thunder the battle of new market and the opening of the shenandoah valley campaign, may 18 1864, which was published in 2010 and tonight. he s here to talk about his newest book from arlington to appomattox. robert e. lee s civil war day by 1861 to 1865. and so with that i m going to turn the screen over to our guest author. great. thank you, kelly. and see him there we go. all right, and good evening everybody and it s my pleasure to be here with y all and like kelly said tonight. i m gonna be talking to you a little bit about my newest book from arlington to appomattox, which is kind of a an almanac or reference book if you will about excuse me about lee during the civil war. and make my brady box thing or brady bunch thing over here go away so i can actually see my slides. there we go. okay. i think the the best way to talk about what this book is is really to talk about what it s not. it s not your basic lead biography. i m sure many of you are familiar with eb longs. boo
scholarship and this subject tonight with her lecture and title clothing people for war over to you. thank you. well, thank you so much paul for the invitation to participate and for that wonderful introduction so glad to be able to participate in the weekend. so, let me share my screen real. quick all right. so when i began my current book project, i really wanted to understand. the human side of this war the intimacy with which it was both experienced and fought at a very material level at the level of material culture. how do people experience and negotiate the effects of war in their everyday lives how they wage war against one another both on and off the battlefield. what were the racial and gender dimensions of that experience? how did women and men have to change in the midst of war? so as i began this research, i repeatedly encountered incidents related to clothing from the remark from the remarkable to the mundane. the more archival sources. i read the more clothing
2010 and tonight. he s here to talk about his newest book from arlington to appomattox. robert e. lee s civil war day by 1861 to 1865. and so with that i m going to turn the screen over to our guest author. great. thank you, kelly. and see him there we go. all right, and good evening everybody and it s my pleasure to be here with y all and like kelly said tonight. i m gonna be talking to you a little bit about my newest book from arlington to appomattox, which is kind of a an almanac or reference book if you will about excuse me about lee during the civil war. and make my brady box thing or brady bunch thing over here go away so i can actually see my slides. there we go. okay. i think the the best way to talk about what this book is is really to talk about what it s not. it s not your basic lead biography. i m sure many of you are familiar with eb longs. book the civil war day by day. this is kind of like the same thing only done from a from a lead point of view so as much as
being with us. thank you so much for having me. i m director of the virginia center for civil war studies. so our first speaker tonight and i ll just introduce each speaker in turn right before they speak. so our first speaker is dr. sarah jones wixel and she and her phd from the university of chicago. she s now the director of research and publications at the american historical association in washington dc. she s also an expert in the material culture of the civil war and most especially clothing and that s the subject of a book she s working on right now clothing in the american civil war era one. i m very much looking forward to reading when it comes out. and we re gonna get a taste for scholarship and this subject tonight with her lecture and title clothing people for war over to you. thank you. well, thank you so much paul for the invitation to participate and for that wonderful introduction so glad to be able to participate in the weekend. so, let me share my screen re
scholarship and this subject tonight with her lecture and title clothing people for war over to you. thank you. well, thank you so much paul for the invitation to participate and for that wonderful introduction so glad to be able to participate in the weekend. so, let me share my screen real. quick all right. so when i began my current book project, i really wanted to understand. the human side of this war the intimacy with which it was both experienced and fought at a very material level at the level of material culture. how do people experience and negotiate the effects of war in their everyday lives how they wage war against one another both on and off the battlefield. what were the racial and gender dimensions of that experience? how did women and men have to change in the midst of war? so as i began this research, i repeatedly encountered incidents related to clothing from the remark from the remarkable to the mundane. the more archival sources. i read the more clothing