intangible resources. so this is i i feel where the speakers got really creative and we re gonna hear talks on information love and memory so three things that you might not immediately think of as wartime resources, but when you think a little harder, i think it s obvious that these are the kinds of things that americans whether they re soldiers or civilians in the union or the confederacy black and white americans alike needed in order to cope with the tremendous crisis of the civil war. so we ll have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that we ll move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. caroline newhall, my colleague. she s the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let
hear three really excellent talks on that theme tonight. each speaker is gonna speak for about 15 minutes so felly short presentations and that s gonna leave us plenty of time for questions and discussion at the end and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time throughout the evening and we will respond to those later after all. he talks have taken place. so we re looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much. that s part of the excitement for us going into this evening. our first speaker tonight is going to be dr. caroline wood newhall, and she s very well known around here because she works as the postdoctoral fellow at the virginia center for civil war studies here at virginia tech before that. she earned her phd at unc chapel hill. she s working on a book about black pow w experiences in the confederacy. and by the way, she gave a terrific talk on that topic last fall soon after she arrived in blacksburg, which is now available at the you
all to virginia tech s annual civil war weekend. my name is paul quigley. i m director of the virginia center for civil war studies. it was my job one of my jobs to split these nine talks into three different sessions one for each week and the theme the kind of sub theme i came up with for this week is manpower and horsepower, which sounds kind of weird. that was the best way i could come up with the separate these topics out, but you re gonna hear three really excellent talks on that theme tonight. each speaker is gonna speak for about 15 minutes so felly short presentations and that s gonna leave us plenty of time for questions and discussion at the end and you can type your questions into the q&a box at any time throughout the evening and we will respond to those later after all. he talks have taken place. so we re looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much. that s part of the excitement for us going into this evening. our first speaker tonight is go
Intangible resources. So this is i i feel where the speakers got really creative and were gonna hear talks on information love and memory so three things that you might not immediately think of as wartime resources, but when you think a little harder, i think its obvious that these are the kinds of things that americans whether theyre soldiers or civilians in the union or the confederacy black and white americans alike needed in order to cope with the tremendous crisis of the civil war. So well have three talks each of them will last about 15 minutes and then after that well move into a period of discussion and the discussion by the way is going to be moderated jointly by me and dr. Caroline newhall, my colleague. Shes the postdoctoral fellow here at the center and you can type your questions into the q a box at any time now if you already have a question, but any certainly anytime during the lectures are at the end during the discussion session and i really want to let you know how mu
How everybody. Thank you so much for joining me today. Mayanne are to be here with you. Im with the and today we are talking about world war ii and uboats off the midatlantic coast. I represent noaa. The mantra is just one of 15 sanctuaries in the National Marine system. This is 600,000 square miles from Washington State to the florida keys and from lake huron to american samoa. The monitor National Marine sanctuary is off the coast. Heres other representations of our sanctuary is located 16 miles a coast of Cape Hatteras and North Carolina and 230 feet of water with the labrador in the current collide so its not only challenging to it environment to work in its the most so we are proud to be working with the uss monitor. Basically the union ironclad was the first of its kind prototype designed specifically for estuary harbor warfare to fight the uss virginia during the civil war concedes a strange looking vessel. These are the days of cannonball and canon fire and it would stay low to