Talks already. We all have our favorite great attacks of the war. We could not fit them all in. We repent the panel talk about other great attacks of the war. We have some of the best and brightest joining us tonight. First again, mr. James ogden. [indiscernible] [applause] sitting next to him is. Ur colleague he has worked at Gettysburg National park where he is done the song and dance on the battlefield. [applause] sitting next to dan is chris kolakowski. The other polish prince of the civil war. Chris is the director of the macarthur memorial. If you have a chance to visit norfolk and go to the memorial it is a firstclass operation on , the scale of a president ial library. Here is the man, Douglas Macarthur to shape the world after world war ii. Story is thatand this museum. He is written books on kerry bill. Though. Chris kolakowski. [applause] to his left is the editor of the American Civil War blog. Author or coauthor of emerging civil war series. Dan also has a huge man crush.
Chris is the historian here. Bed andworking breakfast, conference center, a great place to hold the symposium. He has just written a book, which will be available. He has coauthored two magazine articles on the battle of the spotsylvania courthouse. Those are available through the emerging civil war website. Chris and i have known each other for 11 years. , fightlike john and paul a little bit, get along, but we are best friends. He met his life right where our projector is set up. Chris, one of our friends described him as the Rupert Murdoch of civil war publishing. He is now becoming a very prolific author. Atwas a former historian fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National parks. Chris will talk about the battle of the spotsylvania courthouse. Pleasure toor and bring you this prolific speaker, author, and my best friend. [applause] that the firsty symposium i spoke at here, jennifer was where matt is. No offense. He is here all weekend, folks. Tom delighted to be able share with you t
If youve had the chance to walk around particularly out at the mule shoe, you know what a beautiful landscape it is, easily one of the best preserved civil war landscapes that we have available to us. Its pristine. There are a few monuments out there, but youre seeing what the soldiers saw in 1864 when they first arrived. The tree lines are pretty accurate. The fields are pretty accurate. Then over course of two years like a swarm of locusts they transformed that landscape so dramatically that the traces of it are still there today. If you want to after our program this afternoon, ill be happy to show you some of those traces here at stevenson ridge. But i hope over the course of my talk, ill be able to help you understand some of those traces that still exist so the next time you go out there, you can see for yourself the story still written on had most beautiful of landscapes. To understand how the armies got here, we pick up where chris left off where theyre fighting in the wilderne
If youve had the chance to walk around particularly out at the mule shoe, you know what a beautiful landscape it is, easily one of the best preserved civil war landscapes that we have available to us. Its pristine. There are a few monuments out there, but youre seeing what the soldiers saw in 1864 when they first arrived. The tree lines are pretty accurate. The fields are pretty accurate. Then over course of two years like a swarm of locusts they transformed that landscape so dramatically that the traces of it are still there today. If you want to after our program this afternoon, ill be happy to show you some of those traces here at stevenson ridge. But i hope over the course of my talk, ill be able to help you understand some of those traces that still exist so the next time you go out there, you can see for yourself the story still written on had most beautiful of landscapes. To understand how the armies got here, we pick up where chris left off where theyre fighting in the wilderne
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