General george meade and union forces from july to december 1863 as they followed confederates through virginia. This event was part of historical parks small battles, big result s symposium. Im very pleased to introduce our last speaker of the afternoon, Jeffrey William hunt, director of the military forces museum at camp maybury in austin, texas, and adjunct professor where he has taught since 1988. God bless you. Author of the last battle of the civil war and contributor to essential civil war curriculum and the gail library of daily life. American civil war. His last work is a trilogy from the final stage of the Gettysburg Campaign to the end of 1863 and includes meade and lee at mayan run due for publication next year. So lets give a welcome for jeffrey hunt. [ applause ] thank you. Its a real pleasure to be here. I appreciate jerrys invitation. Its always fun to stand in a group of people who have the same passion that you do. You dont get looked at as strangely as you do when yo
A few Health Issues and not able to travel right now. One of the great collectors, folks connected with the Shenandoah Valley battlefields. Two people who are very important to me, sarah has made all of this work behind the scenes. She is constantly making sure that something needs to be done and it gets done. You need someone like that. Last but not least, my wife elizabeth. Elizabeth has come down from virginia to join us. What i will do is move into my part of the presentation. We are going to talk about the leadership. We focused in the past about various aspects of leadership that included areas outside the late unpleasantness, as we like to say so we do not step on any toes. One of the issues we wanted to deal with was the civil war leadership we first talked to coach about setting this up, he said i do not mind you talking about anything else but i want something on the civil war. Today, we will pretty much focus on that. We have done different figures and we will do different f
Our stops by going to cspan. Org citiestour . They were very bride wheels compares the careers in leadership start want tof the things i make sure before we go into our , is to thank those of you who have come from other and some of our supporters. One of the people not with us today but is a life member an honorary member of our board is James Robinson junior. He has had some Health Issues but he is recovering and i know he is back on the speaker circuit. Nick who has also had a few Health Issues and not able to travel right now. One of the great collectors, folks who hut is folks connected with the Shenandoah Valley battlefields. Two people who are very has made to me, sarah all of this work behind the scenes. She is constantly making sure that something needs to be done and it gets done. Like that. Meone last but not least, my wife elizabeth. Elizabeth has come down from virginia to join us. Into myill do is move part of the presentation. We are going to talk about the leadership. W
Conference with professor gallagher. With that, i will turn it over to professor stephen cushman. Thank you very much. I am grateful to everybody. I wont repeat all the thank yous that have been said, but on behalf of Tamika Nunley and myself i would say thank you for being courageous and not being driven away this morning by that first talk. [ laughter ] all right, lets start with a large claim. Here it is. Without the civil war, there would be no mark twain. But why stop with one big claim. There is another that i will throw in free of charge. Without mark twain, memory of the civil war would be different from what it is today. Twain played a very significant role in civil war memory, by publishing books by various other people about the war, at least one of which, the memoirs of grant, has become a classic of American Literature and history. But lets stick to the first big claim. Without the civil war, there would be no mark twain. As we think about mark twain and the civil war, two
What hes talking about when it comes to the war. And he said to me, this woman is gangbusters. She is on fire. And if you think about all the students that gary has mentored over the years, for him to give a particular endorsement like that to one of them, really spoke volumes. And i saw that myself in the work that i read from cecily when she first started doing guest posts for us. Like this woman, she can write. Shes got smart things to say. Shes insightful. This is fantastic. And its really been wonderful role as the editor in chief to watch her journey with emerging civil war as kind of this young, upcoming, brilliant, bright star. And to see her star rise as it has. And so this past year, she was named emerging civil wars news chief historian. And so its really kind of exciting for me to be able to bring her out deep from the heart of texas, to bring her. I told her its going to be like, youre southern w a taunt unveiling. Yeah, if you will. Like the good Old Fashioned days. Cecil