institute director jonathan noyalas details rebecca wright s involvement and how this action impacted the rest of her life. shenandoah university hosted this program and provided the video. when general philip sheridan took command of the newly created army of the shenandoah. in early, august of 1864 he was urged by president abraham lincoln. general ulysses, that s grant and secretary of war edwin stanton. to be extremely cautious in the shenandoah valley the trio of lincoln grant and stanton did not want philip sheridan the prematurely engaged confederates under general jubal early. because they were not only concerned about battlefield defeat and i think again it s important here to sort of step back for a moment. you know you think about everything that the confederates had achieved in the shenandoah valley aside from you know union successes at first. kernstown rutherford s farm battle of piedmont. it was a scene of incessant disaster. and so they weren t worried about j
State about security challenges. I want to welcome my panelists up here. Thank you for being to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic day jour for Election Administrators and folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election cybersecurity, securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is the topic de jour coming out of the elections where we saw state actors targeting systems and vendors and sphere fishing attempts in 2016 as well as declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure. By the department of security. I hope we can talk about the operating environment. S and what steps were looking to secure the process looking at 2018 and how you are. Jeremy gray was supposed to be here from l. A. County and he came down with the flu. We thank him for not coming. We thank him for not coming. I will tee it up to do quick three to five minute opening remarks and then get into the discussion if thats okay. My far right is
Thank you for being to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic day jour for Election Administrators and folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election cybersecurity, securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is the topic de jour coming out of the elections where we saw state actors targeting systems and vendors and sphere fishing attempts in 2016 as well as declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure. By the department of security. I hope we can talk about the operating environment. S and what steps were looking to secure the process looking at 2018 and how you are. Jeremy gray was supposed to be here from l. A. County and he came down with the flu. We thank him for not coming. We thank him for not coming. I will tee it up to do quick three to five minute opening remarks and then get into the discussion if thats okay. My far right is jeremy epstein, a long time involved in Election Research and member of
An entity in trouble to turn it around because that is what i spent the first 20 years of my career doing, and i thought the country needed the same thing. Lynchburg was named for its founder, john lynch. It had a rich manufacturing history as well as civil war ties to the nearby sandusky and the nearby Appomattox Courthouse. This painting tells a unique story. There is damage to the painting and the tradition passed to the family is that this painting was fanned allies by Union Soldiers during their occupation at the civil war battle. Writtenind some accounts of the vandalism that took place during the battle. For the next 90 minutes, we will feature the citys local history beginning with poplar history beginning with Poplar Forest, Thomas Jeffersons private retreat. What you see behind me is jeffersons most infamous, perfect work of architecture. Poplar forest. That was his villa retreat that he started building when president. It is not known very much because jefferson kept it a se
Sandusky, which served as Union Headquarters during the battle of lynchburg. To the house was central 1864 civil war battle of lynchburg. While the battle raged all around the house, the union used this as its headquarters. Lets take a look at how this house got its name. The house was built in 1808 by a young man named Charles Johnston. Life as a business merchant, stockbroker, clerk. When he was a young man, he went to kentucky. That was his goal to accompany to survey his loss some land that his boss had bought. They bought a boat and picked up some passengers. They travel down the ohio river with the goal of reaching kentucky. Along the way, they had been warned about hostile native american indians. They were careful to stay in the middle of the ohio river. Two men came to the banks of the river screaming help us. They decided to go to the bank to try to aid these two white men. It had been but a decoy. They were led into a trap. They were instantly attacked by 40 or 50 indians. T