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Defense department. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Mr. Louis bremer to the assistant secretary of defense special operations. We thank everyone for being here today. Briefly say who these people are and i think we have a great bunch that is certainly qualified for the admissions that theyre nominated for. Mr. Abend, youre presently the southeastern adviser to the u. S. Customs and Border Protection and you have extensive experience leading the investigations part of the Inspector General offices for the federal Housing Finance agency and the u. S. Department of housing and urban development. Youve been former secret Service Agent with in the winter of the 2015 council of Inspector General award for excellence. Mr. Hansell, you are currently an associate director of the Boston Consulting Group in its north American Public sector, having previously served as the special assistant to the president for National Security affairs and a senior director for national threats, transnational t
By the Gettysburg College civil war institute. Big thank you mr. Carmichael. I am also of says i am a director of the civil war institute. It is my pleasure this afternoon to introduce Elizabeth Van lew who is the associate director for civil war history. Awesome williams professor of American History at the university of virginia. Thankfully, she is not a hockey buff. At least i do not believe she is. Oh gosh, she said go caps. What has happened to American Sports . I do not know. I never thought in a civil war conference people would be dying about hockey, but such is life. Elizabeth is a published scholar. We need to be counted, white women. Published by the university of the North Carolina press 1998. This union which is one of my favorite overviews of the political crisis of the 18 fifties. It is quite good. Published by the university of North Carolina press. Victory, defeat, and freedom at the end of the civil war, published by oxford. It is an outstanding book. It is a way to l
War history. All at the university of virginia. Thankfully, shes not a hockey buff. I dont believe she is. She said, go caps. What has happened to the American Sports scene . I dont know. I never thought in a civil war conference people would be jawing about hockey. Such is life. A very accomplished scholar. Shes published a number of books, including we mean to be counted, white women and the politics in antebellum virginia. This union, one of my favorite overviews of the 1850s. Published by university of North Carolina press. Victory, defeat and freedom at the end of the civil war, published by oxford. Its an outstanding book. Its a way to look beyond the surrender proceedings and material culture, visual culture. How it resided in american memory. Its outstanding. I cant say enough good things about it. Today, subject of her talk, she published true story of Elizabeth Van lew, a union agent in the heart of the confederacy. [ applause ] i bring you greetings from virginia and im deli
With the american soldier goes american medicine. Backing him up by his side, with him in his advance. In wartime and in peace, the medical department carries on, fighting disease, healing and rehabilitating the sick and wounded and working to search out disease vectors to prevent, detect and control epidemics. To pursue this mission successfully, the medical department was backed up by a farflung network of laboratories stretching from north to south, from east to west. Clinical, Public Health and Research Laboratories were required everywhere. Diseases new to the army doctor were being encountered, new procedures, methods of treatment and control had to be developed and evaluated. Operation and combat under extreme heat and cold produced problems that were a challenge to the medical department and its laboratories. Behind this vast medical Laboratory Organization which followed the armies to every distant outpost on our fighting front were the Mission Divisions and services of the Su