General george meade and union forces from july to december 1863 as they followed confederates through virginia. This event was part of historical parks small battles, big result s symposium. Im very pleased to introduce our last speaker of the afternoon, Jeffrey William hunt, director of the military forces museum at camp maybury in austin, texas, and adjunct professor where he has taught since 1988. God bless you. Author of the last battle of the civil war and contributor to essential civil war curriculum and the gail library of daily life. American civil war. His last work is a trilogy from the final stage of the Gettysburg Campaign to the end of 1863 and includes meade and lee at mayan run due for publication next year. So lets give a welcome for jeffrey hunt. [ applause ] thank you. Its a real pleasure to be here. I appreciate jerrys invitation. Its always fun to stand in a group of people who have the same passion that you do. You dont get looked at as strangely as you do when yo
Professor looks at his work on the digital history project, private voices which gathers and digitizes letters written during the civil war. This is part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute summer conference. It is about one hour. Second let me reintroduce myself to the cspan audience, i am peter carmichael, the director of the Civil War Institute and also a member of the history department. It is my pleasure to welcome my good friend Stephen Berry. Stephen berry is the gregory professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. Let me just say, i have a few rules i live by in our field and this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes i have got to read. Stephen berry also always brings to his research, incredible and beautiful writing with rich insight and we like him so much because his work is so good and stephen is such a wonderful guy and is a fantastic teacher as well. And i have as well as many of my students have worked with steve over the years. A
Stephen berry always brings to his research incredible, beautiful writing. With rich insights, and what i think many of us like so much, and that is a good thing because his work is so good, you want to succumb to jealousy but you just cant because he is such a wonderful guy. He is a fantastic teacher as well. Many of us have worked with him over the years, at the university of georgia, he is not only a terrific scholar, he has written or edited six books, my favorite is all the makes of man, love, ambition, and the civil war south, that was his dissertation done sometime ago at the university of north carolina. William varney was his advisor, who is still there, another book that i would highly recommend, that he edited, a fantastic book called, wielding the war stories from the civil wars ragged edge. And, he has many of his students, graduate students working on this project as well. My favorite of all the digital projects, titled, private voices , American Civil War letters, many o
This will quickly sweep down across into the south shore over the next 45 minutes to an hour. That will be it. Further south you see this red line here. Those are downpours and thunderstorms. They flared up all of a sudden right here much like Tuesday Morning buzzards bay narragansett bay. This will work across the tape and island. This south coast special. Some heavier showers and storm down there. For everyone we move the rain out by middle part of the day. Partly sunny this afternoon. 60s this afternoon. Much colder by the weekend. Well talk more about that, coming up. Right now breaking news at the forest hills tstop police on the scene of shooting outside of the station. We have victoria warren on the phone right now. Vicki, you got there not long ago. Whats going on now . We can tell you that police have two people custody after the shooting around 7 30 in the forest hills tstation. Were told it started inside the station. Everybody left the tstation and went on to washington str
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