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we ve got a great speech for our second session this morning. dr. timothy smith is a veteran of the national parks service and currently teaches history at the university of tennessee. in addition to numerous articles and essays, he is the coeditor of 18 books, including champion hill, decisive battle of vicksburg, which won the nonfiction book award from the mississippi arts and letters. you can buy a copy in our bookstore. i am pleased to introduce dr. timothy smith. [applause] thank you. appreciate that. appreciate the opportunity to be here. this is my first time to be here. i am a believer now. you have got a great place here. we are going to talk about the western theater here. vicksburg, champion hill. how many of you have been to vicksburg? i figured that. a good number of you. champion hill is one of those great battlefields, if you have been watching the news, listening to the american battlefield trust, they are doing a lot of work there. the state of mis ....
his book on the raid comes out, it is now out and you can buy a copy of it at our bookstore. i m pleased to introduce dr. timothy smith. thank you, i appreciate the chance to be here. i have always heard about pamplin park, and it is great here. we re going to talk about the western theater today. vicksburg, how many of you have been to vicksburg. she o he is one of the great battlefields, listening to the civil war american trust now, you know they re doing a lot of work down there. they turned over nearly several hundred acres. so there is a lot going down at champion hill. so we re going to talk about that battle in particular, the larger vicksburg campaign. and i do not have a power point either. i m a little old fashioned. we have a map of champion hill which we will talk about in just a little bit. i tend to go overboard when i go into power points and i confuse everybody, so to keep from doing that, i don t do powerpoints when i can help it. and i m beginning t ....
nonfiction become award from the mississippi utah letters.s and he has a book out and you can our bookstore at battlefield center. introduce to dr. timothy smith. [applause] i appreciate the opportunity to here. i have always heard about the time.and this is my first i heard how nice it was and i m a believer now. a great place here and i appreciate the invitation to here. we will truck about the western talk about ing to vicksburg, champion hill. to vicksburg?been how many to champion hill? not as many. a good number. champion hill is one of those fields and watching the news and listen to the civil war trust they tlefield are doing a lot of work there. the state of mississippi just several hundred acres to the national park a unit of the vicksburg national military park going on this at champion hill. we will talk about that battle the larger r, vicksburg campaign just a little bit. a power point either. i m a little bit old fashioned. do have a map of champion hill t ....
books and letters. you can buy a copy in our bookstore. i am pleased to introduce dr. timothy smith. [applause] thank you. appreciate that. appreciate the opportunity to be here. this is my first time to be here. i am a believer now. .ou have got a great place here we are going to talk about the western theater here. vicksburg, champion hill. how many of you have been to vicksburg? i figured that. a good number of you. champion hill is one of those great battlefields, if you have been watching the news, listening to the american battlefield trust, they are doing a lot of work there. the state of mississippi has just turned over several hundred acres to the national park .ervice a lot going on at champion hill. we are going to talk about that battle in particular. the larger vicksburg campaign just a little bit. i do not have powerpoint either. i am a little old-fashioned. we do have a map, which we will talk about a little bit. i tend to go overboard when i do powerpo ....
this time, we went so hard and had so much fun. you can tell by the sun on your face. where outside, it the playground up there. i haven t unpacked, i m a little disappointed in myself. but we had a blast. you are tired when you got home. the truckee river, we had a chance, i took my children on that for the first time. you rafted? i yeah, by the time we left yesterday, the only had one gate open. they stopped letting water into the truckee. for the first time ever i took my son to a mets game and we had a blast. he said this is the greatest thing in my life. was the water really cold? i it feels great. it is freezing. glad to see you both. a lot of people in morocco have been waiting more than a year 4, the beginning of work to fix a collapsed section of roadway. it s been a year since the sinkhole shut down and intersection right near moraga, one of the busiest parts of town. allie rasmus is there and says the sinkhole has helped push the town in ....