Television Companies Support cspan 2 as a public service. Good afternoon everyone, its my great privilege and honor to introduce the matt atkinson. Matt is a native of houston,misa in history from the university of mississippi. He has worked at Petersburg National battlefield, National Historical park, Manassas National battlefield and Vicksburg National military park. Hes currently employed as a ranger slash historian at gettysburg National Military park. And he will be presenting to you about the fallen leader Earl Van Dorn. [applause] this is the adjustment period, right . Where you find out what the mic is like. Or like Hank Williams said, one time, in 1952, my good friend down in georgia, his daddy saw him and Hank Williams stepped up to the microphone and he blew in it. And he says, well, boys, this works. Lets see if i do. [laughs]. I appreciate you all having me again. Its good to be back in i have an impossible task, i will go ahead and tell you, ive got 13 pages of single spa
Introduce the matt atkinson. Matt is a native of houston, mississippi, and received a ba in history from the university of mississippi. He has worked at Petersburg National battlefield, National Historical park, Manassas National battlefield and Vicksburg National military park. Hes currently employed as a ranger slash historian at gettysburg National Military park. And he will be presenting to you about the fallen leader Earl Van Dorn. [applause] this is the adjustment period, right . Where you find out what the mic is like. Or like Hank Williams said, one time, in 1952, my good friend down in georgia, his daddy saw him and Hank Williams stepped up to the microphone and he blew in it. And he says, well, boys, this works. Lets see if i do. [laughs]. I appreciate you all having me again. Its good to be back in i have an impossible task, i will go ahead and tell you, ive got 13 pages of single spaced notes on Earl Van Dorn and ive got 45 minutes. And ive got a man standing in the back. T
Horsepower, which sounds kind of weird. That was the best way i could come up with the separate these topics out, but youre gonna hear three really excellent talks on that theme tonight. Each speaker is gonna speak for about 15 minutes so felly short presentations and thats 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 were looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much. Thats part of the excitement for us going into this evening. Our first speaker tonight is going to be dr. Caroline wood newhall, and shes 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. Shes working on a book about black pow w experiences in the confederacy. And by the way, she g
Im 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 youre gonna hear three really excellent talks on that theme tonight. Each speaker is gonna speak for about 15 minutes so felly short presentations and thats 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 were looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much. Thats part of the excitement for us going into this evening. Our first speaker tonight is going to be dr. Caroline wood newhall, and shes very well known around here because she work
Each speaker is gonna speak for about 15 minutes so felly short presentations and thats 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 were looking forward to hearing your questions and feedback very much. Thats part of the excitement for us going into this evening. Our first speaker tonight is going to be dr. Caroline wood newhall, and shes 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. Shes 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 Youtube Channel for the Virginia Center for civil war studies. You should b