Weve also got some other raffles going on, and at your table you have been given a notecard that we would like you to write down a question for our panel this afternoon. If you have a question for them, and what i will do, i will take up the most objectionable ones [laughs] well proceed from there. But, so if youve got a question, write it down, and we will ask our wonderful speakers today. Weve also at the break we are going to bring in my staff and were going to have a chance acknowledge them. Our Panel Discussion is after lunch at 1 00. So, thatll be the end of our day. I really like our speakers presentation title today. Mission impossible rethinking george b. Mcclellan. After what weve heard so far in this conference, i think it is even more impossibler. Dr. George rable is the Professor Emeritus at the university of alabama, roll tide. He held the Charles Sumner so chair of history. He is the author of fredericksburg, fredericksburg, which won a lincoln prize. His most recent boo
And, the lost papers of confederate general John Bell Hood. With an undivided interest in Civil War History, and past president of the board of directors of the confederate Morrill Hall Museum in new orleans. Without further do, sam. [applause] hello, and thank you. You mentioned my odyssey. My wife and i moved to myrtle beach, South Carolina, five days ago. [laughter] and if you think it is bad when the Airlines Lose your luggage, anyway, we werent able to move into the house we are buying so we are living out of boxes and crates and things. I drove up here. It sounds strange to say i drove up from South Carolina. Im used to driving down there. This is i have been looking forward to this for several reasons. One is when the theme of the symposium is generals you love to hate, i dont have to worry about what peoples expectations are. Well, because i am a big fan of John Bell Hood, even though i am not as closely related as the name implies. You are probably wondering. I am a collateral
This program was part of the symposium hosted by the Lincoln Group. And you may wonder why we have this old podium. This pulpit is the one in the old church that pastor gurley would have used during the premartial era while the old church was in action. To introduce our next speaker, i will like to bring and the editor of our lincolnian journal, wendy swanson. Wendy swanson i am very honored to be standing at this pulpit and very honored to be introducing our next speaker, edna greene medford, who many of you know. Shoes are very treasured friend of the lincoln. She is a very treasured friend over the Lincoln Group she is a very treasured friend of the Lincoln Group. And one of our members. She always provides us with wellcrafted, meaningful remarks. She is an author, much published. The chair of the History Department at howard and coauthor of the publication the emancipation proclamation review. And editor of the price of freedom series, slavery and the civil war. We also have if you
Panel, the will make their way to the authors ten next door to that and will be happy to personalize and sign the books for you. Our moderator is timis bell. During his 30plus years as a journalist his has serve as writer, photographer, photo editor, pain designer, and shreddographyer. He researches and writes and photographs books on the civil war, civil rights history, and the gulf coast in 2007 he want inducted be usm communication and journalism hall of fame. Id like to thank all of you for coming. I was going to start the session off with the quote from another mississippi author, shelby foote. Any understand offering this nation has to be based on an noning of the civil war. The civil war deoffendded us as what we are and it opened us to what we game, good and bad. Its necessary if youre going to understand the american character of the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the 19th 19th century. The crossroads of our being and a hell of a crossroads. Id like t
Minutes will be back with more live coverage of the mississippi book festival. If you want to see the schedule of events go to book tv. Org or you can visit the mississippi book festival website at ms book festival. Com. First heres more book tvs visit to jackson last year. When i was a writer i think i said in the south that i take for what i know for granted and i feel like i am judged because my eyes have been cleaned by experience so i know where a. M. I have a base to see people moving in that clear lights were in jackson mississippi it is a National Historical landmark and wealthy was a writer she was born in 1909 and died in 2001. She was a writer who won just about every literary prize there was. She studied throughout the world really published in many languages, she wrote wrote short short stories. That was the form she most value. She had four collections of short stories in total in just over 50 stories of that collection. There is onenr writers beginning to look at the tim