About the Loudoun Valley campaign. This talk was part of a symposium. Welcome back to the emerging civil war. Thank you for joining us today online as well as in person. I want a thanks to our friends at cspan that they do to continue to promote American History. Theyre work is invaluable. Next today we have kevin pawlak. He works for Prince William county and he has his own battlefield where he oversees and he overseas a civil war hospital center. He is author of a hazard to all. He is going to talk to us about the aftermaths of the campaign, the stale end that gets over looked tieing into an earlier talk today. Set in the larger context. Kevin will talk a little about the Loudoun Valley campaign of 1862. Ladies and gentlemen, kevin pawlak. Thank you nar introduction. We hope that you will be able to join us next year when we reprize our topic of what was supposed to be this years topic of fallen leaders. Today i will talk to you about the loudoun fallly campaign. I would probably wag
Battlefield. He has his own battlefield where he oversees the brison bristo station battlefield. Kevin is the coauthor of the book to hazard all, a guide to the 1862 antietam campaign. Today he will talk to us a little bit about the aftermath the antietam campaign, the tail and that is often overlooked. He will tie into an earlier talk from today. Set in the larger context, he will talk about the loudoun campaign Loudoun Valley campaign of 1862. Ladies and gentlemen kevin pawlak. Thank you, chris, for that introduction and thank you to all of you for tuning into our virtual symposium. We hope you will be able to join us next year in 2021 we will be reprising our topic of what was supposed to be this years topic a foreign leaders. Today, im going to speak with you about the Loudoun Valley campaign which is a campaign that does not get a lot of study at all unfortunately in the larger scale of the civil war. I would probably wager there are more people in this room that i can count on on
The Arlington Cemetery station. Reporter it was a problem with the third rail, a cracked third rail in fact. Thats not the main rail, thats the rail that provides power to the trains, the high voltage rail. You can see down the line by the Arlington Cemetery station the repairs continue. I just got off the phone with metro. Around 6 00 this morning, two empty blue line trains came through here and had mechanical problems. They had to be towed away. Later in the morning two or three other trains came through here and they suffered damage because this section of the third rail was out of line. Now those trains were actually able to keep moving but broke down later down the line. It was at that point that metro decided to shut down the blue line. Some trains here are making their way through but theres single tracking happening and the passengers are being offloaded and put onto other trains so the delays do continue here on the blue line and repairs continue. The blue line is expected to