1863. The we have to start with two leading protagonists at the battle of Missionary Ridge in chattanooga. Of course, Ulysses Grant. Iram Ulysses Grant actually. A rising star as a general. Had not really lost a battle yet during the war, and eventually he goes on to further greatness. On the other side you have braxton bragg. Although the story might be a little bit apocryphal, apparently as lieutenant in, wars, hee seminole became the acting commissary officer. Requesty is he wrote a to the commissary officer himself for supplies. As a commissary officer, he turned them down. He sent another request that was turned down again, so went to the captain of the regiment and said, i reached an impasse, what should i do . Youcaptain said, bragg, have argued with every officer in the army, and now you are arguing with yourself. Request denied. So, braxton bragg, we had a symposium two years ago, of generals you love to hate. It was very interesting to me he was not picked. There could not po
Naval battle in history and was a decisive victory for the United States and their allies. Up next, six panelists participate in the 75th befallingy discussion the panel, a retired admiral discusses the legacy of the battle. All, i would like to put in a little plug for a marvelous new book written by our first speaker or edited, tom cutler has edited this retrospective published by the Naval Institute. Recently it was put out and in fact filled with interesting new and old assessments of the battle, including some japanese testimony. Also a number of the panelists have written for this as well. I wanted to at least give that a plug. Second, what i wanted to do was this,ould not resist namely for a couple of reasons. Thanks to wikipedia i discovered the fact that it has become the basic Foundation Source to go , which then says you cannot cite it. I did have one person who used it for his entire paper, which is another story. But i discovered some different points. If you search this b
Harrisburg when the paper won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. Ron is a native of michigan, a graduate of Central Michigan university, and has returned as a guest speaker as part of the schools hearst visiting professional series. Ron lives in york, pennsylvania and has been a Gettysburg Foundation guide since 2013. Without further introduction i would like to present to you ron kirkwood. [applause] mr. Kirkwood thank you. Ok, we are good. Tammy, thank you. Thank you all for coming. I argue in my book that the george and Elizabeth Spangler farm is the most important farm in the battle of gettysburg. Im going to address that first, then we will go into other factors, like the two hospitals that were on this property, and we are going to talk about the spanglers. To help me make my case union , line, army of the potomac line, day three. There is the George Spangler farm. It is close to the line. Everywhere it is close to the line. It is huge, 166 acres, it dominates behind the lines. Rhodes.
Kirk would talks about the spengler farm during the battle of gettysburg which was used as a union Army Headquarters and artillery reserve and field hospital. Oday we have today would. E have ron kirk had tired after a 40 year career as an editor in the newspaper and magazine industry. His publications include usa today, the baltimore sun, the harrisburg patriot news in the new york daily record. He managed the copy desk and harrisburg when the paper won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. Ron is a native of michigan, graduate of Central Michigan university, and has returned as part of theker as hearst visiting professional series. Ron lives in york, pennsylvania and has been at Gettysburg Foundation guide since 2013. Youuld like to present to ron kirkwood. [applause] mr. Kirkwood thank you. Ok, we are good. Tammy, thank you. Thank you all for coming. Thegue in my book that george and Elizabeth Spangler farm is the most important farm in the battle of gettysburg. Im going to address that first
Gary not from adults. [laughter] peter we dont want to speak only about your scholarship. You said you didnt want to make it all about you. Im interviewing you, so that is going to be hard to avoid. He says no. Its going to be ok. Gary i said ill do whatever you want to do. Thats what i said. Peter i can assure you he did not say that. Case any of you are wondering, this is the profound flaw in oral history. [laughter] gary because there you are. Youre going to write about tonight. You have two diametrically different comments. You need to pick one and pretend thats correct. Peter so this evening, we did agree upon this. Again, were going to come back to your scholarship, but we vote tonight about the lesserknown gary gallagher, the unknown gary gallagher. We wont divulge all your secrets. Is that ok . We didnt agree upon that either. We did . Ok. Were having trouble getting out of the gate, arent we . Gary im just listening, peter. Youre the one controlling the gate. [laughter] peter