Good morning, everyone. Take your seats. All right. If we could get seated, please. Let me reintroduce myself to the cspan audiences. I am peter carmichael, the director of the civil war institute. I am a member of the History Department here. Welcome myeasure to good friend, Stephen Berry. Stephen berry is the gregory professor of Civil War History at the university of georgia. I have a feway rules i live by in our field and this is one of them. Anything that Stephen Berry writes i have to read. Brings berry always incredible, beautiful writing with rich insights. It is what i think many of us like so much. That is a good thing because his tok is so good that you want come to jealousy but you cannot because stephen is such a wonderful guy. He is a fantastic teacher. I have sent many students to work with him over the years. At the university of georgia he has he is not only a prolific scholar he has written or edited six books. My favorite was his dissertation, done sometime ago at th