to send a u. S. Representative to fire talks that get under way tomorrow in former democratic president ial candidate is admitting she made mistakes on the campaign trail. But she also blames the fbi
American civil war at the university of virginia and a great friend to the Virginia Historical society. He has spoken here on several occasions and has done research here in the Rich Holdings of our civil war manuscripts. He was a member of the class in 1988. I wont tell you how old i was at that point. We were glad to have him then as today. He has also mined the collection of the Confederate Memorial Society at the museum of the confederacy for his essays. That question, that collection, as you may know, will be housed at the Virginia Historical society where it will be preserved, catalog, and digitized as part of a new Civil War Research center. This will be, through this partnership, the largest private repository of civil war archives in the world. [applause] as you might imagine, that comes with a great cost and lots of work. This is a 3 million effort to provide storage, process and catalog the collection, and in doubt this so it can be available to the largest possible audience