institute. here is what some of the veterans had to say. matt is a gentleman who knows more about this battle than any anyr man living, more than man who ever did live. he can tell more of what i did there then i can tell myself. henry slocum was the commander of the 12th army corps at gettysburg. acquainted a few months after the battle of gettysburg. i consider him the best authority in this country as regard to detail with that action. he s sketched every part of the field and is familiar with the holder. lastly, the kernel of the 33rd in the battle of gettysburg writing to the governor of massachusetts in 1878 rights the kernel i believe knows more about the battle of gettysburg than any officer in it on either side. he was not in the battle of gettysburg. he was not a soldier. perhaps the most important person gettysburg you may never have heard of. batchelor.s john why is he important to gettysburg and what was his vision? bachelder,tigate because you can t understan
accurately mark the battlefield itself. this hour and 15 minute event is part of the annual summer conference hosted by the gettysburg college civil war institute. good evening. carmichael, professor of history here at gettysburg college. it is my pleasure this evening to welcome scott hardwick. i hope everyone is familiar with them. a longtime historian at gettysburg national park. during that time, as you will know he has given the american public fantastic and engaging viewers tours. we are fortunate to have him about. talk to us we honor scott with the scott hardwick fellowship given to four historians from the national park service. the national park service sorry to say, they provide very little training for their frontline historians. they have a lot of training money for their superintendents, but not many for their historians. we are ablee that to enable these historians to come here and engage and converse with these dollars, to meet the general public. it is
coming up ne3 coming up next, the guggenheim-lehrman military history awards. you can watch the event live on booktv. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. my name is joe seiyu bunting. i am awfully happy to welcome you to this gathering into this event. stephen ambrose once said that he had been struck by how many army veterans of the campaign in europe, in 1942 through 1945, how many have become teachers. he made the obvious link, which consider the chronology. if you were a 20-year-old rifleman in the forest, you were born in 1924, you are now 90 years old, and if you have become a professor or a teacher, you have probably left the active practice of your profession around 1975 or 1980, give or take a few years greater education was underwritten by the g.i. bill and yours was a generation hospitable, at the very least, to the study of war and military history. a successor generation of men and women in the later 1950s and 1970s whose experience may or may not hav
history awards. you can watch the event live on booktv. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. my name is joe seiyu bunting. i am awfully happy to welcome you to this gathering into this event. stephen ambrose once said that he had been struck by how many army veterans of the campaign in europe, in 1942 through 1945, how many have become teachers. he made the obvious link, which consider the chronology. if you were a 20-year-old rifleman in the forest, you were born in 1924, you are now 90 years old, and if you have become a professor or a teacher, you have probably left the active practice of your profession around 1975 or 1980, give or take a few years greater education was underwritten by the g.i. bill and yours was a generation hospitable, at the very least, to the study of war and military history. a successor generation of men and women in the later 1950s and 1970s whose experience may or may not have included service in vietnam, people in their 60s and 70s hav
i am awfully happy to welcome the of plot back thank you. all of you to this gathering and this event. stephen ambrose once said that he d been struck by how many army veterans of the campaign in europe, 1944-1945, had become teachers. he made the obvious link, which partly needs explication before audience like this but consider the chronology. if you were a 20 year old rifleman in the forest, you were born in 1924. you are now 90, and if you have become a professor or teacher, you probably have left the active practice of your profession around 1975 or 1980, give or take a few years. your education was underwritten by the g.i. bill, and yours was a generation hospitable, at the very least, to the study of war and of military history. a successor generation of men and women in college, in the later 1960s and 70s whose experience may or may not have included service in vietnam, people now in their 60s and 70s, have furnished a large cadre of professors, administrators in