studying it, i have a lot of questions as to where these events took place and how the army s got from here to there. this book set up my quest to learn more about these sites. when i worked at appomattox, i worked with a gem in a lot of you may know. his name was harold howard. he was the role of a former confederate soldier. i took the role of the union soldier. he and i were companions in trying to learn more about the events that took place on the retreat. one of the areas that i was interested in was the battle of sailor s creek. sailor s creek became a state park in 1936. efforts were made to purchase more land for the park and have it become a national park. something happened, world war ii came along and the impetus was lost. after the war when things started looking up, there was a congressman who was from appomattox county and guess who got the national park? appomattox. sailor s creek languished for the next couple of decades. finally in 2008, sailor s creek which
if you are planning to go to the park this afternoon, if you hold off taking one of these, they are in the back. we will get you some. it s on park row. my talk is referred to as black thursday, the battle for sailor s creek. one of the union generals who was involved in the battle, he wrote in his book about the fighting 5% of the intelligent people of the united states, north or south ever heard of the battle of sailor s creek. they don t know anything of its magnitude or importance. this is not strange. it was fought in virginia. this was three days before the surrender under general robert e lee. events were happening so rapidly that no note was made of the battle. in the next few minutes, you will be part of that part of our nation. just some point before we talk about the battle, there are three separate engagements referred to as the battles of sailor s creek. as you enter the museum, it refers to it as battles. i mentioned the spelling difference. there were two branc
i brought some of our brochures. i had no idea how many people would be here. if you are planning to go to the park this afternoon, if you hold off taking one of these, they are in the back. we will get you some. it s on park row. my talk is referred to as black thursday, the battle for sailor s creek. one of the union generals who was involved in the battle, he wrote in his book about the fighting 5% of the intelligent people of the united states, north or south ever heard of the battle of sailor s creek. they don t know anything of its magnitude or importance. this is not strange. it was fought in virginia. this was three days before the surrender under general robert e lee. events were happening so rapidly that no note was made of the battle. in the next few minutes, you will be part of that part of our nation. just some point before we talk about the battle, there are three separate engagements referred to as the battles of sailor s creek. as you enter the museum, it refe
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