Known for his work at the National Park service. He was parked historian at vicksburg and became chief historian of the National Park service until his retirement. He published many books, primarily relating to the western theater of the war. He has a Campaign History of vicksburg, which is viewed as a classic. In 2015, legislation was introduced to award him a congressional gold medal for his contributions. His talk today is recovering the uss cairo from the yazoo. Mr. Bearss. applause thank you so much. Always a pleasure being where we are today at longwood university, to talk about the raising of the cairo. If you want to find out how to raise a vessel, you will not do it the way we do it. When i arrived at vicksburg in 1966, i injured on duty, and after i had been there for about a year, the superintendent called me in and said, ed, i want you to see if you can find the gunboat cairo. It was one of seven ironclads built by the United States. I said yes, i would be interested. And i
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Again so thank very much. The first time i met tim smith was 455th anniversary in the Vicksburg Campaign, and i went for the American Battlefield trust along with chris white out to do a series of videos. And so i meet tim on Champion Hill on the anniversary of the battle, which, as a civil war nerd, i was totally out about. Right. But its not that its even worse than that because i packed a whole suitcase of tim smith books for him to sign. So im like, tim smith, so glad to meet you. Sign my books. Yeah. Total fanboy going on at the moment and tim was super gracious and very kind about it and since then we have grown to become friends and he is truly the epitome me of the gentleman and the scholar. But hes the southern gentleman and the scholar. So everything he says is not only kind and polite, but with a really quaint drawl, which is wonderful and he is so gracious with his time. Hes been deeply, deeply invested in his series about the Vicksburg Campaign. If you havent had the oppor
The first time i met tim smith was 455th anniversary in the Vicksburg Campaign, and i went for the American Battlefield trust along with chris white out to do a series of videos. And so i meet tim on Champion Hill on the anniversary of the battle, which, as a civil war nerd, i was totally out about. Right. But its not that its even worse than that because i packed a whole suitcase of tim smith books for him to sign. So im like, tim smith, so glad to meet you. Sign my books. Yeah. Total fanboy going on at the moment and tim was super gracious and very kind about it and since then we have grown to become friends and he is truly the epitome me of the gentleman and the scholar. But hes the southern gentleman and the scholar. So everything he says is not only kind and polite, but with a really quaint drawl, which is wonderful and he is so gracious with his time. Hes been deeply, deeply invested in his series about the Vicksburg Campaign. If you havent had the opportunity to read those books