Our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. He a proud graduate of longwood university. You were one of the first male graduates of longwood. Chris has had a long career with the National Park service. He worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. In 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. It is only 15 minutes from here. He has done an amazing job in revising Sailors Creek. As a mentioned in the beginning he will be available tomorrow for some tors of their cash for some tors out there for some tours out there. He is responsible for the retreat route. He is actively involved in battlefield preservation, the association of preservation for civil war sites, particularly building up petersburg in the past getting a large amount of land for petersburg battlefield. Received an award for marriage in 2015. For merit in 2015. Numerous books on sailor creek and appomattox. Also a study of the 29th d
The reality is they opened up but it was to be an outreach to our kind of people there. Thank you. I just had a quick question. Do you think the majority of the people, do you have any information on this, left for political reasons, not wanting to live under yankee rule or was it more economics hoping to reestablish a Slave Institution in brazil or elsewhere . And also, do you have any information perhaps about the states that they were more likely to have left were deep south states like alabama, mississippi or upper south states, which i would think it would be deep south states but im just guessing on that . Well, let me start with your last question, yes, it was predominantly deep south states where it was where the brazilian government advertised and also the ports lended themselves to transportation to brazil as well. Although, there were some virginians. They would have left from norfolk and there was a man in lynchburg whose last name was noonen who was sort of the point perso
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. We thank you this morning for being with us here at Petersburg National battlefield on the 150th anniversary of battle of the crater. My name is chris price. For those of you who were with us this morning at 5 30 we thank you again and welcome you here to the park. I was remarking a few minutes ago, much like it was for the soldiers 150 years ago who were in the oberlin campaign that started in 1864, it has been a long road to petersburg. We started this 150th event for three parks on may 3, at spotsylvania courthouse. We have moved south ever since. It has been quite a feat. It is the first time three parks within a process of these commemorations have shared programming where we have tried to make a continual program of the oberlin campaign rather than look at it as the wilderness, spotsylvania, that this was one continual process for the soldiers 150 years ago. For some of you in the audience we have senior faces before. We know you have been on th
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That started in early may of 64. It is a long road to peters work. We started this for three parts on made third. Park the national military. We have moved south ever since. It has been quite a feat for the national service. Make a tried to continual program rather than wilderness,t as the octal dania. This was one continual process for the these soldiers. We have seen faces before. You been on the road with us and we appreciate that. I would like to introduce to you lewis beganendent his career in 1984, a park ranger. He took his first herman it position at those sites the following year in 1985 as park ranger and Resource Management visitor Protection Specialist at the sites there. 1990 he moved to the parkway in virginia. He served as a Law Enforcement ranger with the added duties of supervising Law Enforcement, and he was responsible for a living history appalachian farm and seasonal visitor contact stations. He became chief ranger at booker t. Washington in 1992. The chief of inte