At the Community College in new york. Derek has recently earned fame for his brand new book as part of the emerging civil war series. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome derek maxfield. Thank you very much. Im very pleased to be here and talk about my latest project. You know, elmira is, and prisoner war camps in general, have been a surprise me. Ive studied the civil war since, umm, since i was quite young, and, umm, you know, knew the lengths of the tragedy during the civil war, umm, but it was eyeopening to me the extent of the humanitarian crisis that unfolded over the course of those four bloody years. Umm, over 56,000, umm, died, umm, in prisoner of war camps over that time. Just over 500,000 incarcerated in total. And all though we understand, you know, the that this is just a small number of casualties considered the total number of casualties during the civil war, over 750,000 now, we believe, umm when you consider we could have done better both north and south. You consider
I know of the civil war and their experiences attempting to make it safely to union lines. This talk was part of the Civil War Institute conference at Gettysburg College. Good afternoon again, im p. Carmichael, member of the History Program here at Gettysburg College. Our final talk for this evening or this afternoon is lorien foote. Lorien foote is a professor of history at texas a m university where she teaches on history of reconstruction, 1960 america and reform movements. Loren got her start at university of kansas where she did her undergrad and got her ph. D. At the university of oklahoma. Her second book published in 2010, the gentlemen in the roughs, manhood honor and violence in the union army. One of my favorites on the soldier experience. Lorien did fantastic research. She dug in the National Archives and looked at Court Marshal records which had been underutilized until lorien got ahold of them. David brooks the klummist from the New York Times mentioned in fact you got a
I know of the civil war and their experiences attempting to make it safely to union lines. This talk was part of the Civil War Institute conference at Gettysburg College. Good afternoon again, im p. Carmichael, member of the History Program here at Gettysburg College. Our final talk for this evening or this afternoon is lorien foote. Lorien foote is a professor of history at texas a m university where she teaches on history of reconstruction, 1960 america and reform movements. Loren got her start at university of kansas where she did her undergrad and got her ph. D. At the university of oklahoma. Her second book published in 2010, the gentlemen in the roughs, manhood honor and violence in the union army. One of my favorites on the soldier experience. Lorien did fantastic research. She dug in the National Archives and looked at Court Marshal records which had been underutilized until lorien got ahold of them. David brooks the klummist from the New York Times mentioned in fact you got a
Conversation2027488900. That is for eastern and central time zones. If in the pacific or mountain 88901. Nes, 20274 you can also post questions and comments on our facebook page. Facebook. Com cspanhistory. Mr. Leonard, thank you for joining us this afternoon. Mr. Leonard it is my pleasure to be here. Host lets start with where is andersonville . For someone who is not aware of andersonvilles significance, where does it fall . Mr. Leonard it is important to start with this idea that military prisoners and prisoners of war are often left out of the mainstream telling of the war. Quite frankly, there are no winners in this story. This is not a battlefield. It is something entirely different. It is a valor and honor. Those concepts take a different form here. In many respects, in a standard telling of war, there is a knowledge meant there is an acknowledgment yes, they are prisoners of war, and then you move right back to the battles. Often, and addressing the story, there is an acknowled
From the disaster at andersonville is the human treatment of p. O. W. S defines our natural identity and reit rates our army values by ensuring dignity and respect is paid to every enemy combatant. Weve also learned how precious freedom is and that freedom always, always has a cost. The cost is paid by men and women, men and women who are willing to endure torture, mall nutrition, loneliness, despair and even death in the pursuit of freedoms cause. History tends to remember the dates. It remembers the battles and the victories. It lauds the winners and it favors grand action or man mental failure. But there are some places on the battlefield where dates and battles, winners and losers are matters of inconsequence. In these places survival is the only thing of magnitude. The men of andersonville have survived. They survived the 150 years of an indelible part of what makes our nation great, the american people. As i conclude time with you today, my hope is for the 13,000 souls lost here