Our last speaker is well known to all of you, Gary Gallagher is the third professor in the history of the American Civil War americas at the university of virginia and the founding director of our core sponsor, center for civil war studies at the university of virginia. Knowing that gary was about to retire a number of years ago and move west, i have been writing just about every introduction for him the last few years as if tomorrow the last time we would see him in richmond. I want to apologize to gary for trying to show him the door and kick him out of the state every time he speaks here. Im happy to have been wrong in my assumption that garys retirement would mean farewell and im pleased that hes still a fixture in the commonwealth. Garys contributions to the field of civil war studies are many and varied beyond his own scholarship, writing and ing editing more than 30 books, hes been a frequent contributor and columnist for civil war magazines, battlefield guide, and Founding Edit
He believes are crucial in understanding the conflict. This talk is part of a symposium held at the library of virginia in richmond. Our last speaker is well known to to all of you, gary gallagher, he is the the third professor in history of the American Civil War eme trchlt itus and the founding director of our cosponsor, the center for civil war studies at the university of virginia. And knowing that gary was about to retire a number of years ago and move west, ive been writing just about every introduction for him over the last few years as if it were the last time we were going to see him in richmond. I want to take this opportunity now to apologize to gary for trying to show him the door and kick him out of the state every time he speaks here. Im very happy to have been wrong in my assumption that garys retirement would mean farewell and very pleased that in his retirement gary remains a fixture in the commonwealth. As i think Everybody Knows and appreciates, garys contributions t
Retirement would mean farewell. I am very pleased that, in his retirement, he remains a fixture in the commonwealth. As i think everybody knows, and appreciates, garys contributions to civil war studies are varied beyond his own scholarship which is writing and editing nearly 30 books and hundreds of articles and reviews. He has been a frequent contributor and columnist for popular civil war magazines, preservationists and battlefield guides. He is the Founding Editor of the most Popular Series of civil war the civil war america series. The students who are the prominent scholars in our field. In academia, there is a tradition that i dont know how popular these are but books that students write essays in honor of their mentors. Garys is going to have to be for volumes long to do it justice for all the students he has meant toward and the prominence and the work they are doing in the field today. It is a testament to garys work. All of these contributions have earned him the right to ta
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Many of you honestly know him. Hes cohost of morning edition on npr. Hes also the author of this great book on jessie and john fremont. How many people are here from fremont . We have a couple, okay great. Thank you very much, steve, for coming. [applause] thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks everyone, and good day. Delighted you could come this afternoon. Im delighted to be here in San Francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and particularly to talk about jessie and john fremont who had so much to do with the creation of california as we know it and so much to do with the creation of San Francisco as we know it. I got into San Francisco about 2 30 a. M. On a delayed flight from los angeles, got a couple of hours of sleep at an Airport Hotel and then woke up again because i was to be picked up by a car and driven up the highway into San Francisco to do a live radio thing on kqed. The thing about life radio is it begins at a very exact time. The thing about going through S