Its spectacular. Its my real pleasure to introduce the next speaker. He is somebody you already know. You have heard him speak somewhere or on tv. He was born and raised in fredericksburg. He spent his career interpreting and preserving American Military history with the National Park service, the new york state government, Rensselaer County historical society, the Civil War Preservation trust, kentucky state parks and the u. S. Army. Do you think he is qualified to speak . He has written and spoken on various aspects of military history and leadership from 1775 to the present. He has published two books with the history press, the civil war at perryville and the Tullahoma Campaigns, and contributing to the emerging civil war bulldog and studied the 19411942 campaign released in late 2016. In september 2016, the u. S. Army published his volumes on the 1862 virginia campaigns as part of its series on the civil war. Last year at this event on friday night, i bought this book and by satur
He went on to the George Patton museum, which got him involved with world war ii. He has written a couple of fantastic books, one on. Though and one of the stones river and the tullahoma campaign. Though one even per and one on the stones riverryville and the tullahoma campaigns. It was overshadowed by gettysburg and vicksburg. He is here today to talk little about stones river, that sets out tullahoma. That will wrap up 1862 and literally bring us into 1863 with one of the most great defenses of the civil war. Chris kolakowski. Its great to see everyone here today. I have a tough job. We follow those two. Im going to move with some of lack to you and keep ourselves on point. I want to talk about the battle of stones river. I refer to it as stones river. War. A great defense of the unpacking why this battle matters. Youve got a lot more than i thought. Sense of the ground, things like that. The first two days of 1863, just outside of tennessee. Actually smack dab in the center of tenne
Nashville as a major union supply base for the rest of the war. I always like to get up and say our next speaker needs no introduction. Thats because ive introduced him about 9,000 times, i think, which is why he needs no introduction. My great friend and polish brother chris kowlikowski is the director of the macarthur memorial which is a fantastic resource and a mustsee place to visit. But once upon a time he was a civil war guy before he found himself embroiled in world war ii. He started as an internal at Fredericksburg Spotsylvania National Military park, from there hes gone to perriville where he was the site manager, hes done work with the civil war trust, he went to the George Patton museum which is what first got him involved with world war ii and while hes busy doing that hes written a couple fantastic books, one on perry ville and one on stones river. Im very fascinating with theullahoma but it was equally monumental in its strategic success. Hes here to talk about stones ri
Nashville as a major union supply base for the rest of the war. I always like to get up and say our next speaker needs no introduction. Thats because ive introduced him about 9,000 times, i think, which is why he needs no introduction. My great friend and polish brother chris kowlikowski is the director of the macarthur memorial which is a fantastic resource and a mustsee place to visit. But once upon a time he was a civil war guy before he found himself embroiled in world war ii. He started as an internal at Fredericksburg Spotsylvania National Military park, from there hes gone to perriville where he was the site manager, hes done work with the civil war trust, he went to the George Patton museum which is what first got him involved with world war ii and while hes busy doing that hes written a couple fantastic books, one on perry ville and one on stones river. Im very fascinating with theullahoma but it was equally monumental in its strategic success. Hes here to talk about stones ri
Nashville as a major union supply base for the rest of the war. I always like to get up and say our next speaker needs no introduction. Thats because ive introduced him about 9,000 times, i think, which is why he needs no introduction. My great friend and polish brother chris kowlikowski is the director of the macarthur memorial which is a fantastic resource and a mustsee place to visit. But once upon a time he was a civil war guy before he found himself embroiled in world war ii. He started as an internal at Fredericksburg Spotsylvania National Military park, from there hes gone to perriville where he was the site manager, hes done work with the civil war trust, he went to the George Patton museum which is what first got him involved with world war ii and while hes busy doing that hes written a couple fantastic books, one on perry ville and one on stones river. Im very fascinating with theullahoma but it was equally monumental in its strategic success. Hes here to talk about stones ri