Its spectacular. Its my real pleasure to introduce the next speaker. He is somebody you already know. You have heard him speak somewhere or on tv. He was born and raised in fredericksburg. He spent his career interpreting and preserving American Military history with the National Park service, the new york state government, Rensselaer County historical society, the Civil War Preservation trust, kentucky state parks and the u. S. Army. Do you think he is qualified to speak . He has written and spoken on various aspects of military history and leadership from 1775 to the present. He has published two books with the history press, the civil war at perryville and the Tullahoma Campaigns, and contributing to the emerging civil war bulldog and studied the 19411942 campaign released in late 2016. In september 2016, the u. S. Army published his volumes on the 1862 virginia campaigns as part of its series on the civil war. Last year at this event on friday night, i bought this book and by satur
My book is an exploit edition of the history of the battlefield. The National Park service manages 70 sites that are civil warrelated. The battlefields from gettysburg to antietam to vicksburg to sites time, significantly. If you look at the photograph on the top right, that is an aerial view. The mostne of commercialized areas in the 1940s and 1950s. The image on the left should be familiar to many of you. Perhaps you have the opportunity to go up and the old tower that 1970s. Up in the how the battlefield has been commercialized and how it has changed over time. One of the questions i try to reconcile is what makes gettysburg different . This battlefield is different and antietam. Its different than chickamauga. Its different than perryville. Its different than shiloh. 51,000ttle, producing casualties in three days, is the bloodiest conflict in american history. The man in the slide is a soldier from the fifth massachusetts who was wounded in the fight at gettysburg. His name is john
Battlefield trusts. Without any further introduction, i now present to you my friend, gary adelman. Leave your book here . Gary yeah, sure, i might need it. Hello, everybody. This isnt easy doing the whole civil war in such a short period of time. Well see if it takes 56 minutes or whatever. I am committed to get this done. Im already wasting time for good luck for those of you who like to take notes. The seeds of the civil war are sewn in the constitution and then you have north and south starting to look at each other differently. You have southerners look to the north and although they speak the same language, worship the same god, everything like that but you see increasingly southerners looking north and seeing greedy. People that care about money and business and dont care about family. The northerners are looking south and seeing people who are cruel and lazy slave holders and whatnot. Really this is a war of perception as much as anything else. They did not trust each other and
The making management and memory of Gettysburg National park. Published in 2013 by the university of tennessee press. Biographyworking on a that will hopefully be published by the university of north carolina. She is a veteran faculty member here, many of you have been on her chores which are outstanding. It is our pleasure to welcome jen to speak about her book on the creation of the Gettysburg National park. Thank you. Thank you for that kind introduction. Can you hear me ok . Myyour more excited than 8 00 a. M. Western civilization class. Happy fathers day. I hope my dad is watching this in maryland. Im super excited to talk to you about my book, the history of the Gettysburg National military park. Traditionally when i do this talk it is more of a roundtable. I asked people how many have been to gettysburg and people raise their hands. How many have been to gettysburg . Fielde veterans of this and this conference which is terrific. Time withspend some you this morning talking to yo
Management, and memory of Gettysburg National military park. This hourlong talk was part of the annual summer conference posted by the Gettysburg College civil war institute. Good morning, everyone. Happy fathers day. We are going to open this morning with a a longtime contributor to wi cwi, jen murray. Currently an assistant teaching professor in the department of history at Oklahoma State university. She is, as you know, an expert in the civil war, and a specialist in military history in general. , a full i would say publication resume. Her most important book and most recent is entitled on a great battlefield the making, management, and memories of Gettysburg National park. It was published in 2013 by the university of tennessee press. She is currently working on a biography of general george be published will by the university of North Carolina of North Carolina in the civil war america series. As i mentioned, she is a veteran faculty member here. Many of you have been on her battl