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Dr. Coles our second speaker is casey clabough. Casey is a professor at Lynchburg College and editor of the james dickey review and is english graduate director. A richmond native who grew up and appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Author of confederados a novel of the americas. The confederates that left the u. S. At the end of the war and went to brazil. I remember from 30 or 40 years ago reading an article about that. Bill maybe wrote that and i have never heard of it and i got interested. Im looking for to hearing his top. His talk. His talk today is entitled, confederados. Casey clabough. [applause] professor clabough than
And appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Author of confederados a novel of the americas. The confederates that left the u. S. At the end of the war and went to brazil. I remember from 30 or 40 years ago reading an article about that. Bill maybe wrote that and i have never heard of it and i got interested. Im looking for to hearing his top. His talk. His talk today is entitled, confederados. Casey clabough. [applause] professor clabough thank you, dr. Coles. Thank you all for being here and for inviting me. So extend the last speaker eloquent comment about the end of the war being a time of beginainty, id like to with that. That
In the anniversaries of the civil war. This 45 minute talk was sponsored by the Shenandoah Valley battlefields foundation. Its always nice to be the keynote speaker. You can speak in a disjointed way and everyone says this marvelous. Im going to do a disjointed speaker speech for you this morning, if i may. Lets start with a couple of reflections on the confederate battle flag. If politically correct people were capable of understanding history, which they are not they , would complain not about the Southern Cross banner, they would complain about the stars and bars. The emblem of a government, with slavery as its backbone. The battle flag is different in another sense. A soldiers home was the regiment not the brigade, not , the division. In the regiment he served with friends and neighbors from the same area. What did the second, fourth, fifth, 27th, and 33rd virginia have in common . They all came from the southern part of Shenandoah Valley. As you all know, those five immortality in
Crashed on june 25th of last year. The crash site in potomac after an emotional interview. Reporter the roadside memorial has grown over. Parts of it are faded but still vivid is the pain caused by the crash. His bedroom is precisely how it was before the crash. He had a really strong connection there. Reporter painted in the colors of the boston red sox, it reflects his passion for sports. He loved his clothes. He loved food. He could eat a lot. And sometimes when im making like a really good meal i wish he was here to eat with us. He really liked his food. Reporter alexs dog fred still lies on a box of letters is unopened. I cant open any letters they just keep coming. His grass cutting shoes. I decided i needed to keep him with us. Reporter his ashes sit on a shelf in the family room. A ball cap is a bittersweet reminder of the World Series Game he attended with his dad. Without alex, the household is quiet and packed with reminders of a joy filled life. He loved kids. He was a kid.