Maneuvers of the union and confederate armies that brought them to appomattox. Thank you, patrick. Our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. He a proud graduate of longwood university. Longwood college when he went here. You were one of the first male graduates of longwood. Chris has had a long career with the National Park service. He worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. In 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. It is only 15 minutes from here. He has done an amazing job in revising Sailors Creek. Revitalizing Sailors Creek. As a mentioned in the beginning he will be available tomorrow for some tors of their cash for some tors out there for some tours out there. He is responsible for the retreat route. He is actively involved in battlefield preservation, the association of preservation for civil war sites, particularly building up petersburg in the past getting a large amount of la
We are on the banks of the chattahoochee river. The purpose of the naval museum is to tell the story of the navies in the civil war. We are the only facility that focuses entirely on that story. We are in a unique place right here inside the museum, right here inside the museum are the remains of the ironclad that was built in columbus during the war. Specifically, we are about midship of the vessel. This section was missing. It fell apart during the recovery process, and this was a great Vantage Point to take a good look at how this thing is built, and what areas are used are different purposes. For different purposes. An ironclad is a wooden ship. You still have to build the structure of the ship out of wood. On the outside of it, above the waterline, is iron plating. This provides the ironclad to the vessel. If you want to think about it like this, it is like putting a man inside of armor. Most of the ironclads are used in coastal waters and rivers and what they were designed to do
Screeria nigeria. Thank you. We recently visited virginia for a closing of the Longwood University and courthouse National Historical park. Next tracy chornault talks about the long standoff between lee and grant and the entrenchments outside petersburg and the final battles in 186 a. 5. He discusses the importance of supply lines to both armies and the disparity between the access in food and ammunition. This talk is about an hour. We have programs out there f you didnt get one in the mail pick up a program. Im going give an abbreviated interduction of the bios we have in the program. Trait tracy has a ba in history from avert college in danville and he has worked for the National Park service, first part time and then full Time Starting in 1991 at apamatics courthouse and since 1997 at Petersburg National battlefield. And as patrick mentioned tracy is the author of one of the volumes in the howard, virginia regimental history series. This deals with the 18th and 20th battalions of he
I will give an abbreviated version of the bios we have in the programs. Tracy is a native of mathematics appomattox. He has worked for the National Park service. He has been at Petersburg National battlefield since 1997. He is the author of one of the volumes and the howard, virginia regimental history series. He is also passed president of the lynchburg civil war roundtable. And the appomattox county historical society. His talk today will be on the fall of petersburg. Please welcome Tracy Chernault. [applause] john lehman Tracy Chernault good evening. Im a big baseball guy. When he asked me to speak as the leadoff man, that was a first for me. Most of you can tell by my size, i never hit leadoff because i require somebody speeding. Being the leadoff man is something new for me. I was surprised when pat pointed out that the magazine contains his article, because you get to this article, you have to read through my article. Which i think should have been the end of the magazine. [laugh
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