Him as an upandcoming young historian in 2004, when he was on our History Panel when we study the 1864 Valley Campaign early that year. He returned to us in 2007, when we studied the second manassas campaign, and again in 2009, when we studied the 1862 Valley Campaign. In 2012, he was with us for a look at the 1863 battle of chancellorsville, and in 2013, when we studied the prelude to gettysburg, the armies moved north. Scott has written numerous articles and books. The forgotten fury, the battle in 1996,nt, published shenandoah summer, the 1864 Valley Campaign, published by the university of North Carolina press in 2009, second manassas, long street attack, published by the potomac press in 2011, and also that year, the battle of piedmont and hunters raid on staten, published by the history press, and in 2013, the last battle of winchester. And sheraton, jubal early, the 1864 shenandoah Valley Campaign, published by bd. In addition to his articles and books, he served for 10 years on
In 2007. Ed and again in 2009. Us for ahe was with look at the 1863 battle. In 2013. Scott has written numerous articles and books. The forgotten fury, the battle of piedmont. Shenandoah summer 1864 valley campaign. Manassas long streets attack and the struggle for the rich published in 2011. Also that year, the battle of piedmont. 2013, the last battle of winchester. In addition to his articles and onks, he served for 10 years the board of the battlefield association. On thetwice served president of the bull run civil war roundtable. It for the past 10 years, he has worked for the Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Foundation on updating and correcting the battlefield interpretation for the third winchester battlefield. Now, over 600 battles acres of battlefield have been saved thanks to the Battlefield Foundation and the civil war trust. An accomplishment that has virtually saved an entire battlefield from certain destruction. He has recently completed the editing of the journal of union
Teaching activities. She has presented her research at civil war roundtables and historic groups in california and across the nation, including the National Museum of civil war medicine. Her book takes a fresh look at the battle of newmarket for the emerging civil war series. Currently she is working on several Civil War Research projects, including the citizens and armies of Shenandoah Valley. As you heard last night she is a crucial part of our team. Provides a lot of the content, she edits our work, and she has a fulltime job and she lives in california. To sarah. Teful good morning. I want to say thank you to rob and dan for inviting me to share this presentation. Roomnd of had a back does newmarketow qualify as a lesserknown battle. We came to the conclusion that the battle of newmarket has name recognition. We will talk about that in a moment, but the campaign is not as well understood, and there are facets of the campaign we can dig deeper, and they qualify as lesserknown. I inv
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
Battle that this trio has yet to cover. And our ongoing series. I hope its ongoing. We have at least one more battle to talk about here at historical society. We have two this season and we thank you for for joining us. So as you heard the subject is the battle of chancellorsville. Its hard to say, especially for new york or chancellorsville paul. But before get there, we have to cover a little bit of the terrain. Its a neglected battle in and of itself. It has so many links to what came before and what came after that we wanted to do context. Jim well, if i can with you, the battle was preceded by quite a few months of quiet in the winter of 1862, 63, but things had changed, as i will show you here because in early. 1863 recruitment of africanamericans the union army begins following the emancipation proclamation and legislation. So much has changed just set the scene for us the chronologically. Well one thing that had been going on during winter of 1860 263 was a decline in morale in