[applause] good morning, all. Thank you for having me. You have heard about the big guns from wayne and jim. When i would like to speak about s first plan for victory at gettysburg, at least one part of it. And the fighting on july 3 in the morning there went on for seven straight hours, some of the longest sustained fighting at gettysburg and amost in the whole war, but relatively unvisited area of the field. Focus was largely on july 2, decisive leadership on the union right, small unit , namely george s. Greene and how that leadership made a dramatic difference in the outcome there. Works, ilove when it would like to speak about july 3 dawn on, how leadership in the struggle played out for culps hill. Derailedof the potomac lee was not served by subordinates. , judgment made by both sides, some fog of war and man lead to costly maneuvers, yet the courage and determination when you look at these fellows speaks maryams volumes of the type of men who fought at gettysburg. On july 3, th
Wives four women who influenced the civil war for better and for worse. Hooper served as press secretary and legislative assistant to the late texas of assistant Charlie Wilson before becoming ice president of a Multinational Energy company. She then joined a major new York Law Firm as legislative council. With her husband, she later found that the lobbying firm cooper, uber, and a win. She holds a journalism degree from the university of illinois, a law degree from georgetown, and a master of arts from George Washington university. Her writing has been published in the journal of military history and the new york times. She has lectured at the u. S. Naval academy. In addition to serving on these founding board of directors at president lincolns cottage, she serves on the Advisory Board of foundation. Grant coceo. Ain is the she integrates our management role at the network with that of with that as on camera interview were sitting down with president s and first ladies. 20132014, she
Found a lobbying firm hooper, hooper and awin. She holds a journalism degree from the university of illinois, a law degree from georgetown, and a master of arts from George Washington university. Her writing has been published in the journal of military history and the new york times. She has lectured at the u. S. Naval academy. In addition to serving on the founding board of directors at president lincolns cottage, she serves on the Advisory Board of the Ulysses Grant foundation. Susan swain is the coceo. She integrates our management role at the network with that as on camera interviewer sitting down with president s and first ladies. During 20132014, she was a host of cspans special biography history first ladies. This was the ninth book project she has led working with public affairs. Past titles have included the Supreme Court and abraham lincoln. Each book is a special collection of cspan interviews edited to retain the unique perspective of their featured subjects. Historians ha
Thank you so much for being here today. My name is candace and i work with some of the events here. I want to welcome you. I just wanted to go over a few logistics. Make sure your cell phones are on silent. We are recording this event this afternoon and we also had cspan here with us today. Not having any interruptions would be great. We will have an hourlong presentation here which the half will be for questions. We had one microphone on the side here. If you would wouldnt mind using that for your questions then we can pick up on the recording. Then finally, we typically ask that you fold up you your chairs at the end of the event. If you could leave them where they are today. I am so pleased to be welcoming candice hooper. We will see her new book lincolns generals wives. This book but as a detail and lively account of four women during the civil war using letters memoirs in the extensive travel reports. The group biography of Jessie Fremont, Nelly Mcclellan, julia grant each married
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