Maneuvers of the union and confederate armies that brought them to appomattox. Thank you, patrick. Our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. He a proud graduate of longwood university. Longwood college when he went here. 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. Revitalizing 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 la
Were freed but they may have immigrated on their own to other countries in south america or some other place. Oh, sure. Yeah. You know my research was specifically on the confederados who immigrated to brazil, but there were some that did in fact, go to mexico, even though i it wasnt as inviting, it was geographically closer and other south american countries as well as britain and france and even africa. Theres a filmsfn . Ly. Its about a cold a former confederate soldier who becomes a professional line hunter in africa. A lot of the southerners ended up all over the place. There are all kinds of stories. Those kinds of disastrous disastrous occur at the end of war. That is part of the reason very reliable, which is part of shed the reason i think there hasnt been more Research Accomplished on the confederados. Although i challenge again, if there are students here and scholars, i challenge you to rs to re research in this area. I think its a very promising area of research, particula
Mr. Johnson then projected americas policy in vietnam, saying the United States was ready to begin without conditions diplomatic discussions to end the war in vietnam. He calls it the only path for reasonable men. Johnson demands and independent south vietnam, secure guarantees, and able to shape its own relationships to all others, free from outside interference, tied to no alliance, a military base, or no country. He called on Southeast Asian nations for Economic Development and he asked the United Nations to join in the plan. Johnson on our part, i will ask the congress to join in a billiondollar American Investment in this effort as soon as it is under way. [applause] president johnson and i would hope that all other industrialized countries including the soviet union will join in this effort to replace despair with hope and terror with progress. The president said the task is to enrich the hopes and existence of more than 100 million people. He pointed out that education in trades
Government from washington d. C. Had personally insulted don pedro ii at some social that occasion. And so that was the main apparently the main reasonoma that there wasnt a closer to do association betweenwi the brazilian government and washington. It had less t to do with politicsgton and more with the whim of the differen emperor. So again thats where governmental and culture differences come into play. The ambassador was the u. S. Ambassador was kind of a pushy person and that didntkwujn go over well5m emperor. Yes, sir. In connection with thean settlement of some exconfederates in other latin american countries was there in the case of the brazilian exconfederates, any people in the United States, anyifn] asians either working either agents ght ha fromve brazil who may have organized any of these people to migrate to brazil . Oh, certainly. I think if i understand your question correctly were there i p guess for lack of a better term, Confederate Point people that were sent to bra
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