Full eight hours talking about it. [ laughter ] the last session is often one of our favorites, and that is a round table discussion where we get all of the speakers up together to talk about some themes, to ask each other questions or ask questions of themselves, and to give you all one last time to pepper one, some or all of the panelists with your own questions. I would ask that when you have a question, if it is for a specific panelist, please name that panelist or if you want to throw it open to some or all. We are going to ask dr. Gunter bishoff to chair this panel discussion. Again id like to thank gunter for coming in and filling in for dr. Stole on such short notice. [ applause ] but before i leave the podium, i would like to introduce for the last time today dr. Gunter pitchoff, dr. Rob satino, and mr. Michael bishop. Ladies and gentlemen, gunter will start it and ill run around with the microphone. Thank you very much. Jeremy. Let me just throw a few general questions out th
The National World War Ii Museum hosted the event. Well, greetings, ladies and gentlemen. It is a pleasure to see you all here and it is always great to see i dont want to say so many probably all are familiar faces and we saw most of you in november and we hope to see most of you again in november and in between in september for our memory conference. As steven is said, unfortunately dr. Stoller tried his best, slipped on the way and caught his balance. But all three flights from berlington, vermont, were cancelled to get him here yesterday. And while we are disappointed, he is even more disappointed that he couldnt make it back down here and present. But i can tell you that we are very fortunate in this great city of new orleans to have one of the leading scholars in this field in gunther bischof here to fill the breach and enlighten us with the first panel of the day. Gunther has been a friend since before we had a building. Not just a hotel. But an actual museum. He goes back with
His book on the raid comes out, it is now out and you can buy a copy of it at our bookstore. Im pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. Thank you, i appreciate the chance to be here. I have always heard about pamplin park, and it is great here. Were going to talk about the western theater today. Vicksburg, how many of you have been to vicksburg. She o he is one of the great battlefields, listening to the civil war American Trust now, you know theyre doing a lot of work down there. They turned over nearly several hundred acres. So there is a lot going down at Champion Hill. So were going to talk about that battle in particular, the larger Vicksburg Campaign. And i do not have a power point either. Im a little old fashioned. We have a map of Champion Hill which we will talk about in just a little bit. I tend to go overboard when i go into power points and i confuse everybody, so to keep from doing that, i dont do powerpoints when i can help it. And im beginning to realize that powerpoint
Of my favorite civil war generals, who turned out to be not from one of those northeastern states. Patrick clayburn from argue arg arkansas. I got interested in the battle of ringgold gap. I want to start with clayburn saves the army. We have to start with the two leading protagonists at the battle of Missionary Ridge. Grant was a rising star as a general. Had not lost really a battle yet during the war. Eventually, he goes on to further greatness. On the other side, you have bragg. Although the story may be a little apparently as a lieutenant during the wars, he became the acting commissary officer. The story is he wrote a request to the officer himself for supplies. As the officer, he turned them down. He sent another request and it was turned down again. So he went to his captain of the regiment and said i reached an impasse, what should i do . The captain said, bragg, you have argued with every officer in the army and now you are arguing with yourself. Request denied. So bragg we h
Announcer live from the kgo news broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. Aware, alert and now considered a hero. A fastacting teachers aide rescues an antioch girl spotted inside a strangers car. Now, abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Bernard is live at the scene of the attempted abduction. Cornell, had the teacher not taken action, who knows what would have happened. Reporter yeah, absolutely, reggie and natasha. This story could have taken a terrible turn if not for the bravy of one woman who made the right move at the right time. A suspect from brentwood pulled the young girl into his truck. It was kind of like the superwoman power thing. Like, i cant believe i did that. Reporter Sandra Ferguson should feel like a superwoman after stopping the attempted kidnapping of an 11yearold girl on this antioch street. Sandra was driving to Sutter Elementary School friday morning where she works as a teachers aide when she spotted one of her former students sitting in a truck with a middleaged man. Sh