Us in person and online. Before i introduce our next speaker a shout out to folks who made today possible. Our technical director chris white, thank you so much for your work behind the camera, chris. Thank you to our symposium coordinators kevin pollack and dan welch. Unfortunately, because of the covid pandemic we had to postpone this years inperson symposium and all the work kevin and dan did to get ready for that weve postponed to next year. Tickets are available at this time but theyre the ones who stepped up to help make todays virtual symposium possible. Thank you for your work. I would like to introduce our next speaker, sarah kay bierle, the managing editor of emerging civil war, the one working behindthescenes to keep the blog up and going and make sure that all that free content is coming to you every day. Her work is absolutely invaluable to our organization. Sarah is the author of the emerging civil war series call out the cadet from the emerging civil war series, the batt
Thank you to our symposium coordinators kevin pollack and dan welch. Unfortunately, because of the covid pandemic we had to postpone this years inperson symposium and all the work kevin and dan did to get ready for that weve postponed to next year. Tickets are available at this time but theyre the ones who stepped up to help make todays virtual symposium possible. Thank you for your work. I would like to introduce our next speaker, sarah kay bierle, the managing editor of emerging civil war, the one working behindthescenes to keep the blog up and going and make sure that all that free content is coming to you every day. Her work is absolutely invaluable to our organization. Sarah is the author of the emerging civil war series call out the cadet from the emerging civil war series, the battle of new market. She is also at work on the gallant pelham and will present some of her Research Associated with that book today. Sarah kay bierle. Well, good morning, good afternoon, or good evening.
Because of the covid pandemic we had to postpone this years in prison symposium and all the work kevin and dan did to get ready for that. We postponed until next year. Tickets are available at this time, but they also stepped up to make todays virtual symposium possible. Thank you, dan and kevin for your work. I would like to introduce our next speaker sarah kay bierle. Is the managing editor of emerging who was working behind civil war who was working behind the scenes to keep the blog up and going and to make sure that all of that free content is coming to you every day. Her work is invaluable to our organization. She is the author of call out the cadet. She is also at work on the biography of the gallant pelham. She will present some of her Research Associated with that book today. Sarah kay bierle. Ms. Bierle good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Im not exactly sure when you will be viewing this, but i hope you are safe and well and we going to go ahead and dive right into th
That are available at this time. They also stepped up to make todays virtual symposium possible. Thank you for your work. I would like now to introduce our next speaker. Barely. Y the managing editor of emerging civil war who was working behind the scenes to keep the blog up and going and to make sure that all of that free content is coming to you every day. Her work is invaluable to our organization. She is the author of call out the cadet a book series. She is also at work on a biography of the gallant pelham. Herwill present some of Research Associated with that book. Sarah kay barely. Bierle. Kay good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Im not exactly sure when you will be viewing this but i hope you are safe and well and we going to go ahead and ive right into the history. As chris said, i will be sharing some about the research i have been doing about the stewart artillery and john pelham but we will take a much broader range on it. We wont the focused on that unit or artiller
Wolf. Today we are meeting to consider the nomination of acting secretary of Homeland Security chad wolf to be the confirmed secretary of department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. I truly appreciate anybody who is willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be enter into the record without objection well do that. Ill just keep this short because i know we have time constraints here. But a quick description of what enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department, the responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Start with the federal Emergency Management agency deals with hurricanes and wild fires and now covid amongst many other responsibilities. Border security a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem, not by a long stretch, but thiS Administration done a good job of stopping the out of control illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. This agency