I am going to introduce our speaker, warren perry. He is originally from memphis, tennessee. He has a graduate degree in medieval literature and from the catholic university. His oneman play, walt whitman and the civil war. And he cowrote elvis, which received the bronze award from forward magazine in 2010. In his 12 years at the National Portrait gallery, he wrote over 200 articles for print and the web. More than 40 on the American Civil War. He received one of the secretary Research Prizes for 2013 for the Smithsonian Congress of scholars. We are very proud of him. He is founder and director of the Perry Library of theater. I would like to introduce amy bracewell, the site manager and she is going to make a few remarks and then well have warren come up here. Thank you. Thank you. I would like to thank you so much for coming out. Cedar creek and belle grove historical park was excited to partner with the smithsonian for this lecture. Thank you for agreeing to speak on this great hist
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Good evening. It is my pleasure to welcome you to cedar creek and Belle Grove National Historical park. It has been a very busy day here havee anniversary events unfolded. But now it is time to pause and take a moment to reflect on the magnitude of what happened here 150 years ago. To set the stage for this ceremony, i would like to welcome superintendent jim nort hrup to say a few words. [applause] well, good evening. Norty said, my name is jim hrup. It is my great privilege to serve as the superintendent. Im here to join with amy and ou r hosts to welcome you and thank you for coming to this very important element in the 150th anniversary events here at cedar creek. Activity that is taking place around us, we are gathered at this place in this moment to remember exactly what happened here. And to remember all of those who were killed or wounded on this battlefield. All of you know, on october 19, 1864, a great battle was fought here. Secure theat Shenandoah Valley of virginia for the