And his overall inking about the art of command on a 19thcentury command on a 19thcentury battlefield. The historical moments ofs personal lees personal Battlefield Leadership provide an opportunity to evaluate him through his physical actions at the tactical level, as opposed to an interpretation of his Strategic Thinking where historians have spilled much ink investigating his thoughts on generalship during the civil war. Pute moments where lee himself a great personal risk also wrote a moment to review discerned his army was an exceptional danger. Robert edward lee was no stranger to the perils of combat put himself a great personalposts. His service during the war with mexico, is harrowing personal reconnaissance prior to the battle of cerro gordo in 1847 the provided Winfield Scott with critical intelligence on the enemys flank position was vital to the planning of a crushing flank attack executed by scotts armie. Army. He was in danger consistently throughout his time as commandi
All right. It is my pleasure to introduce for our final afternoon talk. Barton myers. Hes an Society Professor of history at washington and Lee University. Where he teaches courses on civil war, war and society. His main refers is warfare, soldiers and atrocities. He has earned his ph. D. At the university of georgia where he studied under john insko. There he published his masters thesis entitled executing daniel bright, race loyalty and gorilla violence in a coastal care loo nacommunity this received the 2009 jules and Francis Landry award for the best book in southern studies, just recently Cambridge University published the dissertation, rebels against the confederacy. As you can tell, barton is an expert on gorilla warfare he has a recent volume thats come out, edited with Brian Mcknight and daniel suter land. Entitled gorilla hunters, irregular conflicts during the civil war. 2017 youre not going to speak on gorilla warfare after all this he does more than that and i have asked h
All right. It is my pleasure to introduce for our final afternoon talk. Barton myers. Hes an Society Professor of history at washington and Lee University. Where he teaches courses on civil war, war and society. His main refers is warfare, soldiers and atrocities. He has earned his ph. D. At the university of georgia where he studied under john insko. There he published his masters thesis entitled executing daniel bright, race loyalty and gorilla violence in a coastal care loo nacommunity this received the 2009 jules and Francis Landry award for the best book in southern studies, just recently Cambridge University published the dissertation, rebels against the confederacy. As you can tell, barton is an expert on gorilla warfare he has a recent volume thats come out, edited with Brian Mcknight and daniel suter land. Entitled gorilla hunters, irregular conflicts during the civil war. 2017 youre not going to speak on gorilla warfare after all this he does more than that and i have asked h
All right. It is my pleasure to introduce for our final afternoon talk. Barton myers. Hes an Society Professor of history at washington and Lee University. Where he teaches courses on civil war, war and society. His main refers is warfare, soldiers and atrocities. He has earned his ph. D. At the university of georgia where he studied under john insko. There he published his masters thesis entitled executing daniel bright, race loyalty and gorilla violence in a coastal care loo nacommunity this received the 2009 jules and Francis Landry award for the best book in southern studies, just recently Cambridge University published the dissertation, rebels against the confederacy. As you can tell, barton is an expert on gorilla warfare he has a recent volume thats come out, edited with Brian Mcknight and daniel suter land. Entitled gorilla hunters, irregular conflicts during the civil war. 2017 youre not going to speak on gorilla warfare after all this he does more than that and i have asked h
Started changing and they started becoming the first computer programmers. They had these incredibly long careers at nasa, 40, 50 years. One of them still works at nasa today. After words airs on book tv at sunday at nine pm eastern. You can watch all previous after words programsms booktv. Org. Good evening and welcome to the Rr Smith Center for history and art in stanton, virginia. I am the president of the augustine county Historical Society which is the sponsor ofh tonights event. The Historical Society has been preserving and promoting the history of Augusta County virginia for over 50 years. As many of you know, our our county was created in 1738 and at one time, it extended all the way to the mississippi river. Y we have a great deal of historical heritage to be proud of. We are also very proud of our20 20thcentury history. Tonight we are very pleased to welcome you and are cspan viewers to an event featuring residents and members of the society. A great evening on the great war