Reading your book. Its so intimate. I want to thank you for writing it. I am going to dive in. You received an emotional inheritance from your aunt. Tell our audience what it was, the physical inheritance and the family. When i was a boy in new orleans in the late 1960s, marx was a horn wasnt elderly retired schoolteacher and was an historian. We were all in new orleans and she was the keeper among others, of our klansmen. She had papers and files in had a way of speaking about our family, another one to remember is our klansmen, my grandfather he was a redeemer. The redemption returned like people after theyve been dislodged. If he had not there, who would not be here today. Anyway, when she died, her papers went to my mother and when my other died, decades later, her files came to me. This is how i rediscovered the story of our klansmen. You remember your aunt, youve emulated her well. Sounds like she spoke of, say the name constant was a french carpenter. Is there to say, he was her
And a variety of other prize s. The list goes on and on. Let me mention her first book about women after the civil war. Another multiple prizewinning book. Agreed to come here today and talk with us specifically about the history of emancipation, the end of slavery during the civil war, a topic always on peoples agenda for teaching and discussion but particularly widely discussed earlier this summer the anniversary of juneteenth. That is what got us started thinking about inviting her to speak with us about that history which is complicated, exciting, and always in need of clarification. Let me turn it over to tera hunter to talk a little bit about the process of wartime emancipation. What happened, and what are some of the most important things people need to know . Dr. Hunter thank you for inviting me to be part of this. Thanks to all of the people out there listening and watching. I thought i would start with giving an overview of the process by which slavery was destroyed during th
My name is Chris Mackowski, editor in chief of emerging civil war. Delighted to have you with us. Our first speaker today is derrick maxfield. Hes an associate professor and batavia new york, hometown of emory upton for those of you who are from spots of india. Derek has recently earned fame for his brand new book as part of the emerging civil war series. It is called hellmira, the unions most notorious prison of war camp in elmira, new york. Thank you very much, im very pleased to be here to talk about my latest project. Prisoner of war camps in general have been quite a surprise to me. Ive studied the civil war since i was quite young and i knew the length of the tragedy during the civil war. But it was eyeopening to me the extent of the humanitarian crisis that unfolded over the course of those four bloody years. Over 56,000 died in prisoner of war camps over that time. Just over 500,000 incarcerated in total. Although we understand that this is just a small number of casualties con
Civil war virtual symposium. Glad to have you with us. My name is chris mackowski. Our next speaker today comes to us from our sister site, emerging revolutionary war. Mark maloy is a historian with the National Parks service. This is the civil war, mark. So we decided we would let him come talk about for sometime because its as close as we can get in the war to the revolutionary war era. I say all that because mark is a delightful historian and wonderful guy. I wish i could get him to laugh on you. Is most distinctive feature is his laugh, which we love to get him pumped up and going. We are delighted to have him today to speak about the first shots of the civil war at fort sumner. Mark . Thank you very much for that introduction, chris. [laughs] its a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. We love to have done it in person, but being able to do a digitally like this is a wonderful way to do it as well. As chris mentioned, my main passion is the Ame
Battlefield. He has his own battlefield where he oversees the brison bristo station battlefield. Kevin is the coauthor of the book to hazard all, a guide to the 1862 antietam campaign. Today he will talk to us a little bit about the aftermath the antietam campaign, the tail and that is often overlooked. He will tie into an earlier talk from today. Set in the larger context, he will talk about the loudoun campaign Loudoun Valley campaign of 1862. Ladies and gentlemen kevin pawlak. Thank you, chris, for that introduction and thank you to all of you for tuning into our virtual symposium. We hope you will be able to join us next year in 2021 we will be reprising our topic of what was supposed to be this years topic a foreign leaders. Today, im going to speak with you about the Loudoun Valley campaign which is a campaign that does not get a lot of study at all unfortunately in the larger scale of the civil war. I would probably wager there are more people in this room that i can count on on