My name is tammy myers, i am president of the gettysburg heritage center, and i have drilled to have you here in attendance. He is a retired executive a licensed battlefield guide here at Gettysburg National military park. Joe is the past president of the association of licensed battlefield guides and the gettysburg civil war roundtable. In addition, he is on the faculty of the prestigious lincoln leadership institute. He has three books to his credit including after gettysburg, lee retreats and another. He lives with his wife, chris. Thank you. [applause] my wife kris is here in the audience tonight. Welcome, everybody to the book talk about my latest book called after gettysburg. The great radio commentator always talked about the rest of the story, so this is kind of the rest of the story. A lot of people come here to learn about the threeday battle of gettysburg. We talked about that battle, but this book attempts to answer the question what happens after the three days are over .
Most of us know google as a search engine. It actually derives its name from the mathematical term. A one followed by a million zeros. Google is also the number of books that Eric Wittenberg has written. Eric is a nationally renowned speaker and the authority on Union Calvary. Particularly calvary operations in the east. What i like about erics overall has beenbooks is he boldly exploring all sorts of cool things and taking his explorations in meat directions. Work on aonly at manuscript of george meade and has conflict with the joint committee on the war and how that impacted him. Which does not seem like a calvary operation, to me. Yet it makes eric one of the most interesting historians working in the field. Coming from columbus, ohio to talk about his awardwinning book on john buford, Eric Wittenberg. It is always a pleasure to be here and i appreciate the opportunity to visit with you. Nobody wants to be the guy to go right after lunch. It fell upon me. If anybody falls asleep bec
Google is also one of the books that this man has written. Renownedational speaker and the authority on Union Calvary, particularly operations in the east. What i like about his canon of books, he has been boldly exploring all sorts of things and taking his expiration in neat directions. He is working on a mini script about George Gordon meade. Does not necessarily seem like a cavalry operation to me and it makes him one of the most interesting historians working in the field today. Coming to us from columbus, his awardalk about winning book on john buford, eric wittenberg. It is always up pleasure to be here and i appreciate the opportunity to be here today. It is also always nobody wants to be the guy who goes right after work after lunch. If anybody falls asleep because of the good food, i promise i wont be offended. And bear with me, im not good at standing still. Chris was talking about the fact that i have written a lot of books, i have a bad case of adult add, which also means i
Washington right. Custer,ard george 80 miles september of here. You can go visit here. Sheridan, all, have ohio roots. One way or another. Raised here. R as a friend mississippi said, of bloody bastards from your state. I guess it depends on what side youre on. Bookuestion i get about my is why is that the title . Makes your book the real custer. Easy way to answer that question is to say, thats what the publisher wanted. Rather more like a question. Who was the real custer. Know about this guy . So pervasiven is when he talk about George Custer. Whole man. He thats not the case. He had a whole life and a whole character and he was a whole person. Really the book is about trying to get to the root of that question. Who was this man . If we can strip away all of the things that have been written since then. The history everything else. Just really talk about the man himself. Its supposedwhat out. Hes more famous today. Mentioned today in books than he was at the height fame. Hes more me
State instructor, discusses a different account of women during the gettysburg and how the residents, mainly women and children, were affected and shaped by the battle. The journey through Hallowed Ground partnership hosted the program. Shawn welcome, everybody. My name is shawn butcher. I am the director of journey through Hallowed Ground partnership. Welcome to the afternoon session. We are pleased that this session is being taped and aired on cspan so welcome our cspan viewers. For those in the audience, you can follow along or learn more on twitter. I am pleased to introduce our speaker, jared frederick. Jared has been highly involved in the world of public history conducting oral history interviews, writing grants, in interpreting sites. Receiving a masters from west virginia, he is served as a seasonal park ranger at Gettysburg National park and her first Harpers Ferry national park. An artist as well, he has completed projects and been recognized by organizations such as the smi