Writing that series, he also under a pen name owen perry previously wrote six awardwinning civil war mysteries covering the first two years of the war. Colonel peters is a retired u. S. Army enlisted man and officer. He has written numerous works on strategy and security. The more recent military topics. Hes a highly regarded journalist and currently the fox news strategic analyst, and a member of the Hoover Institutions working group at Stanford University and he currently lives in warrenton and his title today is the human side of civil war leadership. Please welcome colonel peters. [ applause ] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. You know, you really all should be outside on this beautiful day. This is amazing weather, but im glad youre here. First, i have to get a commercial in not for my books although my publisher would be delighted if youd buy them, but for one of the most important institutions in the United States of america, the National Park service, and in these Turbulent T
Jack davis. And mr. Davis is from independence, missouri. Has a bachelor, masters degree from sonoma state university. And many of you may know him as longtime editor of civil war times illustrated back in, i guess, the 1970s and 1980s when it was really the only popular civil war magazine. Its heyday. The best years that it was in existence. It still is, obviously. But hes the author, editor of 60 books relating to primarily to civil war, but also 19th century history, southern u. S. History. Think about that for a minute. 60 books. Among those, just a few, his i think first book was a history of the new market campaign, which i still think is a model small battle history, forty years after it was written. I think its one of the best small battle histories that have ever been written on the civil war battle. Biography of john c. Breckenridge. General history of the confederate war. Book on the end of the war in florida and other locations, cornered with him about the escape of souther
Kevin is a licensed battlefield guide at the Antietam Battlefield. And hes coauthor of an upcoming book for the emerging civil war series about the maryland campaign. Hes going to talk to us a little bit about what he considers to be a great defense, robert e. Lee at antietam. Its my pleasure to introduce one of the great emerging voices in the field, kevin pollock. Good morning, everyone, thank you to chris for that humbling introduction and thank you all for being here at my Bachelor Party. I think we might set Virginia State record for the largest Bachelor Party in all of state history. Its about to get a little crazy in here. Talking about robert e. Lee at the battle of antietam. Even before last years symposium when a letter was sent out asking for topic ideas for great defenses of the civil war there was a caveat left in the email that allowed us to quote think outside of the box. And the topic that i propose is the one that im proposing or presenting to you now, robert e. Lee at
All right. It is my pleasure to introduce for our final afternoon talk. Barton myers. Hes an Society Professor of history at washington and Lee University. Where he teaches courses on civil war, war and society. His main refers is warfare, soldiers and atrocities. He has earned his ph. D. At the university of georgia where he studied under john insko. There he published his masters thesis entitled executing daniel bright, race loyalty and gorilla violence in a coastal care loo nacommunity this received the 2009 jules and Francis Landry award for the best book in southern studies, just recently Cambridge University published the dissertation, rebels against the confederacy. As you can tell, barton is an expert on gorilla warfare he has a recent volume thats come out, edited with Brian Mcknight and daniel suter land. Entitled gorilla hunters, irregular conflicts during the civil war. 2017 youre not going to speak on gorilla warfare after all this he does more than that and i have asked h
All right. It is my pleasure to introduce for our final afternoon talk. Barton myers. Hes an Society Professor of history at washington and Lee University. Where he teaches courses on civil war, war and society. His main refers is warfare, soldiers and atrocities. He has earned his ph. D. At the university of georgia where he studied under john insko. There he published his masters thesis entitled executing daniel bright, race loyalty and gorilla violence in a coastal care loo nacommunity this received the 2009 jules and Francis Landry award for the best book in southern studies, just recently Cambridge University published the dissertation, rebels against the confederacy. As you can tell, barton is an expert on gorilla warfare he has a recent volume thats come out, edited with Brian Mcknight and daniel suter land. Entitled gorilla hunters, irregular conflicts during the civil war. 2017 youre not going to speak on gorilla warfare after all this he does more than that and i have asked h